The 'Old Gays' are gettg their own doceri

Contents:

• NEWS OF THE COLUMB GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY
• PRS PASS Q
• GAY COMMUNITY
• GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE
• CLEVELAND'S GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE CEAS PUBLITN, NOW UP FOR SALE 

• THE 'OLD GAYS' ARE GETTG THEIR OWN DOCERI

NEWS OF THE COLUMB GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY

Jt 16 years later, the Gay People? We were the send major LGBT newspaper the cy, after the Gay Edutn and Awarens Rourc Foundatn?

This year is no different, and this issue of the Gay People? Belda Carlisle is headlg Cleveland Pri this year, and the former Go-Gos sger is the proud mother of an out gay son.

PRS PASS Q

Also clud this issue is a personal acunt of another gay son reflectg on his relatnship wh his father, followg his father? Over the years here Oh, we have weathered everythg om antigay legislatn, to signifintly ls-than-supportive muni/fai, to the vastatn of HIV/AIDS, to severe enomic downturns.

GAY COMMUNITY

Captured the k are the voic and stori of lbians who were not given their proper due other gay media, even as Dah provid a platform to brg the muny closer together both on and off the page.

GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

The publitn featured a mix of lol and natnal news, verage of Cleveland and surroundg area events, advertisg for gay bs, and que a few vers featurg origal works of art. News of the Columb Gay and Lbian Communy. Lnchg the late 1970s, News of the Columb Gay and Lbian Communy is wily regard as one of Oh’s olst gay and lbian publitns.

Dpe s name, the newspaper (which had more the appearance of a really thick newsletter on newsprt) featured news both lol and natnal, alongsi personals ads, movie reviews, and the regular prtg of the standgs the gay bowlg league.

CLEVELAND'S GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE CEAS PUBLITN, NOW UP FOR SALE 


Unr the tagle of “Servg Gays, Lbians and Friends, ” the newspaper prented a wi swath of ntent: natnal LGBTQ+ news (ually on the ont page), updat om var LGBTQ+ anizatns Ccnati, photos om events, and a “Health Comments by Dr. Gay People’s Chronicle. Gay People’s Chronicle beme Cleveland’s send major publitn for the LGBTQ+ muny when was lnched 1985 by Charl Callenr, a profsor of anthropology at Case Wtern Rerve Universy.

The Gaybeat. The Gaybeat lnched on January 21, 1985, the same day as Print Reagan’s send guratn. From their first issue, “This day marks another kd of guratn as well, that of a lol, gay news publitn…The purpos of The GayBeat are the: to report the news; to te the readg public about the issu which impact our muny; and to help foster a llective, polil agenda for the lbian and gay male muny of greater Ccnati.

THE 'OLD GAYS' ARE GETTG THEIR OWN DOCERI

” Over s 10 years prt, Gaybeat took many forms, om photopied typed sheets to a newsletter appearance to more tradnal newsprt. The ont ver did not acknowledge s lnch, stead tailg a story about the phone book allowg the words “gay and lbian” an ad, alongsi a story of a Ccnati man who was fired om his job after was reported that he was tted for AIDS.

The word self means ‘new’; but this magaze offers and gay and lbian muny somethg has long valued: lol news. After both Outl and Gay People’s Chronicle had closed up shop, Spotlight was lnched to fill the void of accsg LGBTQ+ ntent Northeast Oh.

” Although only lasted om January 2014 to Augt later that same year, Spotlight played a pivotal role dissematg rmatn and entertag the mass who had assembled for Gay Gam 9 om all over the world. (Our thanks to the followg who helped put this list together: Phebe Beiser, Jeff Bixby, Michael Chanak, Brian DeWt, Gay Oh History Iniative (GOHI), Staley Jophiel Munroe, Oh History Connectn, Oh Lbian Archiv, Bob Vale, and Wtern Rerve Historil Society.