Q4Q: Queer Personals Podcast

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.
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Interested in being on the show? Contact us at [email protected] 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.

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You ignore your voicemail, but have you heard of voicejail? Imagine the world before the internet, before blogs and discord servers and reddit forums or Google reviews. Where did people release their pent up anxieties, how did they share their niche interests, or act out their weird bits? In this bite-sized episode, Haley looks at the fascinating microcosm that sprang up in the 1980s and ‘90s in Silicon Valley, and those that called themselves the voicejailers. Clips of the radio show, “Midnight Voicejail,” are sprinkled throughout the episode to highlight how a few voicejailers manipulated and recreated the messages left on their voicemail boxes.

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Interested in being on the show? Contact us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

Cover art by Bekah Rich. Music by Kaz Zabala.

Sources:

Midnight Voicejail - Episode 01 - What is Voicejail? | NCN | The National Cynical Network

The sonic geeks of KFJC's 'Midnight Voicejail' bring you 'that Sept. 11 show'

By Richard von Busack - Metroactive Music | 'Midnight Voicejail'

Midnight Voicejail FAQ

Phineas Narco’s Livejournal

National Cynical Network: NCN FAQ - What We're All About

Midnight VoicejailRecordings used, from Bandcamp :

• Episode 1 - What is Voicejail?
• Episode 2 - Drugs
• Episode 4 - Manic Depression

Full List of Midnight Voicejail’s episodes: National Cynical Network: Midnight Voicejail Episode Guide

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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!

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Have you ever stared at a hottie from across the room, just to let the moment slip away without grabbing their number? Did you compliment someone’s floral button-up, just to trip over your words and forget to ask for their name? Don’t worry, you‘re not alone! Queers have been awkwardly interacting with each other for decades! Join Haley and their guest Ken as they dig up some missed connections that will have you saying “oh boy!”

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

Interested in being on the show? Contact us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

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

• Mikelle Street, “How ‘The Eagle’ Became One of the most recognized Gay Bar Names” NBC News, 24 October 2017
• Lou Chibbaro Jr, "DC Eagle to close for good." Washington Blade, 5 May 2020
• The Gay Blade, (Washington, DC), October 12, 1984
• OUT FRONT (Denver), Volume 12, Number 23, March 11, 1988
• OUT FRONT (Denver), Volume XVI, Number 1, April 12, 1991
• Berlin Sylvestre, "A Brief LGBT History of Colorado" Out Front, August 20, 2014
• Focus Point (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1994-11-17
• Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, “The Pride Behind Pride,” MSP Magazine, June 21, 2020
• Focus Point (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1997-11-19
• The San Francisco Bay times, Sep 1989, Vol. 10 No. 12
• "Dore Alley Street Fair," BML Videos, August 1, 1981. Hosted by Calisphere, University of California.
• The Gay News-Telegraph (St. Louis, Missouri), June 1982.
  

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This Valentine’s Day, join Haley and their partner @Rachel of @ToadstoolBotanicals on a trip to Denver, where they look at entries submitted to Out Front’s ad contest in February 1991, and a special treat from The Lesbian Show's "Dial-a-Dyke," a 90s radio broadcast. Listen to sexy poems, find couples that beat the odds, and visit Denver’s Gay Bars of yore. You might just find your own Doughnut Butt or He-Man. 

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

Interested in being on the show? Contact us at [email protected] find us on Twitter @Queerpersonals and Instagram @Queerpersonalspodcast.

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

Sources:

Out Front, February 15, 1991. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.

“Whole Hog, Half Ham... - 1981” Youtube video, posted on May 5, 2012, by LeightonGeoFam

Snippets of Vancouver Co-op Radio's The Lesbian Show, “Valentine’s Day” from February 1990, hosted on Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony. This show is from Louise Hutchinson’s term as the volunteer host between 1989 and 1991. Most of them were made by Louise Hutchinson, who home-recorded the episodes of the show aired on the radio. The records were in her custody until their donation to the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony / Simon Fraser University Library, Special Collections and Rare Books in 2016. Third-party permission and agreement to CC BY-NC 4.0 license obtained from Vancouver Co-op Radio.

A Brief LGBT History of Colorado, https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/brief-lgbt-history-colorado/