The following is a list of periodicals (printed magazines, journals and newspapers) aimed at the lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

, gay, bisexual

Bisexuality

Bisexuality is sexual behavior or an orientation involving physical or romantic attraction to both males and females, especially with regard to men and women. It is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a heterosexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the...

, transgender

Transgender

Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

 (LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

) demographic by country

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

.

Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, previously AX National Queensland based, listed in top 500,000 websites in the world (according to www.alexa.com), also , Victorian sister publication of Sydney Star Observer, also ,

Out of print

Out of print

Out of print refers to an item, typically a book , but can include any print or visual media or sound recording, that is in the state of no longer being published....

, 1992–2000, Queensland edition , free, 2000 – October 2008, closed 1977, 1993–2000, 1979–1983, quarterly, 1992–2000, closed 2008, 2001–2006, 2001 - 2009, also , launch 1987, 1983–2000, 1970s, 1987 – 10 November 2000

Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, Toronto and New York, launch 2006, launch 1984, launch 2003, launch 1983, Manitoba, Ontario, Ottawa, launch 2002, Ontario, launch 2000

• The Voice (Kitchener: Voice Magazine)
• Wayves
  Wayves
  Wayves is a Canadian magazine, published 11 times yearly in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in Atlantic Canada....
  
  (Halifax: Wayves Collective; )
• Xtra!
  Xtra!
  Xtra! is a gay magazine, on newsprint in tabloid format, published by Pink Triangle Press in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-History and content :...
  
  (Toronto: Pink Triangle Press
  Pink Triangle Press
  Pink Triangle Press is a Canadian non-profit organization which specializes in LGBT media including publishing, online interactive media, and television. PTP's main asset is the LGBT magazine, Xtra! and its spinoffs Xtra! West and Capital Xtra!...
  
  ; )
  • Capital Xtra!
    Capital Xtra!
    Xtra Ottawa is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was launched in 1993. Unlike its biweekly sister publications Xtra in Toronto and Xtra Vancouver in Vancouver, Xtra Ottawa, which started as a monthly, is now published 17 times a...
    
    (Ottawa: Pink Triangle Press; )
  • Xtra! West
    Xtra! West
    Xtra Vancouver is a gay biweekly newspaper, on newsprint in tabloid format, published by Pink Triangle Press in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is a sister publication to Xtra and Xtra Ottawa....
    
    (Vancouver: Pink Triangle Press; )

Out of print

• Angles at first called just Gay, then LG, then LGBT magazine (Vancouver 1985–1997)
• The Body Politic (Toronto: Pink Triangle Press). .
• GO Info
  GO Info
  GO Info was a monthly newspaper for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities in Ottawa, Canada from July 1972 to September 1995....
  
  (Ottawa: Gays of Ottawa). .
• J.D.s
  J.D.s
  J.D.s is a queer punk zine founded in Toronto by G.B. Jones and co-published with Bruce LaBruce, that ran for eight issues from 1985 to 1991....
  
  (Toronto)
• Gay and Lesbian Perceptions
• Rites
  Rites (magazine)
  Rites was a Canadian magazine, published for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in Canada from 1984 to 1992.-Founding:The magazine was published in Toronto, Ontario by Rites Publishing and was produced by a non-profit collective...
  
  (Rites pub). (Toronto)
• Siren
  Siren (magazine)
  Siren was a bimonthly Canadian magazine, published in Toronto, Ontario for the city's lesbian community.The magazine was launched in 1995 by a women's collective of volunteers. Its popularity increased in late 1996, around the time the lesbian monthly magazine Quota ceased publication...
  
  (Toronto: More Sex Please! Press). .
• FAB National (Toronto)
• Urban Fitness (Vancouver) (Health & lifestyle title for North American market.)

Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, national (gay), national (gay & lesbian) , national (gay), Berlin (gay & lesbian)

• rik Matthei Medien, Cologne (gay)
• BLU Berlin (gay)
• BLU München (gay)
• GAB Frankfurt, Rhein/Main (gay)
• EXIT Ruhrgebiet (gay), Hamburg (gay)
• L-mag Jackwerth Verlag, national (lesbian)
• Gigi – Zeitschrift für sexuelle Emanzipation Förderverein des wissenschaftlich-humanitären komitees (whk) e.V., national (sexually emancipated)

Out of print

• Der Eigene
  Adolf Brand
  Adolf Brand was a German writer, individualist anarchist and pioneering campaigner for the acceptance of male bisexuality and homosexuality.-Biography:...
  
  art and culture, 1896–1931
• Die Freundschaft art and culture, 1919-1933
• HAW-Info (or Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin)
• Homosexuelle Emanzipation Verlag Emanzipation;
• Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen
  Magnus Hirschfeld
  Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which Dustin Goltz called "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights."-Early life:Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in a...
  
  scientific, 1899-1923
• Magnus Magnus Verlag, Jackerth Verlag, national

Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

• Mások
  Mások
  Mások is the name of Hungary's leading LGBT magazine, a social, cultural and human rights monthly, published since April 1991...
  
  ("Others") (Lambda Stúdió; )

  Online version

• Na végre!
  Na végre!
  Na végre! is a free monthly booklet for LGBT people in Budapest with news, reports, reviews and advertisements . It has been published since September 2001. Originally it was only available in gay bars and saunas in Budapest but since 2005 winter it has been available in all Hungary...
  
  ("About time!") (Ráday Music Pub Kft.; )

  Online version

• Boxer

Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

• Aut
• Cassero
• Clubbing
• Lui Guidemagazine
• Pride (magazine)
• Towanda! (lesbian magazine)

Out of print

• Babilonia (magazine)
• Lambda (magazine), 1972–1982

Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

• BÁdi
  Badi (magazine)
  Badi is a monthly Japanese magazine for gay men. The title comes from the Japanese pronunciation of "buddy." Badi is published by Terra Publications....
  
  (バデイ) (Terra Publications)
• G-Men
  G-men (magazine)
  is a monthly Japanese magazine for gay men. Gay magazines in Japan, along with much gay culture, are segregated by 'type' ; G-men was founded in 1994 to cater to gay men who preferred "macho fantasy", as opposed to the sleeker, yaoi-inspired styles popular in the 1980s, and focuses on "macho type" ...
  
  (ジーメン)
• Otoko-machi Map
  Otoko-machi Map
  The Otoko-machi Map is a country-wide guide to Japanese gay establishments.Published yearly, the guide, which is organized by prefecture and city, contains listings for bars, clubs, and host-bars, gay saunas, gay restaurants and bookstores, and other gay or gay-friendly establishments.Listings for...
  
  
• Samson
  Samson (magazine)
  Samson Monthly for Men is a monthly Japanese magazine for gay men.Gay magazines in Japan, along with much gay culture, are segregated by "type"; most are aimed at an audience with specific interests...
  
  (サムソン)

Out of print

• +Kulino
• Apolo
• Del Otro Lado
• Diferente
• Hermes
• Macho Tips

Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, published quarterly by the LGBT organization KAOS GL

KAOS GL

KAOS GL is a Turkish LGBT rights organisation founded in 1994. The organisation has been publishing the journal KAOS GL since its founding. The group operates the KAOS Cultural Center, which hosts cultural activities, meetings, and showings of films...

., published monthly by KAOS GL during 2001.

Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

• One of Us since 1998

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, previously - see also Bent (Australia), literary and arts journal, (Online)

Out of print

closed 15 April 1983, now formally part of Gay Times, North West, 2000–2004 (Free Regional LGBT Newsletter), closed 2008, Outright newsletter 1990s closed, ran 1983–1992

News and information

, covering the Arts, Culture & Society, Coverage of sports events and stories about athletes within the Gay Community, Print and online magazine; a voice for unseen, unheard, and undiscovered artists within the LGBT community., The magazine for GLBT artist & musicians, South Florida Queer'd THE magazine for folks who don't swim in the mainstream. Are you Queer'd? In print and digital.

A–M

, launch 1986, Southeast, San Francisco

• Bay Times Media publisher=Sullivan Communications, Inc, San Francisco launch 1978, new owner, 8/1/2011, New England, launched 1983, Greater Boston and New England, California, Kansas City Metropolitan Area, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oneonta, New York, Dallas, Texas, Atlanta, Georgia, Palm Springs, California, Rochester, New York, Erie PA, launch 1992 - Oklahoma City, Memphis, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia, launch 1982, weekly news and entertainment guide published since 1976...Out of Business Since Sept 2011., New York, launch 1994 originally as , Ohio, launch 1985, Albany, New York, California, Denver, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, New York, Lesbian oriented, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Chicago, Illinois
• HotSpots Magazine (Central and South Florida), published since 1986, Texas, Texas (Nashville
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
  
  , Tennessee), free, Arizona

L Style G Style Magazine, launched 2006, Austin, TX, launched 1976, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, launch 1994, Kansas, free, launch 1994, Washington D.C., launch 1978, Sacramento,California Maryland, launch 1975 & 2009

N–Z

• Next Magazine (New York City)
  Next Magazine (New York City)
  Next Magazine is a gay lifestyle magazine published in New York City by RND Enterprises. Each month, Next releases four issues that address topics of fashion, life, entertainment, sex, and LGBT culture news...
  
  (San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley) (Madison, Wisconsin)
• Out & About Newspaper
  Out & About Newspaper
  -Overview:Out & About Newspaper was started in 2002. The newspaper has a target audience of more than 250,000 people. Circulation for the newspaper is 30,000 per month...
  
  (Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
  
  )
• Out Front Colorado
  Out Front Colorado
  Out Front Colorado is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender newspaper in the Denver metropolitan area. Out Front Colorado was founded by Phil Price with its first issue hitting the stands on April 2, 1976...
  
  (Denver)
• Out on the Town (Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana) (Las Vegas metropolitan area, Nevada) (Phoenix, Arizona
  Phoenix, Arizona
  Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
  
  )
• Outlook Columbus
  Outlook Columbus
  Outlook Media is a Columbus, Ohio-based gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender lifestyle and advocacy company for the Ohio queer and allied community. Outlook Media is named after its primary monthly publication, Outlook Columbus...
  
  (Columbus, Ohio
  Columbus, Ohio
  Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
  
  ) (Outlook Media)
• Outwrite
  Outwrite
  OutWrite is University of California, Los Angeles' lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, pan-sexual, fluid, and ally newsmagazine...
  
   Newsmagazine (University of California, Los Angeles
  University of California, Los Angeles
  The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
  
  ) (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...
  
  ) Charlotte, North Carolina
  Charlotte, North Carolina
  Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...
  
  , North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
  , South Carolina (Sacramento, California
  Sacramento, California
  Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
  
  ) (Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
  
  ) (Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
  
  , Wisconsin
  Wisconsin
  Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
  
  , Iowa
  Iowa
  Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
  
  , Minnesota
  Minnesota
  Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
  
  , Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
  , Michigan
  Michigan
  Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
  
  , North Dakota
  North Dakota
  North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....
  
  , South Dakota
  South Dakota
  South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
  
  )
• Quest
  Quest
  In mythology and literature, a quest, a journey towards a goal, serves as a plot device and as a symbol. Quests appear in the folklore of every nation and also figure prominently in non-national cultures. In literature, the objects of quests require great exertion on the part of the hero, and...
  
  (Green Bay, Wisconsin
  Green Bay, Wisconsin
  Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...
  
  )
• QSaltLake
  QSaltLake
  QSaltLake is a gay and lesbian news and entertainment magazine printed biweekly in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. It contains local, national and world news, an extensive opinion section, arts and entertainment, a bar guide and classifieds...
  
