Open-Access Digitized Grassroots Media
Dr. Margaret Galvan, (professor researching 1960-1990s American LGBTQ cartoonists) released a collection of free open-access online resources, focusing in on feminist and LGBTQ periodicals. Share and enjoy, and contact her if you have more to add to the list!
Specific digitized grassroots periodicals:
Bay Area Reporter, SF LGBTQ periodical 1971-present
BOMB Magazine, cross disciplinary NYC artists mag, 1981-present
Chicago Defender, long-standing black newspaper, founded in 1905
Cultural Correspondence, New Left review out of Providence that published 1975-1985
Dyke, A Quarterly, ran for five issues, 1975-1979
The Empty Closet, Upstate NY LGBT periodical, 1971 to present
Heresies, feminist art journal, 1977-1993
HotWire, journal of women’s music and culture, mid 1980s-mid 1990s
Lesbian Tide, Los Angeles lesbian publication, 1971-1980
Lesbian Herstory Archives newsletter, newsletter of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, from 1975 onward
Liberation News Service, New Left, anti-war underground press news service, 1967-1981
Outweek, LGBT NYC weekly, 1989-1991
Sinister Wisdom, multicultural lesbian literary & art journal, 1976 to present
Unicorn Times, DC area arts newspaper (1973-1985)
The Washington Blade, oldest LGBT newspaper in the US (since 1969), based out of DC
Washington Free Press, DC underground newspaper, 1967-1969
Larger collections of grassroots periodicals:
Chicana Por Mi Raza, “Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era”
Civil Rights Digital Library
Digital Transgender Archive
DC Punk Archive Zine Library
The Freedom Archives, “progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice”
Houston LGBT History Publications, mostly Texas publications but also others like Lesbian Tide (Los Angeles)
Independent Voices, “open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals”
Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
Roz Payne Sixties Archive
Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
UC Berkeley, digitized periodicals largely from the Bay Area
Additional grassroots media digital projects:
Asian American Little Magazines, 1968-1974
Bay Area Reporter Online Searchable Obituary Database
GLBT Historical Society Digital Collections
June Mazer Lesbian Archives, digital collections at the bottom of this page
Lesbian Herstory Archives, digital resources
The Panther and the Lash: Black Literary Movement Publications and the Black Aesthetic
Wearing Gay History, Historical LGBT T-Shirts
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