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After a series of unfortunate events, we are back, finally! Please join us (and Dani's bottle of wine) as we enjoy the inspiring story of the absolute civil rights legend Bayard Rustin! Britt will teach us all about the often washed over back bone of the civil rights movement (I mean the guy taught Martin Luther King Jr. about pacifism!)
Happy Black History Month!

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Happy 2024, Cousins!
Britt decided we needed something a little lighter after the last episode, so join us in exploring the long-awaited dirty dog story of Gentleman Jack Anne Lister! This fuck boy girl of the 19th century was a wily social climber and her story was an absolute hoot. Enjoy some banter, some movie recommendations, and some general dumb-assery brought to you by your favorite sisters.

Until next time: bye love you!

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Host Marie Cartier speaks with Angela Brinskele, director of communication at the Mazer Lesbian Archives, about the collection's materials on lesbian bars. They discuss notable bars, including Angela's first experience, and the role they played in the LGBTQ+ community. The conversation covers the challenges and discrimination faced by these spaces and the importance of preserving their history. This episode is a must-listen for those interested in LGBTQ+ history and the vital role of lesbian bars.

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Welcome to yet another episode of the podcast where we post weekly episodes! This week Kat tells us all about the icon Jane Addams and the Hull House in Chicago then Kaleigh shares the story of Han Emperor Ai and the legend of the cut sleeve.

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What up and welcome to a wonderful Pride episode. Kat tells us the frankly unbelievable tale of Cavalier d'Eon then Kaleigh takes us through the larger than life story of Gladys Bentley.

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Death culture historically has been family and tradition-centric, for this reason the LGBTQ+ community often has felt alienated by traditional mourning rituals, and as a result has formed their own diverse traditions, which are often protests of the injustices they faced in life. The fascinating and unique death culture that has emerged is a diverse and vibrant as the LGBTQ+ community itself.

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Hosted by Brian Schaefer, this episode is an exploration of how gay history is intertwined with the Pillow’s very beginnings, often hiding in plain sight.

Related episodes of PillowVoices:
https://pillowvoices.org/episodes/barton-mumaw-a-cornerstone-of-the-pillow

https://pillowvoices.org/episodes/ted-shawn-jacobs-pillow-founder-in-his-own-words

*This episode was produced by Lisa Niedermeyer. 

Today, a lighthearted look at England's long and storied history of, as an official act, killing men for being gay. It goes back a while! It's awful and pointless, but ... uh. Well. No actual "but" there, as it turns out. We'll also examine a group of racist vigilantes of the pedigree that's only possible in central Missouri. Also they called themselves "The Bald Knobbers," and the fact that they went around beating people for moral failings while having a name only slightly less pornographic than "Sleazy Gang Bang XI: Thursday Night at The Man Hole" is an irony seemingly lost on them. It's just gross. Join us, won't you?

Lace up your boots or slip on your platform heels, because it’s Q4Q’s 25th episode! To mark the occasion, Haley invited their good friend and femme fatale, Caillean, to gasp their way through personal ads written by butch and femme lesbians. Whether you’re into lace or leather, chapstick or lip gloss, pants or skirts–some other nonsensical binary, you’ll enjoy these ads. 

Listen to us on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your tunes!

Interested in being on the show? Contact us at Q4QPodcast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

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

Sources:

Nestle, Joan (1992). The Persistent Desire: A Femme–Butch Reader. Alyson Publications.

Caramagno, Thomas C. (2002). Irreconcilable Differences? Intellectual Stalemate in the Gay Rights Debate. ABC-CLIO. pp. 137–8. ISBN 978-0275977214.

Walker, Ja'nina (March 2012). "Butch Bottom–Femme Top? An Exploration of Lesbian Stereotypes". Journal of Lesbian Studies. 16 (1): 90–107. doi:10.1080/10894160.2011.557646. PMID 22239455. S2CID 205753452

Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony, https://alotarchives.org/collection/bridging-gap

Butch Fashion Club FB page

Stone Butch Blues

The Persistant Desire

@onourbax__stax Instagram

Ads:

Outweek (NYC) Sept 19, 1990.

FaT GiRL 1 — October, 1994. Fat Lib Archive. 

FaT GiRL 7 — May, 1997. Fat Lib Archive.

Focus Point (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1997-10-08.  Minnesota Digital Library.

On Our Backs, Summer 1987 via onourbax__stax

Philadelphia Gay News, April 30, 1982. JStor, Reveal Digital.

Southern voice, December 7, 1989. Digital Library of Georgia.

