Megan takes us on a ride through the life of #AnitaBerber : Weimar Germany's Priestess of Depravity. Dancer and legendary #bisexual bad girl, Anita was the first true star of her era and her short life was shocking even for hedonistic #Berlin of #the1920s.

Content Warning:
MAJOR warning for underage grooming, inappropriate adult/child relationships, animal mistreatment, drug use, violence. Please take care while listening.

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all images from Mel Gordon's #SevenAddictionsandFiveProfessionsofAnitaBerber

1 'Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber' - #OttoDix 1925
2 Felix Berber
3 Lucie Thiem Berber 1921
4 Anita with Grandma Thiem, 1901
5 Anita 'Allegory of Spring', 1916
6 Valeska Gert 'Dance in Orange', 1916
7 Susi Wandrowski and Anita, 1922
8 Anita as Eton-Boy in 'Please Pay!' by Ernst Scheider, 1921
9 Sebastian Droste, by Francis Bruguiere, 1925
10 Henri 'Lotus Land', 1931

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In this episode, Thomas tells us about the life of Black, lesbian blues singer, pianist and entertainer: #GladysBentley. A star of the #HarlemRenaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, Bentley seemed in every way someone living their life on their terms. Until, that is, her star power began to dim and Bentley began to doubt her identity.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of medical abuse and fatphobia. Listeners are strongly encouraged to consider to exercise caution.

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1. Gladys Bentley. Unknown photographer.
2. Gladys Bentley and Willie Bryant in front of the Apollo Theater
3. Advertisement for a Gladys Bentley performance at Mona’s 440, San Francisco
4. Advertisement for a Gladys Bentley and Miss Jimmy Reynard performance at Mona’s
5. Advertisement for a Gladys Bentley performance at the Memphis Club, Philadelphia, 1934
6. Clipping from Vere John's "In the Name of Art," New York Times, 1934.
7. Gladys Bentley. Photographer unknown. "I Am a Woman Again," Ebony Magazine, August of 1952.
8. Clipping from unknown author, "Here's What Happens at Harlem's Famous Ubangi Club,"1936
9. E. Simms Campbell, "A Night Club Map of Harlem," 1932

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In this second part of our two part story about the lives of AMAB femmes, Fanny and Stella, we dive into the trial that shocked Victorian England, its outcome, and what became of the bold Stella and Fanny in the remainder of their lives.

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images:
1 Fanny and Stella enter the Bow Street jail
2 Fanny and Stella in court
3 illustration of Coldbath Fields Prison

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In the first episode of our second season, Megan shares the story of Fanny and Stella: two gender non-conforming young people from Victorian England who presented female (and sometimes male) while carousing the exciting streets of 1860s/70s London. That is, until their antics got them in hot water with the law in what would be one of the most significant trials in British queer history. In this first part of our two part episode we learn about their lives leading up to their arrest.

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images:
1 #FannyandStella
2 Fanny #FrederickPark (right) and #ErnestBoulton as Fanny and Stella, 1869
3 Stella and Fanny (back right, holding mallets), dressed in character for the drawing-room entertainments they toured to small country houses and market-town assembly rooms
4 Park, in male attire, 1868
5 Fanny
6 Stella
7 Boulton, in male attire, 1875
8 #BurlingtonArcade, 1870s
9 Park (standing) and Boulton (on the floor) with Clinton, c. 1869
10 John Safford Fiske

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In this episode, Thomas takes us through the life and times of convicted swindler, #VictorBarker. From his time in Holloway Prison to the sideshows of Blackpool and beyond, Barker insisted on maintaining a male identity throughout his adult life despite often being described as a cross-dresser. This early-twentieth century trans-man was not an admirable character, but he was definitely an interesting one.

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images:
1) Ivor Gauntlett a.k.a. Victor Barker. 1929.
2) Captain Victor Barker. 1929.
3) “On a Strange Honeymoon,” sideshow in Blackpool. Photograph by Julian Trevelyan.
4) Attributed to Victor Barker. “The Man-Woman. ‘My Story.’” The Weekly Dispatch. 3.10.1929.
5) ”’Colonel Barker,’ Queen of Hoaxers, Faces Destitution.” 1933.
6) Josephine Joseph on the set of “Freaks.” 1931.
7) Albert Alberta Karas. Promotional flyer for Josephine Joseph.
8) Holloway Prison. 1913.
9) Interior of a woman’s cell, Holloway Prison. 1909.
10) Outside of Colonel Barker’s sideshow, Blackpool Promenade. 1937.

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In this episode, Megan talks about The Pansy Craze - a period of increased LGBT visibility in popular culture from the late 1920s until the mid-1930s, that came to an end following the Great Depression, The Hays Code and the rise of World War Two.

