Scope and Contents Bravo! Newsmagazine was a San Diego weekly publication covering local and national news related to the LGBTQ community. News (local, state, national), reviews, opinion, events, local ads, services and resources, and photos. Library holds two issues from 1992 and 1993. Local coverage includes:1992-06-18: "Mayor Forms First Gay and Lesbian Advisory Board," "Update Publisher and Founder, Donald Hauck, Dead at 62," "Councilman Hartley, Citizens Patrol, Receives John Wear...

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Max Disposti is the founder and Executive Director of the North County LGBTQ Resource Center. In this interview, Max discusses his upbringing in Rome, Italy as a queer male and his experience coming to the U.S. and his quest to open the Resource Center. Max Disposti also talks about the parallels in how the LGBTQ+ community is treated in Italy in comparison to America.

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En la Vida was a news magazine published monthly out of Chicago, Illinois. It focused on Latinx LGBTQ+ communities and content. Library holdings are one issue (July 2002), which contains a cover story and photographs on Pride in Tijuana and the Rainbow over the Border Partnership: A Bi-National LGBT Border Project.

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Largely a gay-focused newsmagazine with some content geared towards lesbians, the Pacific Coast Times covered national, California, and local news and culture relevant to San Diego's gay and lesbian community, with a strong focus on California, especially the LA and San Diego regions. Publications also contain ads, events, entertainment, services, reviews cartoons, photography. Library holdings consist of nine issues in total.

Scope and Contents Leea Pronovost is a transgender activist and has been advocating for transgender and LGBTQ+ rights since coming out after a near-death experience in 2006. Pronovost began her work in activism in Massachusetts and partnered with a variety of organizations where she worked to help the queer community in areas such as LGBTQ+ education, housing, and hospital rights. She also worked for the Transgender Law Center and the Trans Lifeline. Now residing in Vista, CA, Pronovost is a staff member at...

Scope and Contents "Sexual Freedom Comes to S.D." [New local chapter of Sexual Freedom League holds first open house meeting; Tom Palmer, Executive Director, spoke]; Schools in Turmoil" [Lincoln High School campus closure, Black and Chicanx student walkouts at other campuses, student protests, class boycotts]; "Sexual Freedom Bill" [fact sheet on Assembly Bill 743, Assemblymen Brown and Burton]; "Dr. John Ford on Lincoln Hassle" [Ford was a member of the State Board of Education, he spoke regarding the police...

Scope and Contents [reprinted pictorial from Harper's Weekly "Military Glory"]; "Hippie Rebellion" [Dr. Kingsley Widmer, teacher at San Diego State College, talks with the Door about the day's youth]; "Editorial: Poverty"; "mother's day"; "bag of beads: the abominable body" [satire about clothing and nakedness]; "Freedom of the Press at Clairemont High" [Clairmont High School attempts to start a student paper]; "Report on SDS National Council" [Students for a Democratic Society gives support to Black Panther...

Scope and Contents "Teacher Fights School Board: Educators Show Contempt For First" [Robert W. Holden's challenge of the San Diego Unified School District over First Ammendment grounds]; "Door Reporter Gets Marined" [Door reporter Herb Joseph detained on way to attend trial of Seaman Thomas Csekey, chared with passing out copies of the "Bond" an antiwar serviceman's newspaper; offense alleged to have happened at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona.]; "Bag of Beads" [Apollo 11; John Birchers; Encounter;...

Scope and Contents "Local Green Berets Strike Again--Free Door Victimized" [vandalism, San Diego Steet Journal and Free Door to Liberation]; "Meanies Attack Street Journal" [vandalism, San Diego Street Journal]; "San Diego Business Association Newsletter" [meeting notes and goals]; "PFP Plans Convention" [Peace and Freedom Party]; "Red Man Rising Peace Pipe or War Drums?" [Native American liberation]; "Sanity Now!" [peace-activist education center, LaPuente, California]; "Support the Underground Press";...

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The San Diego Lesbian Press was concerned with local and national issues relevant to San Diego's lesbian community, and had contributions from local and national figures. Library holdings may be a complete run of the Lesbian Press, which seems to have ceased publication around 1992.