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Loose: A Podcast About the History of Sex and Vice
Hosted by Quinn Laroux · EN
A shameless and uncensored history podcast covering the history of sex and vice hosted by Quinn Laroux, a drag and burlesque performer. With equal parts comedy and nuance, Loose is a crash course into complicated ideas about sex, drugs, and alcohol through a unapologetically queer, trans, and feminist lens.
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Because I’m a Witch
Oct 13, 202000:38:00Tap to summarizeA brief history of witchcraft with a bit of sex history, a tarot reading, a discussion of climate and a bit of theorizing about why men are like this with my good friend Taylor.To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitterTo support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra contentMusic provided through Epidemic Sound included Time For a Riot by HoneycuttsSources used in this week's episode included:Caliban and the Witch by Silvia FedericiWitches. Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J Sollethttps://www.bitchmedia.org/article/witchcraft-penis-snatchers-history
Transcribe →Moonshine Queens
Sep 22, 202000:55:22Tap to summarizeFew times I been over yonder, and I ain’t no holler back girl. We take it back to my roots today to talk a little bit about the history of moonshine and the women who ran the streets, seas, and the roads back in Prohibition days and before.To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitterTo support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episodeMusic provided through Epidemic Sound included Bluegrass Bean by The UndertownsSources used in this week's episode included:What You are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth CatteWhite Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberghttps://www.historycolorado.org/story/2020/03/12/openly-and-gusto-how-women-moonshiners-led-denvers-first-female-cophttps://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/women-bootleggers/
Transcribe →Emma Goldman and Her Boys
Sep 8, 202000:51:00Tap to summarize“You have to be a messy queen to change the world”. Join Quinn and Daria Kucher as we follow Cancer queen and radical anarchist Emma Goldman through her dating life reminding all of us out there in the fight for a better world that it’s okay to like flowers, dancing, and boys at the same time.To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitterTo support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episodeMusic provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by HoneycuttsSources used in this week's episode included:Living My Life by Emma Goldman
Transcribe →Wet Ass P-Word: History of Bad Words
Aug 25, 202000:53:00Tap to summarizeWAPs, Dirty Blues, The Filthy Speech Movement and more. Camille and I cover all the embarrassing movements of people fighting for the right to swear and talk through respectability politics. The only acceptable WAP thinkpiece.Sources used in this weeks episode were:Make Love, Not War by David AllynHow to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr“Shave Em Dry” by Lucille Boganhttp://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt687004sg&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=d0e8112&toc.id=d0e353Music was Time for a Riot by HoneycuttsExtra content is available on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcastNola Drag Tours booking is available at noladragtours.com
Transcribe →The Lavender Scare
Aug 11, 202000:50:00Tap to summarizeWorried the gays might spill the tea to the Russians, the US Government spent most of the Red Scare not finding communists and ruining the lives of gay men and lesbians living in Washington DC, until the Mattachine Society of Washington finally fought back. With special guest Evan Spigelman.To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitterTo support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episodeMusic provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by HoneycuttsSources used in this episode were:The Lavender Scare: The Cold Ware Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K JohnsonSex and the Office by Julie Berebitsky
Transcribe →Anita Bryant: The Gays vs Orange Juice
Jul 28, 202000:15:00Tap to summarizeEpisode contains homophobic slurs.Well at least it’s a fruit pie. The original poor innocent cancelled free speech warrior Anita Bryant, the movement, and the myth. The story of how a hateful bigot galvanized two opposite movements and gay people stopped drinking orange juice.There will be a one week break between episodes to put together some fascinating new projects.Consider supporting Loose on Patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcastGet in touch with me at @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitter.Sources:Youtube Clips of Anita Bryant in Interviewshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fABwascm12shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6i5Y6t1nI&t=130sFuck Anita Bryanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBe2Bq4jYPAJohn BirdsallThe Orange Juice Boycott That Changed Americahttps://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/the-orange-juice-boycott-that-changed-americaEmily Johnson, The myth that has shaped the Christian Right and the LGBTQ rights movement for four decadeshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/21/myth-that-has-shaped-christian-right-lgbtq-rights-movement-four-decades/
Transcribe →Get Over It Joanne: A Crash Course in Trans/Enby History
Jul 21, 202000:30:00Tap to summarizeIf I can’t wear jeggings and a crop top, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution. Were there trans and nonbinary people in the past? Spoiler alert: Yes. This episode is a crash course in the deep and rich history of gender variance and the rise of the gender binary.Sources for this episode listed on loosepodcast.comTo get in touch, find me on instagram @quinnlarouxdrag or on twitter @quinnlarouxI am trying to get better at both.Support Loose on patreon at patreon.com/loosepodcast
Transcribe →A Slow, Pony Express Grindr
Jul 14, 202000:43:00Tap to summarizePhysique Pictorials, the fight to print gay smut, daddy culture, and terribly cringey old gay photos reviewed with critically aclaimed comedian Roman Ellis.Photos Discussed in this episode can be found on:https://www.advocate.com/media/2017/8/08/short-lurid-history-physique-pictorial-36-pics#slide-0We specifically discussed slides: 10, 14, 16, 18, and 26To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitterTo support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this week's episodeMusic provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by HoneycuttsAs well as the initial image appearing on Coitus magazine: https://coitusmagazine.com/Sources used in this week's episode included:Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepenuers Sparked a Movement by David Kyle Johnsonhttps://www.advocate.com/media/2017/8/08/short-lurid-history-physique-pictorial-36-pics#slide-0Perversion for Profit (1965) Available on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om4kMTw-R6o
Transcribe →More Dangerous Than Any Fleet of German Airplanes
Jul 7, 202000:41:00Tap to summarizeThe deeply hidden history of that one time the US government rounded up all the promiscuous women and forced them into quarantine camps. If you patriotutes needed one more reason to feel weird about celebrating the fourth of July you found it. Stalking, profiling, bad science, and most importantly, resistance.With special guest, comedian, and country club girl Camille Roane.To get in touch, you can follow me a @quinnlarouxdrag on instagram or @quinnlaroux on twitterTo support Loose please check out patreon.com/loosepodcast where you can find extra content and snippets from conversations in this weeks episodeMusic provided through Epidemic Sound included Time for a Riot by HoneycuttsSources used in this week's episode included:The Trails of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveilance, and the Decades Long Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women by Scott Sternhttps://www.history.com/news/chamberlain-kahn-act-std-venereal-disease-imprisonment-womenCrimes Against Nature Fact Sheethttps://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/louisiana-s-crime-against-nature-law-modern
Transcribe →We Recruit! Lesbian Separatists and Avengers
Jun 30, 202000:35:00Tap to summarizeLesbians lusting for power, separating, and eating fire, this week we remembers some lesbian movements throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s. This week we are joined by special guest Amanda G, Host of Near and Queer to My Heart. Be sure to check out Near and Queer to My Heart https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/near-and-queer-to-my-heart/id1330013683 To support Loose on Patreon go to patreon.com/loosepodcast\ To get in touch with me you can find me on instagram @quinnlarouxdrag or on twitter @quinnlaroux Music provided through Epidemic sound includes: Time for a Riot by Honeycutts Sources Used in this week’s episode included: http://www.lesbianavengers.com/about/history.shtml Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy A History of US Feminisms by Rory Dicker
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