Gay Community News Collection

Gay Community News Collection

Gay Community News (GCN) was a weekly journal published in Boston from 1973 to 1999 by the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation. One of the most prominent LGBTQ+ weekly newspapers to grow out of the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, GCN addressed a range of issues and controversies that were absent from the mainstream press and relevant to the gay, lesbian, and trans community. The paper was run by an evolving collective of staffers, members, and volunteers with a resolutely progressive and political orientation, but its coverage was inclusive of a diversity of thought and critically addressed the politics and experiences of sexuality, pornography, class, race, disability, relationships, incarceration, and parenthood.

The History Project houses the following materials related to Gay Community News:

• Coll. 016: Gay Community News Publication Collection
  • Note: All issues are viewable in person. To view issues online, see: Gay Community News: Internet Archive
    
    
• Coll. 104: Gay Community News Photograph Collection
  • Note: Only partially digitized. All photographs are viewable in person.
    
    
• Coll. 125: Gay Community News Internal History Collection
  
  • Note: Unprocessed; not digitized. More detailed description forthcoming.

All materials can be viewed in-person in Boston by appointment. If you are interested in arranging a time to see a collection in person, email us as info@historyproject.org. Please include which collection materials you are interested in seeing and the date(s) you would like to visit.

See also:
Visualizing Gay Community News, our digital exhibition.