Season 3 PreviewSeason 3 follows the Movement from 1963 to 1970. We’ll experience some of the most famous raids in queer history at California Hall and Compton’s Cafeteria, march in the first defiant pickets for our rights, and shake the walls of the United States Government. The revolution still stalked by the FBI and many other enemies becomes unstoppable as young militants like Barbara Gittings, Ernestine Eckstein, Randy Wicker, and Reed Erickson bring our story to its dramatic conclusion at the Stone Wall.
Season 3 episode transcripts coming soon.
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Original release: April 7, 2021
LIFE Magazine:
"Homosexuality in America"
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Season 2 Bonus episodes
"Nation, Government,
President, & Jenkins"
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Check out these free bonus episodes & archive dives from season 3:
Devlyn interviews Transparent creator Joey Soloway
SAY GAY 🍊
March 14, 2022
Interview with Indiana LGBTQ+ historian Kelley Coures
“A Step Higher”
w/ Mattachino
Wendell Sayers
Instagram @queerserial
APRIL 6, 2021
hey radio drama queens. season 3 preview is coming!!
APRIL 8, 2021
3rd & final season April 12 💖
Out of the living rooms and into the bars. Out of the bars and into the streets. ☀️
APRIL 8, 2021
From the beginning…to Stonewall. ✌🏼✌🏾✌🏿
The new art for the final season was made by @talldarkandryan, who made my little dream come true with this work. Here’s the inspiration >>
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1. Seasons 1 & 2 were set in 1924-53 & 1953-63. This season moves forward into the psychedelic era that influenced the young activists and rebels of the gay & trans movement. The Playboy font! The Peter Max piece! Even the straights were f*ggy.
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2. Started with this idea of John Burnside’s teleidescope, a type of kaleidoscope that uses objects from outside the instrument, rather than beads inside, to create these patterns like the background here. (Burnside was Mattachine founder Harry Hay’s partner from 1962 until Harry’s death in 2002.) We were also inspired by the Gay Liberation Front flyer in this Diana Davies photo from 1970. I liked the idea of filling the teleidescope with the jester and Bilitis opposed to each other in order to reflect the growing numbers in the movement, and the tension between genders.
We stumbled into accidentally using the perfect shade of mimeo machine purple ink that so many of the homophile era docs were printed in—like Harry’s “Call” above. Queer ancestors speaking to Ryan.
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3. “The power of three will set us free” 🧙♀️ Ryan redrew the 3 characters to make the new design! It really captures the linear drawings of publications like ONE Magazine.
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4. Vanguard, one of the many new organizations this season. Stay tuneddd
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5. Season 2 rainbow TV test card
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6. Season 1 - Much like the Daughters of Bilitis and their vague magazine title “The Ladder,” my subtitle overtook the original title. (“A Lesbian Review” subtitle got larger until it met the same font as The Ladder, happening this season!) No one could spell “Mattachine” to find the podcast, and that group is definitely no longer the star of the movement or the podcast, so she’s dropped from the title.
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7. An earlier version of Ryan’s work that I also love.
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APRIL 7, 2021
I started working on this podcast in spring 2016. (Remember these promos?!) Very excited to bring her to the big finale I promised since the very first episode.
Listen to the final season’s preview! Link in bio 💖
APRIL 8, 2021
“We are the hustlers, who are bought and paid for by the same people who will not hire us to do a legitimate job. We are the people with long hair who you will neither hire to work for you nor allow us in your organizations.” ☀️
Vanguard joins the movement in season 3!!
🗂 @glbt_history
APRIL 7, 2021
So many places to visit in the final season...
APRIL 8, 2021
The Nightingale of Montgomery Street José Sarria returns to put another jewel in his crown in season 3 💋
🗂 @glbt_history
APRIL 9, 2021
Teaming up! Editor of The Ladder Barbara Gittings and Mattachine Society of Washington President Frank Kameny are taking on the federal government in season 3. 🇺🇸
🗂 @nypl by Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen, 1971.
APRIL 9, 2021
“I think we have to decide how far we can go for caring about what heterosexuals think.”
Ernestine Eckstein joins the Daughters this season! ⭐️
📸 by Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen, 1966. @NYPL
APRIL 9, 2021
These horrid closet queens are back to stalk the homophiles.🚨
📸J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson watch a prize fight, August 18, 1936. @getty
APRIL 10, 2021
Lucky us. Martha Shelley joins the Daughters of Bilitis this season. ✌🏼
📸Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, Greenwich Village, 1969. Photo by Diana Davies. @NYPL
APRIL 10, 2021
Introducing the new villains: “Doctors” Charles Socarides & Irving Bieber 🏨
🎥 CBS Reports: “The Homosexuals,” 1967. (Stay tuned)
APRIL 11, 2021
“I must say I am very pleased to see all of you from the East, from the West, from Canada, and of course the New York people to be up with us this morning and to come to our program.” 🎤
Daughters of Bilitis President Cleo Bonner is back in season 3!
