S2 E3"Resorts for Sex Perverts"
When police crack down, how do we respond?
San Francisco police raid gay bars and "clean up" the city. Homophiles and street queens strategize.
Original release: June 17, 2020
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Season 2 Bonus episodes
November 24, 1958:
βThe Homosexual In Our Societyβ
on KPFA
Subscribe on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to listen to this bonus episode from spin-off podcast Forgotten Fairy Talesβand many more from Mattachine Meeting, Randy Wicker Radio, Infamous Crimes: White Night Riot Interviews, and more!
Check out these free bonus episodes from season 2:
βLive and Let Live:
6 Decades Laterβ
Interview w/ Randy Wickeβͺrβ¬
Featuring Sylvia Rivera, Randyβs friend Michael, and stories about Marsha P. Johnson, the Mattachine, and radical activism.
Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020.
βReturn to Normalcyβ
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2020 Election Day bonusβͺ!
The 1920 presidential election proves yet again that history repeats itself, from fear-mongering to political scandal, and even a sitting president infected by the pandemic he downplayed. Make sure you have a plan to vote!
βTrans-sexuals and the Policeβ
on KPFA,
April 10, 196βͺ8β¬
Three transgender San Franciscans discuss police problems and their work as members of C.O.G., Conversion our Goal, with Police Community Relations Officer Elliot Blackstone of the San Francisco Police Department. Herb Kutchins of the San Francisco Bail Project moderates.
βA Step Higherβ
w/ Mattachino
Wendell Sayers
Historian Eric Marcus interviews Wendell Sayers, an attorney, the first Black assistant attorney general for the state of Colorado, and one of few Black members of the Mattachine Society.
He attended the 6th annual Mattachine convention in 1959, a dramatic event featured in S2 E8.
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JUNE 16, 2020
One last round of ONE Magazine issues before their homophile group joins the story again! ππ°π
undated covers:
Pic #1: July 1955 (and out of order chronologically because the art is better than March 55!) 4&5: May & June 1955
6-10: Aug - Dec 1955
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JUNE 16, 2020
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Episode 3 tomorrow π
JUNE 20, 2020
βLewd entertainers must be stopped!β ππ¨
π @glbt_history
JUNE 22, 2020
βEverything Gay Men Know About Gay Womenβ
by Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin c. 1972
π @onearchives
Share it on youtube here: www.youtube.com/shorts/aYYeZYEUjZo
JUNE 17, 2020
βThis city is ruled by the saloons, no matter whether Republican or Democratic party is in power.β πΊ πΈ π·
Episode 3 βResorts for Sex Pervertsβ out now!
JUNE 18, 2020
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πΈ document from @glbt_history
JUNE 20, 2020
HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY IN SAN FRANCISCO π³
Police and higher government agencies strategize against the gay bars in episode 3, βResorts for Sex Perverts.β Listen now! π
JUNE 23, 2020
βI now stand relatively in the same position as Henry Hay, who referred to himself in the July 1961 issue of The Ladder as a member of the βloyal oppositionβ to ONE...β π
Hear Stella Rushβs fabulous resignation from ONE Magazine on the newest bonus episode!
patreon.com/queerserial πΈ
πΈ Stella Rush, Keith St. Clare of Vanguard, Harry [Henry] Hay, and Jim Kepner at the Western Regional Homophile Planning Conference at Aldersgate Lodge Los Angeles, April 1967. by Pat Rocco @onearchives πΉ
JUNE 23, 2020
I am so honored to be producing OutSpoken: LGBTQ Storytelling, @sidetrackbarβs new podcast! π
This is a special Pride episode! Itβs a live interview at the bar between Stonewall bartender Tree (who was there during the riots) and historian @owenkeehnen (who is voicing several Mattachinos on Queer Serial!) β¨
Link in bio!