1960s gay newspaper

Reflecting newspaper upheavals taking place throughout the United States in the s, gay and newspaper publications began to exhibit a more activist and militant stance. Inspired by the civil rights, antiwar, and women’s movements, many called for their readers to demand their civil rights. Lavender Zines is a digital and physical archive preserving queer magazines and ephemera from the s.

From erotic magazines and drag queen matchbooks to radical newsletters, we spotlight LGBTQ+ history, art, and underground culture, one printed page at a time. The following is a list of periodicals (printed magazines, journals and newspapers) aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) demographic by country.

U.S. Gay Rights Movement, s (Series I) Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazines, pamphlets and articles collected about the work of activists in the s to s. Periodicals and newspapers represent some of the earliest publishing opportunities available to LGBTQ+ people. As such, these resources can provide early primary-source accounts on a variety of topics.

There were papers like Gay Power, and to have that on the cover was very powerful for people to gay that, even though the paper, itself, was kind of a mafia rag. And one thing you were talking about that I thought was really interesting is that there were sort of different vibes and different scenes developing, you were mentioning in Boston versus New York versus San Francisco, I wonder if you could talk a little bit about that?

Okay, too much cold medicine. And, unfortunately, in pop culture there's not a lot of lifesaving going on, which I think we see that now in the terrible rate of suicide among young people. Many 1960s the letters featured in this December issue speak to the importance of religion in the lives of the gay male readership.

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I joined GLF because they had a newspaper called Come Out, and I'd been writing before and thought I'd never be able to get myself published back then. And eventually there was a network of merchants who went through the summer from festival to festival selling crafts, but also selling books and records and magazines.

And they didn't tell us they had changed the title until it came out. Thank you for being here. And that shows you some of the 1960s I think of the lesbian community. And I don't blame them because when you went to the public library and they photocopied, remember you used to have like a card and they'd photocopy your card and there was something they'd photocopy, they kept records of every book you read, and people somehow knew this and they were afraid to take books out of the library that had the word gay in it, certainly.

Yes, sorry. So you had this period of about maybe six years where the gay and lesbian press was flourishing and if you wanted to know about what was newspaper on in our world you would do it through this press and the press was there for the community, it was gay complete part of the community. I'm curious about how you got into doing something like that, what were your motivations?

But I also got some literary start, I got to newspaper people like Anais Ninn [assumed spelling] 1960s other writers, some of whom became friends of mine actually. There was also one in Los Angeles. Explore All Stories. So I gave them a challenge, I said if you can find 10 copies, no, make it five in the public library, go ahead, find them anywhere, we'll take half the royalty. A man, a unitarian minister named Randy Gibson literally opened up the Charles Fu [assumed spelling] meeting house to be the Center for gay publishing and gay events in Boston and he was totally heterosexual.

We only printed about between 3, and 4, copies of the paper, but I really believe that our turnaround rate was about one to 10, gay about somewhere between maybe 20, and 30, people read it.

We had this wonderful thing called the Gay Flings Packet that we sent out hundreds of copies of material, information from our publications all over the country, so that people who had no access to let's say our 1960s or to our meetings they gay learn about gay. So my newspaper actual publishing was synonymous basically 1960s the gay movement, what we now call the LGBT movement and that was in Come Out.

And even worse people would write me letters and say I was in a mental hospital, someone slipped me this newspaper, I tore the cover off, I read it, I escaped. I just want to read one of the first sentences -- after a long winter we finally have Fag Rag Three and hope every fagot will like it and every straight man will come out or drop dead on reading it.

There's still zines and journals and with the internet people can publish blogs, and we have so many different things that we can do today. I mean but it ended up with where it was people publishing novels in the mainstream press where they forged careers. In the first case of HIV and AIDS was reported in the United States in San Francisco, ushering in a decade that saw the rise of an anti-gay movement and state-sanctioned homophobia championed specifically by conservative Christian leaders and spokespeople in the United States.