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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
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LGBTQ+ zines, comics and print ephemera; queer history; queer arts; queercore subculture, zine librarianship, archives, and overall community building through storytelling and zucchini waffles.

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If you're near Minneapolis on Saturday, please consider coming out to the Twin Cities Zine Fest, where we'll have 80+ zinesters sharing their #zines & free workshops! tczinefest.org/tczf-2026/ #TCZF2026

If you're elsewhere, please send good vibes, we could use some fun.
February 6, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Who needs lions, tigers, and bears when you've got bags, flags, and merch! Do you have small items related to Southern LGBTQ history that you'd like us to preserve? Check out our website for how to contact us and let's save that history together.
February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The new Zine of the Gay post is up!

We've got a cohort of students who will be updating the QZAP blog this semester. They'll be exploring zines from our collections and writing about them every week or so. To start us off, Erica is taking on Some Boys Bleed

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I Knew a Boy who Bled - QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
Trigger Warning for mentions of suicide attempts Some Boys Bleed is a zine written by Samb about his experience with dysphoria and how he eventually overcame it. The zine seeks to help other trans peo...
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January 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
@soljbrager.bsky.social's latest comic about watching and analyzing historic queer adult films is incredible, and seems very adjacent to some of the work we do at QZAP.
New comic up at Hyperallergic about watching porn movies made during the Briggs initiative in the age of Project 2025. hyperallergic.com/falling-in-l...
January 22, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Amid the chaos and pain of this week, a couple of good things:

My partner-in-crime @chrisqzap.bsky.social has a chapter in Queer Print Cultures, which came out a few days ago, and I'm incredibly happy for him and all the other authors and editors...
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Queer Print Cultures - University of Toronto Press
utppublishing.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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For anyone who struggles with gender-neutral language while speaking French, this zine will help!

Free download: sheerspite.ca/product/se-f...
Print version, $0-3: sheerspite.ca/product/se-f...
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We've got a new post up at QZAP talking about the grant that we just received from @sfsisters.bsky.social ! We're beyond thankful and honored to have been chosen as a recipient this cycle.

gittings.qzap.org/sisters-act/
December 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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As anti-queer backlash and state erasure intensify, citizen archivists are fighting back by saving LGBTQ+ history before it disappears.

Groups like @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and the @qzap.bsky.social show how preservation becomes resistance.

inthesetimes.com/article/figh...
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Last week we picked up two pronoun buttons from someone who worked at a now closed university diversity office. This one hit hard as one of our founders used to work there. While it's egregious these services are being shut down, we are working to make sure their history is saved.
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The other night we were working with our 22yo undergrad intern, and were trying to explain how "bar rags" fit into a broader view of queer publishing. We were showing them some of the copies of InStep and came across these listings of top dance music from the gay bars from this week in 1984.
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...
Elenco Alfabetico Fanzine Anni 80
Società per la Bonifica Multimediale delle Paludi Mentali
paolopalmacci.it
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It's a little disjointed, but we did manage to get up our annual post about World AIDS Day.

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December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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i am not immune to the lure of a Hot Deal but the fact is, i do not build a huge margin into the prices, and already sell things on sliding scale, so i can't really do sales. however zines remain available for purchase.

sheerspite.ca
sheerspite.bigcartel.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So apparently a conservative "journalist" attended the ZLuC over this past weekend, attended and live-streamed sessions without consent, and is trying to intimidate and dox attendees.

Here's the organizers' statement:
www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/
Zine Librarians unConference 2025 | zinelibraries.info
www.zinelibraries.info
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Florida folx, check this out! Our friends from @invisiblehistories.bsky.social are coming to you.
We will be slow to respond for the month of November while we're on the road. We're also working on a super secret project that we are just bursting to tell y'all about! Stay tuned you lovely dangerous homosexuals!

Want to support our work? Visit invisiblehistoy.org/support
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Brown Recluse zine distro is raising money to support their continued (amazing) work of supporting and sharing zines by writers and artists of colour. I want to live in a world with BRZD in it, don't you?

www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...
Donate to Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future, organized by BROWN RECLUSE
Secure Brown Recluse Zine Distro's Future! We are seeking funds for the project to conti… BROWN RECLUSE needs your support for Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future
www.gofundme.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Poster for ZINEDUMP, a new Toronto zine fair! I'm one of the organizers for the event, and we are having our inaugural event on November 9th! We hope to see you there!
For updates, please check our website or follow our instagram at zinedump.fyi
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We will be tabling at Beet Street in Milwaukee this Saturday from 1pm - 7pm-ish.

This street festival is organized and hosted by our friends at Cactus Club, and looks like it's going to be rad as fuck.

Details here:
www.visitmilwaukee.org/event/beet-s...
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Woke up thinking about this sticker that we've got in the archive here:
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September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Button from the 1970s from the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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NEVER FORGET!!!
On this day in 1973 the Arch Cafe in Springfield, MA was firebombed and destroyed.
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A little conflicted this morning because fuck the nyt, and also hooray for Vaginal Davis!!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...
Parody, Punk and ‘Terrorist Drag’: Inside the World of Vaginal Davis
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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If you want to make a smaller zine (< 1/2-sheet page size) but w/more page space than a minizine (1/8 sheet)—or just dislike not being able to get the minizine creases all perfect—1/4 size zines are another option. (HT @alienmelon.bsky.social wonderful Electric Zine Maker tool I learned this from!)
September 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It's Fall!!!!! (Almost) Anyway, we're excited to be mostly exciting the melting dome of summer, and are hitting up some events over the next couple of months.

First up, on Sept. 14 is the Denver Zine Fest!

For a full schedule, check out our post at QZAP:
gittings.qzap.org/gross-indece...
September 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM