List of LGBTQ periodicals

The following is a list of periodicals (printed magazines, journals and newspapers) aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) demographic by country.

Australia

A full list of Australian LGBTQ+ periodicals can be found at Australian Queer Archives.

Free

Out of print

Blue magazine cover, June 2001 issue
  • Blue. Sydney: Studio Magazines.   ISSN 1323-0026. (1995–2007): A bimonthly visual arts magazine with a focus on male nude photography. The last issue was in 2007.
  • Black+White
  • Dandy. Sydney: Vice.   (2012–2014): A digital magazine published between 2012 and 2014. It was a part of the Vice Blogging Network.
  • Queensland Pride. (Evolution Publishing)  OCLC 37172176.
  • SX News. (E evolution Publishing)  ISSN 1445-2642. OCLC 222860884.

Austria

Out of print

  • Tamtam. (Kulturverein Schwulesbisch in Gumpendorf)  OCLC 24646763.

Bangladesh

Belgium

Brazil

Out of print

Canada

Probably the most comprehensive list and largest collection of Canadian and international LGBT periodicals is at the ArQuives in Toronto. See the following website: Our Collections Archived 20 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine.

Out of print

  • abOUT. (Ninth Avenue Media)  , Toronto and New York
  • Angles. (Vancouver Gay Community Centre Society)  ISSN 0824-2100. OCLC 10845159. (1983–1998). There is a detailed digital (PDF) INDEX to the contents of Angles and its predecessor, VGCC News, covering the period 1980 to 1998. Index is titled Angles and VGCC News and is available through Library and Archives Canada's online catalogue, through OCLC's WorldCat, or at the Internet Archive. (A few libraries also have print copies of the index).
  • fab (fab Style Quarterly). (Toronto: No Fear Publishing)  ISSN 1704-3166. , launch 2006
  • GO Info (Ottawa: Gays of Ottawa). ISSN 0315-0151.
  • J.D.s (Toronto)
  • Le Berdache(PDF). Montréal (Québec): Association pour les droits de la communauté gaie du Québec.   ISSN 0704-5719. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
  • Le petit Berdache (Montreal)
  • Messieurs, mes amours. Montréal (Québec): Les entreprises Normand Vaughan.   ISSN 0704-5719.
  • OutWords. (Outwords Inc)  ISSN 1715-5606. , Manitoba
  • Outlooks. Calgary: SuperMarketing.   ISSN 1704-7927.
  • Perceptions (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), 1983–2013. (There is also a separately published index to this periodical, in both print and PDF, covering years 1983–2004; check index holdings by some libraries in OCLC WorldCat and note that a copy of the index is also archived at Internet Archive; see also entry for Perceptions (magazine), elsewhere in Wikipedia). NOTE that this periodical title is sometimes given in library catalogues or elsewhere as: Gay and Lesbian Perceptions.
  • Rites (Rites pub). ISSN 0828-5802 (Toronto)
  • Siren (Toronto: More Sex Please! Press). ISSN 1205-6251.
  • The Body Politic (Toronto: Pink Triangle Press). ISSN 0315-3606
  • The Church-Wellesley Review. (Pink Triangle Press)  ISSN 1483-8281.
  • The Gaezette (Atlantic Canada)
  • Urban Fitness (Vancouver) (Health & lifestyle title for North American market.)
  • Xtra! (Toronto: Pink Triangle Press; ISSN 0829-3384)

China

See also separate list at: Hong Kong.

乐点 / 点 = Gay Spot / GS / Gayspot Magazine (Beijing, 2007– ).

One of the longest-running mainland Chinese LGBT periodicals. Note that digital (PDF) archival copies for the period 2007 to 2015 (26 issues) have been posted for preservation to the Internet Archive. The entry as given above notes the various titles, in both simplified Chinese characters and in English, by which this periodical is represented. And yet one additional title form, Le Dian, has also been seen (as the Hanyu pinyin transliterated title).

Femalefield = 女性天地 (1990s?).

Note one archived sample issue of Femalefield at Internet Archive.

Les+ (Beijing, 2005–2013).

Missionary (Beijing, 2018– ).

First issue of Missionary, Sept. 2018, called "Public", created by DaddyGreenBASEMENT and "showcasing a series of personal discussions about male homosexuality in public spaces" (Emma Sun posting, Jan. 16, 2019, radiichina.com).

