List of lesbian periodicals in the United States
A timeline of notable lesbian magazines, periodicals, newsletters, and journals in the United States organized by the initial publication date and then title.

List of lesbian periodicals in the United States

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Table Section Text: A timeline of notable lesbian magazines, periodicals, newsletters, and journals in the United States organized by the initial publication date and then title.

Era	Name	Start date	End date	Location	Publishers	Frequency	Notes	Identifier	References

1940s–1960s (Before Stonewall riots) ​[edit]	Vice Versa	1947	1948	Los Angeles, California	Lisa Ben	Monthy	First documented lesbian periodical in the United States.	OCLC 1624255

The Ladder	1956	1972	San Francisco, California	Daughters of Bilitis	Monthly/bimonth	First widely distributed lesbian periodical in the United States.	ISSN 0023-7108

Daughters of Bilitis–Philadelphia Newsletter	1967	1968	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Philadelphia chapter of Daughters of Bilitis

No More Fun and Games	1968	1973	Somerville and Cambridge Massachusetts	Cell 16 and Female Liberation	Irregular	Considered by some scholars to be the first lesbian magazine to espouse separatist feminism. Untitled (1968) and titled The Female Slate (1970).	OCLC 2265148

Maiden Voyage	1969	1970	Boston, Massachusetts	Boston chapter of Daughters of Bilitis	Continues as Focus: A Journal for Gay Women (1971–1983)	OCLC 42316511

1970s ​[edit]	Ain't I A Woman	1970	1974	Iowa City, Iowa	AIAW Collective/Iowa City Women's Liberation Front Publications Collective	Twice a month	ISSN 0044-6939OCLC 2221525

off our backs	1970	2008	Washington, D.C.	off our backs, inc.	ISSN 0030-0071OCLC 1038241

Sisters: By and For Lesbians	1970	1975	San Francisco, California	San Francisco chapter of Daughters of Bilitis	Monthly	ISSN 0049-0644

Amazon: A Midwest Journal for Women	1971	1984	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Amazon Collective	Monthly (1972–1976), bimonthly (1976–1984)	ISSN 2381-0718

Focus	1971	1983	Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts	Boston chapter of Daughters of Bilitis	Continues as Maiden Voyage (1969–1971). Subtitled A Journal for Gay Women (1971–1977), A Journal for Lesbians (1977–1983).	OCLC 233599645, 233599608

Killer Dyke	1971	1972	Chicago, Illinois	"Flippies" or the Feminist Lesbian Intergalactic Party	Once a year	Satire magazine	OCLC 25217267, 1000821785

Lavender Vision	1971	Cambridge, Massachusetts	OCLC 2263450

LA DOB Newsletter	1971	1972	Los Angeles, California	Los Angeles chapter of Daughters of Bilitis	Continued as Lesbian Tide (1971–1980)

Lavender Woman	1971	1976	Chicago, Illinois	OCLC 28896850

Lesbian Tide	1971	1980	Los Angeles, California	Jeanne Córdova	Continued as LA DOB Newsletter (1971–1972)	ISSN 0270-8167

Mother	1971	Stanford, California	Mother Publications	Continues as Proud Woman (1972)	OCLC 2264422

Purple Star: Journal of Radicalesbians	1971	Ann Arbor, Michigan	Women's Liberation of Ann Arbor	OCLC 942695178

Reach Out	1971	1972	Detroit, Michigan	Detroit chapter of Daughters of Bilitis	OCLC 2266772, 1000926490

Scarlet Letter	1971	1972	Madison, Wisconsin

Siren: A Journal of Anarcho-Feminism	1971	Chicago, Illinois

Spectre	1971	1972	Ann Arbor, Michigan	OCLC 18917439

Amazon Quarterly	1972	1975	Oakland, California and West Somerville, Massachusetts	OCLC 2750571

ALFA Newsletter	1973	1976	Atlanta, Georgia	Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance	Continues as Atalanta (1977–1994)

