Fugitive Materials Catalog 2 The Birth of A Gay Network

Fugitive Materials is proud to present Catalog #2: The Birth of A Gay Network. The catalog traces the material histories of radical lesbian organizing in the 1970s and ‘80s and the cohering and diverging of various strands of lesbian-feminist theory, politics, culture, and social life, including early-70s New York queer organizing; lesbian communal movements; early lesbian-feminist publishing; feminist bookstores and restaurants, and more.

This catalog includes significant collections of important early queer organizing by Lesbian Feminist Liberation (item no. 7) and the Gay Activists Alliance (item no. 6); an archive of feminist anti-war organizing (item no. 23); artifacts of the lesbian-feminist bookstore movement (nos. 33-49); feminist self-defense ephemera (item nos. 50-53); feminist theater and performance (item nos. 94-102); communes and eco- feminisms (item nos. 54-64); and incredible sex-positive Black feminisms such as nos. 17 and 20.