In the midst of the current conservative backlash against LGBTQ+ freedom of expression, Periodically Queer Season 2, Ep. 2 travels back to the 1950s to unravel the stories behind One Institute’s own ONE Magazine, celebrating its seventieth anniversary this year. Featuring archival clips of ONE’s founders and contributors, interviews with staff from our partners at the USC Libraries, and voice-acted letters to the magazine, this episode brings to life our predecessors’ ambitious worldmak...
Jun 28, 2023
37 min
In the first episode of Periodically Queer Season 2, host traci kato-kiriyama reminds us of the courageous power of LGBTQ+ youth by uncovering the inspiring history of Vanguard Magazine. In San Francisco’s Tenderloin District in the mid 1960s, Vanguard served as an epicenter of activist publication and organizing by queer and trans street youth facing discrimination, neglect, and abuse at the hands of society and the police. Interviews with historians Joseph Plaster and Jeremy Sass...
Jun 21, 2023
36 min
One Institute (formerly ONE Archives Foundation) presents Season Two of Periodically Queer, a podcast delving into the history of LGBTQ+ print media from the 1950s & 1960s. The new season will premiere is onset to release June 21, in honor of Pride Month, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other major audio streaming platforms.
Jun 13, 2023
1 min
In Episode 3 of Periodically Queer, host Jaime Shearn Coan interviews four women who were instrumental to the founding of COLORLife!: The Lesbian, Gay, Twospirit & Bisexual People of Color Magazine. From 1992 – 1994, in New York City, COLORLife! published news stories, personal letters, poetry, reviews, events, report-backs, and opinion pieces from a wide range of perspectives, offering a magazine with intersectional and radical politics to its readers. Each interviewee offers a piece of...
Jul 14, 2022
33 min
In this episode of Periodically Queer, host Erik Adamian takes listeners on a journey to learn about Homan, an organization and magazine formed to advocate for the rights of Iranian LGBTQ people living abroad. Erik speaks with Albert Maghbouleh and Payam Ghassemlou, co-founders of Homan Los Angeles, about their efforts to support the LGBTQ Iranian community worldwide and confront homophobia within the larger Iranian community. Albert shares the story of bringing Homan with him on a trip...
Jul 7, 2022
23 min
In the first episode of Periodically Queer, host and producer Umi Hsu unwinds the history and stories behind Lavender Godzilla, the newsletter and magazine published by GAPA, the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance (formerly known as the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance). Umi interviews Dino Duazo, editor and co-founder, about what it was like to be a member of GAPA in the late 1980s and 1990s. Dino reflects on how Lavender Godzilla provided diverse perspectives on issues like sexuality, family, and immi...
Jun 30, 2022
25 min
ONE Archives Foundation is presenting a new podcast: Periodically Queer. Periodically Queer dives into the history of queer community building, through the lens of LGBTQ printed media from the 1980s, 1990s, and the early 2000s, from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.
Jun 20, 2022
1 min