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Title: The Washington Blade, March 22, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on Mayor-elect Dixon's plan for the D.C. Office of AIDS Activities, comparison of finances of gay and AIDS advocacy groups, a one vote loss for Hate Crimes protection in Maryland's House, a look at Jason Dilley's exhibition of plaster casts of the faces of AIDS victims, recognition for activists Ruth Siegel and Tania Abdulahad and women's bookstore owner Mary Farmer, updated procedures for Social Security AIDS claims, efforts by Act Up to convince the Federal Election Commission to accept groups' efforts to oppose re-election of Anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms, a look at campaign financing for the Evans v. Zais race in D.C.'s Ward 2, interviews with musical group Two Nice Girls and False Face Society's Ann Hairston, a look at the struggle to find a local gallery to host the exhibition 'u201cIssues of Gender'u201d, an interview with choreographer Bill T. Jones, arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 12

Title: The Washington Blade, August 2, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on efforts by AIDS activists to oppose another Helms amendment, denials from the Defense Department over allegations it halted discharge proceedings against gay service members to deploy for Desert Shield despite the release of documents implying such a policy, optimism following Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's statement that the military's reasoning for its ban on gay service members did not make sense, growing opposition to Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, a look at gay pride among San Francisco's Asian-American gays, a trend showing growing profit but falling attendance at gay pride celebrations, growing membership at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, calls by the Episcopal Church to study sexuality and religion to inform policy on ordination of gays, a spike in anti-Gay harassment after media speculation about the sexuality of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 31

Title: The Washington Blade, January 5, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on retaliation against the complainant in a discrimination case at Woodward and Lothrop Department Store, a visit by President Bush and the First Lady to an NIH AIDS support group, a crackdown on gay military personnel at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, a legal challenge by gay rights groups against the Helms Amendment which forbid federal funding for gay-positive and sex-positive AIDS prevention programming, the opening of the Triangle Club in the Dupont Circle area providing meeting space for social events and support groups, admission of judicial misconduct in a 1988 court martial of a Parris Island Marine Corporal for lesbianism, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 1

Title: The Washington Blade, May 18, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on concern over amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act and updates on this and other gay- and AIDS-related bills in Congress, criticism of gays as 'fair-weather friends' from D.C. Mayor Barry, the arrest of three Aryan Nations members in a plot to bomb an event at a gay bar in Seattle (WA), political information ahead of local elections, approval for AIDS service funds in Congress despite a slew of homophobic amendments offered by Sen. Helms, efforts by gay veterans to end the Defense Department's ban on gays in the military, updates on gay- and AIDS-related bills before Congress, health information about CMV retinitis common in AIDS patients, criticism of prejudice against butches in the Blade's lesbian personal ads, book and arts reviews including a look at a biography of lesbian journalist and author of the 'Paris Letters' and 'Profiles' Janet 'Genet' Flanner, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 20

Title: The Washington Blade, September 27, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on San Francisco School Board's decision to ban the Boy Scouts over their anti-gay policies, concerns over the nominee for D.C.'s Commissioner of Public Health, celebration of a milestone for Bet Mishpachah as it hired its first rabbi, a look at a lesbian couple who had recently won legal rights to each others' children marking a significant step in the legal battles for gay marriage rights, political and election news from D.C. and Northern Virginia, another ban on 'sexual' art forced through the Senate by anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms, opposition to military recruiters at SUNY and Georgetown, coverage of the first full report of the National AIDS Commission, a calendar of events for the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival, a look at decision-making at PBS as it repeatedly shied away from gay- and AIDS-related programming, a profile of lesbian British composer Ethel Smyth, book and arts reviews including the film 'u201cLongtime Companion'u201d and a local production of Sondheim's 'u201cMarry Me A Little'u201d, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 39

Title: The Washington Blade, August 12, 1994
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the somber mood at the 10th International AIDS Conference as researchers and activists began to rethink the fight against AIDS as a 'marathon' rather than a war, politics and election news, anger over an AIDS Awareness Day event held by Metropolitan Baptist Church which banned condoms and safe sex pamphlets as well as sidelining the intersection of AIDS with LGBT issues such as homophobia and AIDS-phobia, conflict between Whitman-Walker Clinic and residents of an Arlington neighborhood around a proposed group home for people with AIDS, criticism of limited coverage of international participation in Stonewall 25 celebrations, ongoing fears of serial killers targeting gays along the East Coast with news of a murder in Connecticut, the passage of a bill in the Senate and House withholding federal funds from any public school with gay-positive programming in an effort lead by notorious anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms, a retrospective on the history of Rehoboth Beach (DE) as a gay-friendly home and vacation spot for Mid-Atlantic gays as a surge in anti-gay harassment there continued, arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 25, Issue 33

