JD Doyle
'''JD Doyle''' (born September 24, 1947 in [[Salem, Ohio|Salem]], [[Ohio]]) is a [[radio producer]] and queer music collector. He is a staff member of the weekly [[Radio programming|radio show]] Queer Voices and produces of the monthly radio show Queer Music Heritage. He is also producer of OutRadio And Co-producer of monthly radio review Audiofile. He now lives in [[Houston]], [[Texas]].
"Queer Music Heritage is both a radio show and a website, and the goal of both is to preserve and share the music of our culture, because I just don't think gay & lesbian music of the past should be forgotten." <ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.queermusicheritage.com|title= Queer Music Heritage}}</ref>
== Early life and career ==
Doyle was born and raised in [[Salem, Ohio|Salem]], [[Ohio]].<ref name = "JD Bio">{{cite web|url = http://www.queermusicheritage.us/jdbio.html|title= JD Bio}}</ref>
He moved to [[Norfolk]], [[Virginia]], in 1978, and joined the [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian Universalist]] Gay Community.<ref name = "JD Bio"/> As a member of the community, he was involved in many projects including hotline and speeches at college human sexuality classes.<ref name = "JD Bio"/>
Also, he worked at Our Own Community Press, a monthly all-volunteer newspaper of Unitarian Universalist Gay Community (UUGC) from 1978 to 1980, and was editor during 1979.<ref name = "JD Bio"/> The Newspaper itself was published from 1976 through 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.lib.odu.edu/special/manuscripts/our-own.htm|title=Historical Sketch: Our Own Community Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94053442/|title=AbOUT Our Own Community Press}}</ref> In 1981, he moved to Houston, Texas.<ref name = "JD Bio"/>
He participated in [[National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights|The National March on Washington For Lesbian & Gay Rights]], on October 14, 1979, and reported it on Our Own Community Press.<ref name = "JD Bio"/>
== Queer music collection ==
Doyle has been an avid record collector since the early 1970s. He collected music from mostly the 1950s and 1960s from many genres.<ref name = "JD Bio"/><ref name="Interview">{{cite web|url = http://houstonarch.pbworks.com/JD-Doyle|title= Interview with JD Doyle}}</ref> In early 1990s, he lost interest and sold his huge collection.<ref name = "JD Bio"/><ref name = "Interview"/> However, he kept the gay artists and began specializing in [[queer]] music in the mid-1990s.<ref name = "JD Bio"/><ref name = "Interview"/>
Queer music, according to him, is the music of [[LGBT|GLBT]] artists, with a special emphasis on [[lyrics]] that deal with queer topics, and the lives as GLBT people.<ref name = "Interview"/> For GLBT artists, queer content is not a prerequisite, and conversely music by [[Heterosexuality|straight]] artists with queer content qualifies.<ref name = "Interview" /> Its genres include [[disco]], [[blues]], [[hip hop]], [[Country music|country]], [[Punk rock|punk]], etc., and a number of shows on special areas including Gay Musicals, songs about [[Same-[...] marriage|Gay Marriage]], [[AIDS]], [[Bear (gay culture)|Bear]] Music, [[Drag Queen]], Gay [[Christian Music]], a number of shows on [[Transgender]] artists, etc.<ref name = "Interview"/>
He likely has the largest private collection in the world; he has more than 6000 items that include [[album]]s, [[Compact Disk|CDs]], [[Single (music)|singles]], [[MP3]] files.<ref name = "Interview"/>
==Radio show==
===Starting radio broadcast===
Doyle's friend Jimmy Carper was, and still is, producer of [[KPFT]]'s GLBT radio program ''After Hours'' and after Doyle made several requests that more queer music be played, Carper invited him to come on the show and do a couple segments. Jack Valinski, the producer of ''Queer Voices'' (then, ''Lesbian & Gay Voices''), offered him a regular segment on that show, which he was glad to accept.<ref name = "Keeper">{{cite web|url = http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/cms-this_issue/201002--The+Keeper+of+All+Things+Kweer+and+Musikal.html|title = The Keeper of All Things Kweer and Musikal}}</ref>
=== ''Queer Voices'' ===
Doyle co-hosted ''Queer Voices'' from 2000 to 2008. ''Queer Voices'', a weekly two-hour-long radio program on [[Pacifica radio]]'s Houston affiliate KPFT, is dedicated to broadcasting news, concerns and events as related to Houston's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered ([[GLBT]]) community.<ref name = "Queer Voices">{{cite web|url = http://queervoices.org/home|title = QueerVoices Radio}}</ref> The goal of Queer Voices is to provide up to date information on the community's concerns that is currently not available from other local media outlets.<ref name = "Queer Voices" /> There are usually four or five hosts and four or five guests per show.<ref name = "Interview"/> The show is heard on Pacifica's KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, Texas on Mondays, 9 to 11 pm, Central Time.<ref name = "Queer Voices" /> Queer Voices includes the segments Queer Music Heritage and This Way Out.<ref name = "JD Bio" />
=== ''Queer Music Heritage'' ===
''Queer Music Heritage'', also called ''QMH'', is a monthly one-hour-long radio show that introduces queer music. The First One hour is presented on 4th Monday of ''Queer Voices''.
