Stereo tuner, Pioneer TX-606

Titel

Stereo tuner, Pioneer TX-606

Beskrivning

Radio tuner used in the studio at Stockholm’s Gayradio to listen to and check their own broadcasts. The first program was broadcast on 31 May, 1979. Initially, broadcasts lasted 15 minutes, once a week on 88.0 MHz. During the 1980s, the usual times were Thursday and Sundays, 7:30-8:30 pm. Listeners were most interested in personal life histories from homosexuals who had come out, short stories read aloud, news from the gay movement’s front line and recorded church services for gays. The strength of the radio medium in this context was that listeners were not identifiable. You could listen anonymously.

Alternate Description

According to Johan Falk, one of the organizers at Stockholm Gay Radio, the strength of the radio media in 1979 was that people secretly could listen to the show with headphones. Homosexuals that had not come out with their sexuality in public could take part in "homosexual culture" and this way get some homosexual role models. He also claims that the LGBT organization RFSL was vitalized thru the radio station. The record player is since 2008 a part of the traveling LGBT exhibition ”Article 1″.

Identifierare

SE_UNSTRAIGHT_113

Typ

Autre

Other

Åtkomsträttigheter

accessible to public

Status

completed

Redigerat datum

2015-08-13T19:59:54+02:00

Skapat datum

2013-01-07T18:46:00+01:00