Welcome to another episode of Q4Q, where Haley meets with Alexis Macaluso, author and artist of the new book Deeply Personal: A Journey into Earth’s most curious classified ads—to cruise through some Craigslist ads and newspapers from the ‘60s, ‘80s, and ‘90s. Will you sign up for the “Gay” cruise, find an old Army buddy from ‘Nam, or maybe hook up with the Dirty Old Man from Maine? The sky's the limit at Q4Q!

Music written and strummed by Omar Nassar. Graphics by Bekah Rich. 

You can find Alexis’s book Deeply Personal: A Journey into Earth’s most curious classified ads (Printed by Spooky House Press) on Bookshop.org and at select local bookstores. Find them both on Instagram at @Alexis_aquarian and @spookyhousepress

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Do you like queer personal ads? Maybe you or someone you know met through a personal ad–or you just love LGBTQ history. Maybe you like rambling? Reach out to Haley at Q4QPodcast@gmail.com,  on instagram at Queerpersonalspodcast, or on Twitter at Queerpersonals to be on the show!

Sources: 

Empty Closet, no. 269 (May 1995), University of Rochester The Empty Closet (1971-Current) | Digital Collections

GAY newspaper (NYC) 15 Dec 1969Houston LGBT History

Our Paper: Serving the Alternative Community | Newspapers | University of Southern Maine April 1992

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. 

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.

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. 

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!

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.

Banjo strummed by Lauren Baca. Cover art by Bekah Rich.

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.

Bréjean finds a folder of her deceased grandmother's poetry tucked away in a closet and learns that she has a lot more in common with her "prim and proper" grandmother than she thought. 

Written, produced, and sound designed by Lori Mortimer.

Story editing by Galen Beebe.

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TRANSCRIPT

[00:00:00] LORI: Mementos sometimes what you really keep is on the inside.

BRÉJEAN: I feel like I’m very different from my grandmother. But am I? 

She had such an image that she kept up. She was very prim and proper. You know, she had perfectly coiffed hair, and she had to have her face on, and she had to have her jewelry on. 

And my grandfather was buttoned down shirts, ties, jackets when you went to visit him. They were not to be seen even in private or in public when they were not wearing those, you know, what felt like uniforms of the, um, prim and properness of it all. 

In her home, you know, there was the matching bedroom set, and then in the dining room, the table and the, the armoire and the buffet, and the chairs, like everything was all about how it looked.

It was a little three bedroom ranch. All the rooms were kind of small. But what really struck you when you went to see her was when you walked into the living room, with the green and gold furniture – ’cause that was her color scheme – right over the fireplace, was a giant picture of my grandmother. Posed, sitting there, stately, lording over this home.

And that was just showing that she was really, she was the one in control of that home. 

And all the while she had this wild side of her that she couldn't talk about or share.

[00:02:07]

LORI: Welcome back to Mementos. I’m Lori Mortimer, the host and producer of the show. If you’re listening for the first time, thank you. It’s great to have you here. 

This week, we have our first grandma episode! My guest, Bréjean, is going to tell us about a memento that’s helped her see her grandmother in an entirely new light. 

Just a heads up that there’s some content in this episode that’s not suitable for kids. 

Bréjean lives in the U.S. with her wife their cats. They’re also the parents to two adult unschooled children who have long been out of the house. 

Her story starts in 2012, after her mother passed away. 

[00:02:50]

BRÉJEAN: And when that happened, I went to her house to go through her belongings. And there was like a little linen closet in the hallway.

Now, this house belonged to her parents. And when her parents died, she moved into the house. So a lot of the belongings in the house were from my grandparents, Ruth and Sal. 

So I went through the belongings, and I went through that closet, and way on the top shelf, underneath some towels, was a brown envelope.

And it said my grandmother's name on it. And it said “poetry.” And sure enough, I saw what my mother had told me many, many years ago when I was a little, that my grandmother was a poet.