Better Homes and Dykes Newsletter of the Lesbian Alliance	1972	Iowa City, Iowa

Echo of Sappho	1972	1973	Brooklyn, New York	Sisters for Liberation	OCLC 2320647

Furies	1972	1973	Washington, D.C.	The Furies Collective	ISSN 0046-5305OCLC 2334944

Lesbians Fight Back	1972	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Maine Freewoman's Herald: A Mostly Lesbian Journal	1972	Portland, Maine

National Lesbian Information Service News	1972	San Francisco, California

Portcullis	1972	Los Angeles, California

Purple Rage	1972	NYC

Proud Woman	1972	Stanford, California	Mother Publications	Continues as Mother (1971)	OCLC 25185782

Tres Femmes	1972	San Diego, California

Coming Out Rage	1973	NYC

Cowrie	1973	1974	NYC	Community of Women

Cries from Cassandra	1973	Chicago, Illinois	The Amazon Nation

Desperate Living	1973	1977	Baltimore, Maryland

Dykes and Gorgons	1973	Berkeley, California	OCLC 55515875

Gay Revolution of Women Newsletter	1973	1974	Rochester, New York	Gay Revolution of Women (GROW)	Continues as Women in Sunlight (1974), New Women's Times (1974–1985), and Lesbian Resource Center Newsletter (1974)

The Lesbian Feminist	1973	1979	NYC

Moonstorm	1973	1980	St. Louis, Missouri	Lesbian Alliance of St. Louis, Missouri

Mother Jones Gazette	1973	1974	Knoxville, Tennessee

One-to-One: A Lesbian/Feminist Journal of Communication	1973	NYC

Sapphire	1973	San Francisco, California

So's Your Old Lady	1973	1979	Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Udder Side	1973	NYC

Albatross	1974	1980	East Orange, New Jersey	Albatross Collective	Varied subtitles but usually The Lesbian Feminist Satire Magazine

Lesbian Connection	1974	Present	Michigan	Ambitious Amazons	Free to lesbians everywhere	ISSN 1081-3217

Lesbian Resource Center Newsletter	1974	Rochester, New York	Continues as Gay Revolution of Women Newsletter (1973), Women in Sunlight (1974), and New Women's Times (1974–1985)

Lesbian Voices	1974	1981	San Jose, California

Mom's Apple Pie: Newsletter of the Lesbian Mother's National Defense Fund	1974	1985	Seattle, Washington	Lesbian Mother's National Defense Fund

Purple Cow	1974	1976	Columbus, Ohio

Quest: A Feminist Quarterly	1974	1985	A radical feminist journal.

Satin for Gay Women	1974	San Jose, California

Wicce	1973	1975	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WomanSpirit	1974	1984	Wolf Creek, Oregon	Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove	The first lesbian-feminist periodical about spirituality.

Women in Sunlight	1974	Rochester, New York	Continues as Gay Revolution of Women Newsletter (1973), New Women's Times (1974–1985), and Lesbian Resource Center Newsletter (1974)

Dyke: A Quarterly	1975	1978	NYC	OCLC 21506187

Goodbye to All That: A Lesbian Feminist Publication	1975	1977	Austin, Texas	Austin Lesbian Organization	Continues as LesBeFriends

Lesbian-Feminist Union News	1975	1978	Louisville, Kentucky

Lesbian Herstory Archives Newsletter	1975	Present	NYC	Lesbian Herstory Archives	ISSN 1064-0819

The Lesbian Lipservice	1975	1976	Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lesbian News	1975	Present	Los Angeles, California	ISSN 0739-1803

The Lesbian Newsletter	1975	Ann Arbor, Michigan

New Women's Times	1975	1985	Rochester, New York	New Women's Times, Inc.	Monthly	Continues as Gay Revolution of Women Newsletter (1973), Women in Sunlight (1974), and Lesbian Resource Center Newsletter (1974)

Pointblank Times: A Lesbian-Feminist Paper	1975	Houston, Texas

We Got It	1975	1976	Madison, Wisconsin

C A L F A Notes	1976	Cleveland Heights, Ohio	Cleveland Area Lesbian Feminist Alliance (CALFA)

Conditions	1976	1990	Brooklyn, New York	Dedicated to publishing lesbians, specifically working class lesbians and lesbian of color.