  (Salt Lake City
  Salt Lake City, Utah
  Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
  
  , Utah
  Utah
  Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
  
  ) (Salt Lick Publishing) (Las Vegas
  Las Vegas metropolitan area
  The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
  
  , Nevada) (Stonewall Publishing)
• Southern Voice
• South Florida Gay News (SFGN), Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...
  
   (SouthFloridaGayNews.com, Inc.) (Naples/Fort Myers/Sarasota, Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
  )
• The Rainbow Times Western Mass, north central CT and southern VT LGBT news and entertainment monthly newspaper and online publication, published out of the Lesbian Capital of the World (Northampton, MA) (St. Louis), Ontario, Memphis, Tennessee
• United We Stand – Kentucky's LGBTI News, Richmond, Kentucky
  Richmond, Kentucky
  There were 10,795 households out of which 24.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.2% were married couples living together, 12.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 48.6% were non-families. Of all households, 34.7% were made up of individuals and 8.8% had...
  
   (United We Stand Media, LLC.)
• Washington Blade (Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
  
  ) (Window Media
  Window Media
  Window Media was a gay press publishing holding company that acquired and operated gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines in the 2000s. It is not to be confused with Windows Media...
  
  ; )
• What's Happening? (South Florida)
• Windy City Times
  Windy City Times
  Windy City Times is Chicago's oldest LGBT newspaper, and the only Chicago gay publication with an independent circulation audit current as of 2008....
  
  (Windy City Media Group; )
• "Wire Magazine" Weekly lifestyle publication. South Florida: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, & the beaches

Lifestyle

• A Bear's Life Magazine (Bear Brothers)
• Connextions Magazine http://www.connextionsmagazine.com
• Curve
  Curve (magazine)
  Curve is a lesbian magazine in the United States. It covers news, politics, social issues, and includes celebrity interviews and stories on entertainment, pop culture, style, travel, and a website that hosts an internet forum focusing on lesbian issues, active since 2000.The magazine was first...
  
  (Outspoken Enterprises; )
• The Rainbow Times (The Rainbow Times, LLC) www.therainbowtimesnews.com
• Echo Magazine (ACE Publishing)
• Envy Man (Envy Media Group)
• Gay Parent Magazine (Gay Parent; )
• GayWebMoney Magazine
• Girlfriends (Girlfriends Magazine; )
• Icarus, the Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction
• Instinct
  Instinct (magazine)
  Instinct is a monthly American magazine geared toward gay men, published by Instinct Publishing, Inc. since 1997. Distributed by Curtis Circulation...
  
  (Instinct Magazine; )
• JustUsBoys
  JustUsBoys
  JustUsBoys is a gay pornography website with a large online community featuring a forum, a member web-blog system and an electronic monthly magazine....
  
   Magazine
• Lavender Magazine (Lavender Lifestyles Marketing; )
• LGBT Living & Weddings Magazine
• MetroSource (Metrosource Publishing, Inc.; )
• My Comrade
  My Comrade
  My Comrade is a queer underground magazine published and edited by Linda/Les Simpson, a drag queen from New York City. It was published between 1987 and 1994, and came back recently in 2004.-From 1987 to 1994:...
  
  
• Next Door Magazine
• 'noiZe Magazine (The Premier Guide to Dance, Festival and Circuit Events Worldwide.; )
• OMG! Magazine
  OMG! Magazine
  OMG! Magazine is a lifestyle and news publication which targets the gay & lesbian community. The magazine publishes articles on current affairs, travel, news and politics....
  
   (publisher= OMG Multimedia Companies, LLC) www.omgmag.com
• Out
  Out (magazine)
  Out is a popular gay and lesbian fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any gay monthly publication in the United States. It carries itself in a similar editorial manner to Details, Esquire, and GQ. Out was published by PlanetOut Inc...
  