[00:03:37]

LORI: Even though Bréjean knew her grandmother was a poet, she’d never seen any of the poetry and they never talked about it. 

The poems had been stored carefully and neatly, in chronological order, in an envelope and with a label that matched the way Bréjean’s grandfather stored all the important papers in that house.

Her early writings when she was little were all to do with nature. And they were very, um, sort of faith based. It was a lot of mention of God in her poetry, but a lot of mention of the beauty of nature, which really spoke to me because I'm pagan. So I found my spirituality in nature, and I found that really interesting that my grandmother, as a young girl, felt the same way.

[00:04:34] 

BRÉJEAN: February 8th, 1933, Ruth, age 12. A poem called “A Tree.”

Have you ever seen anything

As lovely as a tree?

Anything more useful

Or more beautiful to see?

They are messengers of God,

Who sent them from above

To help us and remind us

Of the good God and his love

And so we should not forget

When we look up and see

The power and beauty of the Lord

All revealed in a tree

Isn't that wonderful? And I love that because as a pagan, one of our holidays is called Mabon, and Mabon is when we hug trees. So we go out, and everyone finds a tree in the yard and communes with it and hugs it. And I can just picture my grandmother writing this poem, sitting in her yard, looking up at the trees. And she was inspired to write a poem about them.

And I just felt such a connection. ’Cause I could see myself having written exactly the same poem at her age. 

The mention of God, I would have expressed that differently, but the wonder and the sacredness and the spirituality was the same for me as it was for her. And in that way, I just felt like, Hey, I knew you.

I knew you when you were little. I was you when you were little and I was little, and that is a really wonderful thing for me. 

It's almost like genetics. It's almost like we all have that in our genes, in my family. And my children do, too. Like, they're very connected to nature. So those are the ways in which we keep those connections going through our ancestors. And we don't even know that were doing it. I didn't even know that my grandmother had these interests. And there they were this whole time in an envelope in the top of her closet.

There were so many years where there was no writings of hers at all. So clearly she was raising her family. She was doing all of that stuff. And then she, uh, entered the workforce later on in life. And then she rediscovered her, her love of writing. 

[00:07:08]

LORI: In the envelope, Bréjean found poems that very much sounded like the adult version of young Ruth, with reflections on nature and family. 

BRÉJEAN: And then, and then I found 18 pages of an erotic poem that my grandmother wrote. 

Hello, grandma. [Laughter.]

[00:07:44]

LORI: Hello, indeed. I will say that what Bréjean refers to as an erotic poem is truly porn. 

The poem is written in the first person. And the protagonist is an 18-year-old girl out in the workforce for the first time. 

BRÉJEAN:

“Diary of a French Steno”

I am a young stenographer. My age is just 18.

And I will frankly tell you of the things I've heard and seen.

The men have always called me a very pretty girl.

They say my form is perfect. My mother named me Pearl.

And then on we go.

[00:08:23]

LORI: Each stanza tells a story about how Pearl pinched, pulled, groped. Constantly sexually harassed at a series of jobs.

And every time she defended herself from these assaults, she lost her job. Eventually, Pearl has had enough. And she decides at her next interview, she's gonna take control of the situation.

BRÉJEAN:

 At last, I have decided to take things as they came,

And if I lost another job, I'd have myself to blame.

And then she proceeded to have this really sexual relationship with the man that’s her boss.

Like, she was victimized by these men until she turned it around and said, alright, I'm gonna use this. I'm gonna, I'm gonna look at my sexuality as a power that I'm gonna take charge of this, you know, relationship. Kind of like, if this is gonna to happen to me anyway, I'm gonna own it.

And I'm gonna take control of it.

[00:09:41]

LORI: The last half of the poem describes Pearl and her boss getting it on, over and over.

BRÉJEAN: She goes on and on and on and on. With words for body parts that I never knew.

