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Not far from the USC campus sits the home of the ONE Archives, one of the world's greatest repositories of historical material pertaining to LGBTQ people and institutions. The mid-century building once housed a USC fraternity and is now part of the USC Libraries. Today, the ONE Archives stand as an evolving memorial itself, with a mission to promote public conversation and scholarship about queer histories and cultures.To see images related to this episode, please visit dornsife.usc.edu/icw.Western Edition is hosted by William Deverell and produced by Avishay Artsy, Katie Dunham, Jessica Kim, Elizabeth Logan, and Stephanie Yi. Western Edition is a production of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
Together On the Air: LIVE on Radio, co-presented by dublab and ONE Archives Foundation, dedicated to LGBTQIA+ storytelling since 1952. This show was recorded in front of a live audience as part of ONE Archives Foundation's latest exhibition Together On the Air, which chronicles the historic contributions of Radio GLLU, the first bilingual LGBTQIA+ and Latinx-run radio program in the United States. Radio GLLU co-hosts reunited on air for exclusive interviews with activists from the queer Latinx liberation movement in 1980s and 1990s Los Angeles. Check out togetherontheair.onearchives.org to view the full exhibit and explore listening rooms of archival materials. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support
Storytelling is a superpower of human-centered practitioners (among many others!). Capturing the richness of another's experience and the process of rendering it in an empathic, honest, and actionable way is core to our work. Core, and also complex.Our guest for this episode is Dr. Umi Hsu, who works at the intersections of story, strategy, and culture. Umi is the Director of Content Strategy for the ONE Archives Foundation, which is the largest collection of LGBTQ history. Umi discusses their approach to curating stories that foreground lesser-heard voices, and doing so in an information-rich, attention-low world.Get ready for a deep dive into history, story, and ways we can become more ethical interlocutors of experience, especially for driving change. Show NotesCheck out ONE Archives Foundation's new podcast, Periodically Queer.Put some of Umi's storytelling strategies into practice by checking out ONE Archives' AIDS history exhibition, Metanoia.Read our profile of Umi to learn more about their digital strategy work for the city of LA.Learn more about dscout Express, which we use to create our scout sound offs each week.Register for People Nerds 2022—happening October 19—featuring Samin Nosrat!
“2, 4, 6, 8. Gays unite to smash the State!”You can support the new Queer Serial sister series “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry! The Man Who Kept Harvey Milk's Dream Alive” on Indiegogo! Click here, and you'll receive some fabulous gifts — like postcards of the White Night Riots and Harry Britt with Jane Fonda, a limited edition recreation of Britt's button, and an exclusive preview of the series! Thank you!! Bonus episodes!! Spin-off episodes! (Often NSFW.) Dive into Mattachino Randy Wicker's archives with us! Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $1 or $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you're already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Learn more about a “Freaking Fag Revolutionary” who was there in the ‘70s, Albert Williams, in his article here. Learn more about Dugan's Bistro, the legendary disco in Chicago, from my article here. Watch Bette Midler at the Continental Baths in 1971! Listen to Breck Ardery's “Gay & Proud” LP and watch Lilli Vincenz's documentary “Gay and Proud,” both from the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march here. Learn more about the Gay Activists Alliance zaps here! To learn more about Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton, watch “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Listen to Kay Lahusen's monthly gay table in her retirement community on Making Gay History. After the zap at Harper's magazine in response to their homophobia article, Merle Miller wrote this essay, “On Being Different,” for New York Times Magazine, which I highly recommend reading in its book form. To learn more about Marsha P. Johnson, watch “Pay It No Mind” and “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.” Read Sylvia Rivera's speech referenced in this episode, “Bitch on Wheels,” here. Listen to Sylvia talk about S.T.A.R. on Making Gay History here. Learn about the Weinstein Hall sit-in here, watch Marsha at the 1973 City Hall protest here, and watch Sylvia's legendary 1973 “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech here.Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
“We can influence our existence—if we can only come together.” ✌
“You already got the payoff. Now here's some more.”
