Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History

By Devlyn Camp

Society & Culture History

What's Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History about?

Podcast radio drama telling true stories in LGBTQ+ history

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Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History episodes:

12.31.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" Finale, E9: "Pettiness, Intolerance & the Personal Ambition of a Few"
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...
12.24.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E8: "Trial in Boise"
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...
12.17.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E7: "The Boise Penitentiary"
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...
11.27.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E6: "Queen of the Underworld"
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...
11.19.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E5: “Police Budget,” or, “Calm Minds are in Control”
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...
10.29.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E4: "Town Hall, Adults Only"
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:...
10.22.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E3: "Idaho Underworld"
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,...
10.15.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E2: "The Boise Fairyland Parade"
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...
10.08.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E1: "Crush the Monster," or, "Groomers"
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...
10.01.2023
Preview: "GAY PANIC! 1955"
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...
10.01.2023
"GAY PANIC! 1955" E1: "Crush the Monster," or, "Groomers"
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...
04.18.2023
New "Mattachine Meeting" w/ Lisa E. Davis
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...
01.18.2023
New Mattachine Meeting! Evansville Queer History (my hometown!) w/ Kelley Coures
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...
06.25.2022
Harvey Milk's Political Will
“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...
06.18.2022
“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E7: "Strength, Power, Beauty"
“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...
06.11.2022
“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E6: "Off to the Races"
"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."...
06.04.2022
“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E5: "Epicenter"
“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...
05.28.2022
“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E4: "The Number One Queen"
“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...
05.22.2022
BONUS: Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, & Harry Britt Speak at Harvey Milk's 50th Birthday Dinner, 1980
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....
05.21.2022
“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E3: "White Night"
“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....
05.18.2022
[Preview] Infamous Crimes: WHITE NIGHT RIOT INTERVIEWS
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...
05.14.2022
“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E2: “This Crazy Jewish Guy with the Ponytail"
“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...
05.07.2022
“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E1: “The Most Screwed Up Person in the World"
“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...
05.01.2022
PREVIEW: “GIVE ‘EM HELL, HARRY!"
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...
01.15.2022
Randy Wicker Radio
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...
01.01.2022
Mattachine Meeting w/ Rumi Missabu!
Welcome to a Mattachine meeting for the 21st century! Join Devlyn Camp & queer activists, legends, and other very special guests as we discuss…everything! This is a NEW BONUS PODCAST produced to fund my many new queer history archival projects—including...
10.12.2021
S3 E13 ‬• Finale: "Liberation Day"
“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...
07.05.2021
S3 E12 Stonewall Inn • Night 2: "Gay Power"
“We can influence our existence—if we can only come together.” ✌✌✌ Check out these maps of the Stonewall and the Village while you listen! Watch Lilli Vincenz’s 1968 documentary about the 4th Annual Reminder picket at Independence Hall, “The Second...
06.28.2021
S3 E11 Stonewall Inn • Night 1: "The Devil with the Blue Dress On"
“You already got the payoff. Now here’s some more.” 52 years ago to the very minute this episode is released, Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine and his team of police raided the Stonewall Inn, and the movement building for 20...
06.21.2021
S3 E10 "The Walls of Jericho"
“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...
06.19.2021
E9-A “Gay Party At Police Station” • MSNY Newsletter • June 1969
“The cops herded more than fifty very elegantly dressed, and very high, male homosexuals, four women, one sex-change-in-progress, and one dog (belonging to a customer) into the paddy wagons.” Evan Koepnick as MSNY President Dick Leitsch. Looking for some reruns?...
06.14.2021
S3 E9 "Mattachine Millennia," or, "The Whole World Is Watching"
“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...
06.07.2021
S3 E8 "Chicago Ain't No Sissy Town"
“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...
05.29.2021
E7-A “Mafia Buys Clubs for Homosexuals”
“Another such private club will open next week. Nearly all are in Manhattan and about one-third are operated by underworld figures.” Paula Harrington as the New York Times reporter. Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE...
05.24.2021
S3 E7 "STREET POWER"
“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”...
05.22.2021
E6-A “Nationwide Ring Preying on Prominent Deviates”
“The decoy would lure the victim to a hotel room, usually from a midtown bar, and get him into a compromising situation.” It’s me this week, Devlyn, as the New York Times reporter. Hi! Looking for some reruns? Check...
05.17.2021
S3 E6 "The Sip-in & the Social Prophet"
“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...
05.15.2021
E5-A "Detective at Hotel Is Held in Extortion" August 5, 1965
“The house detective, Edward Murphy, was held on $7,500 bail for a hearing Aug. 13. He was impersonating an officer.” Faye Camp as the New York Times reporter. Looking for some reruns? Check out this handy dandy EPISODE GUIDE....
05.10.2021
S3 E5 "Homos On The March"
“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...
05.03.2021
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.” • Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. Bonus...
04.26.2021
S3 E3 "The Raid on California Hall: After the Ball"
“Angry Ministers Rip Police” • The fever breaks in San Francisco. 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...
04.19.2021
S3 E2 "The Raid on California Hall"
“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. Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books!...
04.12.2021
S3 E1 "A Minority of Militant Homosexuals"
“A secret world grows open and bolder. Society is forced to look at it—and try to understand it.” • The final season! Bonus episodes!! Research dives! (Often NSFW.) Mugs! Buttons! Books! Plus tons of other fun stuff! $3/month at...
04.07.2021
Season 3 Preview
Season 3 begins April 12. Follow along on Instagram @queerserial through the season to see photos of the real activists and events featured in every episode. Season 3 picks up in 1963, as militant gay activists take cues from the...
01.27.2021
"Infamous Crimes" — Ep. 1 "Crush the Monster of Boise"
A new serial in a new town with no Mattachine, no Bilitis, and no one to turn to — a true scandal in queer history. Exclusively at Patreon.com/QueerSerial! Listen to the full 8-episode limited series “Infamous Crimes” at Patreon.com/QueerSerial. It’s...
01.05.2021
"Infamous Crimes: Sex Panic in Boise" — Coming Jan. 11
An 8-episode limited series only at Patreon.com/QueerSerial Patreon is a website for creators to give rewards to their fans in exchange for a little support making their projects. The bonus podcast is $3/month (some months there is no charge!) and...
11.02.2020
"Return to Normalcy" • Election Day bonus!
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. Make sure you have a plan...
10.21.2020
"Live and Let Live: 58 Years Later" • Interview w/ Randy Wicker
Featuring Sylvia Rivera, Michael, 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...
10.14.2020
S2 E13 "Making This Movement Move" (Bayard Rustin)
Season finale • We’ve found each other, we’re organized, we’re ready — how do we demand change? • Guest starring Joan Jett Blakk as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bonus episodes!! Twice a month! Plus tons of other fun...
10.07.2020
S2 E12 "The Pleasure of a Response," or, "How to Handle a Federal Interrogation"
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,...