  (LPI Media; )
• Pride & Equality Magazine
• R* (evedesasas; )
• "Queerd" THE magazine for folks who don't swim in the mainstream. Print & Digital
• Qr Magazine (Qr Media; )
• qvMagazine
• RFD Magazine
  RFD (magazine)
  RFD is a reader-written magazine focused on queer country-living and alternative lifestyles. It was founded in 1974, and has been edited at various locations and by different groups over the course of its existence. The magazine is published on a quarterly basis from New England...
  
  (RFD Press Inc.; ) www.rfdmag.org
• She Magazine (She Girls, LLC)
• Velvetpark (Velvetpark Magazine; )
• VizionsMagazine.NET (QNA Media Group, LLC)
• Xodus USA (Xodus USA; )
• Zeus (Fenocia Publishing Company, Inc; )

Out of print

• 411 Magazine, South Florid Blade
• abOUT
  AbOUT
  abOUT was a Toronto-based online biweekly lifestyles and current affairs website, serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities of North America....
  
  (Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
  
  , Buffalo
  Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
  
  )
• After Dark
  After Dark (magazine)
  After Dark was an entertainment magazine that covered theatre, cinema, stage plays, ballet, performance art, and various artists, including singers, actors and actresses, and dancers, among others. First published in May 1968, the magazine succeeded Ballroom Dance Magazine...
  
  
• Anything That Moves
  Anything That Moves
  Anything That Moves was a literary, journalistic, and topical magazine published in the United States from 1990 to 2002. It was created as an expansion of the San Francisco Bay Area Bisexual Network newsletter by BABN member, Karla Rossi, in collaboration with bisexual and bi-friendly editors,...
  
  
• Bear Magazine
  Bear Magazine
  BEAR Magazine is a periodical specifically geared toward gay men who are — or who admire — "bears", i.e., men with facial and/or body hair. It was initially published in San Francisco, California in 1987 by Richard Bulger and his partner Chris Nelson and marketed to the bear community within the...
  
  (Brush Creek Media; )
• Blackfire
  BLK (magazine)
  BLK was a monthly American newsmagazine, similar in format to Time and The Advocate, which targeted its coverage of people, events and issues to African American LGBT readers....
  
  (BLK Publishing Co.; )
• Black Lace
  BLK (magazine)
  BLK was a monthly American newsmagazine, similar in format to Time and The Advocate, which targeted its coverage of people, events and issues to African American LGBT readers....
  
  (BLK Publishing Co.; )
• BLK
  BLK (magazine)
  BLK was a monthly American newsmagazine, similar in format to Time and The Advocate, which targeted its coverage of people, events and issues to African American LGBT readers....
  
  (Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
  
  ), (BLK Publishing Co.; )
• Christopher Street
  Christopher Street (magazine)
  Christopher Street was a gay-oriented magazine published in New York City, New York. Known both for its serious discussion of issues within the gay community and its satire of anti-gay criticism, it was one of the two most-widely read gay-issues publications in the United States...
  
  
• Church Street Freedom Press (Nashville, TN
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
  
  ) (Published by Freedom Press Publishing)
• DRUM
  Drum (American magazine)
  Drum was an American LGBT-interest magazine based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Published monthly beginning in 1964 by the homophile activist group the Janus Society and edited by Clark Polak, Drum took its title from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "If a man does not keep pace with his...
  
  (Philadelphia) 1964–1967. Published by the Janus Society
  Janus Society
  The Janus Society was an early homophile organization based in Philadelphia. It is notable as the publisher of DRUM magazine, one of the earliest LGBT-interest publications in the United States, and for its role in organizing many of the nation's earliest LGBT rights demonstrations.-Drum:Drum was...
  
  .
• ETC (Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
  
  )
• Gay Community News
  Gay Community News (Boston)
  Gay Community News was a weekly journal published in Boston from 1973 to 1992 by the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation. It was an important resource for the LGBT community...
  
  (Boston
  Boston
  Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
  
  /Cambridge
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
  
  , Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
  
  ), (Bromfield Street Educational Foundation; )
• Gaysweek
  Gaysweek
  Gaysweek was New York City's first mainstream weekly lesbian and gay newspaper. It was founded by Alan Bell in 1977. Gaysweek began as an 8-page single-color tabloid and when it ceased publication in 1979 after 104 issues, it had grown to a 24-page two-color publication. Its monthly arts...
  
