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Until the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation ceased operation in due to financial difficulties, the Gay Community News was one of the oldest, most progressive national newspapers in the gay community. Eight Boston gays and lesbians started the newspaper in to create a community voice for gays and lesbians in the Boston area.

Inthe Gay Community News became national in scope and distribution. Recently all the issues of the Gay Community News in the Northeastern Collection have been digitized.

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The Collection contains the majority of issues between to with only a scattering of issues missing. The Bromfield Street Educational Foundation also sponsored other projects, including the Prisoners Project, an effort between and to support gays and lesbians in prison; OutWrite, an annual conference between and for gay and lesbian writers; Off-the-Page, a monthly reading series between and in Boston of gay and lesbian authors; and the Queer Progressive Organizing School, a forum in to organize progressive gay activists.

View Digitized Newspapers. View Finding Aid.