I would never have believed that my grandmother would have written that. Especially just sort of her outward appearance being so perfect all the time. And she had this secret side of herself at a time where, certainly women could not be exploring their sexuality.

[00:10:38]

LORI: After the long poem, the envelope contained a short story. And that revealed another connection between Bréjean and her grandmother. 

BRÉJEAN: It was queer writing. You know, my grandmother wrote about, uh, experiences with other women, which I found fascinating because I'm a lesbian and both my children are queer.

[00:11:03]

LORI: It’s the story of a high school girl named Jan who’s exploring her sexuality with other teens.

BRÉJEAN: Jan had a very explicit encounter with, with her sister named Helen. But the way that she wrote it was very much … it was like a sexual fantasy between two women. And I don't think that the incestual piece of that was the point. I think the point was -- at least that's my takeaway now -- as I'm looking at this thinking that somebody who was repressed because of her religion or her upbringing or society or whatever was happening around her, like this was a way that she could talk about having a lesbian, um, experience with somebody, in -- I don't know if I would use the word safe -- but in a way that she would understand. 

[00:11:59] LORI: In the envelope, along with the short story, Bréjean found an adult porn magazine from the same era. 

She sees a connection between the fantasy world of Ruth’s story and the material world of the magazine. 

[00:12:12]

BRÉJEAN: I really think that my grandmother was bisexual.

I feel like that magazine was my grandmother's way of being able to access images of women, naked women, who are having sex with each other, even though there were men involved. Coupled with this porn that she wrote, that was her way of being able to experience something that she wasn't able to really experience. Like this fantasy or this desire to be with other women.

I mean, you could look at that magazine and think, well, maybe it was Grandpa's magazine, but it wasn't Grandpa's magazine. It was with Grandma's poetry. 

[00:12:55]

Everything was all about appearances for her. So if she really thought it would tarnish her reputation to be out in any way as bisexual, she would have thought that that was the worst thing that could happen. 

So how torturous that would have been for her to, to live in a, in a prison, a prison of many bars, of many definitions. So it makes sense that she would keep everybody at an arm's length, that she would play her cards close to her chest, that she would be, you know, unapproachable, that she would not be able to open up warmly. 

When I came across her porn writing I felt like I was almost, um, violating her privacy.

But then when I thought about it, it was, it was saved. That envelope had survived through her life. And then after she passed, my grandfather kept it. 

And then when he passed, my mother moved into that house. 

And it’s interesting because my mom was pretty conservative in a lot of ways. And she must have had some kind of pride in my grandmother’s writings because my mom knew everything that was in that house. And she, she knew what was in that closet. 

And I think that's interesting that it was in the closet. Literally.

[00:14:45]

It felt like it was meant for us -- and by us I mean my family -- to know this side of Ruth. 

And we had such a good time reading it all with both of my kids sitting around the kitchen table that day. We still talk about it. We talk about grandma's porn.

I think that my grandmother would have been at least proud that someone found her writing, and that's where I struggle with what to do with it from this point on.

I wrestle with the concept of coming out versus not coming out. And certainly, she chose not to. But it's important, especially in the queer community, for us to know our history.

Do I publish it so that other queer people can see a part of our history in the writings of a woman who could not speak out loud who she was?

[00:16:00]

So I'm torn about what to do with it, but I think so much about my grandmother and about what life was like for her and what would have been different for her had she been able to be out. But I think that's the case for many queer people. I mean, myself included.

I didn't come out until I was 40. Um, so I think the parallels are kind of interesting because she would have written that queer porn around that same age.

I’ll never know if she wants it published, if she wants it shared with the rest of the world. Or whether just it’s enough for her that her family knows. 

I just think that she would have been happy to have it in my hands.

And I think about, like, sometimes we keep mementos because something will remind us of someone. 

[00:17:02]

But in this case, I'm keeping something that is an item of discovery.

About her, about my family, and about my, my heritage, which I think is amazingly beautiful and important and certainly is a gift to me.