Costa Rica

Czech Republic

Finland

Out of print

France

Out of print

Georgia

Germany

Out of print

Greece

Hong Kong

For a more complete list of current and discontinued Hong Kong LGBT periodicals, see the "Towards Full Citizenship" bibliography (HK LGBT Periodicals section of that list). "Towards Full Citizenship" (5th ed., 2024) is accessible online at this link . (Earlier editions of the bibliography, also carrying periodical lists, can be accessed through Library and Archives Canada's catalogue and via the OCLC WorldCat).

NOTE: several Hong Kong periodicals of the 1990s have been archived to the Internet Archive site. (Click below on Contacts Magazine and on Satsanga Newsletter, which have been linked; note also that digital copies of Hong Kong Ten Percent Journal have also been archived to Internet Archive). Additionally, contents of the three titles noted in the previous sentence have been indexed in a separately published index titled: IN THEIR OWN VOICES, which is electronically available at this link , and also through Library and Archives Canada's online catalogue (Aurora).

Note also some other 1980s and 1990s titles archived as sample issues at Internet Archive (女同誌 ；同志後浪; and one issue each of Pink Triangle and East Tide [see immediately following list for Chinese titles of these last two]).

Hungary

India

1986 - Anamika - Print Magazine for South Asian lesbians and Bisexual women.

Indonesia

The following four Indonesian titles are noted by the Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives:

Ireland

Out of print

Italy

Out of print

Japan

Out of print

  • Samson (サムソン), 1982–2020
  • BÁdi (バデイ) (Terra Publications), 1994–2019
  • G-Men (ジーメン), 1995–2016
  • Adon (アドン), 1974–1996
    • MLMW (ムルム), 1978–1981
  • Adonisv(アドニス), Yukio Mishima was concerned with foundation of a periodical, 1952–1962
  • Anise (アニース)
  • Bara (薔薇), launch 1964
  • Barakomi (バラコミ), launch 1986
  • Carmilla (カーミラ)
  • doukou (同好), launch 1959
  • Fabulous (ファビュラス), launch 1999
  • The Gay (ザ ゲイ), launch 1978
  • Kuia Japan – Queer Japan. (Keisō Shobō-2001)  OCLC 43906181. , launch 1999
  • Niji (虹)
  • P-NUTS (P-NUTS), launch 1996
  • Sabu (さぶ), 1974–2002
  • Super Monkey (スーパーモンキー), launch 1979
  • yes (yes), launch 2006

Jordan

Lebanon

Out of print

  • Barra

Mexico

Out of print

Nigeria

Out of print

The Netherlands

Out of print

Poland

The Philippines

Russia

Out of print

  • Kvir transl. Queer (2003-2012)

Serbia

Out of print

  • Dečko magazine
  • Pride magazine

Singapore

Out of print

  • Manazine

Slovenia

Out of print

  • Narobe. (DIC Legebitra)  ISSN 1854-8474.
  • 1xy. (Škuc Magnus) 
  • eLmagazin. (MKC Maribor) 
  • Lesbo. (Škuc LL)  OCLC 442867867.
  • Kekec. (Škuc Magnus) 
  • Legebitrina Oznanila. (Legebitra) 
  • Revolver. (Škuc)  ISSN 1318-2668.
  • Sestre.  

South Korea

Spain

Out of print

"Dunas Mag " - Gay Magazine in Maspalomas and Gran Canaria (in English / every 3 months).

Sweden

Out of print

  • Destroyer. (Karl Andersson)  ISSN 1801-8203. , launched May 2006, global quarterly distribution, ceased publication in January 2010

Switzerland

Out of print

Taiwan

Thailand

See the Australian National University project website for many archived Thai LGBT periodicals in electronic format. ThaiRainbowArchive: Catalogue

Turkey

Uganda

United Kingdom

Out of print

United States

National news and information

Regional

Lifestyle

Health

Travel

  • Connextions Magazine. (Connextions Magazine LLC)  ISSN 2160-4355.
  • Passport Magazine. (Q Communications)  ISSN 1531-0213.
  • OUTCOAST (Gay Florida Travel Magazine)

Out of print

Scholarly

Historical research resources

  • International Directory of Gay and Lesbian Periodicals (Oryx Press, 1987), ISBN 0-89774-297-4
  • Lesbian Periodicals Index (1986), ISBN 0-930044-74-6
  • Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970–1990 (1993), ISBN 0-8153-0782-9
  • Our Own Voices: A Directory of Lesbian and Gay Periodicals, 1890–1990: Including the Complete Holdings of the Canadian Gay Archives (Canadian Gay Archives, 1991), ISBN 0-9690981-6-2
  • Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements (LGBT) Periodicals Collection, 1968–2005, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

See also

References

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