Devlyn Camp
Producer, writer, host

Devlyn Camp is the producer, writer, and host of Queer Serial, a three-season podcast chronicling LGBTQ+ liberation in America from the beginning to the Stonewall uprising & its aftermath. Producing the first season of Queer Serial earned them a place on Windy City Times‘ “30 Under 30” list in 2018, and recognition in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, & other publications. Camp received a 2021 Excellence in Journalism Award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists for their contribution to the “Queer Spaces Project” published by them.us memorializing LGBTQ+ spaces that have shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic. They were also a 2021 GLAAD Award nominee for Outstanding Journalism for the “Queer Spaces Project," have reported on queer topics for the Chicago Reader, & were a contributing historian for the Tribune and the Sun-Times.

Devlyn has also contributed as a research assistant on various LGBTQ+ history projects & screen adaptations. They are currently directing a documentary about the last living Mattachine gay activist Randy Wicker. See more of Devlyn’s work on Patreon!

Devlyn has presented Queer Serial in a three-night series at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, spoke on a panel at the first-ever(!) Queer History Conference at SF State University, and presented Mattachine’s history on several other panels, including the ONE Archives Educators’ Webinar series, which is bananas, because Queer Serial is also about the history of the ONE Archives. Devlyn also co-hosted and produced They & Them, a queer news podcast in Chicago, and also produces the podcast On the Mic: OutSpoken LGBTQ Storytelling for one of Chicago’s oldest gay bars, Sidetrack.

As activists in Chicago, Devlyn & Jen Freitag were instrumental in removing the exclusionary “Boystown” nickname from the Legacy Walk & gay bar strip in Lakeview. Follow for updates @queerlegacychi.

A graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a B.A. in Writing & Producing for Television, they also studied acting and musical theatre history with Albert Williams (below), whose guidance led to a passion for queer history. Devlyn also writes middle grade historical fantasy (featuring queer characters, of course) with their writing partner, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Frasier.

Some of Devlyn’s appearances on other programs:

Matt Baume’s podcast The Sewers of Paris: October 14, 2019
Chicago gay activist in The Advocate: July 9, 2020
Local gay activism in the Chicago Tribune: July 10, 2020; September 23, 2020
“Rise Up: Stonewall” panel for Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture: May 13, 2021
WBEZ Chicago as a local queer activist: June 14, 2021
Devlyn interviews Joey Soloway, creator of Transparent: March 4, 2022

Albert Williams
advisor & Voice ACtor

Albert is a journalist, theater artist, teacher, and activist in Chicago. He was an award-winning editor of GayLife and Windy City Times newspapers in the 1980s, and his work as a theater critic for the Chicago Reader won a George Jean Nathan Award. In 1982, he represented GayLife at the Washington, D.C. conference of activists and health professionals at which GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) was renamed AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). In 1985, he co-produced “Arts Against AIDS,” a benefit show at Second City that launched what would become the AIDS support agency Season of Concern. Albert also held leadership positions with the Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival, the Gay and Lesbian Town Meeting, the Coalition Against Media/Marketing Prejudice, and other cultural and political groups. He has taught music and theatre courses at Columbia College Chicago since 1985. Albert was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2003. Read about his experience in Chicago Gay Liberation here.

Albert is also the voice of Mattachine President Frank Kameny in Queer Serial. Devlyn is forever grateful.

Learn more—just about everything!—about Albert Williams on my Chicago queer history page.

Voice actors

lead voices

Joey Cain as
Elver Barker, Julius’ bartender, and additional voices

Faye Camp as
Genne Call; FBI informant, Helen Branson, Newsweek Reporter, Helena Hooker, Lois Wille, Mrs. Nichols, and additional voices

Steve Camp as
Harry Hay, Donald Webster Cory aka Edward Sagarin, Sumerian god Enki, and additional voices

Domenic Caruso as
Hal Call

Marissa Clayton as
Valerie Taylor, Black Cat woman, Pulp Woman, and additional voices

Nathan Cooper as
Chuck Rowland

Paul Di Ciccio as
Gerry Brissette, Dale Olson aka Curtis White, Arthur Evans, and additional voices

Heidi Dove as
Shirley Willer

Salvio Gado as
Del Martin, Reverend Wallace de Ortega Maxey, Dorr Legg, Defense attorney Vernon Smith

Rainillie Gough as
Dr. Evelyn Hooker

Sean Kalusa as
Craig Rodwell

Jacqalin Keeling as
Virginia Prince, Jerry Lady Jai Moore, Susanna Valenti, and additional voices

Evan Koepnick as
Dick Leitsch, Bearded Man on Showcase, and additional voices

Clarissa Janel as
Barbara Gittings

Nick Large as
Jack Nichols, and additional voices

Jon Martinez as
José Sarria

Eddie Miller as
Charles Hayden aka Randy Wicker

Tina Muñoz Pandya as
Helen Sandoz, Washington Post reporter, and additional voices

