Question: What was the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, The Woman Voter or The Ladder ?

Context articles: The Woman Voter
Rich Herrera
M3 Records
Cynthia G. Mason
News From Indian Country
Baltimore Review
Lisa Ben
The Ladder (magazine)
Stir (TV series)
Woman's Journal

The Woman Voter was a monthly suffragist journal published in New York City by the Woman Suffrage Party (WSP).
 It ran between 1910 and 1917.
 The first editor was Mary Ritter Beard.
 Beard created a suffragist publication which was unique in offering coverage of topics that "cut across class, age and organizational boundaries."
Rich Herrera is a nationally known sports radio personality.
 Herrera is the only radio announcer in MLB or the NFL of Mexican–American Heritage without a playing background.
 He was the first nationally syndicated Hispanic sports radio personality in the United States working first at Sports Fan Radio, and later at Fox Sports Radio.
M3 Records (formerly known as M3 Macmil Music) is an American independent hip hop record label in New York City, headed by rapper Masta Ace.
 The label was founded in 2003, nearly two years after Ace's former label, JCOR Records, folded.
 The first nationally distributed release on the label was Ace's fifth studio album "A Long Hot Summer".
 The label is now home to Ace's supergroup eMC, which also features underground duo Punch & Words and Milwaukee rapper Strick.
Cynthia G. Mason is a songwriter based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 She self-released albums (as cassettes) on her own label, Spiderwoman.
 She was featured on the cover of the "Philadelphia City Paper" and her version of Richard Buckner's "Surprise, AZ" was included on a compilation of covers produced by "The Believer" magazine.
 In January 2007, she released her first nationally distributed album, "Quitter's Claim", on the High Two label.
 The album was produced by and features guitarist Larry D. Brown, who records under the Grey Reverend moniker and is a member of The Cinematic Orchestra.
 She also sings on BC Camplight's 2005 album "Hide, Run Away" on the One Little Indian label.
News From Indian Country is a nationwide, privately owned newspaper, published twice a month, founded by Paul DeMain (Ojibwe/Oneida) in 1986, who is the managing editor and an owner.
 It is the oldest continuing, nationally distributed publication that is not owned by a tribal government.
 It offers national, cultural and regional sections, and "the most up-to-date pow-wow directory in the United States and Canada," according to its website.
 The newspaper is offered both in print and electronic form and has subscribers throughout the United States, Canada and 17 foreign countries.
Baltimore Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1996.
 It publishes short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, and items of interest to those interested in creative writing.
 The Baltimore Review, a literary journal of poetry and fiction, was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl as a publication of the Baltimore Writers Alliance.
 The journal grew to become a nationally distributed journal, and later became an independent nonprofit organization.
 Susan Muaddi Darraj then led the journal from 2003 to 2010, expanding contributions to include creative nonfiction and interviews.
 In 2011, Barbara Westwood Diehl resumed leadership of the journal and now serves as Senior Editor with Kathleen Hellen.
 The BR became a Web-based journal in 2011, and the first Web issue was launched in February 2012.
 Web-published work will be collected in print issues.
 Work that first appeared in the Baltimore Review has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize and been noted in Best American Short Stories and other anthologies.
Edythe D. Eyde (November 7, 1921 – December 22, 2015) better known by her pen name Lisa Ben, was an American editor, author, and songwriter.
 She created the first known lesbian publication in the world, "Vice Versa".
 Ben produced the magazine for a year and distributed it locally in Los Angeles, California in the late 1940s.
 She was also active in lesbian bars as a musician in the years following her involvement with "Vice Versa".
 Eyde has been recognized as a pioneer in the LGBT movement.
The Ladder was the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States.
 It was published monthly from 1956 to 1970, and once every other month in 1971 and 1972.
 It was the primary publication and method of communication for the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the US.
 It was supported by ONE, Inc. and the Mattachine Society, with whom the DOB retained friendly relations.
 The name of the magazine was derived from the artwork on its first cover, simple line drawings showing figures moving towards a ladder that disappeared into the clouds.
Stir, also referred to as StirTV, Stir TV and Stir-TV, was the first nationally distributed Asian American television show.
 Produced by former "A. Magazine" publisher Jeff Yang in collaboration with KTSF producers Ashley Hathaway and David Baker, the 30-minute show aired on the International Channel for two seasons from December 2004-2005.
 The magazine-style program, which targeted viewers aged 18–25, was hosted by Tony Wang, a Chinese American corporate lawyer; Sabrina Shimada, a Japanese-German American high school student; Brian Tong, a Chinese-American Apple computer salesman; and Jeannie Mai, a Vietnamese-Chinese American makeup artist.
Woman's Journal was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870-1931.
 It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper.
 In 1917 it was purchased by Carrie Chapman Catt's Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission and merged with "The Woman Voter" and "National Suffrage News" to become known as The Woman Citizen.
 It served as the official organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association until 1920, when the organization was reformed as the League of Women Voters, and the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed granting women the right to vote.
 Publication of "Woman Citizen" slowed from weekly, to bi-weekly, to monthly.
 In 1927, it was renamed The Woman's Journal.
 It ceased publication in June 1931.