''QMH'' was founded by Doyle in January 2000, and its goal is to preserve and share the music of queer culture.<ref name = "Interview" /> The first six episodes were 30-minutes-long, but it lengthened to be 1-hour-long afterwards.<ref name = "JD Bio" /> ''QMH'' includes InterViews with musicians and songs of a certain theme for each episode. While the first hour of the show airs on ''Queer Voices'', the monthly shows are normally more than one hour (and have been as long as eight hours, depending on the amount of material).
The June 2004 show "Queer Music before the Stonewall" won a Special Merit Award in the category of Local Music/Entertainment Program at the National Federation of Community Broadcasting conference.<ref name = "JD Bio" /> QMH celebrated its 10th anniversary recently in January 2010.<ref name = "Keeper" />
=== "Audiofile" ===
"Audiofile" was a monthly radio queer music review carried by ''This Way Out'', an international gay and lesbian radio magazine, on over 200 stations around the world.<ref name = "Audiofile">{{cite web| url = http://www.audiofile.org/| title = Audiofile}}</ref>
Each "Audiofile" segment was approximately seven minutes long, and showcased three recent CDs by GLBT artists. ''This Way Out'' is a weekly 30-minute show and included "Audiofile" monthly during the last week of the month.<ref name = "Audiofile" /> ''This Way Out'' was delivered by ''Queer Voices''.<ref name = "Interview" />
It was founded by Chris Wilson, Pam Marshall, and the engineer Christopher David Trentham in January 1997. JD Doyle became a co-producer of "Audiofile" when Pam Marshall left the team in the beginning of 2001. The segment was discontinued in December 2010, to allow the co-producers to pursue other projects. All segments of the 14-year show are archived at http://queermusicheritage.us/af.html<ref name = "JD Bio" />
===OutRadio ===
Doyle began a new monthly internet music show, ''OutRadio'' in January 2010.<ref name = "JD Bio" />
While the purpose of ''QMH'' was to focus more on the history of the music of GLBT artists, that did not allow enough time to give exposure to new music, so ''OutRadio'' allows for that, and like ''QMH'' can be composed of nearly any music genre, with a running time not limited.<ref name = "JD Bio" />
== Publications ==
=== Doyle's work ===
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|2006
|"Queer Music Radio: Entertainment, Education, and Activism" in the ''Journal of Popular Music Studies'' (Boston University)
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|2011
|“Queer Music History 101.” This is a special project of Queer Music Heritage, developed by JD Doyle, as a lesson plan for use by University courses in LGBT Studies. <br>It is a two-hour audio course spanning 1926 through 1985, explaining this music history, with sound clips, graphics of the artists, and links to study resources. <br>The lesson can be taken in several ways, including a flipbook format, and it completely free for use, both by classes and individuals. It is found at http://www.qmh101.com
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=== Doyle in media ===
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|2003
| reviewed in “CyberSocket” <br>reviewed in “Gay & Lesbian Online,” a book published by ''[[The Advocate]]''
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|2005
|“OutSmart Magazine” Houston news about Doyle’s entering the Hall of Fame
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|2006
| interview with Palm Springs newsmagazine "Pulp"<br>interview with eGay.com : “JD Doyle - Queer America's Own Music Historian”
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|2007
|interview with Dixie Treichel, the host of Fresh Fruit located at Minneapolis, the longest running Queer radio show in the country
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|2008
|interview with “SX,” Australian magazine<br>“Outsmart” article about JD Doyle's 100th show <br>quoted in Time Magazine <ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1816760,00.html|work =Time|title= What Makes a Gay Song?|date= June 20, 2008 | first=Caryn | last=Brooks}}</ref>
one of his photos taken at the 1979 March on Washington appears on the cover of a book about the Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
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|2010
|Outsmart article about QMH 10th anniversary and Doyle’s new show, OutRadio <ref name = "Keeper"/>
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== Awards and achievements ==
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|2002
|Outmusic Award for Outstanding Support
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|2004
|GLBT/Queer Hall of Fame, organized by the Stonewall Society
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|2005
|June 2004 QMH show "Queer Music before Stonewall" won a Special Merit Award in the category of Local Music/Entertainment Program at the National Federation of Community Broadcasting conference
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|2010
|Lifetime Achievement in Music Award 2009 from Pride In The Arts, sponsored by the Stonewall Society
|}
== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|JD Doyle}}
* [http://www.queermusicheritage.us Queer Music Heritage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/jddoyle Doyle’s MySpace]
* [http://www.outradio.com OutRadio]
* [http://www.audiofile.org Audiofile]
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