{"id":174986,"date":"2026-02-12T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174986\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:05:10","slug":"from-the-glbt-historical-society-periodicals-collection-onyx-black-lesbian-newsletter-san-francisco-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174986\/","title":{"rendered":"From the GLBT Historical Society Periodicals Collection: Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter &#8211; San Francisco Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-65.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53419\" width=\"422\" height=\"260\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>This Black History Month, the GLBT Historical Society is highlighting a remarkable piece of Bay Area LGBTQ+ history from our Periodicals Collection, Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770901509_825_image-64.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53418\" width=\"458\" height=\"564\"   \/>Pages from Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter February\u2013March, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Originally launched in 1982 as Black Lesbian Newsletter (later retitled Onyx), this San Francisco and Berkeley-based publication offered Black lesbian writers, artists, and organizers a vital space to speak for themselves at a time when their voices were often excluded from both mainstream media and predominantly white LGBTQ+ spaces. Published through 1984, the newsletter blended culture, politics, and community-building.<\/p>\n<p>The issue displayed here, February\u2013March 1984 (Vol. 3, No. 1), reflects the breadth and urgency of this work. It includes poetry, political reflections, book reviews, a community calendar, and classified listings alongside staff notes and calls for subscriptions and donations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-62.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"53416\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-62.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sfbaytimes.com\/?attachment_id=53416\" class=\"wp-image-53416\"   \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770901510_25_image-63.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"53417\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770901510_25_image-63.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sfbaytimes.com\/?attachment_id=53417\" class=\"wp-image-53417\"   \/>Pages from Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter February\u2013March, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Standout pieces include \u201cJournal Entry: Reminders\u201d by Lucille Hunt (1984) and \u201cLesbianism Is a Reality\u201d by Tania Abdulahad (1983), as well as a brief essay marking February as Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>This issue of Onyx is available as part of the GLBT Historical Society\u2019s digital collections, thanks to digitization funding from the California State Library.<\/p>\n<p>To explore this, and other Onyx issues\u2014along with other collections\u2014visit <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4akZ9mH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4akZ9mH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View this entire issue by following the QR code.<\/p>\n<p>Community Treasures from the GLBT Historical Society Archives<br \/>Published on February 12, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Black History Month, the GLBT Historical Society is highlighting a remarkable piece of Bay Area LGBTQ+ history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-174986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}