Loose: A Podcast About the History of Sex and Vice

Loose: A Podcast About the History of Sex and Vice

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Loose: A Podcast About the History of Sex and Vice episodes

  • Because I’m a Witch
    A brief history of witchcraft with a bit of sex history, a tarot reading, a discussion of climate and a bit of theorizing about why men are like this with my good friend Taylor.
    To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter 
    To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content
    Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time For a Riot by Honeycutts
    Sources used in this week's episode included: 
    Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
    Witches. Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J Sollet
    https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/witchcraft-penis-snatchers-history
    38 min
  • Moonshine Queens
    Few times I been over yonder, and I ain’t no holler back girl. We take it back to my roots today to talk a little bit about the history of moonshine and the women who ran the streets, seas, and the roads back in Prohibition days and before.
    To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter
    To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode
    Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Bluegrass Bean by The Undertowns
    Sources used in this week's episode included:
    What You are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
    White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
    https://www.historycolorado.org/story/2020/03/12/openly-and-gusto-how-women-moonshiners-led-denvers-first-female-cop
    https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/women-bootleggers/
    56 min
  • Emma Goldman and Her Boys
    Join Quinn and Daria Kucher as we follow Cancer queen and radical anarchist Emma Goldman through her dating life reminding all of us out there in the fight for a better world that it’s okay to like flowers, dancing, and boys at the same time.
    To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter 
    To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode
    Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts
    Sources used in this week's episode included: 
    Living My Life by Emma Goldman
    51 min
  • Wet Ass P-Word: History of Bad Words
    WAPs, Dirty Blues, The Filthy Speech Movement and more. Camille and I cover all the embarrassing movements of people fighting for the right to swear and talk through respectability politics. The only acceptable WAP thinkpiece.
    Sources used in this weeks episode were:
    Make Love, Not War by David Allyn
    How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
    “Shave Em Dry” by Lucille Bogan
    http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt687004sg&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=d0e8112&toc.id=d0e353
    Music was Time for a Riot by Honeycutts
    Extra content is available on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast
    Nola Drag Tours booking is available at noladragtours.com
    53 min
  • The Lavender Scare
    Worried the gays might spill the tea to the Russians, the US Government spent most of the Red Scare not finding communists and ruining the lives of gay men and lesbians living in Washington DC, until the Mattachine Society of Washington finally fought back. With special guest Evan Spigelman.
    To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter 
    To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode
    Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts
    Sources used in this episode were:
    The Lavender Scare: The Cold Ware Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K Johnson
    Sex and the Office by Julie Berebitsky
    50 min
  • Anita Bryant: The Gays vs Orange Juice
    Episode contains homophobic slurs.
    Well at least it’s a fruit pie. The original poor innocent cancelled free speech warrior Anita Bryant, the movement, and the myth. The story of how a hateful bigot galvanized two opposite movements and gay people stopped drinking orange juice.
    There will be a one week break between episodes to put together some fascinating new projects.
    Consider supporting Loose on Patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast
    Get in touch with me at @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter.
    Sources:
    Youtube Clips of Anita Bryant in Interviews 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fABwascm12s
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6i5Y6t1nI&t=130s
    Fuck Anita Bryant
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBe2Bq4jYPA
    John BirdsallThe Orange Juice Boycott That Changed America 
    https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/the-orange-juice-boycott-that-changed-america
    Emily Johnson, The myth that has shaped the Christian Right and the LGBTQ rights movement for four decades
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/21/myth-that-has-shaped-christian-right-lgbtq-rights-movement-four-decades/
    15 min
  • Get Over It Joanne: A Crash Course in Trans/Enby History
    If I can’t wear jeggings and a crop top, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution. Were there trans and nonbinary people in the past? Spoiler alert: Yes. This episode is a crash course in the deep and rich history of gender variance and the rise of the gender binary stopping around WWII presented with as much snark as possible.
    Sources for this episode listed on loosepodcast.com
    To get in touch, find me on instagram @quinnlarouxdrag or on twitter @quinnlaroux
    I am trying to get better at both.
    Support Loose on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast
    30 min
  • A Slow, Pony Express Grindr
    Physique Pictorials, the fight to print gay smut, daddy culture, and terribly cringey old gay photos reviewed with critically acclaimed comedian Roman Ellis. 
    Photos Discussed in this episode can be found on:
    https://www.advocate.com/media/2017/8/08/short-lurid-history-physique-pictorial-36-pics#slide-0
    We specifically discussed slides: 10, 14, 16, 18, and 26
    To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter 
    To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this week's episode
    Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts
    As well as the initial image appearing on Coitus magazine: https://coitusmagazine.com/
    Sources used in this week's episode included: 
    Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepenuers Sparked a Movement by David Kyle Johnson
    https://www.advocate.com/media/2017/8/08/short-lurid-history-physique-pictorial-36-pics#slide-0
    Perversion for Profit (1965) Available on Youtube: 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om4kMTw-R6o
    43 min
  • More Dangerous Than Any Fleet of German Airplanes
    The deeply hidden history of that one time the US government rounded up all the promiscuous women and forced them into quarantine camps. If you patriotutes needed one more reason to feel weird about celebrating the fourth of July you found it. Stalking, profiling, bad science, and most importantly, resistance.
    With special guest, comedian, and country club girl Camille Roane.
    To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter
    To support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episode
    Music provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by Honeycutts
    Sources used in this week's episode included:
    The Trails of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveilance, and the Decades Long Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women by Scott Stern
    https://www.history.com/news/chamberlain-kahn-act-std-venereal-disease-imprisonment-women
    Crimes Against Nature Fact Sheet
    https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/louisiana-s-crime-against-nature-law-modern
    41 min
  • We Recruit! Lesbian Separatists and Avengers
    Lesbians lusting for power, separating, and eating fire, this week we remembers some lesbian movements throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s. This week we are joined by special guest Amanda G, Host of Near and Queer to My Heart.
    Be sure to check out Near and Queer to My Heart https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/near-and-queer-to-my-heart/id1330013683
    To support Loose on Patreon go to patreon.com/loosepodcast\
    To get in touch with me you can find me on instagram @quinnlarouxdrag or on twitter @quinnlaroux
    Music provided through Epidemic sound includes:
    Time for a Riot by Honeycutts 
    Sources Used in this week’s episode included: 
    http://www.lesbianavengers.com/about/history.shtml
    Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman 
    Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
    A History of US Feminisms by Rory Dicker
    35 min

About Loose: A Podcast About the History of Sex and Vice

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A shameless and uncensored history podcast covering the history of sex and vice hosted by Quinn Laroux, a drag and burlesque performer. With equal parts comedy and nuance, Loose is a crash course…