Debuting in 1973, GCN featured news stories, commentaries, personal ads and letters to the editor that provide a glimpse of what queer life was like in New England in the immediate post-Stonewall era. Now, The History Project and the Massachusetts Historical Society are exploring the paper's legacy.
Gay Community News Office Manager Ron Arruda driving a GCN birthday cake in the 1974 Pride parade and celebration in Boston.
“It felt like we were in the center of the universe, with the phone ringing constantly, and people coming and going to report and get information,” remembers writer.” “But in another sense, we were so marginal that it’s hard to remember what it was like today. We would never have seen an article in The Boston Globe or New York Times about anything having to do with LGBTQ people. … In terms of queer culture, we covered every queer concert, book, play and performance.
GCN’s finances were usually precarious not just because “a lot of advertisers didn’t want to advertise in a gay paper, but also because we were often alienating our best advertisers, the bars,” remembers Hoffman. “There was a much larger network of queer bars than there is now, but part of the reason GCN was founded was as an alternative to the bars.”The paper was the most prominent Boston-area queer print voice of its era, but it wasn’t the first.
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