“The Homosexual Revolution of '69 started this week in San Francisco as militant homosexuals made war on both gay and straight Establishments.” • Huge thanks to special guest star Sam Pancake as Vector editor Leo Laurence! Check him out playing Mattachine President Dick Leitsch on HBO's “Equal,” Mattachine President Kenneth Zwerin last season on “Queer Serial,” and listen to his powerful rant on “Lovett or Leave It” about respecting queer elders. Leo Laurence would be proud!! Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you're already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Listen to the trailer (and the first episode) for the Boise sex panic mini-series here! Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
“One gets weary of trying to confront the people with the necessity of assessing their own history.” • Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you're already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Listen to the trailer (and the first episode) for the Boise sex panic mini-series here! Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
When it comes to serving California's Black, LGBTQ (and Black LGBTQ) communities, Charles Stewart's resume is impeccable. The native of South L.A. worked for Rep. Diane Watson and former state Sen. Holly Mitchell, who's now an L.A. County supervisor. He has previously served as secretary of the city of L.A.'s LGBT Police Task Force, and he was editor at large for BLK, a national magazine for the black LGBTQ community, the first of its kind. Stewart is now retired, but we recently caught up with him to talk about his life, the state of Pride Month today, and much more.More reading:Queering the Black Press: Remembering BLK Magazine An issue of BLK Magazine at the National Museum of African American History & CultureBLK Publications papers at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
“Through the blue cigarette smoke you can make out the outlines of crowded tables.” • Meet me on Crilly Court. Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you're already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Listen to the trailer (and the first episode) for the Boise sex panic mini-series here! Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
“The drug addicts, pillheads, teenage hustlers, lesbians, and homosexuals who make San Francisco’s ‘MEAT RACK’ their home are tired of living in the midst of the filth thrown out on to the sidewalks and into the streets by nearby businessmen” • Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you’re already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Listen to the trailer (and the first episode) for the Boise sex panic mini-series here! Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
“I think we have to decide how far we can go for caring about what heterosexuals think.” • Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you’re already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
“Life with the homophile movement continues to be exciting and stimulating and infinitely interesting and rewarding.” • Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you’re already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
“Either you keep up with the movement, or you will be dropped by the wayside….that’s just the way movements evolve.” • Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast! If you’re already a Patreon gal, click here to make those bonus episodes pop up in your regular podcast feed. Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE.
“Angry Ministers Rip Police” • The fever breaks in San Francisco.
“Every month you move forward by leaps and bounds.” • This is your ticket to the New Year’s Mardi Gras Ball hosted by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
“Every month you move forward by leaps and bounds.” • This is your ticket to the New Year’s Mardi Gras Ball hosted by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
“A secret world grows open and bolder. Society is forced to look at it—and try to understand it.” • The final season!
Patreon bonus episode for all! The 1920 presidential election proves yet again that history repeats itself, from fear-mongering to political scandal, and even a sitting president infected by the pandemic he downplayed.
Featuring Sylvia Rivera, Michael Kasino, and stories about Marsha P. Johnson, the Mattachine, and radical activism. • Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 16, 2020. •More bonus episodes!! Twice a month! COMING UP: A 1920s Election Day special, and soon after, a new mini-series about a true 1950s gay sex panic that turned one small town into a witch hunt, and how the town tried to cover it up. These bonus episodes and many more already waiting for you, plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. (Bonus episodes come right to your phone like any other podcast!)Research photos, buttons, mugs, books, and even some stunning NSFW history from the era are all on my Patreon, too! It only costs a little gayola.If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Subscribe to the Queer Serial email list here! Thanks for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? See the gay bars and cruising grounds? Flip through the homophile publications? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. Listen to the full, unedited version of “Live and Let Live” from WBAI in 1962 at Patreon.com/QueerSerial, or hear it in the context of its history in season 2, episode 11. Watch Randy Wicker and Sylvia Rivera talk on the pier here on YouTube or Vimeo. Watch the Marsha P. Johnson documentary “Pay It No Mind” here on YouTube. Listen to Randy’s full 1966 interview with St. Philomena on WBAI here on my website. And look through Randy’s photo collection here on Flickr!This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! Thanks, sis!Check out my other podcast for one of Chicago’s oldest gay bars Sidetrack, “OutSpoken: LGBTQ Storytelling."Music is by Blue Dot Sessions. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. “Live and Let Live” courtesy Pacifica Radio Archives. WBAI, September 1, 1962. “Randy Wicker Interviews Sylvia Rivera on the Pier” by Randy Wicker. Do you like Tallulah Bankhead? xoxo
