Happy New Year! And welcome to another episode of Q4Q. Haley connected with Dan Griffiths from the Gender F*ck podcast to engage with some ads written by and for trans people. In the pages of the magazines, we meet a love kitten, a student of the bizarre, and so many others hoping for a connection. 

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Check out Dan Griffiths' and Oliver Ellis' podcast Gender F*ck on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, where they discuss sexual health and wellbeing with a focus on the trans experience. You can also find them on Instagram and Twitter @GenderFckPod. 

Music written and strummed by Omar Nassar. Cover art by Bekah Rich. 

Sources

Digital Transgender Archive

Boys Will Be Boys, March 1993. Digital Transgender Archive 

New Trenns Magazine: The Voice of the Transvestite World,  Volume 2, Issue 6. 1971. Digital Transgender Archive

The Transsexual Voice - October 1993. Digital Transgender Archive

The Transvestite World Directory, 1973 - Seattle Washington. Digital Transgender Archive

The San Francisco Bay times, Sep 1989, Vol. 10 No. 12 - Berkeley Library Digital Collections

Secondary Sources

Them, “InQueery: What does the Word Transgender Mean?” September 7, 2018.

Kristen Riley, “From female impersonation to drag” Wellcome Collection, September 24, 2019.

Online Etymology Dictionary, Accessed January 2022. 

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Strap into your saddles, because we’re about to find some Prince/ss Charmings on some horses. In this week’s episode, join Haley and Lauren as they dig through some personal ads that put the “fairy” in fairy tale. Follow us through the tales of a heartbroken lesbian from Georgia, Prince Charming sought in Denver, and butch Lancelot? All that and more in Episode 13 of Q4Q: Queer Personal Ads!

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Sources:
Gay Blade (D.C), November 11, 1988. DigDC

Lesbian Tide Volume 1 Number 2, September - October 1979. Houston LGBT History.org.

Southern Voice, April 21 and 27, 1994. Digital Library of Georgia.

Out Front, Volume V Number 6, June 13, 1980. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.

Focus Point, November 17, 1994. Minnesota Digital Library.

OutWeek, August 28, 1989. OutWeek Internet Archive.

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Are you looking for a gay roommate? What about a lesbian organic farmer? Find all that and more in this episode of Q4Q, when Haley and Annika slide into the DMs of some quality cheeseheads from the state of Wisconsin. 

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As always, music by Omar Nassar. Cover art by Bekah Rich.

Sources:

A big thank you to:
Wisconsin LGBT History Project 

This Website ... attempts to link together media reports from every LGBT publication ever printed in Wisconsin, with personal recollections, photos, and stories. It is primarily organized into 5 major areas (People, Organizations, Businesses, Media, and Events) and weaves all of these together with hyper-linkages to cross-reference information in one area to related information elsewhere. Although thus far primarily the work of one individual (Don Schwamb), other individuals are coming forward with their own recollections and photos, and several other people (notably Jamie Taylor, and the new Green Bay LGBT History group) are beginning to contribute in a more substantive way to flesh out gaps and make the site even more broad in scope.

Among Friends, Aug/Sept 1988

Among Friends, March 1988

Among Friends, Feb 1988

Among Friends, May 1988

Uptown Downtown - Nov 1993

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Hey all you handsome bi’s and rugged guys! This time on Q4Q, Haley and their new housemate Ainhoa wade through an archive of bisexual personal ads. Give it a listen, because these ads swing both ways!

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As always, music by Omar Nassar. Cover art by Bekah Rich.

Sources:

GAY (NYC),  15 Feb 1971. Houston LGBT History

Gay Blade (D.C.) 11-27-1998 DigDC

Personally (Kansas City, MO) January 1988 Vol. 4 Issue. 1

Michele A Buchanan Collection, Leather Archives and Museum, 1990s 

• "From a red shore" Tumblr page
• "From the LA&M Archives: Black Leather in Color" Jakob VanLammeren, LA&M Archivist/Collections Librarian, August 2014
• Leathersex Underground & the Formation of a Subculture: The Michele Buchanan and Jim Kane Digitization Project, CLIR Hidden Collections registry 
• The Leather Hall of Fame 

Our Own Community Press (Norfolk, VA) , Oct. 1992 -
Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Collections

Philadelphia Gay News,  Issue 5 - May 1976 - JSTOR

The San Francisco Bay times., Sep 1989, Vol. 10 No. 12 - Berkeley Library Digital Collections

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Have you heard of Farmers Only? Do you find yourself watching Brokeback Mountain over and over? This episode takes “City people just don’t get it” to a whole new level. Listen as Haley and Erin discover the personals of cowboy bachelors, country dykes, and Gay okies. Because as we all know, “Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other!”

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Music written and strummed by Omar Nassar. 

Icon design by Bekah Rich. 

Mentions:

Wild, Wild Country - Streamable on Netflix
Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt, Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America
Welcome to Your Fantasy
Transplantings

Sources:

Gay sunshine, Spring, 1974.  Berkeley Library Digital Collections.

OUT FRONT, Volume XV, Number 22, February 15, 1991.  Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.

The Gayly Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1984.

The Gayly Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1984.

The San Francisco Bay times., Sep 1989, Vol. 10 No. 12. Berkeley Library Digital Collections

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Come out and soak up some Gay Sunshine with Haley this week, as they traipse through the history of this unique little newspaper. Haley outlines some of the paper’s history with Berkeley’s Gay Liberation Front, the Gay Sunshine Press, and the long-time editor Winston Leyland. Or, skip to the end and listen to some iconic personal ads from Gay Sunshine in the 1970s.

