Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archiveįor an in-depth look at the Mattachine Society and Hal Call, have a look at Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation, by James T.
Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. And he references Mattachine Society co-founder Harry Hay and Daughters of Bilitis co-founders Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin. Hal also references the Dykes on Bikes, an organization founded in San Francisco in 1976, which you can read about here. Johnson called The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. The Lavender Scare is chronicled in a 2004 book by David K. In this episode, Hal makes reference to what’s become known as the Lavender Scare, which was the gay analog to the 1950s Red Scare, both of which were led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and, as Hal put it in his interview, the two “fairies without wings,” Roy Cohn and Gerard David Schine (better known G.
For a more detailed overview of Hal Call’s life click here and here.