Enough schisms, how about an alliance? •Bonus episodes are $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. They come right to your phone like any other podcast. THIS WEEK we have one final story about Transvestia editor Virginia Prince. When the police come knocking, she finds a way to use their accusations against her to her own advantage.Research photos, buttons, mugs, books, and even some stunning NSFW history from the era are all on my Patreon, too! And it only costs a little gayola, $1/month for a lot of it. Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial.If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Subscribe to the Queer Serial email list here! Thanks for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? See the gay bars and cruising grounds? Flip through the homophile publications? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! Thanks, sis! Check out my other podcast for one of Chicago’s oldest gay bars Sidetrack, “OutSpoken: LGBTQ Storytelling."Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.I hope I made Miss Congressman Dowdy proud. Can you imagine his reaction? xoxo
What will we say when we finally have their attention? • Bonus episodes, research photos, buttons, mugs, books, and even some stunning NSFW history from the era are all on my Patreon! And it only costs a little gayola, $1/month for a lot of it. Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. THIS WEEK we’re doing a bonus episode with a deeper look at Randy Wicker’s WBAI radio show “Live and Let Live” featured in this episode! Also look through “The Rejected” transcript and behind-the-scenes of production. Stay tuned after the episode for an exciting announcement!! If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Subscribe to the Queer Serial email list here! Thanks for your support. :) Wanna put faces to the names? See the gay bars and cruising grounds? Flip through the homophile publications? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. Watch “The Rejected” in full here on youtube. Watch Joan Jett Blakk’s full presidential campaign announcement speech at Berlin Nightclub in Chicago here. This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! Thanks, sis! Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Welcome back to the show, iconic hetero drama queen Paul Coates. xoxo
José Sarria for Supervisor! Did you register to vote yet? • vote.org • Bonus episodes, research photos, buttons, mugs, books, and even some stunning NSFW history from the era are all on my Patreon! And it only costs a little gayola, $1/month for a lot of it. Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Subscribe to the Queer Serial email list here! Thanks for your support. :) Wanna put faces to the names? See the gay bars and cruising grounds? Flip through the homophile publications? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. Check out channingjoseph.com for more details on William Dorsey Swann, the original “queen of drag.” Watch Sylvia Rivera’s interview with Randy Wicker at the piers here on youtube. This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters. Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo is used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Hey mama, welcome to the ‘60s! xoxo
Mid-season finale: an ethical homosexual culture overwhelms the Movement. • Bonus episodes! I’ll still be releasing new episodes of Forgotten Fairy Tales regularly during the break! It’s an exclusive Patreon podcast series of standalone queer history episodes, and it only costs a little gayola. $3! This week’s episode explores the Mattachine Society’s relationship to gay pen pal clubs. Hear it at patreon.com/queerserial Also on my Patreon: cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Helen Branson’s book GAY BAR published in the Mattachine offices! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial.If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Back soon! xoxo
Whom Should We Tell? And who won’t find out once the biggest scandal in homophile history breaks? • Bonus episodes! Hear an exclusive series of standalone queer history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. Next week’s bonus episode takes place in the Mattachine Society offices at San Francisco headquarters. If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :) Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. Teachers, message me for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters. Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, and Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening, sweet darling! Next week: Episode 9, “The Twilight Woman”
Historian Eric Marcus interviews Wendell Sayers, an attorney, the first Black assistant attorney general for the state of Colorado, and one of few Black members of the Mattachine Society. He attended the 6th annual Mattachine convention in 1959, a dramatic event which will be featured in this week’s episode!This audio is used courtesy of Making Gay History. Find the Making Gay History podcast on all major podcast platforms and at www.makinggayhistory.com.Music is by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.