  (New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  ), (New York Gay News, Inc.; )
• Genre
  Genre (magazine)
  Genre magazine was a New York city-based monthly periodical written for gay men. It was owned by gay press publisher Window Media.-History:...
  
  (Genre Publishing; )
• HERO Magazine
• Homocore
  Homocore (zine)
  Homocore is an American anarcho-punk zine created by Tom Jennings and Deke Nihilson, and published in San Francisco from 1988 to 1991. One of the first queer zines, Homocore was directed toward the hardcore punk youth of the gay underground...
  
  
• In the Family (Family Magazine, Inc; )
• Kuumba
  BLK (magazine)
  BLK was a monthly American newsmagazine, similar in format to Time and The Advocate, which targeted its coverage of people, events and issues to African American LGBT readers....
  
  (BLK Publishing Co.; )
• LivingOUT
  LivingOUT
  LivingOUT was a biweekly newspaper published by LivingOUT Media Group in Minnesota from June, 2004 through June, 2005. The publication reported on local and national news events with an intended market of LGBT Families....
  
  (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota) (LivingOUT Media)
• Our Families (Sacramento, California
  Sacramento, California
  Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
  
  )
• OUT/LOOK National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly (San Francisco (The OUT/LOOK Foundation)
• OutWeek
  OutWeek
  OutWeek Magazine was an influential gay and lesbian weekly news magazine published in New York City from 1989 to 1991. During its two year existence, OutWeek was widely considered the leading voice of AIDS activism and the initiator of a radical new sensibility in lesbian and gay...
  
  , once provided as a supplement to LPI Media publications like Out Magazine and The Advocate The Out Traveler is no longer in publication.
• Q-Ragg newspaper (Sacramento, California
  Sacramento, California
  Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
  
  )
• Queen's Quarterly 1969 to about 1982
• Salt Lake Metro
  Salt Lake Metro
  The Salt Lake Metro was a free gay and lesbian bi-weekly newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was published by Metro Publishing, Inc. owned by Michael Aaron and Steven Peterson...
  
  (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Metro Publishing)
• This Side Up Newspaper (Sacramento, California
  Sacramento, California
  Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
  
  )
• Triangle Report (Sacramento, California
  Sacramento, California
  Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
  
  )
• Venus Magazine
• fab! Newspaper Los Angeles
• Vice Versa
  Vice Versa (magazine)
  Subtitled "America's Gayest Magazine", Vice Versa is the earliest known U.S. periodical published especially for lesbians, as well as the earliest extant example of the lesbian and gay press in that country....
  
  
• XY
  XY (magazine)
  XY was a gay male youth-oriented magazine published in the United States of America from 1996 to 2007. Its name was a reference to the XY chromosome pair found in males. XY magazine ceased publication in 2007, and its web site XY.com went offline in 2009...
  
  (XY Publishing; )
• YGA (Young Gay America)

Scholarly

, online version , online version , online version

Historical research resources

• International Directory of Gay and Lesbian Periodicals (Oryx Press, 1987), ISBN 0-89774-297-4.
• Lesbian Periodicals Index (1986), ISBN 0-930044-74-6.
• Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970–1990 (1993), ISBN 0-8153-0782-9.
• Our Own Voices: A Directory of Lesbian and Gay Periodicals, 1890–1990: Including the Complete Holdings of the Canadian Gay Archives (Canadian Gay Archives, 1991), ISBN 0-9690981-6-2.
• Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements (LGBT) Periodicals Collection, 1968–2005, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

See also

• Beefcake magazines
  Beefcake magazines
  Beefcake magazines were magazines published in North America in the 1930s to 1960s that featured photographs of attractive, muscular young men in athletic poses...
  
  
• List of pornographic magazines
• List of men's magazines
• List of lesbian periodicals

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