Sam Pancake as
Kenneth Zwerin, Leo Laurence, additional voices

Will Roscoe as
Albert Ellis, Warren Scarberry, and additional voices

Jon Roth as
J. Edgar Hoover, David Finn, Newscaster, Sen. Ralph Brewster, Muncie Star Reporter, Mr. Scherer, Confidential File Voice, Alfred Kinsey, San Francisco Examiner reporter, Where to Sin in San Francisco writer, Mayor George Christopher, Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Eberhart, Colonel, Charles Hayden Sr., LIFE Magazine reporter, Walter Winchell, John Hanes Jr., George Speer, Inspector Rudy Nieto, Joseph Kahn, Mayor John Lindsay, Mayor Richard Daley, Charles Socarides, Medical World reporter, Ed “The Skull” Murphy, Howard Smith, Camera man, Village Voice reporter

Jane Serenska as
Phyllis Lyon

Terence Smith, Joan Jett Blakk as
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Katie Splete as
Kay Lahusen, and additional voices

Elianna Stone as
Martha Shelley

Courtney Tesh as
Marilyn "Boopsie" Rieger; Edythe Eyde aka Lisa Ben, Nancy May, and additional voices

Nico Valdez as
Sylvia Rivera, Letter to Christine, and additional voices

Jacob “Reba” Wallace as
Sam From, Donald Lucas, J.J. Belanger, Bob Basker, and additional voices

Albert Williams as
Frank Kameny, and additional voices

*additional voices listed in every episode’s credits

Supporting Voices

Adrienne Barker as
ABC Agent, Florence Jaffy, NYT reporter, and additional voices

Zoya Barker as
Lorraine Hansberry

Emily Batek as
Del Shearer, and additional voices

Matt Baume as
James Barr

Dee Blackburn as
Fannie Hurst

Leighton Brown as
Judge

Evan Camp as
State Dept. Interrogator; FBI agent; Morris Lowenthal, John Macy Jr. of the Civil Service Commission, and additional voices

Matt Camp as
Mr. Doyle, Assistant D.A., Judge Koelsch, and additional voices

Andrew Casey as
Clark Polak, Jim Bradford, Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt, Marty Robinson, and additional voices

Henry Coates as
Bob Hull, Phil

Jen Dentel as
Jeannette Howard Foster, and additional voices

Ryan Edmund as
Allen Ginsberg, Reverend Chuck Lewis

Matthew Ellenwood as
Evander Smith, Mattachino, and additional voices

Olguie Freyre as
Johnnie Phelps, Tony Segura, Letter to Christine, Buddy the bartender, Vanguarian, GLF member, and additional voices

Annemarie Friedo as
Marge at Mary’s First, Pulp Woman, Rita Mae Brown, and additional voices

Jen Freitag as
Rose Bamberger, Mona Sergent, Pulp Woman, Lilli Vincenz, Stone Wall Diesel Dyke, and additional voices

Lucien Gratteri as
Dwight Huggins, Eldon Halverson, David Stienecker, and additional voices

Guido Gotz as
Dr. Harry Benjamin, and additional voices

Keith Green as
Herb Donaldson, Tay-Bush jailed homosexual, and additional voices

Julian Hall as
Reed Erickson, Officer Earnest Quinton, Martin Boyce, Arthur Bell, and additional voices

Brian Huff as
Ken Burns

Lucy Jones as
Louise Lawrence’s wife, Darlene Armbeck, Jaye Bell, and additional voices

Cody Kaszubowski as
Don Slater, Gordon Larsen, Steve Ginsberg, and additional voices

Owen Keehnen as
Washington Post reporter, Al DeDion, Bob Kohler, and additional voices

Gage Kile as
Jim Kepner, Danny Garvin, and additional voices

Mike Knish as
Joseph Finocchio, Cop, and many additional voices

Mike Lyczak as
Captain Stanley, FBI Agent, Cop, Chief Thomas Cahill, and many additional voices

Jack Murphy as
Christine Jorgensen, California Hall queen, and additional voices

Samuel Myles as
James Baldwin, Carlett Brown, and additional voices

Tim O’Reilly as
Albert Ross Puryear, Mr. Snow, and additional voices

Julia Plale as
Stella Rush, Pulp Woman

Matthew Reimer as
San Francisco Chronicle Reporter

Brian Rowe as
Officer James Brandon, and additional voices

Jada Shores as
Ernestine Eckstein

Dan Unser as
Lige Clark, Wayne Lonergan, Richard Inman, Ron Argall, Dr. Karl Bowman, and additional voices

Fatalany Valazquez as
Lucy Hicks Anderson

Amanda Victorian as
Florence Ray, Barbara Grier aka Gene Damon

Da-mekah Victorian as
Butch Peg, Jo Ann Robinson, Dubby Walker, and additional voices

David Weissman as
Walter Jenkins, Larry Littlejohn, Mattachino

Jacoba White as
Jet magazine reporter

Garrett Williams as
Paul Coates; Russell Wolden, Rolland Howard, Seymour Pine, many more additional voices

Tandrea Young as
Cleo Bonner, Tiny Davis, Pearl Hart, Chicago Defender reporter, and additional voices

*additional voices listed in every episode’s credits