S3 E13Finale:
"Liberation Day"
“2, 4, 6, 8. Gays unite to smash the State!”
Young gay activists take on every Establishment in the years following Stonewall. We visit all of Queer Serial's major cities & major players. Barbara Gittings & Frank Kameny take on the APA. The Stonewall cop raids the Snake Pit, causing tragedy. The Gay Activists Alliance and the Lavender Menace raise hell. We attend the first annual Christopher Street Liberation Day march, now known as Pride.
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Original release: October 11, 2021
"Sisters" by the Daughters, 1973
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Season 4
A queer serial sister series
“Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!”
Why stop at Stonewall? Coming soon, a collaboration between Queer Serial producer & host Devlyn Camp, and historian Will Roscoe.
She's a sort-of sequel, a spin-off — a sister series!
In a new series, we’ll tell you Milk’s story, and pick up where the movie left off. You’ll hear the story of a shy minister was chosen by Milk to fill his shoes in the event of assassination—
and how he kept the movement going forward. Listen at queerserial.com/harrybritt
Check out these free bonus pieces from season 3 & beyond:
Devlyn interviews Transparent creator Joey Soloway
March 4, 2022
SAY GAY 🍊
Anita Bryant & Ron DeSantis
March 14, 2022
Interview with Indiana LGBTQ+ historian Kelley Coures
January 18, 2023
Randy Wicker
& Marsha P. Johnson Papers
currently processing
Instagram @queerserial
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Listen to the final episode, including a peak of the new sequel/spin-off/sister series “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!” during the first act break!
“Gay and Proud”
The first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade in New York City, on the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, June 28, 1970.
📸 Lilli Vincenz & Clifton Witt
@librarycongress
JULY 18, 2021
“To those of you who have supported us…we simply wish the best in the future. For those of you who have casually read us through the years, indeed sometimes intending to subscribe, but not ever quite getting around to it, we wish you whatever you deserve.”
🎧 Stay tuned! In the series finale special, we’ll follow the new Ladder editor Barbara Grier (AKA Gene Damon) through one more homophile HEIST! And the downfall of the Daughters of Bilitis. Quite a juicy story.
📚 Grier’s bibliography of lesbian literature, building on the work of women like Jeannette Howard Foster. Her “Grier Ratings” were similar to the future Bechdel Test, but for lesbian lit. Books could get an A (with a series of 1 to 3 asterisks) for sympathetic lesbian characters, just an A for a major lesbian character but not a good portrayal, B and C for lesbian subplots and coded language, or T for “trash.”
📸 Barbara Grier, photographer unknown.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Meet me in the dining room, Mary! 🍽🍑🍾
Pop over to Patreon to dive into a gay camp classic by author Lou Rand. After publishing the first gay detective novel, he went on to break ground in the kitchen, too. It’s QUITE a naughty cookbook densely packed with innuendo and jokes for gays in the know. If I’ve whet your appetite, join my patreon for the full feast. 🔥
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Link in my bio. $1/month!!
OCTOBER 9, 2021
Listeners of the podcast who’ve been tuned in for almost 5 years, get ready for the final episode!!! She comes with a peak at what’s next for Queer Serial ✌🏼
📸 Gay Liberation Front members spell out GAY POWER outside New York’s Criminal Court, 1970. Marsha P. Johnson as the Y and Sylvia Rivera as the E. Photo by Diana Davies. @nypl
Hear the stories of these 3 amazing women in the final episode. ⚡️
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The final episode of Queer Serial is now available!! Happy Day After You Came Out Day 💖💖💖
She was supposed to be released yesterday, but there were technical issues. ⚡️ link in bio!! ⚡️
📸 Martha Shelley selling Gay Liberation Front’s newspaper Come Out! during the Weinstein Hall demonstration @nypl
#lgbthistory #nationalcomingoutday
OCTOBER 13, 2021
“There’s only homosexuals, bisexuals, and trisexuals, darling. And there’s no straight people.”
What’s next for Marsha after Stonewall? Hear the story of STAR House in the final episode of Queer Serial. ⭐️
📸 Kady Vandeurs and Marsha P. Johnson at gay rights rally at City Hall, 1973. Photo by Diana Davies. @nypl
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Hear how the Mattachine ends in the final episode of Queer Serial! 🏳️🌈
⚡️link in bio ⚡️
📸 March in Albany, New York. March 14, 1971. Photo by Diana Davies. @nypl
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Hey, perverts! The final episode of Queer Serial is out.