Lesbiana Speaks	1976	1977	Miami, Florida

Lesbian Milepost	1976	1977	Anchorage, Alaska	Continues as Klondyke Cuntree (1976), Klondyke Kontact (1977–1980)

Out and About: Seattle Lesbian/Feminist Newsletter	1976	1986	Seattle, Washington

Rubyfruit Reader	1976	1978	Santa Cruz, California

Salsa Soul Sisters/Third World Women's Gay-zette	1976	1985	NYC	Salsa Soul Sisters Third World Wimmin Inc. Collective

Sinister Wisdom	1976	Present	Charlotte, North Carolina, Berkeley and Oakland, California	Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Ellenberger (Desmoines)	Longest surviving lesbian literary journal in the United States.	ISSN 0196-1853OCLC 3451636

Wishing Well	1976	Santa Rosa, California

Atalanta	1977	1994	Atlanta, Georgia	Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance	Continues as ALFA Newsletter (1973–1976)

Azalea: A Magazine by Third World Lesbians	1977	1983	NYC	Salsa Soul Sisters Third World Wimmin Inc. Collective

Changes	1977	Winter Park, Florida	Greater Orlando Lesbian/Feminists

Klondyke Kontact: The Anchorage Lesbian Newsletter	1977	1980	Anchorage, Alaska	Bimonthly	Continued as Lesbian Milepost, Cunni Linguist, and Klondyke Cuntree.

The Leaping Lesbian	1977	1981	Ann Arbor, Michigan	Bimonthly

Lone Star Lesbians	1977	1978	Austin, Texas

Matrices: A Lesbian/Feminist Research Newsletter	1977	1996	Three times a year, irregular

Pearl Diver	1977	1978	Portland, Oregon	A black lesbian magazine

Tribad: A Lesbian Separatist Newsjournal	1977	1979	NYC

Two Dykes & Others: A Texas Lesbian Periodical	1977

Amazon Spirit	1978	Helena, Montana	Montana Amazons Unlimited

Boulder Lesbian Network Newsletter	1978	Boulder, Colorado	Boulder Lesbian Network

Feminary: A Feminist Journal for the South Emphasizing Lesbian Visions	1978	1982	Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Austindyke	1979	Austin, Texas	Monthly

DONT: Dykes Opposed to Nuclear Technology Newsletter	1979	NYC

Lesbians of Color Caucus Quarterly	1979	Seattle, Washington

1980s[edit]	Associated Lesbians of Puget Sound (ALPS) Newsletter	1980s	2000s

Dyke Diannic Wicca: Newsletter for Biophilic Hags of Magick	1980	Berkeley, California	Artemis

Green Mountain Dyke News	1980	Bennington, Vermont	Green Mountain Dykes

Lesbian Insider, Insighter, Inciter	1980	Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Lunatic Fringe	1980	Chicago, Illinois

Telewoman: A Woman's Newsletter	1980	1983	Pleasant Hill, California

Womyn's Braille Press Newsletter	1980	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Womyn's Braille Press Inc.

Common Lives/Lesbian Lives	1981	1996	Iowa City, Iowa	OCLC 8234014

Big Apple Dyke News (B.A.D. News)	1981	1988	NYC

(The) Other Black Woman	1981	Jackson Heights, Queens, New York	Committee for the Visibility of the Other Black Woman: The Black Lesbian

Black Lesbian Newsletter	1982	San Francisco, California	San Francisco Women's Center's Black Lesbian Newsletter	Continues as Onyx (1983-1984)

The Celibate Woman: A Journal for Women Who Are Celibate or Considering this Liberating Way of Relating to Others	1982	1988	Washington, D.C.

Dyke Separatist / Amazon Magick	1982	Berkeley, California	Amethyst/Artemis

In the Life: the Newsletter of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Collection	1982	Present	Los Angeles, California	June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives

Maize: A Lesbian Country Magazine	1982	Present	Minneapolis, Minnesota; Preston-Potter Hollow, New York; Serafina, New Mexico

Lesbian Contradiction	1983	1994	ISSN 1064-4776

Onyx	1983	1984	San Francisco, California	San Francisco Women's Center's Black Lesbian Newsletter	Continued as Black Lesbian Newsletter (1982)

Woman to Woman	1983	1985	Lake Charles, Louisiana	Linda Parks	Free to lesbians and women in prison

Hot Wire: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture	1984	1994	Toni Armstrong Jr.

