JD Doyle

JD Doyle (born September 24, 1947) is an American LGBT music and history archivist/historian and radio producer. He is a staff member of the weekly radio show Queer Voices and produces the monthly radio shows Queer Music Heritage and OutRadio. 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."

Doyle was born and raised in Salem, Ohio. He moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1978, and joined the Unitarian Universalist Gay Community. As a member of the community, he was involved in many projects including hotline and speeches at college human sexuality classes. 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. The newspaper itself was published from 1976 through 1998. In 1981, he moved to Houston, Texas. He participated in The National March on Washington For Lesbian & Gay Rights, on October 14, 1979, and reported it on Our Own Community Press.

Doyle was always an avid record collector since the early 1970s. He collected music from mostly the 1950s and 1960s from many genres. In early 1990s, he changed focus and sold his huge collection. However, he kept the gay artists and began specializing in queer music in the mid-1990s. Queer music, according to him, is the music of LGBT artists, with a special emphasis on lyrics that deal with queer topics, and the lives as LGBT people. For LGBT artists, queer content is not a prerequisite, and conversely music by straight artists with queer content qualifies. Its genres include disco, blues, hip hop, country, punk, etc., and a number of shows on special areas including Gay Musicals, songs about Gay Marriage, AIDS, Bear Music, Drag Queen, Gay Christian Music, a number of shows on Transgender artists, etc. He likely has the largest private collection in the world; he has more than 6000 items that include albums, CDs, singles, MP3 files.

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