Title: The Washington Blade, January 28, 1994
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on efforts to coordinate opposition to anti-gay referendums across the country, challenges for D.C.'s AIDS community services after a cold snap and weather closures extended a holiday weekend, approval of a Helms-authored bill in the Senate to withhold funding for the United Nations over the U.N.'s recognition of the International Lesbian and Gay Association despite that organization's controversial inclusion of pedophile group NAMBLA, updates on an FBI investigation into a bomb threat received by a lesbian couple from rural Mississippi already facing problems with their neighbors' efforts to force them to leave, concern over a draft audit report criticizing D.C. government's contract with Whitman-Walker Clinic, analysis of the Blade's annual reader polls, updates on plans for Stonewall 25 anniversary celebrations, updates on medical research on AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 25, Issue 4

Title: The Washington Blade, October 18, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on a 'u201ckiss-in'u201d protest at the office of California Governor Pete Wilson following his controversial veto of a state gay rights bill, backtracking by Canada's military on policy changes regarding gays in their military, coverage of hearings over Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, 'regrets' from the U.S. Navy for blaming the 1989 explosion on the USS Iowa on a gay sailor, efforts to archive lesbian history in New York City, a protest by gay military veterans over the treatment of gays in the military, efforts by major corporations to come together and address discrimination, efforts by anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms to reinstate a controversial ban on sexual content in National Endowment for the Arts-funded art, interviews with artist Clay Hoffman and film festival organizer Tom DiMaria, coverage of the Reel Affirmations gay film festival, arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 42

Title: The Washington Blade, July 13, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the removal of a much-criticized Helms amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act that would have excluded HIV-positive food service workers from protection, speculation over the role university bans on ROTC would play in pressuring the military to change its policy towards gays, protests at the Capitol Hill Marine barracks over the involvement of Marines in harassment and bashings near local gay bars, political information ahead of local elections, analysis of statistics derived from Virginia's HIV reporting law, a look at intergenerational issues and support for youth in the gay community, information about Whitman-Walker Clinic's efforts to expand services for lesbians even as concerns over a City Council funding measure loomed, a profile of openly gay former Army ROTC candidate and his experience of military persecution of gays, coverage of preparations for the third Gay Games with tourism information about host city Vancouver (BC, CA), and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 28

Title: The Washington Blade, November 1, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on rejection of Senator Helms' effort to again ban gay and sexually explicit works from getting funding through the National Endowment for the Arts, a profile of lesbian politician Sherry Harris of Seattle (WA), anger over the misinformation given in a DC Public School teacher training session on AIDS, controversy over a proposal in San Francisco that would require part of all property taxes to be funneled towards education and youth services, efforts to illustrate the benefits of a domestic partnership bill to heterosexual unmarried long-term partners in D.C., a profile of cancer activist Sandy Butler, a look at the challenges and consequences behind the lack of statistics on violence against lesbians, political and election news from around the country, interviews with singer-songwriter Cris Williamson and 'u201cIndivisible'u201d editors Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 44

Title: The Washington Blade, April 10, 1992
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the case of a man in Philadelphia arrested for soliciting teenage boys for many years and the District Attorney's press firestorm by announcing the defendant's HIV-positive status and urged the man's victims to get tested, the passage of a domestic partnership bill in the D.C. Council, advice on preparing for funeral expenses, a Supreme Court ruling against law enforcement agents who engaged in a multi-year long campaign to trick a gay veteran into committing a crime, denials from the U.S. Public Health Service following allegations of homophobia, coverage of gay representation at the March for Women's Lives, news that an 'u201cex-gay'u201d preacher's complaint triggered the controversial police raid on the Follies gay theater, frustration over crackdowns on gay military personnel at several Naval bases in Japan, a look at the latest anti-gay efforts from Senator Jesse Helms, a review of Derek Jarman's production of Marlowe's Edward II which features King Edward and Piers Galveston as lovers, a profile of lesbian Jewish filmmaker Jan Oxenberg, a look at off-Broadway productions in New York City, a profile of Southern Gothic writer Harlan Green, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 23, Number 15

Title: The Washington Blade, June 12, 1987
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the mayor's reaction to anger over police use of medical gloves when interacting with gays, a look back at the fight against Anita Bryant over gay rights in Florida and nationally, an update on a case involving a CIA employee and employment discrimination law, concerns over potential breaches of privacy in medical records at Walter Reed Medical Center, efforts by Dignity Gay Catholic group to stay involved in the mainstream Catholic churches in the area amid homophobia from the Vatican, the withdraw of an AIDS discrimination suit against Prince William County (VA) Public Schools, an update on the case of a lesbian who had charged she was assaulted outside a lesbian bar in Capitol Hill and DC police had refused to investigate, details of a bill introduced by Senator Jesse Helms containing several highly controversial AIDS response measures, reviews of gay interest arts and media, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 18, Number 23

Title: The Washington Blade, June 8, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on concern that gays arriving for the Sixth International AIDS Conference could face deportation, a look at the history of excluding gays from immigration or traveling to the U.S., frustration as the Senate allowed another Helms amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act, statistics showing little change in rates of violence against gays, anger at a community forum with members of D.C.'s Office of AIDS Activities over inadequate services for the city's HIV-positive population, political information ahead of elections, a look at gay life in East and West Berlin and travel information for tourists, book and arts reviews including the play Bent about Nazi persecution of gays and a 48 Hours CBS newsmagazine segment on gay-bashing, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 23

