TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Hobby Directory, December 1946 | Hobby Directory (1946-circa 1952) was a small publication in which male hobbyists could publish personal ads and meet friends who shared their interests. The magazine quickly acquired a large gay male readership, and gay men used their ads to connect with one another. The men's descriptions of their hobbies -- for example, ballet, interior decorating, or collecting photographs of weightlifters -- were designed to signal that they were gay, as well as genuinely describing themselves to romantic prospects.
Hobby Directory was a fairly mainstream publication which was sold in craft stores and advertised in the magazines Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. Its reasons for ceasing publication are unknown, but historians have suggested that it may have fallen victim to enforcement of the Comstock Laws, which forbade sending "obscene" materials through the mail. |
1946 | |
Hobby Directory, July 1946 | The July 1946 issue of Hobby Directory.
Hobby Directory (1946-circa 1952) was a small publication in which male hobbyists could publish personal ads and meet friends who shared their interests. The magazine quickly acquired a large gay male readership, and gay men used their ads to connect with one another. The men's descriptions of their hobbies -- for example, ballet, interior decorating, or collecting photographs of weightlifters -- were designed to signal that they were gay, as well as genuinely describing themselves to romantic prospects.
Hobby Directory was a fairly mainstream publication which was sold in craft stores and advertised in the magazines Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. Its reasons for ceasing publication are unknown, but historians have suggested that it may have fallen victim to enforcement of the Comstock Laws, which forbade sending "obscene" materials through the mail. |
1946 | |
Hobby Directory, September 1946 | The September 1946 issue of Hobby Directory.
Hobby Directory (1946-circa 1952) was a small publication in which male hobbyists could publish personal ads and meet friends who shared their interests. The magazine quickly acquired a large gay male readership, and gay men used their ads to connect with one another. The men's descriptions of their hobbies -- for example, ballet, interior decorating, or collecting photographs of weightlifters -- were designed to signal that they were gay, as well as genuinely describing themselves to romantic prospects.
Hobby Directory was a fairly mainstream publication which was sold in craft stores and advertised in the magazines Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. Its reasons for ceasing publication are unknown, but historians have suggested that it may have fallen victim to enforcement of the Comstock Laws, which forbade sending "obscene" materials through the mail. |
1946 | |
Edge of Revolt Exhibit Opening Program at the Harvey Milk Library | A recording of the June 5, 1994 opening program for "On the Edge of Revolt: San Francisco Lesbians and Gay Men Before Stonewall," a GLBTHS (then the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society) exhibition about "the development of a politically active gay and lesbian community in San Francisco during the years 1945-1969" that was displayed at the Harvey Milk Memorial Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. The event included comments on behalf of GLBTHS by Ruth Mahaney, Ellen Meyers, Lyndall MacCowan, George Roosen, and Sarah Ann Davis; readings by Janet MacHarg and Bev Hickok; and reminiscences of San Francisco's lesbian and gay social scene, particularly the bar scene, from Ken Miller, Bernice Miller, Angelo Sattosanti, and Jose Sarria. |
1994-06-05 |