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Title: The Washington Blade, July 18, 1986
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the failure of 4 out of 5 anti-gay rights measures to make it to the ballot, concern as gay helplines faced an increase in harassing calls, a look at two biographies of Rock Hudson with very different points of view, the failure of opponents in Congress to block DC's insurance reform bill, political information including endorsements ahead of the 1986 elections, results from DC's gay softball league matches of the 1986 season, reviews of gay interest arts and media, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 17, Number 29

Title: The Washington Blade, August 24, 1990
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on political information ahead of local elections, efforts by victims of P Street Beach crime to catch their attackers themselves, a posthumous finding of guilty in the case of a Virginia clothing chain that fired a window dresser for AIDS, findings in a study of gay hotlines, an interview with openly gay behind-the-scenes political leader in the conservative movement Marvin Liebman, medical information about Mycobacterium avium intracellulare (MAI) infections in HIV-positive patients, book reviews, a profile of lesbian artist Holly Hughes, information about gay-friendly roller skating events at local rinks, planning for the 4th Gay Games to be held in New York, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 21, Number 34

Title: The Washington Blade, December 5, 1986
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on a book signing by feminist author Gloria Steinem at the Lammas bookstore in Dupont Circle, a settlement reached in a class action discrimination lawsuit involving more than 250 lesbians and gays who had worked for Pacific Bell telephone company, Supreme Court hearings on whether infectious diseases such as AIDS or tuberculosis could be classified as 'handicaps' under the federal Rehabilitation Act, the release of a State Department memo calling for mandatory HIV-testing for foreign service workers and their families out of concern for health care availability at overseas posts and consideration of perceptions abroad associating AIDS with the United States, the privatization of a federal AIDS information hotline with hope that that move would lead to a better quality of information, calls for DC City Council to reconsider a liquor law change that would allow residents more influence over the nightclubs in their neighborhood raising concerns about homophobic residents using that avenue to target and close gay bars, reviews of gay interest media including The AIDS Movie educational documentary, health information about safer sex in the AIDS era, a look at gay life in London, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 17, Number 49

Title: The Washington Blade, November 14, 1986
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on committee approval for a liquor law change allowing residents near a proposed nightclub to petition to deny that business a liquor license for any reason, coverage if the biannual wreath-laying ceremony by a group of gay veterans at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, news that the DC Department of Human Services missed a third deadline to release an AIDS response plan, a look at demographics of callers to the Crisis line gay helpline, reactions to a letter from the Vatican strongly condemning gays as evil and gay Catholic organizations as leading the faithful astray, an update on efforts to repeal state sodomy laws while also decreasing organization debt at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a report of a California man who filed a discrimination suit against a local telephone company after he called an operator an asked for help connecting to a D.C.-based gay group and the operator responded with homophobic outbursts, a request for volunteers for the local Gay Hotline at Whitman-Walker Clinic, reviews of gay interest arts and media, health information about how the emergence of AZT and the progress of other AIDS treatment research changed the outlook for AIDS patients, a look at antiquing, information about personal computing and home entertainment systems featuring the latest new technology - CDs, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 17, Number 46

Title: The Washington Blade, March 23, 1984
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on protests against censorship of information on homosexuality and sexual health from a health information telephone line operated by Giant Food Corporation, discussion of candidates to lead the Gay Rights National Lobby with UNICEF regional director Vickey Monrean seen as the likely choice, analysis of the Democratic party platform in the 1984 election, news of efforts by the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington to purchase a new building, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 15, Number 12

Title: The Blade, April 12, 1979
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on homophobic violence in Key West, Florida, a White House panel on gay rights in the developing world, pro-gay politicians in the Republican party and in the NAACP, a profile of lesbian feminist activist Barbara Grier, reviews of gay-interest media, a telephone helpline service for the gay community, honors for DC's Rape Crisis Center, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 10, Number 8

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