Radical gay paper comes out
Subject
Description
Article announcing the Breadbox, a local Washington, D.C. radical gay newspaper.
Creator
Source
Quicksilver Times, Juy 14-24, 1970, p. 8.
Rights
Is Part Of
Bruce Pennington Papers, 1947-2003
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Coverage
Washington (D.C.)
Rights Holder
© Quicksilver Times
Original Format
newspaper
Text
"We are coming to know who we are. We are poor people living in the gay ghetto suffering similar class oppressions
and we all ended up here because there was no other place to go."
These words were written by a member of the Bread Box collective, a group of local gay revolutionaries. They have begun a newspaper, a voice of revolutionary gay people in Washington. Bread Box is both an angry shout against oppression and a joyous cry of love.
The two issues that have been published so far have held poems, news, survival info, analysis of what it means to be gay in Amerika, and more. Bread Box fulfills a real need among Washington gays for self-expression and communication.
But it also speaks to straight people, showing what liberation
from societal dictated sex roles can mean. (See Come Ing Out from Bread Box #2, on p.16 of this QST.)
Bread Box will be coming out every ten days with eight pages if the collective can continue to overcome its problems. Recently they were thrown out of the house they were living in and are still seeking a permanent home.
As the cover explains, Bread Box costs 15cents, "more if you have it, less if you don't." Papers can be bought in bulk for street sales at a cost of 5 cents. They are available at The Alternative, The Community Bookstore, or Yes! Until they get a house of their own, Bread Box collective can be reached through Switchboard. They try to reach us through the paper. Try one.
and we all ended up here because there was no other place to go."
These words were written by a member of the Bread Box collective, a group of local gay revolutionaries. They have begun a newspaper, a voice of revolutionary gay people in Washington. Bread Box is both an angry shout against oppression and a joyous cry of love.
The two issues that have been published so far have held poems, news, survival info, analysis of what it means to be gay in Amerika, and more. Bread Box fulfills a real need among Washington gays for self-expression and communication.
But it also speaks to straight people, showing what liberation
from societal dictated sex roles can mean. (See Come Ing Out from Bread Box #2, on p.16 of this QST.)
Bread Box will be coming out every ten days with eight pages if the collective can continue to overcome its problems. Recently they were thrown out of the house they were living in and are still seeking a permanent home.
As the cover explains, Bread Box costs 15cents, "more if you have it, less if you don't." Papers can be bought in bulk for street sales at a cost of 5 cents. They are available at The Alternative, The Community Bookstore, or Yes! Until they get a house of their own, Bread Box collective can be reached through Switchboard. They try to reach us through the paper. Try one.
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Quicksilver Times, “Radical gay paper comes out,” Rainbow History Project Digital Collections, accessed May 3, 2024, https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/items/show/757.
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