Heavenly Bodies Looking for Venus: Sapphic Ads with Jack Jen Gieseking

Q4Q: Queer Personals Podcast

Are you ready to source the galaxies of love? Dip your tongue into this new episode, where Haley & Dr. Jack Jen Gieseking (author of the incredible book A Queer New York) match with some sapphic ads. Whether you’re looking for a good old-fashioned co-dependent, a skateboard bean, a Genteel Daddy pretty boy butch, or a chic Joni Mitchell lookalike—come explore the full spectrum of the sapphic longing.
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Cover art by Bekah Rich. Music by Kaz Zabala.

Sources:

• Joni Mitchel Tweet
• Jen Jack Gieseking Website
• A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, 1983-2008 (NYU Press, 2020) on contemporary lesbian-queer society, economies, and spaces in New York City
• LBQTS Dating Study
• The Star Tarot Card Meaning
• Jewel Box Lounge, Kansas City

Primary Sources:

Personally, (Kansas City, MO) January 1988 Vol. 4 Issue. 1 Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender

On Our Backs– summer and fall 1985 and 1986 (volume 1, issues 1-3, and volume 2, 1-2)- From Brown University Archives

Outweek (NYC) Jan 28 1990

Outweek Sept 19, 1990 (NYC)

The San Francisco Bay times., Dec 1989

The Lesbian Tide, 1 Nov 1979

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