S2 E4"The Fairy Project"
“How could you possibly tell they were queer?”
Join Dr. Evelyn Hooker as she begins a groundbreaking study. After a horrific experience during Kristallnacht, and a friendship with a young gay man in America, Dr. Evelyn Hooker embarks on an experiment (with many Mattachinos) to discover whether or not homosexuality is a mental sickness.
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Original release: June 24, 2020
Episode 4-A “Letter to the ACLU”
An astronomer writes to the ACLU.
In this mini-episode, we meet Frank Kameny.
Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Barbara Gittings,
& ONE Magazine's Homosexuals Today, 1956
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Season 2 Bonus episodes
Interview w/ founding
Radical Faerie Joey Cain
Subscribe on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to listen to this bonus episode from spin-off podcast Forgotten Fairy Tales—and 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:
“Live and Let Live:
6 Decades Later”
Interview w/ Randy Wicker
Featuring Sylvia Rivera, Randy’s friend Michael, and stories about Marsha P. Johnson, the Mattachine, and radical activism.
Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020.
“Return to Normalcy”
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2020 Election Day bonus!
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!
“Trans-sexuals and the Police”
on KPFA,
April 10, 1968
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.
“A Step Higher”
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 24, 2020
Ep. 4 “The Fairy Project” now available! Listen to my wonderful mom play Dr. Evelyn Hooker. 🧚🏽♂️
JUNE 27, 2020
Surprise mini-episode... Young astronomer Frank Kameny joins the story. 🔭
Listen now on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, etc. 🎧
📸 undated photo, @makinggayhistorypodcast
JULY 13, 2020
Today on the bonus pod: founding Radical Faerie Joey Cain talks with me about how he found community in 1970. He’s an anarchist queer, and longtime friend of Mattachine founder Harry Hay (check out that jester doll!)
Subscribe now on Patreon! Link in bio!
Joey is the voice of Elver Barker on Queer Serial.🧚🏻♂️
📸 Joey Cain celebrating after organizing the 2004 SF Pride Parade
📸 @onearchives
📸 Cain’s essay for the 2012 Harry Hay Centennial Conference, and photo of young Harry Hay with jester doll
JUNE 26, 2020
It will be noted that [REDACTED] previously referred to in several serials of this file, is being placed in the 1-A serial.” 📌
JUNE 26, 2020
“That spring, McCarthy was censured. The Supreme Court decision on the desegregation of schools was announced in the english newspaper, and for a while all of us seemed to go crazy with hope for another kind of America.” –Audre Lorde, Zami 🖊
📸 Robert Alexander/Getty Images
JUNE 21, 2020
Meet... Barbara Gittings 📌
“And I think—wow! All these Lesbians together in one place! I’ve never seen anything like it!”
Episode 4 this Wednesday! 📚
📸 c. 1962, photo by Kay Lahusen
@nyplpicturecollection
JUNE 27, 2020
“How do you or any of the other members know that I or someone else who might learn of this new organization are not policewomen?” 🎧
Recording last year with my actual biological and legal daughter, Tina Muñoz Pandya. 💕
She’s playing Jeani Gnapp in this week’s episode, and several more Daughters this season!
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JUNE 26, 2020
“The innumerable homosexuals who have been purged from their employment would hardly call their predicament ‘fun.’ Nor would those who have been unjustly arrested, paid heavy fines, had embarrassing publicity, or gone to prison for harmless elements of their personal lives… Just so long as we homosexuals help maintain society’s ignorance, we are guarding the very weapons we fear.”
—Elver Barker, 1956 (episode 3) 🎨
tyleralpern.com
JUNE 29, 2020
“... hauled into the city jail and booked on the charge of frequenting a house of ill repute were a reported 36 women... We feel that this was not due to actual guilt on the part of those so pleading but to an appalling lack of knowledge of the rights of a citizen in such a case... There is a marked reaction of fear and retrenchment among the Lesbian population of San Francisco after the recent raid...” ✏️
Del Martin covering the police raiding Lesbian bar the Alamo Club in San Francisco, “The Ladder,” 1956
📸 Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
JUNE 28, 2020
“My dear parents, I could not do otherwise, may God forgive me, the heart bleeds when I hear of your tragedy and that of the 12,000 Jews. I must protest so that the whole world hears my protest, and that I will do. Forgive me.” ✉️
Hear the story in episode 4, and how Grynszpan’s protest connects to queer history. 📌
📸 Herschel Grynszpan in Paris just after his arrest, November 7, 1938.
JULY 25, 2021
Dr. Evelyn Hooker ran the first study to prove homosexuals are not sick. Take a closer look at her work—and tons of other research dives!—on my Patreon.
🎧 Hear the full story in season 2!
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Link in my bio for TONS of upcoming new research dives and new bonus episodes for season 3! And a new upcoming show!
JULY 9, 2020
Ep. 4 “The Fairy Project” is on all podcast platforms. New episode next week! 🧚🏿♀️ 🧚🏽♂️ 🧚🏽♀️
pride 2020
JUNE 28, 2020
Today, we march for Black trans lives, and protest the brutal mistreatment by police. The issues discussed in this 52-year-old archival audio are still problems our trans siblings face today.
Listen now on all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts & Spotify.