As always, music by Omar Nassar.

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Sources: 

Noel Halifax, "When gays and Panthers were united" Socialist Review, July/August 2015. 

Nick Benton, ”Who Needs It?” Gay Sunshine, Aug-Sep, 1970, Vol. 01 No. 01.

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Finding Aid: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8h41q5v/dsc/

"Mattachine Review ." Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America, 1st Edition. . Encyclopedia.com. 16 Aug. 2021 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.

 Charles Kirtley, “LET THE SUNSHINE IN: The Pioneering Role of Winston Leyland in Gay Publishing” Appeared in Lesbian and Gay New York, Spring 1998

http://www.leylandpublications.com/article_leyland.html

“Winston Leyland | Profile”, LGBTQ Religious Archives Network, accessed August 23, 2021, https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/winston-leyland

Gay Sunshine, March 1971, Vol. 01 No. 06.

Gay Sunshine, January-February 1974, Vol. 01 No. 20. 

Gay Sunshine, Spring 1974, Vol. 01 No. 21. 

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Did you know that people wrote in to their newspapers for friends' birthdays, anniversaries, or even just to get a hold of someone? In Episode 8, Thaddeus and Haley flip through some queer classifieds to find some fun examples of how people announced their feelings before the digital age. 

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Sources:

Gay Community News,   1986 February 15. Northeastern University Library.

OUT FRONT,  Volume III,  Number 4, June 1, 1978. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. 

We the People, December 1988. Berkeley Library Digital Collections.

"Denver Detour," April 12, 2015.

Southern voice, August 4, 1988. Digital Library of Georgia.

Patrick Saunders, "Atlanta gay bar Oscar's owners buy Burkhart's , plan name change." The Gay Voice, April 2, 2018

Becca J.G. Godwin, "Owner of Atlanta gay bar under fire after controversial posts surface," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 24, 2018. 

Vol 1, Feb:Mar 2004 H.E.R.S. magazine

We the People, October 1989. Berkeley Library Digital Collections.

We the People, Aug 1989, Vol. 02 No. 04. Berkeley Library Digital Collections.

We the People, Nov 1988, Vol. 01 No. 07. Berkeley Library Digital Collections.

We the People, Dec 1988, Vol. 01 No. 08. Berkeley Library Digital Collections.

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Welcome once again to Q4Q, where Haley reads old LGBTQ Queer Personal Ads with their friends. In this episode, Haley and Sam dive into newspaper archives from Washington, D.C., San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia to peruse some ads that might be expecting too much. Follow us on our journey through resumes, Polaroids, and maybe even Guy Fieri? 

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Music written and strummed by Omar Nassar.

Icon design by Bekah Rich.

Sources, found through Jim Burroway's List of LGBT Digital Archives on the Web

The Washington Blade, November 11, 1988. DigDC

The Washington Blade, November 27, 1988. DigDC

The Gay News-Telegraph (St. Louis, Mo), November 1985, St. Louis University

Philadelphia Gay News, May 1976, JSTOR

San Francisco Bay Times, September 1989, Berkeley Library Digital Collections

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Join Haley and their Museum Dad, Meg, as they peruse some personal ads with impeccable intro sentences that really hook you in. This episode was originally themed "It Didn't Have to Be That Weird," because there are some bizarre adjectives,  fun nicknames, and questionable metaphors.  As one of our young lonely hearts exclaims, "Let's get sticky, witty, and warm!"

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Music written and strummed by Omar Nassar.

Icon design by Bekah Rich.

Sources, found through Jim Burroway's List of LGBT Digital Archives on the Web

The Washington Blade, November 27, 1998. DigDC

Philadelphia Gay News, March 1976, JSTOR.

Southern Voice, October 12, 1989, Digital Library of Georgia.

OUT FRONT, Volume XVI, Number 1, April 12, 1991. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.

The Washington Blade, May 16, 1986. DigDC

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From the mailbox to your DMs, Missy and Haley take a look at queer personal ads and how they evolved from print media to social media and apps. In this episode, they discuss the history of submitting personal ads into newspapers, the Mattachine Society's ONE magazine and their fight against the US Postal Service, and how the digital age has adjusted the way we date (and where Lex sits in that). All opinions expressed here are our own!

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Music written and strummed by Omar Nassar.

Icon design by Bekah Rich.

Secondary Sources: 

"Cupid in the personal ads." Alberta History, vol. 60, no. 2, 2012, p. 16. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A289620023/GPS?u=usocal_main&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=18863ab6. Accessed 21 June 2021

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/personals-instagram/

https://www.instagram.com/qpocpersonals/

https://www.vogue.com/article/lex-queer-dating-app

https://timeline.com/tinder-personal-ads-history-4c34c7d6dbcb

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter83&edition=prelim

German Lopez, published in Vox, May 28, 2014--details the homophobic history of the postal service--and interview with David Johnson, the author of The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. 

Poppy Noor, It's a sincere process': why personal dating ads are making a comeback, October 31, 2019 

Today In History: ONE Magazine versus the US Post Office 

Primary Sources:

One Volume 2, Issue 5, May 1st, 1954

Gay sunshine., Jan-Feb, 1974, No. 20

The San Francisco Bay times., Sep 1989, Vol. 10 No. 12

The San Francisco Bay times., Sep 1989, Vol. 10 No. 12

Kansas City, MO, Personally, January 1988

Lex, 2020-2021

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