Southern voice, January 17, 1991. Digital Library of Georgia.

The San Francisco Bay times., Sep 1989. Berkeley Library, UCLA

We the people, Jun 1989.

We the people, Nov 1989.

Lesbian Tide, July/August 1979. JStor, Reveal Digital.

In between the politics of the Stonewall Riots and the AIDS pandemic, disco emerged as a haven for gay men to escape the confines of heterosexuality.

In this episode, we’re taking a look at the history of disco, its queer roots, and how its legacy continues through today’s pop music – despite bigoted anti-disco movements in the late seventies.

Additional Resources:

• Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
• Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
• Arts in America: Here's to Disco, It Never Could Say Goodbye
• Why Disco Should Be Taken Seriously
• Disco and the Queering of the Dancefloor
• Affect Intensity
• History is Made at Night
• Disco and Gay Culture in the 1970s
• Studio 54 (originally Gallo Opera House)
• The Discriminating Club
• Disco is Dealt Death Blow by Fans of the Chicago White Sox
• July 12, 1979: 'The Night Disco Died' — Or Didn't
• The Queer History of Disco Playlist

This episode, Haley teamed up with Kai of @Rotten_Treasure for one of the kinkiest episodes of the entire show. Sometimes it’s difficult to find a partner into the same things, in the same general geographic area--before Grindr, Craigslist, or  KinkD, there were personal ads in the local LGBTQ magazine. Listen as we match with voyeurs, foot worshippers,  Gumdrop Danglers, and more!

(Personal ads begin around 1 hour and 2 minutes.)

We mentioned: 

Amanda Hess, “The Foot Fetish Brain Map,” Washington City Paper, 13 April 2010. 

Justin Lehmiller, “Rats With Jacket Fetishes? What Animal Sex Studies Reveal About The Origin Of Unusual Sexual Interests,” Sex and Psychology, 16 January 2015. 

Gayle Rubin, “South of Market Gay Leather History: A Short History and Walking Tour,” San Francisco Frontiers, 20 September 2001. 

Kelsey Borresen, “The Difference Between A Fetish And Kink, According To Sex Experts,” Huffington Post, 25 July 2018. 

“English Rockers in Leather” Gay Leather Fetish History, 

"Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice" by Caroll Truscott.

JP Larocque, “A brief history of BDSM: From Sparta to Weimar Germany, kink has always been part of our sexuality” 13 November 2014. 

Cameron Glover, “It’s Time to Recenter Kink and BDSM as Part of Radical Queer History” Slate, 7 November 2018.

J Raúl Cornier, Hanky Panky: An Abridged History of the Hanky Code, 23 April 2019.

Palmer Haasch and Canela López, “The debate over 'kink at Pride' divides the internet, but the kink community has been part of queer protest and celebration since Stonewall” Insider, 7 June 2021.

We read: 

Drummer extras,  “Tough Customers 4” published  c. 1990s. 

The Washington Blade (Washington, DC) , 27 November 1998. 

OUT FRONT (Denver, CO) 15 February 1991

Outweek (NYC) 11 July 1990

Outweek (NYC) 8 Sep 1990

Southern voice (Atlanta, GA) February 17 and 23, 1994 

The Body politic (Toronto, Canada), March 1984 

The San Francisco Bay times. (California), Sep 1989

We're talking about casual sex,  baby! Haley and their housemate Ari hand-selected several personal ads looking for something sexy, passionate, and hedonistic--hold the emotion. The queers who wrote these ads are looking for a good time, not a long time. 

Listen to us on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your tunes!

Interested in being on the show? Contact us at Q4QPodcast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

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

Sources

Oxford English Dictionary, Accessed online July 2022.

"Casual Sex" Urban Dictionary, created 2014. Accessed July 2022. 

Philadelphia Gay News, 30 April 1982. JStor, Reveal Digital

On Our Backs, Summer and Fall 1986, stored at Brown University Special Collections, Accessed 2021.

Gay Community News (Boston, MA) 1 June 1974. JStor, Reveal Digital

LongLostPersonals Instagram, Dan Low, from 1976, posted on 18 June 2022.

 Nuntius (Houston, TX), August 1976. Houston LGBT History Website

Outweek (NYC) 28 August 1989.

Outweek (NYC) 31 July 1989.

The Blade, (Washington, DC) September 1977. DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021).

Learn more about Techno Pagans at Dr. Alex Ketchum's Digital Project "From Tech Wizard to Cyber Witch" on Airtable. 

