S3 E11Stonewall Inn
Night 1:
"The Devil with
the Blue Dress On"
“You already got the payoff.
Now here’s some more.”
A moment-by-moment historically accurate radio play of the Stonewall Riots. How it happened, why it happened, who was there (and who wasn't), and why there is no "first brick." Hear how the street kids outsmarted the pigs and made it queer history's most legendary night.
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Original release: June 28, 2021
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The Stonewall Riots
Night 1: June 28, 1969
JUNE 28, 2021
🚨“Here comes Betty Badge!”
🎧 S3 E11 Stonewall Night 1: “The Devil with the Blue Dress On”
📸 Jackie Hormona (left) and others outside the Stonewall after the raid, June 28, 1969, New York Daily News. Photo by Joseph Ambrosini.
📸 Police report and Dave Van Ronk arrest papers. @nyclgbtsites
JULY 3, 2021
Pride isn't over for this pod! Hear all about the week following the Stonewall rebellion on next week's (penultimate!) episode. 🔥
📸 The Stonewall Inn on the fifth day of the uprising, July 2, 1969. Photo by Larry Morris for @nytimes.
JUNE 27, 2021
🔥 Tomorrow, on the 52nd anniversary, listen to the Stonewall Riots moment by moment in part 1 of Queer Serial’s series finale!
📸 Second night of the rebellion, outside the Stonewall. Photos by Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah, June 28, 1969.
JUNE 28, 2021
I’m happy to help. TODAY join me at the Stonewall in a new episode detailing the rebellion moment by moment 🔥
Clip from Billboard’s 2017 drag queen roundtable “Spilling the Tea,” in which Willam corrects Derrick Barry.
Outside the Stonewall during the riots.
Photograph by Fred McDarrah/Getty
The Stonewall Inn, est. 1934
JUNE 30, 2021
Rest up! Pride continues next week in a new episode covering night 2 of the Stonewall uprising. 🔥
🔥Matchbooks for the original tearoom and restaurant Bonnie's Stonewall Inn, c. 1940s. @nyclgbtsites & queermusicheritage.com
JUNE 27, 2021
Some helpful resources for tomorrow’s episode! 🔥 Tomorrow, on the 52nd anniversary, listen to the Stonewall Riots moment by moment in part 1 of Queer Serial’s series finale!
🗺 Layout of the Stonewall Inn, October 2, 1968. NYC Department of Buildings. nyclgbtsites.org
🗺 Map of the area surrounding the Stonewall and clearer layout of the bar, from David Carter’s 2004 book “Stonewall.”
📸 Dedication ceremony for General Sheridan statue, October 19, 1936. New York City Parks Photo Archive. nyclgbtsites.org
JUNE 28, 2021
53 Christopher Street ✨
📸 First two are both the Jefferson Livery Stable & the French Bakery Company, 1928. @nypl
📸 Bonnie's Stonewall Inn, date unknown. (Ran from 1934-1966.) NYC Department of Records.
JUNE 29, 2021
The Village Voice & Bonnie’s Stonewall Inn 🗞🍻
📸 From the PBS documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. Photo c. 1960s. @nyclgbtsites
📸 Ad for the bar, seen from Seventh Ave South & Grove Street (right where I was celebrating on Sunday after the Queer Liberation march!), pointing toward a small glimpse of the Stonewall above the car, over the trees in Christopher Park. Photographer unknown. May 12, 1940. @nyclgbtsites
Legends of the Riots
JUNE 29, 2021
Miss Major was at the Stonewall that night, meeting up with a girlfriend. Major had just been kicked out of college again in Chicago for her gender expression (mentioned back in season 2). Hear about her role in the uprising in this week’s new episode! 💥
📸 Miss Major performing at the Guilded Grape in New York City, c. 1970s. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy’s personal collection.
📸 Flyer for San Francisco Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center Gigi’s, managed by Miss Major, c. 1990s.
📸 San Francisco Pride, 2014. Arrian Jahangiri, Quinn Dombrowski.
JUNE 26, 2021
"It's fun being Sylvia. It's fun playing the game."
🎧 Join me (and Sylvia!) in a new episode detailing the Stonewall Rebellion moment-by-moment this Monday on the 52nd anniversary!
📸 Sylvia Rivera and Arthur Bell at NYU gay liberation event, 1970. Photo by Diana Davies.
JULY 1, 2021
Did Jewel Box Revue star Stormé DeLarverie tip the Stonewall rebellion? I'll tell ya all about it in the new episode 🌟
📸 Can't seem to find the date for this stunning photo. Any tips?
📸 c. 1950-69 @digitaltransarc
📸 Jewel Box Revue c. 1960s. @nyclgbtsites
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
#Stonewall veteran #JerryHoose in the documentary “Stonewall Uprising” 🧚🏼♂️
Press & aftermath
JUNE 28, 2021
News coverage of the Stonewall rebellion 🔥
🗞 New York Daily News, July 6, 1969.
🗞 New York Daily News, June 29, 1969.
🗞 New York Post, June 28, 1969.
🗞 “The combination of a full moon and Judy Garland’s funeral was too much for them…the cause of the Great Faggot Rebellion.” This piece is the only news coverage to (incorrectly) credit Judy’s death as the cause of the uprising. Village Voice, July 10, 1969.
🗞 New York Times, June 20, 1969.
JULY 1, 2021
GAY RIOTS IN THE VILLAGE 🔥
🗞 MSNY Newsletter, August 1969. Also check out the original @grindr, an ad for Man-to-Man! "Cruise by Gay Computer." Frank Kameny was offered the job as president of the company, but he was concerned about the image that would give him in his activism, so he declined, and instead rewrote the personality survey for them.
JULY 4, 2021
🇺🇸 "On the 192nd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, American homosexuals call for the completion of the American Revolution!"
🎧 In this week's new episode, during the week following the Stonewall rebellion, we'll visit the final Annual Reminder picket. What did the picket transform into...? 😏
📸 July 4, 1969. Martha Shelly, Lilli Vincenz, and other participants at the 5th and final Annual Reminder picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Photo by Nancy Tucker. @lesbianherstoryarchives
JULY 23, 2021
👀 Hot tips from the mid-60s, still relevant today…
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