Our general periodicals and newspapers collection holds titles not produced specifically for lesbians and gay men. It includes everything from mainstream magazines, like Maclean's , Saturday Night , Time , Newsweek , and The Economist , to many smaller alternative publications. Much of this collection records years of right-wing homophobia. Many papers and magazines on the arts, alternative culture, feminism, and the politics of the left paid serious attention to gay people and issues over time. From the early 1980s, this collection has also included extensive material on AIDS, both in the popular media and in many medical journals.
Many files hold clipped articles, but entire issues of some publications are also here.
These are arranged chronologically, making it easy to check media treatment of specific issues and events by date.