[00:17:35]

LORI: I am always so grateful to my guests for trusting me, a new podcaster, with their stories, and that’s especially true with this episode. Thank you, Bréjean, for trusting me with this story. 

This episode was written, sound designed and produced by me, Lori Mortimer. And Galen Beebe was the story editor. 

The music is from Blue Dot Sessions and Looperman. 

And you all for listening. Keeping with the theme of grandmothers, there is something you can do for me. What would be really helpful for me is if you thought of yourself as my grandmother and you just started bragging about the show everywhere you go. Just whip out your phone like it’s a wallet full of snapshots, and show your friends and family how to subscribe. Thank you in advance for being obnoxious on my behalf.

My next episode will be out in a few weeks. My goal is to have something ready for you before Thanksgiving so that you have something to listen to if you’re traveling. 

Thanks again. See you soon. 

Nearly 100 years ago in New York City, Gladys Bentley was a well known black, lesbian performer. She waited for no one and nothing to allow her to be who she was meant to be. However, her path was never easy. Join us in a discussion of one of the greatest entertainers of the 1930s.

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.

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

Sources: 

Activism After Stonewall, Library of Congress LGBTQIA+ Resource Guide

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. 

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. 

If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.

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

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.

Dr Ruth Vanita shares her research on hundreds of low-income, non-English-speaking same-sex couples from 1980 to the present who have got married by religious rites and/or committed joint suicide, with the hope of being united in the next life. She also discusses centuries of Indian writing and art about same-sex unions.

Dr Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author. She specialises in Indian and British literary history, with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She is a professor at University of Montana, where she directs the program for South and South-East Asian studies. She is also an expert on Hindu Philosophy and the author of several acclaimed books.

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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!"

If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.

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

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

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!

If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.

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

Music written and strummed by Omar Nassar.

Icon design by Bekah Rich.

Secondary Sources: 

Dawn Mitchell, "Female Indiana serial killer, the 'comely' Belle Gunness, loved her suitors to death" Indy Star, November 10, 2017

"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 

Personals, Daniel Harris, The Antioch Review Vol. 59, No. 2, Anniversary Issue: Sowing Words for Sixty Years (Spring, 2001), pp. 284-301 (18 pages)  Published By: Antioch Review Inc. https://doi.org/10.2307/4614162 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4614162;  Accessed June 21, 2021

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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Our second annual pride special features the stories of the British multimedia celebrity and lesbian icon Nancy Spain and Barbara Gittings, "a mother of lesbian and gay liberation."

Act One: 

• 5 Calls
• Resistbot

 Nancy Spain Sources

• “About Nancy Spain: British Journalist (1917 - 1964).” Peoplepill.com, People Pill, peoplepill.com/people/nancy-spain. 
• Collis, Rose. “A Trouser-Wearing Character: The Life and Times of Nancy Spain (Cassell 1997).” Rose Collis, Rose Collis , www.rosecollis.com/books/a-trouser-wearing-character-the-life-and-times-of-nancy-spain-cassell-1997/. 
• Fowler, Christopher. “Invisible Ink: No 220 - Nancy Spain.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 18 Apr. 2014, www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/invisible-ink-no-220-nancy-spain-9269801.html. 
• Lynch, Declan. “Nancy Spain, the Popular Song and an English Lesbian.” Irish Independent, Independent.ie, 4 Oct. 2014, www.independent.ie/life/nancy-spain-the-popular-song-and-an-english-lesbian-30638813.html. 
• “Nancy Spain .” Curtis Brown, www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/nancy-spain. 
• “Nancy Spain.” Nancy Spain - LGBT Archive, LGBT Archive, lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/Nancy_Spain. 
• Ring, Trudy. “Who the F Is ... Celebrity Journalist Nancy Spain?” Gay Pride - LGBT & Queer Voices, PRIDE.com, 31 Oct. 2014, www.pride.com/who-f/2014/10/31/who-f-%E2%80%A6-celebrity-journalist-nancy-spain. 

