Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements (LGBT) periodicals collection, 1957-2017

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Summary

Creator:
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Abstract:
Since the 1960s, and particularly after the Stonewall uprising of 1969, the modern women's rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movements (LGBT) have produced their own magazines, journals, newspapers, and newsletters as a strategy for unifying and galvanizing their constituencies. These periodicals served to inform movement activists about pertinent actions, news stories, and cultural trends unreported by the mainstream media. The Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Periodicals Collection comprises individual issues of periodicals produced by or reporting on organizations involved in the women's rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movements of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Extent:
62.5 Linear Feet
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.01399

Background

Scope and content:

The collection comprises individual issues of periodicals produced by or reporting on organizations involved in the women's rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movements (LGBT) of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. A wide variety of periodical genres are represented here, including literary and art journals, newspapers, organizational newsletters, and popular culture magazines. The periodicals in this collection were donated by individuals, purchased, or separated from manuscript collections. Manuscript collections held by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library from which periodicals were separated are the Catherine Nicholson Papers; the Dan Kirsch Papers; the Kate Millett Papers; the Irene Peslikis Papers; the Minnie Bruce Pratt Papers; the Margaret McFadden Papers; and the Charis Books and More-Charis Circle Records. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Biographical / historical:

Since the 1960s, and particularly after the Stonewall uprising of 1969, the modern women's rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movements have produced their own magazines, journals, newspapers, and newsletters as a strategy for unifying and galvanizing their constituencies. These periodicals served to inform movement activists about pertinent actions, news stories, and cultural trends unreported by the mainstream media. Owing to the high cost of periodicals publication and the demands of time and staff required, these publications—many produced by resource-poor organizations in major U.S. cities—display a wide variety of production methods; many periodicals were published only for brief periods of time.

Acquisition information:
The periodicals in the Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements (LGBT) Periodicals Collection were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a series of gifts and purchases from 2006-2022.
Processing information:

Processed by Jodi Berkowitz, Amy McDonald, and Jennifer Solomon

Completed March 2008

Encoded by Amy McDonald

Updated by Lindsay Matson, May 2009

Updated by Alexandra Krensky, June 2011

Updated by Stephanie Barnwell, November 2012 and May 2013

Updated by Megan Lewis and Valerie Szwaya, October 2016

Accessions from 2021-2022 processed by Shiloh Jines and finding aid updated by Tracy M. Jackson, February 2023.

Box numbering skips 99. Issues of The Ladder removed for print cataloging, January 2024.

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[Identification of item], Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements (LGBT) Periodicals Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.