How long have transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming humans existed? This week we’ll explore some of our known genderqueer history, from ancient Sumer to 1959. • Bonus episodes! Listen to my exclusive series of standalone queer history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. Among many scripted history episodes, you can also hear my recent interview with founding Radical Faerie, and voice of Mattachino Elver Barker on this podcast, Joey Cain! If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :) Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters. Music is by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 8, “Peddled Like Pornography”
Flyers, magazines, television — how should we tell the public that we’re organizing? • Bonus episodes! Listen to my exclusive series of standalone queer history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. For this week’s bonus episode I’m interviewing founding Radical Faerie, and voice of Mattachino Elver Barker on this podcast, Joey Cain!If you’re enjoying the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :) Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.com Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com. This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters. Music is by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 7, “A Useful Citizen”
Who are our allies on the outside? Who are our enemies on the inside? •Bonus episodes! Listen to my exclusive series of standalone queer history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. This week’s bonus episode features real archival audio from KPFA’s 1958 “The Homosexual In Our Society,” a 1958 radio program featuring Mattachine Society Publications Director Hal Call, Dr. Blanche Baker, attorney Morris Lowenthal (featured in previous episodes), and Dr. Karl Bowman. Next week’s episode is an interview with a founding Radical Faerie!If you’re loving the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.Check out “The Cockettes,” “We Were Here,” and other films by David Weissman at davidweissmanfilms.com. I also recommend the many queer projects by Matt Baume, including “The Sewers of Paris” and “Culture Cruise” (especially his queer Frasier analysis episodes!) at mattbaume.com.Music is by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 6 “Faces Behind the Names”
Jennifer Gregg, Executive Director of the ONE Archives Foundation, discusses their task to preserve LGBTQ history from across the world. This interview was produced in collaboration with KLCS.
How could you possibly tell they were queer? • Bonus episodes! An exclusive series of standalone queer history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales is available on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. This week’s bonus episode is features real archival audio from KPFA’s 1958 “The Homosexual In Our Society,” a 1958 radio program featuring Mattachine Society Publications Director Hal Call, Dr. Blanche Baker, attorney Morris Lowenthal (featured in previous episodes), and Dr. Karl Bowman.If you’re loving the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. And follow me, the creator of the podcast on Instagram and Twitter @devlyncamp!Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comJoin the newsletter for periodic updates!Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.Music is by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 5 “In the Library Lounge”
When police crack down, how do we respond?Bonus episodes! A whole exclusive series of standalone gay history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales is available on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. This week’s bonus episode is about Bilitis and ONE journalist Stella Rush.Love the show? Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thanks for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.Music by Kevin MacLeod is at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 4 “The Fairy Project”
Queer bars shutter across the Bay as homophile organizations rise. How did we get here? Put a pin in that and follow me back to San Francisco 1821.Bonus episodes! Cute buttons! Cute mugs! Cute archival research photos! Gorgeous PDFs! No really, there are gorgeous PDFs. Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. Next week’s bonus episode follows a Bilitis leader who self-identified as a “bisexual ki-ki sonofab*tch butch/femme, oh boy!”Enjoying the show? Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thanks for your support. :)So many stories packed into this episode! Visuals might help! Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial. And join the Queer Serial newsletter here!Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.You can hear Beverly Shaw’s entire fabulous album at queermusicheritage.com/jun2004bs.htmlAlso, check out the @lgbt_history Instagram. The guys behind it, Matthew Reimer and Leighton Brown, voice the San Francisco Chronicle reporter and the judge in this episode.Music by Kevin MacLeod is at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 3 “Resort for Sex Perverts”
Would you like to be part of a group of women like us? The Daughters of Bilitis office hours are open.Bonus episodes! Cute buttons! Cute mugs! Cute archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. This week’s bonus episode is also a true queer history story called “A Murder in Midtown.” It’s a wild tale.Love the show? Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thanks for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.TONS more about Edythe Edye (A.K.A. Lisa Ben) at queermusicheritage.com/viceversa.html!Music by Kevin MacLeod is at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. Music by Edythe Eyde courtesy of Making Gay History. Find the Making Gay History podcast on all major podcast platforms and at www.makinggayhistory.com. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 2 “Disorderly Establishment”
Check out the podcast on Instagram @queerserial to see the FULL visual trailer!Season 2 picks up in 1954, right where we left off. (But you don’t need to hear season 1 to follow along.) A secret organization of lesbians forms under the FBI's watchful eye as the national Mattachine Society crumbles. A political revolution is launched by a drag queen. Police raid gay spaces and street queens fight back.The conservative gays who commandeered the movement in Season 1 push against the queers who don't conform to suits and skirts. The masks come off and a militant minority is rising.Mattachine: A Queer Serial is told in serialized episodes. Created by Devlyn Camp.Bonus episodes! Cute buttons! Cute mugs! Cute archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. Our first bonus episode (June 1!) is also a true queer history story called “A Murder in Midtown.” It’s a wild tale.Love the show? Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thanks for your support. :)Resources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.Music by Kevin MacLeod is at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.
