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San
Antonio A
Brief History of San Antonio's Queer Media
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section of this site will feature downloadable and searchable PDF files
of selected gay & lesbian publications, mostly from San Antonio.
This is by no means all of the ones that existed, just the ones to which
I had access, and all are rare and interesting. If you can provide other
issues of these and similar publications for scanning purposes, please
contact me. I am displaying these in roughly year order. Access
to these publications is courtesy of the University
of Houston LGBT Special Collections and the University
of Texas San Antonio Libraries Special Collections. Additional references
from
Austin History Center. Snapshots of Gay Home Life in San Antonio, 1957 Hap
Veltman's San Antonio Country, Video |
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Together
Gay , 1973-1976
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South
Texas Community News (1978-79)
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The
Austin History Center has 30 issues, so maybe lasted into 1976. |
Vol 1-5, 7404, PDF |
Vol 2-1, 7409, PDF |
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Vol 3-13,
8/2/79, PDF |
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Community,
1980-1981
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Community This was a small (5 1/2x 8 1/2) pub, a bi-monthly, only 20 pages with a market aimed the bar-going crowds of San Antonio and Austin. In a way it was TWT-lite. The ten copies I have seen never give the names of the publisher, editor, or anyone....just "Tex-Ray Communictions." They could be bar owners, as is sometimes the case for small publications, a venture to increase business. Their usual features include some news stories, bar gossip, horoscopes, bar event calendar, bar photos and many ads. The production was at times a bit amateur...they left out the masthead twice, and there's an issue dated 5/15/81 but the next issue has no date, but its calendar covers the same timeframe. As they did not use Volume numbers we cannot guess when it began...we only know about the issues I have. |
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Community has such a generic name that it is difficult to search for any history of it. If you
know some, Here's
a bit more history, |
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01/02/81, PDF
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02/20/81, PDF
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04/03/81, PDF |
04/17/81, PDF |
05/15/81, PDF |
05/15/81-2, PDF |
6/5/81, PDF |
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Calendar
(1982 ~ 1987)
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UTSA has 71 copies online |
Vol 1-13,
11/19/82, PDF |
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9/25/87, PDF
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12/18/87, PDF |
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Bar
Talk (1985 - 2000)
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Alternatives
(1987)
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Published by William Snyder, Edited by Gene Evans, by "SA STCN," which may be a continuation of that pub above. UTSA says it ran from 1985 to 2000, and has hard copies on hand, though only one copy online, and I only found the image of one other cover, from Jan 93 July 1987, PDF |
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Per the UTSA site digital copies can be viewed in Special Collections. |
Edited by Lole J Charles, about 12 pages, from Dec 1986 to at least mid-87, unknown after that.
Not related to the 1994 publication of the same name below.
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Vol 1-1, 12/19/86, PDF |
Vol 2-1,
01/12/87, PDF
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WomenSpace
(1986 - 2007)
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San Antonio newsletter begun in Feb 86 as Women's Community Journal, and in mid-86 morphing into WomanSpace, and lasting into 2009 per this link where over 200 issues can be found. Last issue March 2007. Published by a Collective of volunteers. |
Mar-Apr
86, PDF
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Mar-Apr 87, PDF |
Vol 5-4, Feb 93, PDF
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Vol 10-7, May 98, PDF |
Vol 12-7, May 00, PDF |
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River
City Empty Closet (1990-91)
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From UTSA, which has these issues form Vol 2. |
Vol 2-1, 01/24/91, PDF |
Vol 2-2, 02/07/91, PDF |
Vol 2-4, 03/07/91, PDF |
Vol 2-5,
03/21/91, PDF |
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Out
in San Antonio (1991)
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Vol 1-7, 09/19/91, PDF |
Vol 1-8, 10/03/91, PDF |
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Vol 1-9,
10/19/91, PDF |
Vol 1-10, 10/31/91, PDF |
Vol 1-11, 11/14/91, PDF |
Vol 1-12, 11/29/91, PDF |
Vol 1-13, 12/12/91, PDF |
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Marquise
(1992-1997)
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Vol 1-1, 2/27/92, PDF
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Vol 2-6, 03/25/93, PDF |
Vol 3-4, 3/09/94, PDF |
Vol 4-5,
5/95, PDF
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Vol 6-2,
2/01/97, PDF |
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Alternatives
(1994)
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La
Voz de Experanza (1994)
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SALGA
/ SABTD
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5/15/94, PDF |
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Published by the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, in support of marginalized people including Hispanic Americans, poc, LGBT, immigrants, etc, Format was 8 1/2x11" At the website you can search for the regular LGBT articles
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and SABTD |
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San
Antonio Community News (1999)
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Published bi-weekly
by Peter Robles, from April 1999 until May 2000. Unknown if it ended
then. UTSA
has 15 issues. |
Vol 1-1, 04/03/99, PDF |
Vol 1-2, 04/16/99, PDF |
Vol 1-3, 05/14/99, PDF |
Vol 1-4, 06/11/99, PDF |
Vol 1-5, 04/16/99, PDF |
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Vol 1-6, 06/25/99, PDF |
Vol 1-7, 07/07/99, PDF |
Vol 1-8, 07/23/99, PDF |
Vol 1-9, 08/06/99, PDF |
Vol 1-10, 09/01/99, PDF |
Vol 1-12, 12/01/99, PDF |
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Vol 1-13, 01/01/00, PDF |
Vol 1-15, 03/01/00, PDF |
Vol 1-16, 04/01/00, PDF |
Vol 2-1, 05/01/00, PDF |
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Rainbow
Gazette (1996-2007)
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Catalogs
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Bexar
Vortex
(2004-2005)
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Newsletter
of the UTSA has ~ 40 of the monthly newsletters |
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Shocking Gray (San Antonio) & other mid-90s catalogs PDF |
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Editor
Jim Kane Vol 1
#9, 9/17/04 PDF
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Other
South & West Texas Publications
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El
Paso & Lubbock
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Impulse
- El Paso (1983-87)
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Gay
Pulse - El Paso (1988)
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GPWT,
1977, Lubbock
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Vol 3-4, Nov 1986, PDF
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Vol 1-11, Aug 88 PDF
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Corpus
Christi
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The
Go Between (1975)
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The
Corpus Christi Caller - Gay Life (1975)
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The Go Between Official Newsletter of the Gay Organization of Corpus Christi Vol 1 & 2, Jun-Jul 1975 |
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In
July 1975 the city paper in Corpus Christi, the Caller, ran a thorough
and controversial 8-part series on "The Gay Life."
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Corpus
Christi Lifestyle (1986 +?)
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This
is issue #18, July 3, 1986, unknown how long it lasted |
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 Additions
are added often, so please check back |