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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

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April 23, 2021 • Haley Steinhilber; Tabitha Sutton • Season 1 • Episode 1

Hello! Welcome to the first episode of Q4Q, a podcast where I read old personal ads with one of my friends. This episode I have with me one of my best friends from college--Tabitha. Join Tabitha and I as we read several ads from 1987 and 1990 featured in the New Works, a gay newspaper centered in Indianapolis, Indiana--the fine state that we both grew up in.

What follows is a list of the ads and where I found them. Please enjoy and feel free to look them up yourself if you’re feeling lonely!

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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.

I found all of this digital archive through a blog post made by Jim Burroway at JimBurroway.com, where he lists and links LGBT digital archives on the web by state. I’m forever indebted to him. Through this, he linked to the Chris Gonzalez GLBT Archives holdings of The Works, or The New Works.

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

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Sources:

The New Works News, Vol 6 No 6, 1987-03. Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives. (Accessed April 2021) https://ulib.iupuidigital.org/digital/collection/GonzalesLib/id/3721/rec/1

The New Works News, Vol 6 No 7, 1987-04. Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives. (Accessed April 2021) https://ulib.iupuidigital.org/digital/collection/GonzalesLib/id/501/rec/1

The New Works News, Vol 10 No 3, 1990-12. Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives. (Accessed April 2021) https://ulib.iupuidigital.org/digital/collection/GonzalesLib/id/2601

The New Works News, Vol 10 No 1, 1990-10. Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives. (Accessed April 2021) https://ulib.iupuidigital.org/digital/collection/GonzalesLib/id/2551

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