Q4Q: Queer Personals Podcast

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 2000s! If you love gay yearning, you’ll love Q4Q! Be on the show: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8dOqRD6JF00L1fzyu8kXbBM58Z19ZlOs1aGeRv1usobmIDg/viewform

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Q4Q: Queer Personals Podcast

Butches & Femmes

September 02, 2022 • Haley • Season 1 • Episode 25

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.

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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.

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.