This week, Haley geeks out with fellow personal ad aficionado and collector, Dan of @LongLostPersonals. His Instagram account contains hundreds of unique, sexy, and sometimes bizarre personal ads across the decades. Learn about the coded language men used to meet other men in the 1940s, and experience the dirtiest ad Dan has ever seen (so far). 

Listen to us on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your tunes! Don’t forget to follow Dan @Longlostpersonals

Interested in being on the show? Contact us at Q4QPodcast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

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

Sources:

• The Link, 1920.
• Hobby Directory, 1948.
• Hobby Directory, 1948.
• The Girlfriend and the Boyfriend, 1951. 
• Southern Voice, April 21 and 27, 1994. Digital Library of Georgia.
• The Providence Phoenix,  1994.
• Outweek, 31 July 1989.
• Philadelphia Gay News, December 1976. JStor, Reveal Digital
• Philadelphia Gay News, 30 April 1982. JStor, Reveal Digital
• Skins, c. 1990s.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to lovely episode 71! Today, Kat covers the blunder of the Maginot Line and the Fall of Paris during World War Two then Kaleigh  covers the life and times of Oscar Wilde.

Today's "activism" is essentially a process of expressing collective community grievances and disgust, feeling there's either no control over situations or even how to react. Or hope that someone else will do it. Well, there's no someone else. Nor is there a blueprint for creating change. It's simple: "get out" and make sure every voter is informed on our issues and registered to vote. If there's a message that we believe, it is "Don't worry about rocking the boat because you are not in the boat, so rock it as hard and as often as you can." If you don't feel the wall at your back now, you should.

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What's up everyone, welcome to another theme episode - pride month edition! Today, we have three stories from trans history, a vital and foundational part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Kat tells us the historic story of Lily Elbe and Kaleigh takes us to the American West through the stories of Little Joe Monahan and We:Wha.

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Oh boy, it’s poem night at Q4Q. Join the party for some of the most mournful, raunchy, and yearning iambic pentameter pieces this show has ever seen. Haley and their special guest, Ash, set out to ask some important questions–When did “snowflake” become a thing? Did Emily Dickinson date women? Will men EVER stop quoting Neitzche? 

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

Sources

• Fifth Freedom, 1 December 1983 (Buffalo, NY)
• Leather Archives and Museum Instagram post, April 9, 2022--posted from First Hand’s Manscape Magazine, a Gay Adult Digest Magazine
• Focus Point (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 17 November 1994.
• Philadelphia Gay News, 17 October 1980. JStor, Reveal Digital
• Outweek, 22 August 1990
• Outweek 8 September 1990
• Laura Knowles, “Drenched in words: LGBTQ poets from US history,” Oxford University Press Blog, published June 26, 2018. Accessed May 7, 2022
•  Tim Hawken, “WTF is Will to Power,” Medium, February 16, 2015. Accessed May 7, 2022. 
• Wild nights - Wild nights! (269) , Emily Dickinson, Poetry Foundation.org
• Kaufmann, Walter A. (1974). Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. pp. 317–319
• Will to power - Wikipedia
•  Bronski, Michael (November 7, 2002). "The real Harry Hay". The Phoenix. Archived from the original on May 30, 2009.
• Jonathan Katz, Gay American History. Crowell Publishers, 1976

In this episode, Haley and Rachel (Gaychel) pop open some personal ads looking for a little more. Whether it be physical or chemical–they want pleasure and they want it soon! There will be poppers–certainly pleasure, preservative-laden snacks, and high-impact naked sports. Settle in with your munchies of choice, because these head hunters are meeting gyrating Euro-trash in pursuit of sex ‘n drugs. 

Listen to us on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your tunes!

Interested in being on the show? Contact us at Q4QPodcast@gmail.comor find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

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

Sources: 

Philadelphia Gay News, January 8, 1982. Independent Voices, JSTOR

Outweek, June 13, 1990 Art by Camper, called “Last Night”.

Philadelphia Gay News, April 30, 1982.  Independent Voices, JSTOR

GAY, May 11, 1970. Houston LGBT History

Our Paper, April 1992, University of Southern Maine

The Gay News Telegraph, December 1985.

The San Francisco Bay times, September 1989. Berkeley Library, UCLA

Outweek, August 22, 1990.

Let's get personal! Since the dawn of time, humans have been desperate for connection. Then we realized we could solicit strangers through the Sunday paper. You’ve heard of Craigslist personals, just imagine the pining and thirst from lonely queers searching for love. Listen as we read and rate personal ads from the ‘70s through today! If you love gay yearning, you’ll love Q4Q!