S3 E1"A Minority of Militant Homosexuals"
“A secret world grows open and bolder. Society is forced to look at it—
and try to understand it.”
The final season of the original series!
1963. The Black Cat is finally shut down. Many of our main “characters” meet for the first convention of the East Coast Homophile Organization. New, young Daughters & Mattachinos take stances against the old guards. Randy Wicker speaks live on New York City television, to the criticism of many. SIR forms in San Francisco and, surprisingly, teams up with Glide Memorial Church. On June 26, 1964, LIFE Magazine reveals the secret world of “Homosexuality in America.”
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Original release: April 12, 2021
LIFE Magazine:
"Homosexuality in America"
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APRIL 12, 2021
“A secret world grows open and bolder. Society is forced to look at it—and try to understand it.” 🔥
🎧 S3 E1, LIFE Magazine reveals the queer underworld to America.
👀 Take a closer look on my Patreon today! Link in bio.
AUGUST 3, 2021
🔦 A secret world grows open and bolder…
Join me on LIFE Magazine’s tour of the gay world in 1964 in the season 3 premiere, and then on my Patreon we’re diving into their articles that told America we were coming out.
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Don’t change that dial! 📻 We finally made it “from the beginning to Stonewall.” Coming soon, a series finale special detailing gay liberation’s wild year following the uprising. Catch up now! 😘
APRIL 13, 2021
In the first episode this season, taking place Sep 1963-June 1964, President Kennedy’s assassination shocks the country, as the gay lib and Civil Rights movements push toward more radical activism.
🎨 “Sixteen Jackies” by Andy Warhol, 1964.
APRIL 12, 2021
Goodbye, Black Cat! 🍻
😽 1906-1964
🎧 José’s home is finally defeated by the ABC in S3 E1.
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APRIL 17, 2021
😽 Black Cat’s last Halloween
🎧 S3 E1
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APRIL 27, 2021
Lesbian house party, c. 1960s-70s 🎶
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the daughters of bilitis
APRIL 13, 2021
“If the organization has any validity at all it can’t be based on two people, it has to be able to stand and grow on its own. And it’s never going to do it if we don’t move out.” 🌟
Del & Phyl have big plans this season…
📸 Photo by Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen, 1970.
APRIL 9, 2021
“‘At a very proper East Side hotel…a conclave of ladies with crew cuts.’ Her comment was obviously not based on first-hand observation.”
September 1958
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APRIL 12, 2021
The girl that I marry will prob’ly be
As butch as a hunk of machinery
The girl I idolize
Will wear slacks with flyfronts,
Tailored shirts and bowties
She’ll walk with a swagger
And wear short hair
And keep me entranced with her tomboy air.
‘Stead of cruisin,’ I’ll be usin’
Her shoulder to lean on while snoozin.’
A faint-hearted fairy, the girl that I marry won’t be.
—Edythe Eyde, aka Lisa Ben 🎶
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APRIL 27, 2021
“I’m done worrying about who’s bringing what to the covered dish supper.” 🗞
Barbara Gittings working on the Daughters of Bilitis-New York newsletter, 1962.
📸 Photo by Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen. @nypl
🗂 @glbt_history
JULY 22, 2021
👋🏼Barbara Gittings & Kay Lahusen’s resignation letters (1 day apart) in the season 3 premiere. What did they do next…?
Don’t change that dial! 📻 We finally made it “from the beginning to Stonewall.” Coming soon, a series finale special detailing gay liberation’s wild year following the uprising. Catch up now! 😘
🗞 @glbt_history
MAY 1, 2021
“Homosexual men should value women as people, don’t treat them like showpieces, actually give them responsibility, and consider our arguments at this convention.” 🌊
🎧 S3 E1 Shirley Willer joins the movement.
📸 Florida, 1987. Photo by Morgan Gwenwald. @lesbianherstoryarchives
📸 Atlantic City, location scouting for DOB trip, mid-1960s. Lesbian Herstory Archives.
East Coast Homophile Organizations
APRIL 17, 2021
New alliances this season. 🤝
🎧 S3 E1, East Coast homophile activists unite.
📸 Photo by Kay “Tobin” Lahusen, 1965. ECHO convention flyer, 1963. @NYPL
APRIL 22, 2021
One of the very buttons (with lavender font) Kameny and Wicker were debating in their letters in the first episode this season 💜
Sent to me by a listener, a new friend, and relative of—I still can’t believe this—Mattachine president Dick Leitsch. We’ll meet him on the pod very soon. 💕
APRIL 16, 2021
Bonus episode today on my Patreon! In LBJ's 1964 re-election campaign, the October surprise went down at the YMCA near the White House. 🎧
“He worked for me for 4 or 5 years, but he wasn’t even suspicious to me, but I guess you gonna have to teach me something about this stuff!”
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📸 Walter Jenkins, December 1964. LIFE Magazine.
APRIL 16, 2021
“It’s just a case of a fella going off his rocker for long enough to get involved in that kind of thing.” 🎧
Bonus episode today on my Patreon! The Lavender Scare catches up to the President.
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📸 Johnsons in Austin, Texas, receiving voting returns in the Democratic run-off primary for Senate, 1948. Young Walter Jenkins keeps count in the background. AP.
APRIL 14, 2021
“And what about those plainclothesmen...who come into places dressed in tight pants to lure people into illicit acts?” ☎️
🎧 S3 E1 Randy Wicker takes calls on The Les Crane Show
see you in the magazines
APRIL 28, 2021
Tabloid coverage of the famous NYT article, heard in the season premiere of the podcast 🗞
APRIL 18, 2021
ONE Magazine issues published during the events of S3 E1 🗞
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San Francisco homophile organizations
APRIL 13, 2021
You better lock up your man before he meets / The new girl in town ➡️
🎧 S3 E1 Society for Individual Rights joins the movement.
👀 We’re taking a closer look at SIR’s founding on my Patreon soon!
The SIR Pocket Lawyer
APRIL 18, 2021
“Oh, Reverend McIlvenna, he said for your issue you should see the vice squad.” 🚨
🎧 S3 E2: The Council on Religion and the Homosexual is about to get a taste of the SFPD.
🎥 The McIlvennas in “Lewd & Lascivious” documentary
🗂 docs at @glbt_history
📸 Glide Memorial Church, SF Examiner
APRIL 17, 2021
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