RadioActive Queers audiotapes

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Descriptive Summary

Title: RadioActive Queers audiotapes

Dates: 2000

Collection Number: 2012-07

Creator/Collector:

Extent: 1 oversized box

Repository: GLBT Historical Society

San Francisco, California 94103

Abstract: This collection contains 23 audio cassette tapes from the micro-radio station RadioActive Queers, 87.9 FM. RadioActive Queers programming varied every week and included techno, punk, hip hop, old sci-fi radio plays, Noam Chomsky, discussions of masturbation, science news, pornography, and the weekly literary hour. The station broadcast in North Oakland and South Berkeley.

Language of Material: English

Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. RadioActive Queers audiotapes. Collection Number: 2012-07. GLBT Historical Society

Acquisition Information

Gift of Blake Nemec on June 24, 2009.

Scope and Content of Collection

This collection contains 23 audio cassette tapes from the micro-radio station RadioActive Queers, 87.9 FM. RadioActive Queers programming varied every week and included techno, punk, hip hop, old sci-fi radio plays, Noam Chomsky, discussions of masturbation, science news, pornography, and the weekly literary hour. The station broadcast in North Oakland and South Berkeley. There are also two pairs of silk screened underwear with the station’s logo. Programming and on-air queer people include Sarajevo Punk; DJ Olive Lucy; Anti National Broadcast Association Protests with Sal Monella; Raven Stockton; Gretta Garbage; Dark Star; Christy Concrete; Moose; No Further Data; Collage; Dr. Grendel; Words. Words. Wordz; Irony hours; and the Black Panther hip hop show. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008525

Indexing Terms

Radio