Season 2 TrailerSeason 2 picks up in 1954, right where we left off. (But you don’t need to hear season 1 to follow along.)
A secret organization of lesbians forms as the national Mattachine Society crumbles. A political revolution is launched by a drag queen. Police raid gay spaces and street queens fight back.
The masks come off and a militant minority is rising.
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“The Gayest Songs on Wax” by Edythe Eyde
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Season 2 Bonus episodes
"A Murder in Midtown"
A 1930s true queer murder mystery in New York City.
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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MAY 20, 2020
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
MAY 20, 2020
Thank you, Bay Area Reporter! 🏳️🌈
“This podcast finds people who were heroes, even if they were a little shady, and reclaims them," founding Radical Faerie Joey Cain said. "What [Camp] has done, no book has done as well in the level of detail.”
Season 2 begins June 3! 💋
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MAY 21, 2020
Meet the main characters of season 2 📌
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin met six women discretely in a living room for a private dance. Then they had a bigger idea. 🗞
Season 2 begins June 3!
(You don’t have to hear season 1 to join us!)
@glbt_history
MAY 21, 2020
Meet the characters of season 2... 🔹
Edythe Eyde A.K.A. Lisa Ben 📌
“In these days of frozen foods, motion picture palaces, compact apartments, modern innovations and female independence, there is no reason why a woman would have to look to a man for food and shelter in return for raising his children and keeping his house in order unless she really wants to. Never before have circumstances and conditions been so suitable for those of lesbian tendencies.”
Season 2 begins June 3 🏎
@onearchives
MAY 22, 2020
Meet the main characters... José Sarria 📌
“Your reputation shot to hell the minute you came in here, you know.”
Season 2 begins June 3 🧚🏼♂️
@glbt_history
MAY 23, 2020
Meet the characters of season 2... Dr. Evelyn Hooker 📌
"It must either become a quiet-working cooperate organization... OR attempt to require society as a whole to accept the minority through hostility and demands for integration."
Season 2 begins June 3 🔬
MAY 23, 2020
Marion Glass A.K.A. Meredith Grey 📩
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
@glbt_history
MAY 23, 2020
lol
MAY 22, 2020
”I say we take this crowd on and make them put up or shut up.” 🔍
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
MAY 25, 2020
“Where Boys Will Be Girls” 🧚🏼♂️🧚🏿♀️🧚🏽♂️
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
📸 foundsf.org
MAY 24, 2020
Meet... Carlett Brown 📌
“We’ll be married as soon as I am legally a woman.”
Season 2 begins June 3 💃🏿
📸 Jet Magazine, 1953
MAY 24, 2020
“Where Girls Will Be Boys” 🎩
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
📸 foundsf.org
MAY 25, 2020
Meet the characters of season 2...
Elver Barker 📌
“Yes, I state my interest in organizational work for sexual equality as matter of factly as I state my interest in painting pictures.”
Season 2 begins June 3 🎨
photo and painting courtesy tyleralpern.com, letter @onearchives
MAY 26, 2020
Meet.... Lorraine Hansberry 📌
“Just a little afterthought, considering Mattachine; Bilitis, ONE; all seem to be cropping up on the West Coast rather than here where a vigorous and active gay set almost bump one another off the streets—what is it in the air out there? Pioneers still? Or a tougher circumstance which inspires battle?”
Season 2 begins June 3 ☀️
MAY 26, 2020
“The most bohemian bar in America!” 🐈
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
📸 foundsf.org
MAY 25, 2020
ONE Magazine is the top-selling homophile publication, published in Los Angeles. 📌
Catch up on past issues before season 2 begins June 3 🔍
👨⚖️ Jan 1953, the first issue, was in season 1, episode 3
🔴 April 1953 was in season 1, episode 6
🖊July 1953 lol spoiler theirs will outlast all early homophile publications
@onearchives
MAY 28, 2020
𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚊𝚜𝚖 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙼𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔. ✉️
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
@onearchives
MAY 29, 2020
More issues of ONE to peruse before season 2 🔍 and honestly some of the best art in homophile history
🖊February 1954 will be in an upcoming bonus episode on my patreon!
🍂 October 1954 was seized by the postmaster in season 1, episode 9
🎄 note the triangle beard
@onearchives
MAY 28, 2020
She’s back.
“By and large they couldn’t care less about our project, our magazine, or anything we are trying to do… But, when they run afoul of the law, the song—and chorus—is changed. Then they want help.”
Hal Call, Mattachine Society Publications Director 🗞
Season 2 begins June 3 📌
photos from KQED’s “The Rejected,” 1961 (put a pin in THAT)
MAY 26, 2020
“Stick an address on one of your notes someday, so I can write to you more directly.”
June 3 📌
MAY 29, 2020
Meet the main characters... Helen Branson 📌
“If anyone hit me, I think all the fellows in the bar would take him apart.”
Season 2 begins June 3 📖
photo from GAY BAR
(will explain next week)
MAY 27, 2020
Meet... Virginia Prince 📌
“You might as well know I like to wear the heels.”
Season 2 begins June 3 🗞
MAY 31, 2020
Meet the characters... Christine Jorgensen 📌
“In a sense, then, my notoriety was a matter of chance.”
Season 2 this Wednesday! ⭐️
MAY 30, 2020
I’ll be on OUT Chicago tomorrow at 12:20 on WCPT! Playing a clip from episode 2 and chatting about the show! Listen live at WCPT820.com
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JUNE 1, 2020
The whole world is watching, again.
Protestor on Wacker Drive, Chicago
May 30, 2020 @talldarkandryan
Protestor outside Conrad Hilton Hotel
during 1968 DNC @chicagosuntimes
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