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.
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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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