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 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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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 30, 2020
Myself in Notes… Likes: Slacks. Deeply intelligent women. Eartha Kitt’s eyes, voice, legs, music. Dislikes: silly white people, loneliness, most sexual experiences, myself. Masculinity in women. Bored with ‘A Raisin in the Sun.’ Indifferent to: most men. I like: My homosexuality. I hate: My homosexuality. I like: 69 when it really works. The inside of a lovely woman’s mouth. To look at a well dressed woman. I am proud: that I struggle to work hard against many, many things. ✏️
Lorraine Hansberry joins the movement this Wednesday.
Ep. 5 “In the Library Lounge” on all podcast platforms! ⭐️
JUNE 29, 2020
This week, my cousin/sister/pancake Zoya joins the show as Lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry! ✏️
📸 My aunt Adrienne (also voicing characters), me, and Zoya
📸 Lorraine Hansberry, 1959. David Attie/Getty Images.
JULY 2, 2020
“Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”
—James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room 📚
Ep. 5 “In the Library Lounge” is now on all podcast platforms
📸 Ted Thai
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
“It will have to get worse since no real action has been taken. And years pass very quickly.”
📺 James Baldwin on CBC’s “The Way It Is,” 1968.
JULY 2, 2020
I’ve 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 — and we’ve finally reached it!
Episode 5 “In the Library Lounge” is now available on all the podcast places! 📚
(If you’ve heard the episode, check out the last image here, a hilarious, spoiler-filled letter from New York Mattachine leadership to the Daily Committee.) 🗞
JULY 1, 2020
We’ve come a long way. Let’s go further. 🏳️🌈
#BlackTransLivesMatter
📸 1954 Chicago Mattachine chapter newsletter, “Gay Press, Gay Power” edited by Tracy Baim
📸 Chicago’s 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 it’s the prettiest.) 🗞
🗂 @onearchives
JULY 4, 2020
Spoiler! 😉 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. 📌
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
📸 Temple Urban Archives
JULY 13, 2020
1957 issues of ONE Magazine, released during the events of episode 5.
(Chronological, except starting with April ‘57 — because look at it!)
👁 March ‘57 with Lady Justice is featured in S1 E10
🗂 @onearchives
“Gay Bar” by Helen Branson
Published by Pan-Graphic Press at San Francisco Mattachine Society headquarters
JULY 4, 2020
Author James Barr joins us “In the Library Lounge” this week, voiced by author and podcast queen @mattbaume!
(Matt is pictured here reading his copy of Helen Branson’s “Gay Bar”) 📚
Check out Matt’s Culture Cruise series on YouTube (so much queer analysis of Frasier!!), and his podcasts “The Sewers of Paris,” “Queens of Adventure,” and book “Defining Marriage.” 👸
JULY 5, 2020
“a king without a penis”
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Ep. 5 “In the Library Lounge” now available on all podcast platforms!
Get your copy of Helen Branson’s GAY BAR at patreon.com/queerserial (link in bio)
JULY 4, 2020
Ahoy! @mattbaume joins the pod this week as “Games of Fools” and “Quatrefoil” author James Barr. Get into the love triangle now, in episode 5, “In the Library Lounge.” 📚
Check out Matt’s Culture Cruise series on YouTube (so much queer analysis of Frasier!!), and his podcasts “The Sewers of Paris,” “Queens of Adventure,” and book “Defining Marriage.” 👸
JULY 1, 2020
@thesampancake joins the pod today as wicked gay attorney Kenneth Zwerin in the soapiest story in gay history you’ve never heard. 💋
Ep. 5 “In the Library Lounge” is available now on all podcast platforms.
📸 I couldn’t narrow down the best pic of Sam to use because he’s always fab and stunning. (#3 includes Mink Stole.)
#4 Mattachine’s private publication “Interim” featured in the episode. @glbt_history
JUNE 30, 2020
Those of you who love dramatic convention episodes are in for a treat tomorrow... 🎭
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 Branson’s book Gay Bar) and Dr. Karl Bowman (who will be prominently featured in an episode on transgender history). Lots of Queer Serial “characters” 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 🐩
JULY 6, 2020
“Throw away that brochure on homosexual rights and the law!” 🗞
Learn your rights right now in ep. 5 “In the Library Lounge” 📚
🗂 @glbt_history
JULY 5, 2020
“For those who doubted our legality or our permanency we can only say, ‘See, we’re incorporated and we’re here to stay.’” ⛅️
📸 “The Ladder” Vol. 1 Issue 1
JULY 6, 2020
Good morning, cutie!
📸 Barbara Gittings, 1962. Photo by Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen @nypl
JULY 7, 2020
A peak at some of the other Pan-Graphic Press publications other than Helen Branson’s book GAY BAR and the Mattachine Review.
🗂 @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 Mattachine’s New York chapter in 1956.
🗂 @onearchives
JULY 7, 2020
“...𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗... 𝚃𝚁𝚄𝚃𝙷!”
🗂 @glbt_history
JULY 8, 2020
Catch up before next week’s new episode “Faces Behind the Names.” 🎭
JULY 11, 2020
𝙻𝙴𝚃’𝚂 𝙶𝙴𝚃 𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃 𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝚃𝚃𝙰𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝚅𝙸𝙴𝚆... 🗞
Join the drama! Episodes 1-5 now available on all podcast platforms 📌
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