Hear the story of how homophile activists got (most of) the doctors to stop trying to “cure” us. ✨link in my bio ✨
OCTOBER 18, 2021
"Forbidden Love," New York, Harlem, c. 1969-70. Photo by Ernest Cole. 💖
OCTOBER 19, 2021
As told on the pod, a Gay Liberation Front meeting at Alternate U, 1970. This flyer was obviously used as inspiration for the Queer Serial artwork. ✌🏽
📸 Photo by Diana Davies. @nypl
OCTOBER 16, 2021
GAY, featured in the final episode! 🗞
GAY covered several of the stories also told in the episode. Here are a few—including Bette Midler’s cover shots, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, GAA zaps on Mayor Lindsay to the point that his wife finally lost her cool, Cowboy from “The Boys in the Band,” and Dr. Anonymous!
OCTOBER 17, 2021
One of the final issues of the ONE Magazine spin-off, Tangents, published shortly after the Stonewall uprising. 🗯
You can listen to the final episode of Queer Serial, covering the year after Stonewall, now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you do your podcast listening ✨✨✨
OCTOBER 21, 2021
“…the popular quarters at 59 Christopher Street in the heart of the gay ghetto are closed and soon to be vacated.”
Hear how the Mattachine ends in the final episode of Queer Serial. Link in my bio ✨
🗂 @onearchives
OCTOBER 24, 2021
Uplift THIS, honey! Diving into a TON of fun photos from Randy Wicker’s 30 years running his legendary Village lamp shop, Uplift Lighting.💡Employees included Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and many more familiar names—and celebrity guests, like Whoopi!! Lots of stories to tell!
See it alllllll on my patreon ⭐️
link in my bio ☺️
#queerhistory
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Randy Wicker (far right) at the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, as told in the final episode of the podcast. 🏳️🌈
Join my Patreon to see some wild pics from Randy's archive, which we're organizing in his home! 🗂 Sex Freedom League & Legalize Marijuana marches, interviews on "The Erotic Revolution," the secretive Wicker Research Studies (as told on the pod), bitchy letters, personal photos, and his "soap opera" lamp shop in the Village... and that's just what we've shared so far!!
📸 Peter Ogren, Prescott Townsend, Tom Doerr, Mark Golderman, and Randy Wicker, Sheep Meadow, Central Park, New York, June 28, 1970. Photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen 💖 @nypl
OCTOBER 30, 2021
"Michael?" 🔪
No, it's Dr. Anonymous! As told in the final episode of the podcast, when the APA finally gave homosexuals Barbara Gittings & Frank Kameny a platform to speak on, they invited gay psychiatrist John Fryer to speak—on the condition that he do it in disguise to protect his job. About a year later, the APA decided to agree that queers are not sick. 💋
📸 Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny, Dr. H. Anonymous (Dr. John Fryer), American Psychiatry Association convention panel "Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to Homosexuals," 1972. Photos by Kay Tobin Lahusen. @nypl
📸 Gittings & Phil Johnson at their APA exhibit, discussed on the pod! Photos by Kay Tobin Lahusen. @nypl
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
"Everything Gay Men Know About Gay Women" by Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon ✨
Hear how the story ends for these co-founders of the Daughters of Bilitis in the final episode of Queer Serial—and then follow them into my new podcast! Stay tuned 📻
🗂 @onearchives
OCTOBER 31, 2021
“It says here in the crystal ball that soon your feelings will be hurt by a brunette. I wonder who that would be?” 🔮
By Tigrina the Devil Doll AKA Lisa Ben (lesbian) AKA Edythe Eyde—editor of the first American lesbian magazine, singer of the songs for gay gals featured in s2 of the pod, and sci-fi writer! 🎃
Learn tons more about Tigrina on my Patreon, and also at @lisabenography & @lisabenssongbook. They're throwing a 100th birthday party for her next week!
