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78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just…

Riese —

Aug 4, 2025

'zines/magazines

lesbian magazines

straddleverse

We Made a Queer and Trans Print Magazine You Can Hold in Your Gay Hands!

Introducing: The Autostraddle Insider, a full-color, gorgeous, gay, sexy, smart, funny zine. Here’s how to get it!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jul 23, 2025

'zines/magazines

lesbian magazines

lgbt history

40 Years Ago, Lesbian Erotica Magazine ‘On Our Backs’ Paved the Way for Horny Sapphic Art

On Our Backs, which originally ran from 1984 to 1990 and was revitalized from 1998 to 2002, existed for one central purpose: to portray lesbian sex and sexuality, with real…

Gabrielle Grace Hogan —

Jan 23, 2025

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Death of Print

lgbt history

How A 50-Year-Old Lesbian Magazine Is Surviving Despite It All

“Lesbian Connection was founded in a decidedly pre-internet era, when there were no lesbian characters on TV or in the movies, no lesbian stories on library bookshelves, no out queer…

Sydney —

Nov 4, 2024

lesbian magazines

lgbt history

Lisa Ben: Lesbian Media Pioneer, Cat Lady, and Hometown Buffet Superfan

In 1947, “Lisa Ben” launched the country’s first-ever lesbian magazine, Vice Versa. But by the ’90s, she’d withdrawn from public life and by the mid-2000s, she’d found a new passion:…

Riese —

Sep 21, 2023

'zines/magazines

feminism

lgbt history

Raging Against Cultural Amnesia: tatiana de la tierra and Latina Lesbian Herstory

In the 90s, a collective of Latina lesbians founded two radical, bilingual zines. They made culture, connected activists, and scared the sh*t out of the patriarchy.

Sara Youngblood Gregory —

Jun 19, 2018

'zines/magazines

lesbian history

book features

38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark

AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.

Riese —

Oct 12, 2016

death is sad

female masculinity

lgbt history

Jeanne Córdova Dies At 67: Goodbye to the Activist and Writer Who Lead The Way We’re Going

“We built a movement by telling each other our lives and thoughts about the way life should be. We cut against the grain and re-thought almost everything. ”

Riese —

Jan 11, 2016