📸 from “Before Stonewall” edited by Vern Bullough. Date and photographer unknown.
APRIL 11, 2021
Pass the word… Queer Serial’s march to the Stone Wall begins tomorrow! 🎧
🗂 @glbt_history
APRIL 11, 2021
“Problems disappear through evolution; they are only aggravated by revolution.” 🔥
The controversial queen is back for her crown.
📸 Life Magazine, 1964.
🎥 CBS Reports: “The Homosexuals,” 1967. (Stay tuned!)
APRIL 4, 2021
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🗂 José Sarria at the Black Cat @glbt_history
MARCH 31, 2021
“I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted as just what I am: a woman. It’s only petty maliciousness that is trying to cause me heartache and harm. If they would devote the same amount of energy to local problems that are hurting the community it would be much better... I have lived a good citizen for many years in this town and am going to die a good citizen, but I am going to die a woman.”
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#transdayofvisibility #LucyHicksAnderson
ONE ARCHIVES PRESENTATION
MARCH 18, 2021
Join me and @onearchives right here in my apt next week for an educators’ webinar about the history of the Mattachine! Tell your teacher friends!! Or come just to learn some fun history. Link in my bio! 💖
@ofcoalition
MARCH 22, 2021
Tomorrow afternoon! Join me, @onearchives, and @ofcoalition for an educators’ webinar about the history of the Mattachine and the timeless assimilation/liberation debate. Tell your teacher friends!! Or come just to learn some fun history. Link in my bio! 🎉
MARCH 23, 2021
Thanks so much to @onearchives for inviting me to speak about assimilation in the queer rights movement! And for encouraging me to drag enemies in our own camp. 😏
Here are a few slides, in no particular order. 😘
If you’re looking to make donations to help an organization that’s getting queer history in public schools, head on over to One ☝️
happy holidays 2020
JANUARY 1, 2021
Happy New Year to you all!! Here’s a little tease for season 3 — on the 56th anniversary of one of San Francisco’s most famous raids. 🎺
🗂 Town Talk, December 1964 @glbt_history
🗂 Citizens News Vol 7 @glbt_history
DECEMBER 25, 2020
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DECEMBER 25, 2020
happy holidays my lil homophiles 🎁
🗂 @onearchives
DECEMBER 25, 2020
best wishes for 1957 💋
🗂 @onearchives
DECEMBER 24, 2020
obsessed with this one 🌲
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Season’s greetings, cuties. 🌲
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Dear Santa, I’m gay. 💌
🗂 @onearchives
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
back in this closet recording s3 💋
DECEMBER 5, 2020
just a quick lil reminder that my patreon bonus podcast and behind-the-scenes content is FREEE this month❗️
I’m currently planning all sorts of exciting bonus stuff for next year, including a spin-off mini-series pod, and partnering with another historian for a show about another gay supervisor....
Join now and BINGE!! 💖
patreon.com/QueerSerial
DECEMBER 15, 2020
recording the patreon spin-off mini-series!! 🎧
DECEMBER 9, 2020
stumbled onto another Pierre Louÿs classic in a rare book store. He also wrote “Songs of Bilitis.” 🔥
DECEMBER 2, 2020
omg thank you all! ESPECIALLY CANADA 💖🇨🇦💖
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Rosa Parks was arrested 65 years ago today, sparking the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott. 🚌
📸Rosa Parks booking photo, 1955. @librarycongress
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
who needs em?
📸 Joan Jett Blakk at queer zine festival SPEW, May 1991. Mark Freitas.
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
her again? 🔥 getting steamy with another edition of Bilitis illustrations on Patreon! join now cause the next two months are freeeee 😘 bonus podcast, too.
patreon.com/queerserial
🎨 Joseph Kuhn-Régnier, c. 1930
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
“[Transvestites] are unique in that we cannot publicly organize like women and gays to publicize our position. Neither can we expect society to come around to our point of view voluntarily...” 🦋
🗂 Editor Virginia Prince in her magazine “Transvestia” issue 100, 1980. @glbt_history
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
In case you’re curious how much of the story is left to tell next season...
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NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Me and my Patreon subscribers are taking another dive into another edition of “Songs of Bilitis,” this time with illustrations by French painter Alméry Lobel Riche 🎨
patreon.com/queerserial 😘