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
GAY newspaper, October 12, 1970. 🗞
@rupaulsdragrace
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Covered on the podcast, the Gay Activists Alliance subcommittee called the Black Lesbian Caucus transformed into the first Black Lesbian organization, the Salsa Soul Sisters. Founded by Rev. Dolores Jackson, Sonia Bailey, & Harriet Alston in 1974, the group met as an alternative to the discriminatory bars and other gay groups. They held weekly meetings and social events, and published the magazines Azalea: A Magazine by Third World Lesbians and Salsa Soul Gayzette. ✨
🗂 pamphlet c. 1980, @lesbianherstoryarchives
📸 Salsa Soul Sisters at the Gay Pride March, 1985. Photo by Suzanne Poli.
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
Fans of Edythe Eyde's "songs for gay gals" can join some fabulous Eyde experts for her 100th birthday celebration tomorrow! 🎂
Go to @lisabenography & @lisabenssongbook for more info.
"Lisa Ben" was Eyde's pen name (an anagram of 'lesbian') when she wrote America's first lesbian magazine Vice Versa. We also heard her fun songs in season 2 of the podcast. She was also a sci-fi writer known as Tigrina. ✨
📸 @onearchives
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
Take the 1958 "Wicker Research Studies" scandalous gay questionnaire on my Patreon! 🔥
WE FOUND THE QUIZ in Randy's apartment! He was delighted. This list of questions that eventually went up in a bonfire was the basis for Randy and Ron Argall's juicy letters, plotting to take the Mattachine mailing list (during season 2 of the pod).
Take the hilarious and thoughtful questionnaire, and see Randy get dunked in a fountain at his first-ever protest in 1959. Also included: his first-ever press coverage, at age 17, under his legal name Charlie Hayden.
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link in my bio
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
The US Army Map Service desperately needed astronomers in 1957, but they kicked Frank Kameny out for being gay anyway. He started the Mattachine Society of Washington and pushed the gay movement forward. Hear the rest of his story—and how he defeated the US Government—in the final episode of Queer Serial. 💥
📸 Frank Kameny in the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, carrying the slogan he created, New York City, 1970. Photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen. @nypl
SEPTEMBER 5, 2021
Go Guys! ☀️ Join me on Patreon as we explore another absurd and sexy physical culture magazine from 1964. It's a huge issue with a large table of contents full of reasons to print photos and drawings of hot dudes. 🔥 NSFW!!
Patreon.com/QueerSerial
$1/month for queer history research dives! Link in my bio 💋
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
81???!!! wow, thank you all so much for supporting a little genderqueer thing like me. you're all giving me the time to make such fun queer history projects for you with actual queer LEGENDS. I had no idea Queer Serial would lead to this and I am so fucking GRATEFUL 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Coming in early 2022… successor to Harvey Milk tells his story in never-before-heard interviews — featuring unreleased material from Harvey Milk’s audio will.
In this special 7-episode series, Supervisor Harry Britt & historian Will Roscoe will tell you what it was like for them at the White Night Riots, and how Harry kept Harvey’s dream alive.
LISTEN AT: QUEERSERIAL.COM/HARRYBRITT
🔥 link in my bio to support us on Indiegogo for some fab rewards! 🔥
📸 Harry Britt on the Harvey Milk ‘human billboard’ c. 1976. Photo by Dan Nicoletta.
📸 Supervisor Harry Britt in SF Gay Pride Parade, 1979. Photographer unknown? DM if you know.
📸 Superivsor Britt, Gwenn Craig, and Jane Fonda, date unknown. Photo by Steve Savage.
📸 Britt wins! SF Chronicle, December 12, 1979.
📸 Supervisor Harry Britt, center, with friends, 1979. Photo by Paul Sakuma.
DECEMBER 10, 2021
thanks for listening, wherever you are 💖🌏✨ @spotify
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Two women dancing in April 1969 ✨
📸 @lesbianherstoryarchives
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Moving on to new & exciting projects in Brooklyn!! And saying goodbye to my old “recording studio” and “office” (my closet in Uptown Chicago). 💥 I’ll be posting more about my work in New York with Mattachine revolutionary, trans activist, and Marsha & Sylvia’s roommate Randy Wicker!! We’re archiving his apartment full of history.
Also a new Queer Serial sister series about a certain Supervisor is well into production. LOTS happening on my Patreon, too, so support me there for behind the scenes of those projects, more fun research dives, and bonus episodes!! 🎁
If 200 folks subscribe to the $3 bonus pod on Patreon, I will officially be making queer history pods full time!! Please support a new gal in the big city 💋💋💋 $3 a month!!!