zoey-and-dakota:Got to visit my university’s special collections archive today, specifically the col
zoey-and-dakota:Got to visit my university’s special collections archive today, specifically the collection of queer magazines and newspapers from 70s to 90s PittsburghThis is only a very small amount of all the material I got to look through. Most of it was general gay news and events, political developments, club events, lists of popular meeting places, or in the case of Go Homo! magazine, dissections of the gayness of Interview with the Vampire lolThe On Our Backs magazine was created as a direct response to Off Our Backs, which was a radical second-wave feminist newspaper that was extremely anti-pornography, so the lesbians of the time got together and made what is probably the most erotic and explicit publication I’ve ever seen in real lifeyou can read all about queer history but I cant put into words how awesome it was to hold it in my own hands -- source link