Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! Join me on YouTube to listen to this full special episode while I show you the Judy scrapbook discussed in this interview! youtu.be/tZgQ7hNFhpQ?si=R3OTHpcAX9zdqCvb When Andrea Eisner was a kid in the 1960s, she collected Judy Garland news clippings. Why was she so obsessed? And why do so many queer people gravitate toward Judy, and even form community around her? We dis...

All this to say, defund the police. Reallocate resources. 🚔 What was Boise’s gay panic for? In this final episode, we explore the long-term results of 1955’s mass hysteria. Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial  for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts , or $3/month he...

1,472 interrogations later, the final man accused in the Boise gay panic and his adult accuser take the stand. Cast in court: Prosecutor: Blaine Evans (voiced by Devlyn Camp) Witness: the accuser Eldon Halverson (Lucien Gratteri) Witness: Officer Earnest Quinton (Julian Hall) Witness: Officer James Brandon (Brian Rowe) Defense Attorney: Vernon Smith (Salvio Gado) Defendant: Gordon Larsen (Cody Kas...

The trap is laid. 🎁  Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial  for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts , or $3/month here on Spotify or here on Patreon to also get my queer history archive dives & behind the scenes of my documentary currently in production about...

City Councilman Buck Jones blames the police. The reporter uncovers the Arid Club's game. Suspected homosexuals and a murderer take the stand. A rogue officer takes matters into his own hands. Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial  for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcas...

City Councilman Buck Jones blames the police. Suspected homosexuals and a murderer take the stand. A rogue officer takes matters into his own hands. 👀 Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial  for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts , or $3/month here on Spotify or here...

The town gathers to decide how to protect the children & clean up the queer mess, incidentally caused by many men from Boise's businesses going all the way up to the top of Idaho. 💰 Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial  for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts , o...

Follow the investigator, the doctor, and the reporter into Idaho's underworld. 🔦 Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial  for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts , or $3/month here on Spotify or here on Patreon to also get my queer history archive dives & behind the...

Cops set up a secret house to interrogate suspected homosexuals as Boiseans begin to point fingers. 🔦☎️🔍 Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects subscribe to bonus episodes of Queer Serial  for $2.99/month here on Apple Podcasts , or $3/month here on Spotify or here on Patreon to also get my queer history archi...

This is the true story of a panic that swept Boise, Idaho in 1955—a panic that continues to spread and damage our communities today. A standalone 9-episode serial podcast about a true scandal in queer history—in a new city with no Mattachine, no Bilitis, & no one to turn to. Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history projects...

This is the true story of a panic that swept Boise, Idaho in 1955—a panic that continues to spread and damage our communities today. A standalone 9-episode serial podcast about a true scandal in queer history—in a new city with no Mattachine, no Bilitis, & no one to turn to.  Find all things Queer Serial here: linktr.ee/queerserial If you’d like to support my many ongoing LGBTQ history pr...

Historian & author Lisa Davis has written two books— UNDERCOVER GIRL and UNDER THE MINK (also available wherever books are sold). Undercover Girl follows the true story of Angela Calomiris , a lesbian photographer in the Village who was undercover in the Communist Party, secretly working as an informant for the FBI. Under the Mink tells the story of drag kings & queens who worked in the ma...

A Mattachine meeting on Main Street in downtown Evansville, Indiana, my hometown, with special guest historian Kelley Coures! Pre-order his new book OUT IN EVANSVILLE: AN LGBTQ+ HISTORY OF RIVER CITY here or anywhere you get books. Find Kelley’s fabulous piece about Evansville’s red light district here . You can support my many queer history projects, listen to more bonus episodes & interviews...

“This is Harvey Milk speaking from my camera store on the evening of Friday, November 18th. This is Tape #2…This is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination.” • This audio is provided courtesy of Daniel Nicoletta, a fabulous photographer who worked on Harvey’s campaigns and took some of the most well known photos of Harvey and Harry. You can read Dan’s history of the tapes and t...

“Come out in the fucking rain and celebrate.” 🌈 Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here . Than...

"If there's gonna be a queer movement, it has to say that there's something about our experience as queers that gives us an insight into something that is wrong with our culture that's beyond homophobia that needs to be changed." 💖 Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Thanks for hel...

“Young people who seemed to be living the easy life—no responsibilities, let's just go out and play—who showed true heroism, true love, true wisdom.” 💐 Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagr...

“The basic difference in style is that he was a great man and I’m just Harry Britt.” 📢 Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts....

Remember when Jane Fonda went viral in 2020 for a decades-old clip of her advocating for gay rights ? Here’s the speech she gave later that night at the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club’s Milk birthday dinner on May 21, 1980. I believe the clip on YouTube is mislabeled as 1979, because her speech that night very specifically references the interaction with the reporter—but please correct me if I’m...

“No apologies.” 🔥 Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Hear several more points of few from fabulous queers that night when 14 police cars burned. Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer his...

Here's a little love letter to some of my girls, all of whom happened to have been at the same riot with GIVE 'EM HELL host Will Roscoe & Supervisor Harry Britt. We'll cover that story in episode 3 this Saturday—on the 43rd anniversary of the White Night Riots. On my Patreon bonus podcast, you can listen to a few more points of view from that night on May 21, 1979. 🔥  Patreon.com/QueerSe...

“It was about the redefinition of queer power in the city.” 🔥 Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updat...

“And I’m still mad.” • Listen to “Infamous Crimes: The White Night Riot Interviews,” and several other queer history bonus podcasts, on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. Get periodic email updates here . Thanks for your support. :)&nb...

A new sister series about Supervisor Harvey Milk’s final wishes. • Listen to “Infamous Crimes: White Night Riot Interviews” —and lots of other queer history bonus podcasts!—on my Patreon at patreon.com/QueerSerial . Thanks for helping me preserve & share queer history! Follow me at @queerserial on Instagram & Twitter for lots of fab queer history from the podcasts. And get periodic email u...

Here's a little Queer Serial bonus show spin-off—direct from the  Randy Wicker archive!  After the success of Randy's 1962 gay radio show "Live & Let Live" ( covered on the podcast in S2 E11 ) WBAI let him talk to anyone he wanted. So, he talked to everyone! We dug up the tapes, digitized them for the archive, and now you can hear 8 bizarre interviews (of the 10 we've found so f...