Lesbian Ethics	1984	Venice, California	Jeannette Silveira	ISSN 8755-5352

On Our Backs	1984	2006	Lesbian pornographic magazine as a play on off our backs

Asian Lesbians of the East Coast Newsletter	1984	NYC

I Know You Know: Lesbian Views and News	1984	1985?	Indianapolis, Indiana

Lesbian Health Resource Center Newsletter	1985	Durham, North Carolina	Lesbian Health Resource Center (LHRC)

Golden Threads	1985	2016	Demorest, Georgia	Network for older lesbians

WAVELENGTH. A Lesbian Feminist Publication	1985	Seattle, Washington	Groundswell

Hag Rag	1986	1993	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Intergalactic Lesbian Feminist Press	OCLC 62882091

Yoni: Lesbian Erotica Quarterly	1986	Oakland, California

Visibilities	1987	1991	NYC	ISSN 0892-7375

Dykes, Disability and Stuff: Cause We Always Have Stuff to Share	1988	Madison, Wisconsin; Boston, Massachusetts	For lesbians with disabilities, formats included large print, audio, braille, and electronic.

The L-Word	1988	Present	Bayside, California

Aché: A (Free) Publication for Black Lesbians	1989	1993	Albany and Berkeley, California

Cheek to Cheek: The Gay Lesbian Partner Dancing Newletter	1989	Oakland, California

Hikané: The Capable Womon: Disabled Wimmin's Magazine for Lesbians and Our Wimmin Friends	1989	Hillsdale, New York

Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC) newsletter	1989	2003	Tacoma, Washington

1990s[edit]	Old Lesbians Organizing for Change Reporter	1990	Present	Houston, Texas; Athens, Ohio

Shamakami: Forum for South Asian Feminist Lesbians	1990	1997	San Francisco, California

Curve	1991	Present	Continues as Deneuve (1991-1995)

Esto No Tiene Nombre: revista de lesbianas latinas	1991	1994	Miami, Florida

Wimmin Magazine	1991

Canswers: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Lesbian Community Cancer Project	1992	Chicago, Illinois

Dykespeak	1993

Lesbian Review of Books: An International Quarterly Review of Books by, for, and about Lesbians	1994	2002	Altadena, California; Hilo, Hawaii	ISSN 1077-5684

Conmoción: An International Latina Lesbian Vision	1995	1996	Miami, Florida

Journal of Lesbian Studies	1997	Present	Binghamton, New York	Haworth Press

Bint el Nas	1998	Present	San Francisco, California	Arab-world identified online magazine

Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism	1998	Present	Northampton, Massachusetts	Radical feminism with a lesbian focus.

She Magazine	1999	Present	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	Longest running magazine for LGBT women in Florida

2000s[edit]	Go Magazine	2000	Present	NYC	Free

Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly	2000	2005	Binghamton, New York	Continued as Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly (2006–2008)

Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly	2006	2008	Continued as Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly (2000–2005)

Issues! The Magazine for Lesbians of Color	2000

Jota!	2000	Los Angeles, California	Chicana lesbian poetry review

(el) telarañazo	2000	La telaraña

Velvetpark: Dyke Culture in Bloom	2002	Present	NYC

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The lesbian periodicals in the United States are Lesbian Health Resource Center Newsletter in 1985 Durham, North Carolina by Lesbian Health Resource Center (LHRC) and Golden Threads from 1985 to 2016 in Demorest, Georgia it is Network for older lesbians.

final_sentence: The lesbian periodicals in the United States are Lesbian Health Resource Center Newsletter in 1985 Durham, North Carolina by Lesbian Health Resource Center (LHRC) and Golden Threads from 1985 to 2016 in Demorest, Georgia it is Network for older lesbians.