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Title: The Washington Blade, March 20, 1987
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on a police raid of a small gay club in Northwest DC for violating liquor laws and business licensing laws where armed police wore surgical masks and gloves as they arrested 10, a profile of Gay Games originator Dr. Tom Waddell, concern as research findings revealed half of AZT patients became dependent on blood transfusions due to the drug's toxic effects on bone marrow, frustrating holdups in efforts to reform safe sex health education, legal conflicts in an FBI employment discrimination case, reviews of gay interest arts and media including a book on World War I servicemen and poets Sassoon and Owen, a look at homophobia in advertising choices at condom companies, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 18, Number 12

Title: The Washington Blade, June 19, 1987
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on televangelist Reverend Joseph Uhrig who found himself at odds with his religious colleagues over his acceptance of his gay son, a Supreme Court decision striking down a Houston (TX) ordinance criminalizing any 'opposition or interruption' of the duty of a police officer which had been used systematically against gays, planning for the first DC AIDS Walk, an admission from the DC police department that advising police officers to wear rubber gloves when in contact with gays and people with AIDS was wrong and an administrative penalty for a Rehoboth Beach (DE) lifeguard over a similar issue, coverage of DC Pride 1987 and a look at the diversity of DC's gay pride celebrations, estimates from the Gay Police Action League that at least 200 New York City (NYPD) police officers were gay, a settlement reached in an employment discrimination case against the Society of American Military Engineers, price comparisons for AZT at local pharmacies, a reprint of an influential Surgeon General's report on AIDS, reviews of gay interest arts and media, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 18, Number 24

Title: The Washington Blade, June 5, 1987
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on Representative Barney Frank's announcement coming out as gay, research into the prevalence of safe sex practices as a strategy for HIV prevention among gay men, anger over arrests at protests against the Reagan White House's mishandling of the AIDS epidemic and DC police's continued use of rubber gloves when arresting those suspected of being gay, coverage of dueling speeches on AIDS by President Reagan and actress and AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor, unanimous support in the Senate for requiring would-be immigrants to the United States to prove HIV-negative status, allegations that DC police refused to file charges over an assault outside a lesbian bar in Capital Hill and that the policeman who responded questioned the female victim if her attacker targeted her for refusing 'to let the attacker 'into her pants'', a negative reaction to proposals for mandatory HIV testing from Vice President George H. W. Bush at an AIDS conference, research showing infiltration of the HIV virus into the central nervous system of AIDS patients with 'AIDS dementia complex', reviews of gay interest arts and media, health information about precautions HIV-positive persons to help keep themselves healthy longer, a guide to the 1987 DC gay pride celebrations, some personal stories of survivors and caregivers of AIDS victims, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 18, Number 22

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, April 3, 1987
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on the failure of an effort to repeal Maryland's sodomy law, questions and concerns about direct mail marketing, political information from openly gay San Francisco politician Harry Britt's campaign for Congress, coverage of the controversial debutante drag ball fund raiser for gay rights and AIDS groups, President Reagan's views on safe sex in AIDS prevention and the morality of health education, conflict between the gay community and DC police over AIDS phobia, the announcement that gay activist and Vietnam veteran Leonard Matlovich was responsible for a 'mystery' headstone bearing an inscription 'When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one,' that had garnered interest and speculation in earlier Blade editions, a look at the rise of gay alumni groups around the country, reviews of gay interest arts and media, health information addressing the mistaken rumor that untreated syphilis rather than HIV might be responsible for AIDS, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 18, Number 14

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