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Black Lesbian Newsletter / Onyx Collection, 1979-1989
GLC 102
GLC 102
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Title:
Black Lesbian Newsletter /
Onyx Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1979-1989, undated
Date (bulk): 1982-1984
Collection Identifier: GLC 102
Physical Description:
22.0 folders
(0.25 linear feet)
Contributing Institution:
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
(415) 557-4400
info@sfpl.org
Abstract:
Black Lesbian Newsletter, later titled
Onyx, was published in San Francisco and, later, Berkeley from 1982-1984. The newsletter includes poems, drawings, political perspectives,
photographs, book reviews, event listings, personals, and some business listings. There is one letter to the newsletter and
two mounted newsletter covers. The collection also includes related materials on the Bay Area Black Lesbian Political Caucus
and BAST Cafe (Bay Area African-American Sisters Together).
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item],
Black Lesbian Newsletter /
Onyx Collection (GLC 102), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Provenance unknown.
Black Lesbian Newsletter was published in San Francisco and, later, Berkeley from 1982-1984. Its working title changed to
Onyx as the result of suggestions from its readership. The newsletter was the brainchild of Laverne Gagehabib, A. C. Barber and
Vivienne Walker-Crawford.
The collection includes a nearly complete set of issues of
Black Lesbian Newsletter and
Onyx. There is one letter to the newsletter and two mounted newsletter covers. The collection also includes a few folders with
related materials on the Bay Area Black Lesbian Political Caucus and BAST Cafe (Bay Area African-American Sisters Together).
Arranged into two series: Series 1.
Black Lesbian Newsletter and
Onyx; and, Series 2. Subject Files.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African American Lesbians--California--Periodicals
African American lesbians--Periodicals.
African American lesbians--United States.
Racism.