What's Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History episodes:

"GAY PANIC! 1955" Finale, E9: "Pettiness, Intolerance & the Personal Ambition of a Few"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E8: "Trial in Boise"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E7: "The Boise Penitentiary"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E6: "Queen of the Underworld"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E5: “Police Budget,” or, “Calm Minds are in Control”

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E4: "Town Hall, Adults Only"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E3: "Idaho Underworld"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E2: "The Boise Fairyland Parade"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E1: "Crush the Monster," or, "Groomers"

Preview: "GAY PANIC! 1955"

"GAY PANIC! 1955" E1: "Crush the Monster," or, "Groomers"

New "Mattachine Meeting" w/ Lisa E. Davis

New Mattachine Meeting! Evansville Queer History (my hometown!) w/ Kelley Coures

Harvey Milk's Political Will

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E7: "Strength, Power, Beauty"

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E6: "Off to the Races"

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E5: "Epicenter"

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E4: "The Number One Queen"

BONUS: Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, & Harry Britt Speak at Harvey Milk's 50th Birthday Dinner, 1980

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E3: "White Night"

[Preview] Infamous Crimes: WHITE NIGHT RIOT INTERVIEWS

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E2: “This Crazy Jewish Guy with the Ponytail"

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” E1: “The Most Screwed Up Person in the World"

PREVIEW: “GIVE ‘EM HELL, HARRY!"

Randy Wicker Radio

Mattachine Meeting w/ Rumi Missabu!

S3 E13 ‬• Finale: "Liberation Day"

S3 E12 Stonewall Inn • Night 2: "Gay Power"

S3 E11 Stonewall Inn • Night 1: "The Devil with the Blue Dress On"

S3 E10 "The Walls of Jericho"

E9-A “Gay Party At Police Station” • MSNY Newsletter • June 1969

S3 E9 "Mattachine Millennia," or, "The Whole World Is Watching"

S3 E8 "Chicago Ain't No Sissy Town"

E7-A “Mafia Buys Clubs for Homosexuals”

S3 E7 "STREET POWER"

E6-A “Nationwide Ring Preying on Prominent Deviates”

S3 E6 "The Sip-in & the Social Prophet"

E5-A "Detective at Hotel Is Held in Extortion" August 5, 1965

S3 E5 "Homos On The March"

S3 E4 "Aunties," or, "The Style of Tomorrow"

S3 E3 "The Raid on California Hall: After the Ball"

S3 E2 "The Raid on California Hall"

S3 E1 "A Minority of Militant Homosexuals"

Season 3 Preview

"Infamous Crimes" — Ep. 1 "Crush the Monster of Boise"

"Infamous Crimes: Sex Panic in Boise" — Coming Jan. 11

"Return to Normalcy" • Election Day bonus!

"Live and Let Live: 58 Years Later" • Interview w/ Randy Wicker

S2 E13 "Making This Movement Move" (Bayard Rustin)

S2 E12 "The Pleasure of a Response," or, "How to Handle a Federal Interrogation"