Gay Community News

Gay Community News was an American weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1973 to 1999. Designed as a resource for the LGBT community, the newspaper reported a wide variety of gay and lesbian-related news.

Founded as a collectively-run, local newsletter, early in the struggle for gay liberation, it was soon expanded into a major newspaper with an international readership. The publication saw itself as part an important vehicle for debating gay rights, feminism, antiracism, multiculturalism, class struggle, prisoners’ rights, AIDS, and other causes. The newspaper’s influence was such that it enjoyed a “national reach that was considered the movement’s ‘paper of record’ throughout the ‘70s, and whose alumni at one point occupied so many leadership roles around the country that they were called the 'GCN mafia’”.

This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.