Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter

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Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter
EditorLaverne Gagehabib, A. C. Barber, Vivienne Walker-Crawford
Categories Lesbian
FrequencyBimonthly
First issue1982
Final issue1984
CountryUnited States
Based in Berkeley, California
LanguageEnglish
OCLC 69262012
Cover of the June/July 1983 edition of Onyx. Illustration by Sarita Johnson. Onyx Sarita Johnson.jpg
Cover of the June/July 1983 edition of Onyx. Illustration by Sarita Johnson.

Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter was a bimonthly magazine focusing on Black lesbian life and culture. [2] [3] [4] [5] Originally titled Black Lesbian Newsletter, Onyx was based in Berkeley from 1982 to 1984. [6] [7] [3] [8] It was created by Laverne Gagehabib, A.C. Barber, and Vivienne Walker-Crawford. [9] The newsletter contained fiction pieces, opinion articles, news, reviews, poems, personal ads, art, and photographs. [10] Onyx was the earliest of the three San Francisco Bay Area publications which focused on Black lesbian life and culture, the others being Aché: A Journal for Lesbians of African Descent and Issues! The Magazine for Lesbians of Color. [11] Onyx covers were illustrated by Sarita Johnson. [9] Its editors included Marlene Bonner. [12]

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  1. ↑ Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter, June / July 1983. 1983.
  2. ↑ Piccoli, Dana (October 30, 2023). "Exploring 70 years of lesbian publications: From 1940s zines to modern glossy magazines". News Is Out. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Smith, Michael J. (1983). Colorful People and Places: A Resource Guide for Third World Lesbians and Gay Men ... and for White People who Share Their Interests. Quarterly Press of BWMT. p. 27.
  4. ↑ Bell, Alan, ed. (1991). BLK. BLK Company. p. 16.
  5. ↑ Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. Women's Studies Librarian-at-Large for The University of Wisconsin System. 1983.
  6. ↑ Myers, JoAnne (2013). Historical dictionary of the lesbian and gay liberation movements. Lanham. p. 444. ISBN   978-0-8108-7468-8. OCLC   861537183.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ Ostertag, Bob (2006). People's movements, people's press : the journalism of social justice movements. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. p. 97. ISBN   0-8070-6164-6. OCLC   62281826.
  8. ↑ Cruikshank, Margaret (1984). New Lesbian Writing: An Anthology. Grey Fox Press. p. 200. ISBN   978-0-912516-81-3 . Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  9. 1 2 Wilson, Tim (2015). " Black Lesbian Newsletter / Onyx Collection, 1979-1989 GLC 102 ". Prepared for the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library . Retrieved 2025-05-20.
  10. ↑ Fauxsmith, Jennifer. "Research Guides: LGBTQ+: Magazines & Newsletters". guides.library.harvard.edu. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
  11. ↑ Cassell, Heather (December 16, 2009). "Black lesbians display their Sapphic history". The Bay Area Reporter. Archived from the original on June 28, 2021.
  12. ↑ Oxbridge Directory of Newsletters. Oxbridge Communications. 1991. p. 395. ISBN   978-0-917460-32-6.
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