A lot of time is spent on this podcast defending the multitude of roles that pornography plays in people’s lives. We say, it’s not a moral scourge, it’s not an enemy of feminism, it’s not corrupting young minds any more than any other media form. The academic study of pornography was established in a defensive mode, against second-wave anti-porn feminists, against the lies perpetuated by the church, against the forces fighting sex-worker rights. And because of this defensive posture, it’s jarring whenever we see the mainstream media portray pornography in a sensible, non-hysterical, perspective. This is what makes the Netflix documentary Circus of Books such a revelation! Circus of Books tells the story of a gay pornography video and book store in West Hollywood that endured as a staple in this gayborhood through the AIDS crisis and the mainstreaming of gay culture that has willfully abandoned its porn past in favor of getting married and joining the military. In this documentary, pornography, and the community build around this store, is presented as a positive, unifying force where the gay community can indulge their sexual desires without shame But while the store served as a beacon of hope during dark times, the owners weren’t as invested in the erotic potentiality of pornography as their customers. And that’s because the owners of this store are a heterosexual, highly religious, married couple! And while they have no problem with the gay community, their worldview is shaken when their own son struggles to come out as gay to his religious mother. This creates a unique dynamic and tension that brings this documentary to the next level. In this episode, I’m joined by one of the film’s producers, Adam Baran. Adam is an interesting character because most of his work deals with pornography and gay sexuality in a very straightforward and blunt fashion. Within an environment where being a buttoned-up sexless chairman of a Fortune 500 company is considered to be a quote-unquote “victory” for the gay rights movement, Baran insistently positions gay sexuality and pornography as an essential part of what it means to be gay in the contemporary age. Baran has produced music videos, short films, web series, and documentaries emphatically positioning pornography and sexuality at the center of the gay experience. In this episode, we talk about how pornography helped him feel comfortable in his own skin and how writing about his own sex-life online led to bigger opportunities. Adam’s Twitter Adam’s articles for the Guardian Adam’s articles for BUTT Magazine Adam’s posts with TheSword Queer | Art | Film talks at the IFC Center Dirty Boots music video Jackpot (2012) Mattachine: Radical Roots of the Gay Movement” a history of the zine Straight to Hell The Great Cock Hunt Hunting Season (first season) Himeros TV The Lives of Hamilton Fish Circus of Books Adam’s 2015 TheSword interview with Karen Mason “Rachel Mason On Making a Movie About Her Parents’ Porn Shop” The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture ONE Archives Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon facebook.com/AcademicSex @PornoCultures Help Support the Podcast! More info about Brandon Arroyo
Pat Rocco is a figure that doesn’t fit easily into pornography’s history. Pat started making films featuring nude male characters in soft core situations just before 1971’s Boys in the Sand, and he continued to purposefully occupy a unique middle ground where his work showcasing tame, but explicit, gay nudity coexisted alongside other films documenting the emerging gay rights movement, wholesome gay romance, and queer sexual politics. Pat used his camera as a form of activism highlighting gay men's varied sexual interests as well as their passions surrounding society’s changing attitudes about homosexuality. In this episode, we explore the legacy of Pat Rocco and try to figure out where he belongs within pornography’s history. This show features Matthew Hipps, who’s a PhD student in Film Studies at the University of Iowa, and Bryan Wuest, who is a graduate of UCLA’s PhD program in Cinema and Media Studies. Each of them presented papers about Rocco's films at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in 2018, so I thought it would be great to have them on to talk about the different ways in which they approach his work. This episode has special resonance considering that Rocco would die just seven months after this recording. Matt considers Rocco's travelogue films where he travels to Brazil and Western Europe with a group of gay men to find out what gay life is like outside of the U.S. And Bryan considers how Rocco’s work should be thought of within the history of gay film production. This episode is intended to both spark interest in a figure that isn’t too well known because of the limited exposure his work as received, and to help us expand our ideas about what pornographic culture can be, and how it can help us delve into