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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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qzap.bsky.social
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
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sheerspite.bsky.social
I also wrote about Gendertrash as a @qzap.bsky.social intern last summer:
gittings.qzap.org/gender-trash...
Gender Trash from Hell - QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
Walking into the physical QZAP archive as an intern and a long-time zine dork is overwhelming. There’s so much stuff. There are a lot of things I have read, or that are made by people I know, and seei...
gittings.qzap.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
qzap.bsky.social
Florida folx, check this out! Our friends from @invisiblehistories.bsky.social are coming to you.
invisiblehistories.bsky.social Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 13d
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
Invisible Histories founders Josh and Maigen being hella gay in a van with the license plate "dangerous homosexuals" Text reads: Invisible Histories does Florida. Invisible Histories will be in various locations throughout Florida this November as we work to save at risk LGBTQ history and push the gay agenda through public talks and community archiving trainings. Want to support our work? Visit invisiblehistoy.org/support
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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sheerspite.bsky.social
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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funeralbeat.bsky.social
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
A poster for Zinedump, a new Toronto zine fair. The poster features a woman levitating above a star drawn on the earth in chalk. She is wearing a goat skull and holding a zine, which is emitting orange smoke. 3 small Toronto associated animals are gathered around in worship - A raccoon, a rat and a skunk. The information on the poster is as follows: November 9th, 12pm to 5pm Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil Street 12 - 1pm - Masks mandatory 1pm - 5pm - Masks encouraged 60+ vendors and programming More updates coming!
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
qzap.bsky.social
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...
Image is a psychedelic ameboid frame with purple, green and pink flowers and over a black and white image of two male sailors kissing each other.
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
qzap.bsky.social
Woke up thinking about this sticker that we've got in the archive here:
archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...
Sticker depicting actor Divine holding a pistol. Text reads "Destroy Fascism - Eat Shit Nazi Scum" and has a rainbow flag and a black flag in the upper left with the words "Antihomophobe Action"
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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invisiblehistories.bsky.social
Button from the 1970s from the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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miloblue.bsky.social
NEVER FORGET!!!
On this day in 1973 the Arch Cafe in Springfield, MA was firebombed and destroyed.
Cover of Gay Community News from September 22, 1973 with an article about the bombing of the Arch Cafe in Springfield, Massachusetts on September 11th. Early Tuesday morning (Sept. 11) at 5AM, one of Springfield’s gay “hangouts”, the Arch Cafe was completely demolished by a bomb explosion. Owner Louis Lake had received an unusual number of obscene phone calls, as many as “12 to 15 daily prior to today’s mishap. Lake said, “You’ve got to expect a certain number of calls, mostly from straight people who object (to homosexuality.) Lake estimated damages at between eighty and ninety thousand dollars, and said that his insurance would “in no way” cover losses. State police bomb squads are said to be investigating the source of the explosion and witnesses reported the smell of flammable fuel permeating the rubble in one section of the bar. Firemen suspected bombing after they combed through the debris and found the gas main and meter servicing the building intact. A fire inspector, when asked if the blast was the work of an explosives ex-pert, said “if it wasn’t, it sure as hell was a good amateur”. Several residents of the neighboring Charles Hotel, mostly elderly people, were knocked from their beds by the blast. Authorities said that some of the occupants were shaken but there were no injuries. The bar was unoccupied at the time. GCN contacted Rep. James Boller (D., Springfield) at the State House. He remarked upon viewing the wreckage Wednesday morning, that the former Arch Cafe was “completely demolished”, and that both adjacent buildings had also experienced damage. When questioned on the perpetrator of this act and his possible exper-tise, he remarked that a pro “could not have done such a good job’. He labeled it a “fool-ish’ act done by some “wierd” person whose motivation “could have been anything, an argument or something” Boller added that they “knew what they were doing” , implying that the bomber was taking deliberate action against the gay com-munity.
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
qzap.bsky.social
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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literaturegeek.bsky.social
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!)
Screenshot of a comic tutorial for "assembling a quarter-letter folded zine (aka "hand pies", for Zine Bakery Homemade quarter-size zines)". Steps are: 1) Fold your paper so it's been creased in half both horizontally and vertically. 2) Fold the top half of the paper down over the bottom, such that just the back cover (left) and front cover (right) pages show. 3) Put 2 staples through the vertical center crease. 4) Use scissors to cut off the smallest possible strip of paper along the top (you're freeing those pages from being connected, while trying to lose as little of the zine design to the cut as possible). 5) Fold the back cover around to the back, so just the front cover shows.
September 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
qzap.bsky.social
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...
illustration of a brown and white horse standing on a hill of green grass with a blue gradient sky above. Text on the image says "I'm A Denver Zine Fest 2025 Exhibitor!!!"
September 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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rachaelhouse.bsky.social
It’s Bi Visibility Month, and here’s a page from my 2019 zine, ‘still bisexual’.
A blue riso printed drawing on peach paper of a flag with a scale pattern. There’s a skull in the centre of the flag inside a circle adorned with M,F & Trans symbols. Text reads- the bi flag is rather dull, I’d like to propose this one instead. STILL BISEXUAL
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
qzap.bsky.social
This list of lesbian magazines from Riese at
@autostraddle.bsky.social
is lit!!! 🔥

