While Dark Habits' notable-queer-people-with-star-signs is rather behind, this episode comes just in time for Spooky Season! Megan is once again joined by Thomas from their other podcast about queer history, These Old Queers, to talk about lesbian literary pioneer, paranormal investigator and (disappointingly) fascist sympathizer - Radclyffe Hall.

Sources:

Matsuo, Alex. Women of the Paranormal Volume 1: A Brief History. Independently published. 10 June 2023.

Anderson, Hephzibah. “The Well of Loneliness: The book that could corrupt a nation.” www.bbc.com. 22 November 2022.https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221121-the-well-of-loneliness-the-most-corrosive-book-ever

Goodreads. “Radclyffe Hall”. www.goodreads.com.https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74248.Radclyffe_Hall

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Radclyffe Hall.” www.britannica.com. 8 August 2025, 2025.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Radclyffe-Hall

The National Archives. “The Story of Radclyffe Hall.” www.beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk.https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/radclyffe-hall/

Megan is joined by Thomas from their other podcast about queer history, These Old Queers, to talk about the life and times of queer Panamanian boxer, Panama Al Brown.

Sources:

Corpus, Jose. Black Ink. Iowa City, Iowa. Win By Ko Publications. 1 August 2016.

El Tecolote Staff. “Black, Gay and Undocumented: The story of boxing’s first Latino Champion.” El Tecolote. 11 March 2021. https://eltecolote.org/content/en/black-gay-and-undocumented-the-story-of-boxings-first-latino-champion/

Frantzen, Allen. “The Gay Boxer in History: Al Panama Brown.” allenfrantzen.substack.com. 7 April 2023.

https://allenfrantzen.substack.com/p/the-gay-boxer-in-history-al-panama

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In the latest episode of talking-about-queer-people-with-sun-signs, Megan and Ryen talk about pioneering Black lesbian feminist, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, as well as intersectionality, the personal as the political, and the stark contrast between the information we have about queer male lives versus those of the lives of queer women.

...there is also talk of Dyke Tights...but you're going to have to listen to find out more!

Sources:

African American Registry. “Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Feminist, and Publisher born”. African American Registry. People, Locations, Episodes. Viewed 16 July 2025. https://aaregistry.org/story/margaret-sloan-hunter-born/

Feminist Majority Foundation. “Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Former Editor of Ms Magazine, Dies at 57”. Feminist Majority Foundation.15 October 2004.https://feminist.org/news/margaret-sloan-hunter-former-editor-of-ms-magazine-dies-at-57/

“Margaret Sloan on Black Sisterhood | Woman.” Youtube. Uploaded by Buffalo Toronto Public Media. 12 March 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyICE2Ob_ns

“Lesbians: The Invisible Minority.” Youtube. Uploaded by San Francisco Public Library. 24 November 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgfjIMAAwvQ

Houston LGBT History. “Double Trouble” Interview with Margaret Sloan in Lesbian Tide.” KykyArchives. July 1974. Viewed 20 July 2025. https://www.kykyarchives.com/archive/margaret-sloan-lesbian-tide-1974

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