During the "craze," drag queens, drag kings, masculine women and femme queer men — known as "pansy performers" — experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in US cities such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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images:
1 front page of 'Breveties'
2 illustration of "pansy" stealing a sailor from a "working girl" - Breveties
3 #GladysBentley
4 #JeanMalin out of drag
5 Jean Malin in 'Arizona to Broadway'
6 #KarylNorman
7 Karyl Norman
8 #RaeBourbon
9 Rae Bourbon out of drag
10 #WilliamDorseySwann

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In Part Two of our 3 part episode about teenage thrill killers, #LeopoldAndLoeb Megan and Thomas discuss what would become known as #TheCrimeOfTheCentury

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link:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4WTgBtAwzTkgQprBejHDem?si=8dl9NO5_Q_6kpStQe-SR6g

images:

*Special thanks once again to #ErikRebain from whom all these images were sourced*

1 Loeb, Sbarbaro, Crowe, Leopold and Savage in the front row, with other employees of the State’s Attorney’s office behind them

2 Loeb digging up Bobby Franks’ belt

3 Hall, Brown, Hickson alienists examine Leopold in prison accompanied by Ben Bachrach

4 Leopold and Leopold sharing a look on July 25th

5 Phrenology diagram of Leopold

6 Phrenology diagram of Loeb

7 #ClarenceDarrow addresses court

8 Crowe questions Lorraine Nathan in court

9 Leopold and Loeb listening to testimony

10 Judge Caverly, Leopold, Loeb and Crowe outside on July 25th

Sources:

Baatz, Simon. For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago. HarperCollins. October 13, 2009.

Higdon, Hal. The Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century.Chicago. University of Illinois Press. 1995, 1999 & 2010.

Fass, Paula S. Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America. Oxford University Press. November 20, 1997.

Rebain, Erik. Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of NathanLeopold. Rowan & Littlefield Publishers. April 15, 2023.

Crimes of the Centuries with Amber Hunt. S1Ep2: Leopold & Loeb: Jazz Age Killers.

Bad Gays. Episode 9: Leopold and Loeb. May 14, 2019.

“Deadly Alliance: Leopold & Loeb – A Chicago Stories Documentary.” YouTube, uploaded by WTTW Chicago. November 1, 1924,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=i6Og5

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With Part One of our 3 part episode about teenage thrill killers, #LeopoldAndLoeb we examine the early lives of #NathanLeopold and #RichardLoeb in the lead-up to the senseless killing of young #BobbyFranks in what would become known as the #crimeofthecentury

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*Special thanks to #ErikRebain for sources

1 Leopold & Loeb
2 Leopold Family - Patricia Stern
3 Young Nathan Leopold - 1920 Harvard School for Boys yearbook
4 Ernest and Richard with tennis rackets – Richard Loeb Papers; Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries
5 a postcard showing the patio of “The Big House”, Charlevoix
6 Richard Loeb (center) with some of his fraternity brothers in the 1922 UoM yearbook
7 Leopold feeding a Kirtland’s Warbler in 1923
8 Bobby Franks – Chicago Daily News
9 A culvert along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks near Wolf Lake where Bobby’s body was concealed – Getty
10 Bobby Franks funeral, Jon Blackwell @100YearsAgoNews

Thomas tells us about young #Quaker woman, #JemimaWilkinson, who after a grave illness was reborn as the #genderless , spiritual being the #PublicUniversalFriend.

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images:

1 Portrait from David Hudson's 1821 biography

2 1796, Western New York

3 depiction of the Quaker concept of the “Peaceable Kingdom” – Edward Hicks

4 First Great Awakening – Hugh Bridport

5 Quaker woman orating at a Friend’s Gathering – G.Schouten

6 The Public Universal Friend – John Mathies, 1816

7 Public Universal Friend sticker - unknown

8 The Public Universal Friend's House - unknown

Sources:

Cleveland, Stafford. History and directory of Yates County [...] and a narrative of the Public Universal Friend, her society and doctrine. Pen Yan, New York: S. C. Cleveland, 1873.

Gordon, Colby. Interview on "Gender Reveal," October 7, 2024. Podcast episode 179, season 13.

Larson, Scott. "'Indescribable being': theological performances of genderlessness in the Society of the Public Universal Friend, 1776-1819." Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America, vol. 12, nr. 3 (2014): 576-600. (Special Issue, Beyond the Barriers).

Moyer, Paul. The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and religious enthusiasm in Revolutionary America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 2015.

Wisbey, Herbert. Pioneer prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964.Kawamoto, Hanna. “'Spiritually unsexed': believers, critics, and early histories of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776-1835. UC Santa Barbara, 2024. (Winner of The Library Award for Undergraduate Research).

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Hi all! In this first episode of #TheseOldQueers we introduce ourselves, discuss our queer coming-of-age experiences and why we identify as #queer. Have a listen, and say hi! We'd also love to know what you'd like us to cover. Listen via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/74hZXGpP32Ly3fEsBEpuus?si=_y4JQic2RL-dxiEdkLnJuA