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The Hobby Directory was an American periodical published by Francis Willard Ewing from 1946 until the early 1950s. Ostensibly intended to connect men and boys with shared interests, its audience came to include a significant number of gay men, who used the magazine to post covert personal advertisements at a time when homosexuality was socially taboo and legally proscribed.

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  • The Hobby Directory was an American periodical published by Francis Willard Ewing from 1946 until the early 1950s. Ostensibly intended to connect men and boys with shared interests, its audience came to include a significant number of gay men, who used the magazine to post covert personal advertisements at a time when homosexuality was socially taboo and legally proscribed. (en)
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  • The cover of a 1948 issue of The Hobby Directory (en)
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  • F. W. Ewing (en)
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  • circa 1952 (en)
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  • Two advertisements from a 1948 issue which both reference collecting "photos of physical activities". Such phrases were recognizable as discreet indicators of homosexuality. (en)
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  • The Hobby Directory 5 no456.jpg (en)
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  • The cover of a 1948 issue of The Hobby Directory (en)
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  • The Hobby Directory was an American periodical published by Francis Willard Ewing from 1946 until the early 1950s. Ostensibly intended to connect men and boys with shared interests, its audience came to include a significant number of gay men, who used the magazine to post covert personal advertisements at a time when homosexuality was socially taboo and legally proscribed. (en)
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