The Hobby Directory was an American periodical published by Francis Willard Ewing from 1947 until the early 1950s. Ewing intended to connect black men and black boys with shared interests and to unite them under one common goal. That goal was to reduce prejudice that they were facing and end the times of slave owners calling their slaves "negro". 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.