Barbara Gittings Sources 

• Barbara Gittings. Legacy Project Chicago. https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/barbara-gittings. 
• Barbara Gittings. Barbara Gittings | LGBT 50th Anniversary July 4, 2015. (n.d.). https://lgbt50.org/barbara-gittings. 
• Fox, M. (2007, March 15). Barbara Gittings, 74, Prominent Gay Rights Activist Since '50s, Dies. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/obituaries/15gittings.html. 

Special Lady Shout Outs

• Jessica: A Black Lady Sketch Show
• Caitlin: Day X and Katrin Bennhold

And we're back with episode 19! Sticking with the Pride month theme, Kat covers the Stonewall Riots that kickstarted the Pride movement and give us the reason we celebrate today. Kaleigh takes us back all the way to 600 CE and covers the ultimate girlboss and China's only female emperor - Wu Zetian. 

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Happy Pride month, its that time of year again where corporations slap rainbows all over the logos and businesses. This goes by many different names, rainbow capitalism, rainbow baiting, or maybe pink washing. But how do we know if a company is really supporting the queer community? or is it all just one bit marketing ploy. This week on the Pod Karbon & Emily give you their take, the history behind rainbow baiting and also dive into the idea of needing to compensate the artist. 

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In celebration of Pride month, we discuss an important event and important figure from gay history! Kat dives into the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the challenges and hardships that the LGBTQIA+ community faced in the 80s and 90s. Kaleigh takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece, and tells us the story of Sappho, the first woman poet in the Western tradition and a person who loved freely. 

P.S. IT'S KALEIGH'S BIRTHDAY - y'all better tweet us wishing her a great day!!

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June is PRIDE month and to celebrate Houston PRIDE, we interview with the University of Houston- Special collections-LGBTQ research collection archivists Vince Lee and Marus Jenkins about the work their team has been doing to preserve and showcase Houston's LGBTQ history.
Visit the archive here:
UH's LGBT History Research Collection

We also listen in on a conversation about Dungeons and Dragons and it's popularity with the LGBTQ community, especially how the RPG game has helped players with exploring their identities.
Explore our Adult Overdrive Curation and  YA Overdrive Curation for LGBTQ items

Explore our LGBTQ Kids overdrive Collection

Explore all LGBTQ titles in our catalog here  #LGBTQTitles 

Host: Nicole Hindmon
This episode features: Rachel Moir, Elizabeth Burton, Ellen Kaluza, Merry Johnson, Casey Froehlich, Jake Sikinger, Brandon Crisp.
Edited by Beth Krippel.

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Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.
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Podcast Team Members include: Beth Krippel, John Harbaugh, Mary Mink, Lana Sell, Ellen Kaluza, Sadina Shawver, Gisella Parker, Kara Ludwig, Delaney Daly, Jennifer Finch, Katelyn Helberg, Logan Tuttle, Darcy Casavant, Darla Pruitt and Nancy Hu

Original Music created by Bryan Kratish

Content warning: Part 1 contains some slurs against gay people, spoken by a gay person. Also CW for mentions of r*pe and abuse by police, and an unavoidable smidgen of pedophilia.

If you’re gay and have a job, you’ll have a hard time choosing between this week’s clubs! The Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis provided safe and empowering places for LGBTQ folk during the early and mid 20th Century when such refuges were painfully scant. Meanwhile, the Industrial Workers of the World — the IWW, or “The Wobblies,” a nickname no one has been able to satisfactorily explain — started sticking it to The Man at around the same time with wildcat strikes, whuppin’ some strike-breaker ass, straight-up sabotage, and demands for basic worker rights and protections, and, depending on who you asked, the overthrow of the government and the seizing of the means of production. Join us! 