modes of political activism that we didn’t know were possible. More info about Bryan. Bryan’s article: “Defining Homosexual Love Stories: Pat Rocco, Categorization, and the Legitimation of Gay Narrative Film.” UCLA’s articles about: “Processing the Pat Rocco Collection” “Pat Rocco Oral History—1983” “Hey Look Me Over: The Films of Pat Rocco” by Whitney Strub Pat Rocco’s films: Pat Rocco Dared trailer 1969 Gay March in Hollywood Sign of Protest (1970) (a short documentary about the protests surrounding Barney’s Beanery and their “FAGOTS—STAY OUT” sign hanging in their bar.) Changes (1970) We Were There (1976) Harvey Milk’s “Hope” Speech (1978) Mondo Rocco Obituary from ONE Archives pornocultures.podomatic.com facebook.com/AcademicSex @PornoCultures Help Support the Podcast! More info about Brandon Arroyo
Why are gay bars important? What role have they played in our history? Take a peak at season 2.Join the GAY BAR Book Club at www.mattachinepod.com/support through a single donation or by subscribing to Patreon for even more bonus content! Get your Mattachine button through the same links! Patreon subscribers also receive bonus interviews from my Chicago radio show They & Them, photos through my Mattachine research process, transcripts of episodes, and more! Join the Mattachine mailing list, supported by MailChimp! Just add your name and email. Please rate and/or review the show on iTunes to help our audience grow! Click here: apple.co/2jLJe8q Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. Special thanks to author Will Fellows for donating GAY BAR to support the podcast! Learn more about his work at www.willfellows.com. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo used courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
When the Mattachine's founder is called to testify, when ONE Magazine is seized by the post office, and when the FBI begins to interrogate activists, how does the movement continue to fight? Please rate and/or review the show on iTunes! Click here: apple.co/2jLJe8q Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
Do we moderate our queer behavior in an assimilated world? What happens when Mattachine goes public? Or when the culturalists move forward with militant queer identity? "Can Homosexuals Organize?" "How Clean Can A House Get?" "Why Try to Organize a Bunch of Queers Anyway?" "Quo Vadis, Mattachine Society?" Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
Why do assimilationists reject queer culture? Hear the season from the point of view of the Mattachine's rising leader.Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
Are you a culturalist or an assimilationist? What are the pros and cons of each side, and what would you do to fight for yours? No one will be the same after this week's Mattachine meeting. Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
When an organization splinters into alliances, will the community they're organizing splinter, too? Welcome to the secret society's first constitutional convention. Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
This bonus episode doesn't take place in the past, but it's based in history. How does 1953's anti-gay executive order influence our lives under Trump? Vote.org & Indivisible.orgSources, current events, and more info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16833304 The original Mattachine Society jester logo is courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history. Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources.
How will political pressure from the lavender scare cause cracks in the Mattachine Foundation? If we are "moral risks," then what is our moral code? Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes along with our resources. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
How and when did homophobia begin in the United States? How did the government weaponize it against us? Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
Why was Dale Jennings arrested? What purpose does ONE Magazine serve? How is queer culture defined by our community? -Miss Jean Dempsey, Treasurer Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
Who is the Mattachine Foundation? What do they want?Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles.Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for free transcripts of the episodes.The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.
What is Mattachine? Why are they anonymous? Our case opens with a postal worker in 1920s Chicago. Please rate and review the show on iTunes! Or support the show at patreon.com/mattachinefiles. Editorial advising by Paul Di Ciccio and Albert Williams. Harry Hay's voice by Steve Camp. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @mattachinefiles. School teachers, email me at ourhistorypod@gmail.com for (clean) transcripts of the episodes. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET. Thanks for listening! Please continue to share our history.