"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 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