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

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

Author: Devlyn Camp October 21, 2020 Duration: 2:13:32
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 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.com  Resources, 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

Devlyn Camp’s Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History unfolds like a gripping radio drama, but every story is rooted in fact. This isn't a dry lecture; it's an immersive soundscape that pulls you into the pivotal, often hidden, moments that have shaped queer life in America. Each season focuses on a different true story, weaving together narrative storytelling, historical research, and firsthand accounts to create something that feels both urgent and deeply human. You’ll hear the tensions, the triumphs, and the personal risks that define these chapters of our past, presented with the pacing and depth of a documentary series. The podcast naturally sits at the intersection of history and true crime, exploring systemic injustices, personal bravery, and cultural shifts that textbooks often overlook. By dramatizing these real events, Camp makes the struggles and joys of LGBTQ+ communities resonate on a personal level, reminding us that history is made of individual lives. Tune in for a compelling blend of education and emotion, where the past is given a voice and its lessons echo into the present. This is history told not from a distance, but from the inside.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 82

Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History
Podcast Episodes
S2 E4-A "Letter to the ACLU" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:54
An astronomer writes to the ACLU. 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! J…
S2 E4 "The Fairy Project" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:22
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…
S2 E3 "Resort for Sex Perverts" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:42
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 researc…
S2 E2 "Disorderly Establishment" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:04
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…
S2 E1 "Pacing," or, "A Gay Girl of Good Moral Character" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:52
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/queerseri…
Season 2 Trailer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:37
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…
Season 1 Recap [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:29
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 cru…
Mattachine Live in San Francisco! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:40
Join me and Joey Cain live at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco this April! We’ll be playing season 1 of Mattachine over three nights, along with visuals of the early LGBTQ movement and discussions about the h…
Bonus: GAY BAR [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:08
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.queerserial.com/support through a single donation or by subscribing to Patreon for even mo…
S1 E10 "Take This Crowd On" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:56
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…