S3 E4"Aunties,"
or,
"The Style of Tomorrow"
“Either you keep up with the movement, or you will be dropped by the wayside….that’s just the way movements evolve.”
Transgender philanthropist Reed Erickson puts his fortune into the queer movement. ONE Magazine splits in a classic melodramatic homophile schism. Donald Webster Cory, the supposed “Grandfather of the Homophile Movement,” is finally unmasked.
Black activists march from Selma to Montgomery, inspiring queer communities. Gay power is felt at the Dewey's lunch counter sit-in. Homophiles launch a long picketing season, climaxing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
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Original release: May 3, 2021
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MAY 2, 2021
Join the picket line in tomorrow’s new episode. 🗣🗯
🎧S3 E4: “Aunties,” or, “The Style of Tomorrow”
MAY 8, 2021
Picket season has just begun. 🗣🗯
🎧 S3 E4: The East Coast Homophile Organizations kick off a year of protests.
🎥 “The Second Largest Minority” by Lilli Vincenz of MSW. 1968. @librarycongress
MAY 2, 2021
This week on the podcast, hear how the Civil Rights movement continued to inspired the homophile activists. 💥
📸 Outside Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama — the starting point of the march to Montgomery. 1965. University of Michigan. (Found on @lgbt_history!)
📸 Selma to Montgomery march, 1965. Photo by Bruce Davidson via @magnumphotos.
MAY 3, 2021
In episode 4, the homophiles are once again inspired by the Civil Rights movement. 💥
🎧S3 E4 Selma to Montgomery marches, March 1965.
📸 Harlem demonstrators, March 1965. @libraryofcongressphotos
📸 Alabama state troopers attack peaceful demonstration in Selma as marchers cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 7, 1965. AP.
📸 March to Montgomery. AP.
MAY 4, 2021
“To provide assistance and support…where the scope of research was too new, controversial or imaginative to receive traditionally oriented support.” 🔬
🎧 S3 E4: Trans philanthropist Reed Erickson joins the movement.
📸 Erickson and his pet leopard Henry. @onearchives
📸 Erickson as a teenager. Photographer unknown.
📸 Erickson with his girlfriend Daisy Harriman (left) and Michele, 1963. @onearchives
Dewey’s Restaurant sit-in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 25, 1965
MAY 2, 2021
Tomorrow 🎧
MAY 5, 2021
“There is a tendency to be concerned with the rights of homosexuals as long as they somehow appear to be heterosexual, whatever that is.” 🍦
🎧 S3 E4: The Janus Society protests queer exclusion at Dewey’s in Philadelphia.
📸 Cops outside the 17th Street location during the May 2, 1965 protest, possibly Janus President & Drum editor Clark Polak passing out flyers to prepare for the second of the two protests, various Dewey’s locations including one with firefighters on the roof, and lastly, the 13th Street location that welcomed queer folks.
The first annual reminder picket
Independence hall, philadelphia
july 4, 1965
MAY 6, 2021
“Are we guaranteeing to all of our citizens the rights, the liberties, the freedoms, which took birth and first form in the Declaration of Independence…? Or are these concepts merely being given lip-service for some of our citizens?”
🎧 S3 E4: East Coast Homophile Organizations picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
📸 July 4, 1965. Temple Urban Archives @temple_scrc. Ernestine Eckstein in white dress and sunglasses 🔥
📄ECHO demonstration pamphlet, reprinted in Kay Tobin’s "Picketing: The Impact & the Issues" in The Ladder, September 1965.
📸 Jack Nichols?
MAY 8, 2021
“We can call it the Annual Reminder—the reminder that a group of Americans still don’t have their basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Craig Rodwell 🔔
☀️ Ernestine Eckstein in white dress
🎧 S3 E4: East Coast Homophile Organizations picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
📸 July 4, 1965. Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Temple Urban Archives @temple_scrc
MAY 9, 2021
“I don’t believe this. They’re all actors.”
📸 Jack Nichols and others at the first Annual Reminder picket at Independence Hall, Philadelphia. July 4, 1965. Photos by Kay Tobin. Hear the story in S3 E4.
MAY 8, 2021
“Sexual Preference is Irrelevant To ANY Employment” 🗣🗯
🎧 S3 E4: MSW’s Frank Kameny & Beat poet Leo Skir at the first Annual Reminder picket at Independence Hall, Philadelphia. July 4, 1965. Photos by Kay Tobin.
