Archive Finds

Gay and Transgender Geocities
Internet Archive / Multiple Sources

When crafting my hoard I found some fun things on Gifcities and started following the rabbithole. I yearn to know where these pioneers of the Queer internet are now...

THIS CHARMING MAN, AN INTERVIEW WITH PETE WENTZ
OUT Magazine, Shana Naomi Krochmal, 2008.

Upon finding this article online, I was mildly repulsed by the formatting and lack of punctuation that have resulted from a 16-year stint online, so I attempted to neaten the whole thing up as a way of archiving it, especially since you never know when a site update will kill it's readability for good.

AUSTIN GAY RIGHTS MARCH PHOTOS
University of North Texas Digital Libraries

Found some images of a 1989 gay rights march going down to the Texas State Capitol building in Austin, TX! Unfortunately there's no identified photo-taker... it's funny to see that straight people have been called "breeders" since the late 80s though!

"DEATH TO THE GREAT HATED JAR JAR BINKS" HOARD
Multiple Sources

I was reminded recently about my duty to archive some pieces of internet history that helped spur the creation and aesthetic of this website... my dad's hate site for the Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks. I'm also going to dive into some other related sites he interacted with for any additional interesting finds.

GAY "BOOKSTORE" ADVERTISEMENT
Dallas Voice, Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1985.

Is it just me or does this guy in this gay pornography ad look like Cillian Murphy?

Lobo Book Shop.

PETE WENTZ
Multiple Sources

I haven't spiraled too much about it here, but I have a very deep fondness and kinship with Pete Wentz, especially the 2005-2009, emotionally unstable, passionate, homosexual Pete Wentz. And as I was exploring the Queer Music Heritage archive, I wanted to see if there was any mention. And, indeed, there was, coming from a couple of sources!

Houston Voice, May 12, 2006.

Queer Music History, Queer XMas Music Part 3, December 2008.

GAY PHONE LINE MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT
Dallas Voice, Vol. 7, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1991.

This is one I found while hunting down something else, but it gave me a chuckle and I saved the page :P

Real People, Ltd.

MACHINE SLEEP BY JAMES R. BERRY
Mechanix Illustrated, Vol. 62, No. 461, October, 1966.

I actually found this tucked away in a used copy of a book titled "The Psychology of Sleep" by author David Foulkes, printed in the same year. As a psychology student I was quite intrigued, and it's even stranger that I can't find any paper trail on the outlined experiments. No research papers published, I can only find further information on a couple of the mentioned researchers. It's something you get jazzed about archiving, especially with the file drawer effect in psychology, where only the stuff that ends up being true and useful is remembered. These guys tried to electrocute sleep into people! And it's important to be able to learn from their mistakes! *cough*Elon Musk Neuralink*cough*

Fawcett Publications.

Digging Up Daisies... Archive Finds