We've got a handful of issues of some of these in our collection, and lots more to learn about.

www.autostraddle.com/lesbian-maga...
78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive
The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just 50 of the many publications that b...
www.autostraddle.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
qzap.bsky.social
"sorry this is late..." said every perzinester ever... so even though we missed the end of International Zine Month by a couple of days, we're still stoked to share this "What Kind of Queer Zine Are You" quiz that QZAP intern @bluespringwrites.bsky.social made:

gittings.qzap.org/quiz-what-ty...
A colorful display of queer zines
August 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
qzap.bsky.social
There's a new Zine of the Gay post up at QZAP! This week Lauren is talking about Bar Dykes, written by Merril Mushroom and designed and published by Faythe Levine and Caroline Paquita in 2016, and more abstractly about butch/femme culture in the 1950s.

gittings.qzap.org/bar-dykes/
Bar Dykes - QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project
Trigger warning: police, mentions of domestic violence Bar Dykes is a one-act play by Merril Mushroom written in the 1980s, made into a zine format by Faythe Levine and Caroline Paquita in 2016. The p...
gittings.qzap.org
July 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
qzap.bsky.social
July 21 is International Zine Libraries Day!!

To celebrate this annual event, it is customary to bring donuts or other baked goods to your favorite zine librarians (just check in with them first about any dietary restrictions or requests!)

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July 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
qzap.bsky.social
@miloblue.bsky.social is at #alaac25 this weekend doing stuff with the Zine Pavilion folks. They’ll be selling zines and QZAP swag tomorrow, so stop by if you’re at the conference.
Image shows a sticker with a paper cutter. text reads “If this is the only guillotine you have, use it. Make Zines”
June 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
qzap.bsky.social
NO WAR!!!

This is from the ACT UP - Chicago sticker folio circa the early 1990s.

archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...

#nowarwithiran #nowar #aidsfundingnow #actup #actupchicago #chicago #stickers #cracknpeel
Money for AIDS / Not for war / ACT UP Chicago
June 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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transgenderarchive.bsky.social
Cover of Thing Magazine No. 8 (Winter 1992-93), featuring drag queen Joey Arias.

For more information about this item, please visit the DTA via the link in our story/bio. Image courtesy of @lltransarchive.

#TransHistory #TransHistoryIsBeautiful #PrideMonth2025
Pictured: Magazine cover with black and white image of feminine person looking downwards, holding her arms across her chest with her dress draped down her shoulders. Her dress and large earrings have been recolored with a pastel orange and yellow overlay, and a halo has been drawn over her head. A small caption on the bottom left side reads “Joey Arias channels Billie Holliday” in blue cursive. Above the model, the title “Thing” is printed in purple block letters underneath a tagline, “Inside: Black Fags Talk Dirty” in blue letters. Under the main title, “Winter 92/93” is printed on the left and “Number 8 - $3” on the right, both in yellow font.
June 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
qzap.bsky.social
The Zine of the Gay is back!! After a brief hiatus for some torch passing, our intern Lauren is making their QZAP ZotG debut with Butcher Queers #4.

gittings.qzap.org/butcher-quee...
Butcher Queers #4 front cover. A man wearing only rugby helmet and briefs points a toy pistol at the viewer.
June 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
qzap.bsky.social
We're honored to be recognized by our local freekly, The Shepherd-Express, as their "heroes" of the month.

shepherdexpress.com/news/hero-of...

#freekly #freeweeklypaper #localpress #milwaukee
Queer Zine Archive Project Preserves LGBTQ+ DIY History
What started as the combined zine collections of co-founders Milo Miller and Christopher Wilde has ballooned to over 4,500 archived items in their physical collection and about 600 in their digital da...
shepherdexpress.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
qzap.bsky.social
An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose!

Happy Pride, y'all!!

Read the full zine at:
archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...
June 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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chicagozinefest.bsky.social
This Saturday June 7th:
Planting Seeds: Indigenous Zine Fest 2025 at the Newberry Library in Chicago! Our friends at ZINEMercado are co-sponsoring this exciting event—come out to support Indigenous artists! #zines
Illustrated floral design flyer for "Planting Seeds: Indigenous Zine Fest 2025". The text reads "Buy art & zines from Indigenous artists n June 7th, 11 am-4 pm, art making activities. Native Pop! Exhibition open to the public, Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago. Hosted by Zine Mercado & Newberry Library.".
June 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM