Be My Valentine, Doughnut Butt
02/14/22 • 26 min
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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.
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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/
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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/
Toadstool BotanicalsToadstool Botanicals brings you closer to plants & fungi through plant medicine and cosmetics.
Support the show
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Cruising Craiglist with Alexis Macaluso
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 [email protected], 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
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