I
t’s fitting that writer Devlyn Camp chose to podcast the story of the
Mattachine, the United States’ first successful gay emancipation movement.
I spoke with Camp—yes, they know they have the best last name for
this project—about the experiences and research behind this big, queer
podcast.
And this gay group was mostly white folks?
When I read the arguments from genderqueer folks about having our own
subculture separate from the outside [mainstream heterosexual] culture, I
realized that was something I was fighting in myself. I’d been out of the
closet for a decade and thought I had it all figured out, but I realized I
was still picking on parts of myself.
I think about that a lot too. It’s a medium that really lends itself to
queerness.
New episodes Thu, mattachinepod.com.
