LGBTQ Genealogy – Part 10

Newspapers – Part 3 – LGBTQ Periodicals

Hopefully, our ancestors didn’t appear in the news because of a police raid, but in their local gay community paper. Many LGBTQ Newspapers have started since Stonewall.

Here are newspapers and magazines serving the LGBTQ community.

Two of the earliest LGBTQ publications were from

• The Mattachine Society – was founded in 1950 by Harry Hay and a group of friends in Los Angeles. Soon there were chapters in other U.S. cities.

• And The Ladder was a publication from the Daughter of Billits. A lesbian civil and political rights organization found in San Francisco in 1955 by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons.

The table shows the name of the paper, City or area of coverage, the date it started – if there is no end date, then it is still in publication, and where you can find back issues online.

UC Berkeley has an extensive collection of online historic LGBTQ periodical, most of which are no longer in print.

Addendum:

A blog reader let me know of another online resource for old LGBTQ Periodicals.

Check out The Independent Voices Collection for backissues from the following titles.

• Come Out!
• Common Lives/Lesbian Lives
• Conditions
• Detroit Gay Liberator
• Detroit Liberator, The
• DYKE
• Dykes & Gorgons
• Furies, The
• Gay Alternative, The
• Gay Flames
• Gay Liberator, The
• Lavender Vision
• Lavender Woman
• Lesbian Connection
• Lesbian Tide, The (1974)
• Motive (Feminist)
• New Gay Life
• ONE
• Open Road, The
• Outlook
• Philadelphia Gay News
• Phoenix, The
• Sinister Wisdom
• Tangents
• Tide, The