TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Playing It Straight postcard | 1982 to 1986 | ||
Spring Carnaval postcard | 1982 to 1986 | ||
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 to 1952 | |
Hobby Directory instructions | Instructions on placing a personal ad in the magazine 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 to 1952 | |
Milwaukee boat | A video from the Charles Cyberski Videotapes collection. Charles Cyberski (February 12, 1949-September 28, 1993) was a gay video journalist and, with his partner Richard Wright (July 5, 1955-October 20, 1990), owner and operator of the mail-order video business Male Entertainment Network (MEN). MEN produced and sold videos documenting gay and lesbian events, including San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parades, numerous leather competitions, and Gay Games; as well as lesbian and gay rights advocacy and AIDS activism.
From 2010 to 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines processed and digitized nearly all of Cyberski’s video collection. Raines added titles and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. Raines also recorded the following notes about this video in the collection finding aid: "Gay cruise" |
1982 to 1986 | Cyberski/glbths_1994-03_2_079_am.avi |
Harriet Leider | A video from the Charles Cyberski Videotapes collection. Charles Cyberski (February 12, 1949-September 28, 1993) was a gay video journalist and, with his partner Richard Wright (July 5, 1955-October 20, 1990), owner and operator of the mail-order video business Male Entertainment Network (MEN). MEN produced and sold videos documenting gay and lesbian events, including San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parades, numerous leather competitions, and Gay Games; as well as lesbian and gay rights advocacy and AIDS activism.
From 2010 to 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines processed and digitized nearly all of Cyberski’s video collection. Raines added titles and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. Raines also recorded the following notes about this video in the collection finding aid: "Stage show at Man's Country Baths, Chicago" |
1982 to 1986 | Scratch/glbths_1994-03_2_008_am.avi |