Women's
Publications |
This section of this site will feature downloadable and searchable PDF files of selected early women's publications, mostly from Houston, but including some statewide ones. 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. I would very much like to expand this section, so 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 most of the copies of Pointblank Times is courtesy of Pokey Anderson. A listing of some early Houston GLBT publications (a work in progress) can be found at this link. |
What
publications is this section for? As this is an LGBT history website,
that becomes grey when it comes to women's issues, and I have leaned
more to the "lesbian/feminist" side, when I can find them.
Over the years there no doubt have been many more, for example, where
does Breakthrough (of the 1970's) fit? And, I have no publications yet
from the 1990's, surely there were some. Let me know if you have some
I can borrow/scan.
Additions are added often, so please check back |
Pointblank Times, 1975 - 1978 |
Pointblank Times Monthly
Lesbian/Feminist publication
existed
at least to |
Volume 1-1, 3/75, PDF |
Volume 1-2, 4/75, PDF |
Volume 1-3, 5/75, PDF |
Volume 1-4, 6/75, PDF |
Volume
1-5, 8/75, PDF |
Volume 1-6, 9/75, PDF |
Volume 1-7, 10/75, PDF |
Volume 1-8, 11/75, PDF |
Volume 1-9, 12/75, PDF |
Volume 2-1, 1/76, PDF |
Volume 2-2, 2/76, PDF |
Volume 2-3, 3/76, PDF |
Volume 2-4, 5/76, PDF |
Volume 2-5, 6/76, PDF |
Volume
2-6, 7/76, |
Volume 2-7, 12/76, PDF |
Volume 3-1, 1/77, PDF |
Volume 3-2, 3/77, PDF |
Volume 3-3, 5/77, PDF |
Volume 3-4, 8/77, PDF |
Volume 3-5, 11/77, PDF |
Volume 4-1, 1-2/78, PDF |
Volume 4-2, 4-5/78, PDF |
Unknown
how many issues existed
At
right, a letter to the editor |
It's
About Time (1978)
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Older
Women's League - OWL (1988+)
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Off
the Wall Productions
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It's About Time was the newsletter of the NLFO, National Lesbian Feminist Organization, with the pub based in Houston beginning May/June 1978. Not known how long it lasted. May/June 1978, PDF |
Older Women's League, OWL, Houston chapter...more of a women's group than a lesbian one. I have only seen this Fall 1988 newsletter, PDF |
Margie
Adam Program, |
Breakthrough,
1976-1980
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Choices,
1983-1984
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Womansight,
1982
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Breakthrough A Feminist publication with small degree of lesbian content. Ran from Jan 1976 through Dec 1980. See
major section on and also |
Choices--Personally Yours Another newsletter for womyn, begun March 1983, and size is 8 1/2" x 11". How long did it last? September
1983 PDF |
Womansight Vol.
2-8, 2/82, PDF |
Vol 1-1,
02/84, PDF |
Lavender Letters was very well done, with a goal to be, per its intro, a "feminist lesbian publication which will provide a forum for women, cover the women's community, supply information of special interest to women, to name a few." Kareena Heath was listed as Publisher/Editor. It was letter size, 12 pages, on stiff paper. Unknown if it lasted past its first year. |
WomynSpace
& WAND, 1985-1996
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Called
a "Community Calendar/Newsletter," it Later the name was changed to WAND (Womynspace Activities Networking Directory).
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Dimensions,
1987 - 1995
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Women's
Music Calendar - 1982
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Dimensions Small lesbian publication from Lubbock, with local and national news, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", ~40 pages, editied by Kelly Chambers and heavy contribution by Houston's Nancy Ford |
June 1995, PDF |
July 1995, PDF |
Emerald
Pillows, 2004
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Emerald Pillows Edited
by Maxine Rothman, it called itself |
#1-3, May 2003, PDF |
#2-2, Feb 2004, PDF |
#2-4, Apr 2004, PDF |
Researching with the internet "wayback machine," it appears the zine began in early 2003, with issues in May, August, September and November 2003; and through April 2004, with a gap until October 2004, which may have been the last one If you can share more issues with me please let me know |
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H.e.r.s.,
2004 - 2005
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Hers Published
in Houston by Shaunte Angelo and Kristen Kemp, this was a slick and
classy pub geared to the Houston lesbian community. Per Shaunte, only
six issues published, |
Vol 1, Feb/Mar 2004, PDF |
Vol 1, Apr/May 2004, PDF |
Vol 1, Jun/Jul 2004, PDF |
Vol 2, Feb/Mar 2005, PDF |
Miscellaneous
(Non-Local)
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Atatlanta
Newsletter, 1973-early 1990s
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Women's
Fest, 1991
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WomanSpace,
1988-2007
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Atatlanta Newsletter The
Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) existed from 1972 through 1994
and published a newsletter starting in 1973 into the early 1990s. The
PDF covers three issues from 1988, March, April and July. PDF |
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WomanSpace 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. |
I
Know You Know
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Impulse
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The
Ladder
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Vol 3-4, Nov 1986, PDF |
at THIS LINK |
Lesbian
Tide
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On
Our Backs 1984 to 2007
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Bonus,
sort of.....I much admire the
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On Our Backs A national pub started by Susie Bright in 1984, in San Francisco. And it ran until March 2007. Quite erotic. They were online but now have been taken down. See Wiki. I
have one, as an example, here |
Curve
/ Deneuve 1991 to 2019
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Curve began in 1991 as Deneuve, a very slick and excellent lesbian magazine. In January 1995 the name was changed to Curve, due to lawsuits, and it ran until 2017. See the Wiki details. In 2018 for two years it rebranded as Curve Living True in a streamed down version. |
See Vol 7-4, Sep 97, PDF |
Additions are added often, so please check back
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