S2 E5"In the Library Lounge"
Who are our allies on the outside?
Who are our enemies on the inside?
A series of romantic betrayals and political back-stabbings push the Mattachinos into accidentally revealing their true identities.
The Daughters of Bilitis willingly reveal their true names, just as playwright Lorraine Hansberry discreetly reaches out to them.
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Original release: July 1, 2020
Episode 5-A"To Be Accused Is To Be Guilty"
An astronomer faces the Civil Service Commission in this mini-episode.
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Season 2 Bonus episodes
"The Most Pleasant Surprise of My Life"
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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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 30, 2020
Myself in Notesβ¦ Likes: Slacks. Deeply intelligent women. Eartha Kittβs eyes, voice, legs, music. Dislikes: silly white people, loneliness, most sexual experiences, myself. Masculinity in women. Bored with βA Raisin in the Sun.β Indifferent to: most men. I like: My homosexuality. I hate: My homosexuality. I like: 69 when it really works. The inside of a lovely womanβs mouth. To look at a well dressed woman. I am proud: that I struggle to work hard against many, many things. βοΈ
Lorraine Hansberry joins the movement this Wednesday.
Ep. 5 βIn the Library Loungeβ on all podcast platforms! βοΈ
JUNE 29, 2020
This week, my cousin/sister/pancake Zoya joins the show as Lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry! βοΈ
πΈ My aunt Adrienne (also voicing characters), me, and Zoya
πΈ Lorraine Hansberry, 1959. David Attie/Getty Images.
JULY 2, 2020
βPerhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.β
βJames Baldwin, Giovanniβs Room π
Ep. 5 βIn the Library Loungeβ is now on all podcast platforms
πΈ Ted Thai
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
βIt will have to get worse since no real action has been taken. And years pass very quickly.β
πΊ James Baldwin on CBCβs βThe Way It Is,β 1968.
JULY 2, 2020
Iβve been excited to tell this soapy story in gay history since I first read about it 4 years ago when I began research for season 1 β and weβve finally reached it!
Episode 5 βIn the Library Loungeβ is now available on all the podcast places! π
(If youβve heard the episode, check out the last image here, a hilarious, spoiler-filled letter from New York Mattachine leadership to the Daily Committee.) π
JULY 1, 2020
Weβve come a long way. Letβs go further. π³οΈβπ
#BlackTransLivesMatter
πΈ 1954 Chicago Mattachine chapter newsletter, βGay Press, Gay Powerβ edited by Tracy Baim
πΈ Chicagoβs Reclaim Pride protest, June 28, 2020
JULY 3, 2020
1956 issues of ONE Magazine, referenced in recent episodes!
(Chronologically, but beginning with the Oct/Nov issue first, because itβs the prettiest.) π
π @onearchives
JULY 4, 2020
Spoiler! π Today is the Annual Reminder anniversary. For four years leading up to, and then immediately following the Stonewall riots, homophile groups picketed for our rights outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia. π
May July 4th be an annual reminder that America was founded in favor of cisgender hetero white land-owning men. True liberation for all will not exist until Black trans women are liberated. 18 Black trans women have been murdered in the United States in 2020. They are our queer+ siblings.
Please consider donating to @bravespacealliance, @queertheland, and/or @sylviariveralawproject
πΈ Temple Urban Archives
JULY 13, 2020
1957 issues of ONE Magazine, released during the events of episode 5.
(Chronological, except starting with April β57 β because look at it!)
π March β57 with Lady Justice is featured in S1 E10
π @onearchives
βGay Barβ by Helen Branson
Published by Pan-Graphic Press at San Francisco Mattachine Society headquarters
JULY 4, 2020
Author James Barr joins us βIn the Library Loungeβ this week, voiced by author and podcast queen @mattbaume!
(Matt is pictured here reading his copy of Helen Bransonβs βGay Barβ) π
Check out Mattβs Culture Cruise series on YouTube (so much queer analysis of Frasier!!), and his podcasts βThe Sewers of Paris,β βQueens of Adventure,β and book βDefining Marriage.β πΈ
JULY 5, 2020
βa king without a penisβ
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Ep. 5 βIn the Library Loungeβ now available on all podcast platforms!
Get your copy of Helen Bransonβs GAY BAR at patreon.com/queerserial (link in bio)
JULY 4, 2020
Ahoy! @mattbaume joins the pod this week as βGames of Foolsβ and βQuatrefoilβ author James Barr. Get into the love triangle now, in episode 5, βIn the Library Lounge.β π
Check out Mattβs Culture Cruise series on YouTube (so much queer analysis of Frasier!!), and his podcasts βThe Sewers of Paris,β βQueens of Adventure,β and book βDefining Marriage.β πΈ
JULY 1, 2020
@thesampancake joins the pod today as wicked gay attorney Kenneth Zwerin in the soapiest story in gay history youβve never heard. π
Ep. 5 βIn the Library Loungeβ is available now on all podcast platforms.
πΈ I couldnβt narrow down the best pic of Sam to use because heβs always fab and stunning. (#3 includes Mink Stole.)
#4 Mattachineβs private publication βInterimβ featured in the episode. @glbt_history
JUNE 30, 2020
Those of you who love dramatic convention episodes are in for a treat tomorrow... π
JUNE 30, 2020
This week on the Patreon bonus podcast, hear Elsa Knight Thompson on KPFA moderating this groundbreaking radio discussion between Mattachine Publications Director Hal Call, attorney Morris Lowenthal (who is defending the Black Cat in court), the brilliant Dr. Blanche Baker (who wrote the introduction to Helen Bransonβs book Gay Bar) and Dr. Karl Bowman (who will be prominently featured in an episode on transgender history). Lots of Queer Serial βcharactersβ colliding in real life here on November 24, 1958!
Check out this bonus episode at Patreon.com/queerserial. Link in bio!
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Transcript images from @glbt_history
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
buried in the Mattachine papers at @onearchives π©
JULY 6, 2020
βThrow away that brochure on homosexual rights and the law!β π
Learn your rights right now in ep. 5 βIn the Library Loungeβ π
π @glbt_history
JULY 5, 2020
βFor those who doubted our legality or our permanency we can only say, βSee, weβre incorporated and weβre here to stay.ββ β
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πΈ βThe Ladderβ Vol. 1 Issue 1
JULY 6, 2020
Good morning, cutie!
πΈ Barbara Gittings, 1962. Photo by Kay βTobinβ Lahusen @nypl
JULY 7, 2020
A peak at some of the other Pan-Graphic Press publications other than Helen Bransonβs book GAY BAR and the Mattachine Review.
π @onearchives
JULY 7, 2020
Henry Gerber, founder of the first gay rights group in the U.S. in 1924 (in the very first episode), writes to Mattachineβs New York chapter in 1956.
π @onearchives
JULY 7, 2020
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π @glbt_history
JULY 8, 2020
Catch up before next weekβs new episode βFaces Behind the Names.β π
JULY 11, 2020
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Join the drama! Episodes 1-5 now available on all podcast platforms π
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