MAY 9, 2021
“Dear Barbara: NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS
HISTORY IN THE MAKING ** HISTORY IN THE MAKING ** HISTORY IN THE MAKING
I’m writing this, very very wearily, and very very contentedly, after returning from home following a ten-person picketing…
Fondly, Frank” ✉️
🎧 S3 E4: Picketing season has just begun! Stay tuned
📸 Frank Kameny talks to the crowd at the first Annual Reminder picket at Independence Hall. July 4, 1965. Photos by Kay Tobin.
AUGUST 22, 2021
Her face at the end…. 😂😍
Watch the full Lilli Vincenz film of the 1968 4th annual picket recently posted in this same IGTV series.
📺 Episode 1 of “Our Time,” a gay news and documentary series on WNYC-TV produced by Marcia Pally and Vito Russo, 1983.
MAY 3, 2021
“We were given a choice spot, directly in front of the White House.” 💥
🎧S3 E4: Mattachine of Washington pickets the White House in protest of Cuba’s treatment of homosexuals, April 17, 1965.
📸 Jack Nichols, Frank Kameny, & Lilli Vincenz in front of the line. @gettyimages
🗞 NYT piece (which Jack reads to Frank over the phone in the episode)
📸 Students picketing at the White House earlier the same day, protesting the Vietnam War, as mentioned in the episode. @gettyimages
MAY 4, 2021
“…arrangements were made to demonstrate at Hammarskjold Plaza at the U.N. itself.” 🗣🗯
🎧 S3 E4: The day after the White House picket, MSNY pickets the UN.
📸 Dick Leitsch & Craig Rodwell, April 18, 1965. Photographer unknown.
🗞 Coverage in The Ladder
MAY 3, 2021
Tabloid coverage of the march 🗞
🎧S3 E4: “The Style of Tomorrow”
I also threw in the same tabloid’s coverage of Kameny’s Congressional hearing with Dowdy (image 3, left) and the Walter Jenkins scandal from the bonus episode on my patreon (right)
MAY 6, 2021
Jekyll & Hyde / Cory & Sagarin 📚
🎧 S3 E4: “The Grandfather of the Homophile Movement” finally has his mask removed.
see you in the magazines
MAY 4, 2021
“Beginner’s Guide To Cruising” 🔥
DRUM, March 1965, covering queerness as sickness, physique photos, the characters from their comic strip “The Man From A.U.N.T.I.E.,” Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Kennedy, and an ad for Der Kreis, a Swiss gay publication. 🗞
AUNTIE was the first gay ongoing comic strip. It started in the second issue of Drum, moved to Queen’s Quarterly, and later moved to another hot magazine called Drummer.
MAY 7, 2021
Canada’s “TWO Magazine,” inspired by the American “ONE Magazine.” 💥 Today on my Patreon, we’re taking a look at most of the 11 steeeamy issues, published 1964-66. About half the pages are physique photos. Enjoy 🔥
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MAY 5, 2021
“Civil Service Commission Refuses to Confer With Homosexuals. Afraid?” 🗣🗯
🎧 S3 E4: ECHO pickets the CSC, June 26, 1965.
📸 Lilli Vincenz leads the picket line at the CSC, photo by Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen, placed on the cover of ‘The Ladder’ by her partner, editor Barbara Gittings.
MAY 7, 2021
“You two old aunties go out in the hall and fight this out.” 👨⚖️
🎧 S3 E4: The homophile heist at ONE Magazine leads to the biggest schism yet.
📸 Lovers Tony Reyes & Don Slater, undated. @onearchives
📸 Tangents column in ONE by Dal McIntire (Jim Kepner), which inspires the new ONE Magazine’s title.
📸 Jim Kepner and Dorr Legg at the ONE, Inc. offices on Venice Blvd. @onearchives
📸 Letter from Dorr. Notice the last line: “..the date has now been set for our final trial against ‘Don Slater et al’ - March 14th.” @onearchives
MAY 9, 2021
ONE Magazine issues published during the events of S3 E4 — not including issues that ran alongside the competing version of ONE that broke off in the schism. See both versions of ONE during the schism in my post a few days ago! 🗞
🗂 @onearchives
MAY 7, 2021
“ONE Becomes Two” 🗞🗞 Issues of ONE published during episode 4 — during the ONE, Inc. schism. 💥💥
Both sides of the schism printed their own issue each month! The competing new group ultimately became “Tangents.”
🗂 @onearchives
MAY 2, 2021
A leader turns on his fellow homophiles — tomorrow. 🤫
🎥 CBS Reports: “The Homosexuals,” 1967. (Stay tuned)