S2 E13"Making This Movement Move"
We’ve found each other, we’re organized, we’re ready — how do we demand change?
Season 2 finale guest starring
drag legend Joan Jett Blakk
reading the words of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the season 2 finale, we meet Civil Rights icons behind the next era of the gay movement, including Bayard Rustin and Rosa Parks. Despite pressure from fellow Black activists to distance himself from a known gay man, Dr. King allows a socialist, pacifist homosexual—and expert in nonviolent civil disobedience—organize the March on Washington.
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Original release: October 14, 2020
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bayard rustin
& the march on washington for jobs and freedom, 1963
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Season finale today! Bayard Rustin is “Making This Movement Move.” ☀️
📸 Bayard Rustin and Cleveland Robinson, Chairman of Administrative Committee, 1963. @librarycongress
📸 The March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom, 1963. @getty
📸 Chicago Defender, 1953.
📸 Rustin, 1963. Associated Press.
OCTOBER 17, 2020
Gay, socialist, and pacifist — Bayard Rustin, advisor to Dr. King, is at the center of the season finale, out now!! ☀️
📸 Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bayard Rustin at the March on Washington, 1963.
📸 Rustin and King.
📸 Rev. Ralph Abernathy, King, and Rustin leaving Montgomery Courthouse, February 24, 1956. AP.
📸 Rustin and King, Los Angeles. August, 18, 1965. AP.
📸 Abernathy, King, Aaron E. Henry, and Rustin at the DNC, 1964. @gettyimages
OCTOBER 20, 2020
“Out of the shadows” ☀️
Listen to the season finale now, featuring queer people of the Civil Rights Movement.
📸 A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin at the March on Washington, Life magazine, 1963.
📸 Rustin speaking at he march, 1963. @getty
OCTOBER 25, 2020
Obsessed with these photos of James Baldwin & Bayard Rustin. 🕶
📸 Rustin and Baldwin, September 18, 1963. AP.
📸 Baldwin and Bayard Rustin, organizer of the march. AP.
📸 Baldwin at the March, 1963. Photo by Dan Budnik. Rustin not pictured here, but Baldwin looks so cool I had to throw it in.
📸 Baldwin, Rustin, and A. Philip Randolph, among others. AP.
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
James Baldwin at the March on Washington 🕶
📸 Baldwin at the march, 1963. Photo by Dan Budnik.
📸 Baldwin and Bayard Rustin, organizer of the march. AP.
📸 Rustin and Baldwin, September 18, 1963. AP.
📸 Baldwin, Rustin, and A. Philip Randolph, among others. AP.
Joan Jett Blakk
Guest starring as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Joan Jett Blakk HERSELF Terence Smith guests on the podcast next week as Martin Luther King, Jr.! 💥 🗳 💥
📸 Joan Jett Blakk’s campaign poster
📸 Chicago pride parade, c. early 1990s
📸 Blakk announces her candidacy for president at Ann Sather in Chicago, c. 1992.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
"What do you want in a presidential candidate?"
“150,000 AIDS deaths. ACTION = LIFE” Joan Jett Blakk’s 1992 campaign music video during her run for U.S. president.
OCTOBER 9, 2020
A little Joan Jett Blakk history before the queen herself, Terence Smith, guests on the podcast next week! Blakk ran for mayor of Chicago against Richard M. Daley in 1991. Daley had recently stormed out of a gay community meeting — on camera for “The 10% Show” — after criticism for his poor relationship with the queer community. That meeting was held at the Ann Sather on Belmont, where Blakk would soon announce her candidacy for president. 💥 🗳 💥
Blakk’s run for mayor against Daley is documented in the 1991 video “Drag in for Votes.” Does anyone know where that can be found? I’d kill to see it.
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Tomorrow! 💥🗳💥
Ms. Blakk herself, Terence Smith, guest stars on the season finale as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! 💋
📸 Joan Jett Blakk in Gay Chicago, November 12, 1992.
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Welcome Ms. Blakk to the Mattachine! 💥🗳💥
Joan Jett Blakk herself, Terence Smith, guest stars this week in the season finale as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! 💋
OCTOBER 13, 2020
VOTE! 💥🗳💥
Ms. Blakk herself, Terence Smith, guest stars on this week’s new episode as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Joan Jett Blakk for President! 💥 🗳 💥
Joan Jett Blakk greets her constituents at Ann Sather, a restaurant on Belmont in Chicago, the night she announced her candidacy for U.S. president on the Queer Nation ticket in 1992. 🔥
Ms. Blakk herself, Terence Smith, guest stars on the season finale today as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! 💋
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
"If a bad actor can be elected president, why not a good drag queen?" 💋
Joan Jett Blakk announces her candidacy for U.S. president at Berlin Nightclub in Chicago in 1992 💥🗳💥
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
"I love America!"
This historic event became a fantastic scene in Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau’s play “Ms. Blakk for President” last year. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
James Baldwin & Lorraine Hansberry
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry at “Village Rallies for NAACP” in Washington Square Park, June 13, 1959. 🌳
Hansberry returns for the season finale, episode 13 “Making This Movement Move.” ☀️
📸Hansberry and Daisy Bates (left). Photographer unknown. Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust.
OCTOBER 14, 2020
James Baldwin returns for the season finale today! 🎶
Episode 13 “Making This Movement Move” is out now. ☀️
📸 Anyone have a date/credit for this? 👀
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry at “Village Rallies for NAACP” in Washington Square Park, June 13, 1959. 🌳
Hansberry appears in episodes 5, 6, and 13 of season 2! ☀️
📸Hansberry and Daisy Bates (left). Photographer unknown. Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust.
OCTOBER 13, 2020
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OCTOBER 16, 2020
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NOVEMBER 27, 2020
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