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S2 E9 "The Twilight Woman"

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.

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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.

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Season 1 Recap

You don’t have to hear season 1 to join us for season 2, but in case you wanna brush up…!

Season 2 picks up in 1954, right where we left off. A secret organization of lesbians forms 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 masks come off and a militant minority is rising.

The true story of American LGBTQ liberation from day 1 to Stonewall.

A Queer Serial season 2 begins June 3.

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