Title: The Washington Blade, October 26, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on controversy over an ad for an AIDS education workshop by Black and White Men Together which D.C. government officials considered too sexually provocative, the end of the Senate's ban on homoerotic art, controversy as the Republican Party accused the Human Rights Campaign Fund and other gay political groups of donating more than allowed by campaign finance laws to Democrat Harvey Graff in his campaign to unseat anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms, political information ahead of local elections, statistics showing violent crime in D.C.'s gay neighborhoods fell in 1989, efforts by an Alexandria man to get medical marijuana approved for AIDS patients, plans to reopen a unit at Capitol Hill Hospital to treat AIDS-related pneumonia, interviews with lesbian authors Dell Richards and A.M. Homes, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 43

Title: The Washington Blade, June 7, 1985
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on artist Caravaggio, Georgetown University President Healy's statement that a policy change in the university's treatment of gay student groups was not assured despite acceptance of DC's bond law requiring it, concerns about privacy and technology surveillance as Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina proposed a bill to ban pornographic media including 'degrading scenes' and 'explicit homosexual activity' from being distributed by pay-per-view cable television and telephone services, the eighth installment in a series of interviews about living with AIDS with local attorney and AIDS patient Ray Engebretsen, reviews of gay interest arts and media, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 16, Number 23

Title: The Washington Blade, November 9, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the role of Jesse Helms in strengthening the gay community in North Carolina, political news following a local elections, the death of Vito Russo of 'u201cCelluloid Closet'u201d fame, updates on the case of a gay ex-Midshipman thrown out of the Naval Academy for being gay, updates on the changes at the National Endowment for the Arts following a repeal of a ban on art with homoerotic undertones, the launch of the Mental Health Services Program at Whitman-Walker Clinic, health information about medications for opportunistic infections associated with AIDS, book and arts reviews including an interview with lesbian veteran Mary Ann Humphrey about her book 'u201cMy Country, My Right to Serve'u201d, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 45

Title: The Washington Blade, July 26, 1991
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on protests over arrests of a nude swimmer at Rehoboth's (DE) gay beach, advancement of ddl approval for AIDS treatment, threats from anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms over future AIDS legislation, two Arkansas lesbians arrested for the murder of a third woman, information about local AIDS drug trials recruiting volunteers, accusations of a 'gay conspiracy' against the editor of George Mason University's student newspaper, the acquittal of eight AIDS activists for running a needle exchange in New York City, an interview with wardrobe supervisor Michael Hannah on the costumes of Phantom of the Opera, information and schedules for the 1991 Women of Color Film Festival, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 22, Number 29

Title: The Washington Blade, September 18, 1992
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on primary election results, optimism about a repeal of D.C.'s Sodomy law following former Mayor Marion Barry's election to the Ward 8 City Council Seat, renewed opposition to gay rights and AIDS funding on Capitol Hill as Senator Jesse Helms returned following health problems, the 15th anniversary of the Brother Help Thyself charity, efforts to secure domestic partnership benefits in New York City, efforts to organize demonstrations by ACT UP against plans to phase out medical marijuana for AIDS patients, information about endorsements from the Stein Democratic Club for D.C. School Board candidates by ward, a look at the controversy surrounding Alyson Publications' line of children's books with gay characters, profiles of the band Kitchens of Distinction and writer Rita Mae Brown, book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 23, Number 38

Title: The Washington Blade, February 16, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on domestic partnership benefits to be offered by Woodward and Lothrop department store after a discrimination case sparked calls for boycott, efforts by SMYAL to advertise in local high school newspapers, mixed response to D.C.'s AIDS budget, coverage of Whitman-Walker Clinic's first Lesbian Health Day, mixed opinions on G.H.W. Bush's nominee for Surgeon General, analysis of the defeat of a homophobic amendment to the Hate Crimes Statistics Bill authored by Senator Helms, a look at the poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, coverage of Gay Ski Week in Aspen (CO), book and arts reviews, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 7

Title: The Washington Blade, February 28, 1992
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the impact of the federal budget on AIDS research, a statement from D.C. District Attorneys opposing gay marriage on the grounds that marriage should promote 'u201cconformity'u201d, allegations by homophobic Senator Jesse Helms that gays were using federal funds to 'u201crecruit'u201d children, anger over the arrest of two gay men in the District on sodomy charges under the long-embattled D.C. Sodomy law, the death in committee of a Maryland bill aimed at prohibiting discrimination against gays, conflict between activist group Queer Nation/D.C. and Boy Scouts of America over its policy banning gay troop leaders, analysis of the effect of the economic recession on gay and AIDS organizations, updates on HIV infection rates in the D.C. area, a look at Gay Republicans' opinions of George H.W. Bush, news from the 1992 election campaigns, a perspective piece about gay life and gay activism in South Dakota, a behind-the-scenes look at Gay entertainment magazine 'u201cGay Fairfax'u201d that aired weekly on public television, profiles of playwright Neil Bartlett and author Carol Anshaw, recommendations for LGBT books and films, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 23, Number 9

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