Join Haley as they wander through the history of the lesbian erotica magazine On Our Backs, explore how the periodical inspired the dating app Lex, and flip through 2 issues that they purchased for research purposes. *I swear!!*


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

Disclaimer: the views expressed in these personal ads are not my own. Some of the ads are from eras with very different ideas about race, bodies, and what it means to be part of the LGBTQ community. While I do not take these things lightly and will do my best to address them as I see them, I am also here to make fun of the thirsty, pining, and sometimes ridiculous queer lonely hearts sent out into the world. 

This podcast features the song “Endurance (Undertail Coverts Mix)” by duckett available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

What follows is the citations to ads in order of their appearance. Please enjoy and feel free to look them up yourself if you’re feeling lonely!

Primary Sources:
On Our Backs: Entertainment for the Adventurous Lesbian, Volume X, Issue 3, 1995. https://www.abebooks.com/magazines-periodicals/Backs-entertainment-adventurous-lesbian-vol-MarApr/30111996273/bd

On Our Backs: Entertainment for the Adventurous Lesbian, Volume X, Issue 2, January/February 1995.

Secondary Sources:
Martha Cornog, Timothy Perper, "For sex education, see librarian: a guide to issues and resources", Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0-313-29022-9, p.97

Off Our Backs Mission, https://offourbacks.org/mission/

Reveal Digital, https://voices.revealdigital.org/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=BADICEB&ai=1&

On Our Backs, World Heritage Encyclopedia,  http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/On_Our_Backs

On Our Backs: An Archive exhibition, January 26-28, 2017, NewBridge Studios, Entertainment For The Adventurous Lesbian: Featuring Phyllis Christopher, https://thenewbridgeproject.com/past-event/on-our-backs-an-archive/

Lizzie Masterson, An Interview with the curators of ON OUR BACKS: AN ARCHIVE, 2017, https://cuntemporary.org/on-our-backs

Jordan Crook, "New lo-fi, text-based social app Lex, for queer women, raises $1.5 million," TechCrunch, July 16, 2020, https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/16/new-lo-fi-text-based-social-app-lex-for-queer-women-raises-1-5-million/

Work at Lex, https://www.notion.so/Work-at-Lex-e80dc5c9af2c438aa48ecd7310e32283

Reveal Digital Statement on Off Our Backs, http://revealdigital.com/wp-

Hello! Welcome to Q4Q, a podcast where I read old personal ads with one of my friends. This episode I have with me one of my good friends and queer historians, Kai. Kai and I sift through one of my favorite websites--the Washington Blade archive on DigDC--hosted by the D.C. Public Library. With just a D.C. library card, we can access hundreds of copies of the LGBTQ newspaper, which ran from 1969 into today. So, our location is D.C., but our theme is “lesbians.” We're talking about U-Haul driving, Melissa Etheridge-listening, women who love women who aren’t content with just making eyes at a girl from across the bar. 

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

Disclaimer: the views expressed in these personal ads are not my own. Some of the ads are from eras with very different ideas about race, bodies, and what it means to be part of the LGBTQ community. While I do not take these things lightly and will do my best to address them as I see them, I am also here to make fun of the thirsty, pining, and sometimes ridiculous queer lonely hearts sent out into the world. 

This podcast features the song “Endurance (Undertail Coverts Mix)” by duckett available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.


What follows is the citations to ads in order of their appearance. Please enjoy and feel free to look them up yourself if you’re feeling lonely! 

In order of appearance:

Washington Blade, November 20, 1998, print newspaper, DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021)

Washington Blade, November 11, 1988, print newspaper, DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021)

Washington Blade, November 20, 1998, print newspaper, DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021)

Washington Blade, November 27, 1998, print newspaper, DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021)

Washington Blade, April 1, 1976, print newspaper, DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021)

Washington Blade, November 20, 1998, print newspaper, DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021)

Washington Blade, November 27, 1998, print newspaper, DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Washington Blade, DigDC (Accessed April 2021)

@Soft.butch, Lex, Boston, March 2021.