I also wrote about Gendertrash as a @qzap.bsky.social intern last summer: gittings.qzap.org/gender-trash...

Florida folx, check this out! Our friends from @invisiblehistories.bsky.social are coming to you.

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...

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

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...

Woke up thinking about this sticker that we've got in the archive here: archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...

Button from the 1970s from the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.

NEVER FORGET!!! On this day in 1973 the Arch Cafe in Springfield, MA was firebombed and destroyed.

A little conflicted this morning because fuck the nyt, and also hooray for Vaginal Davis!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

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!)

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...

It’s Bi Visibility Month, and here’s a page from my 2019 zine, ‘still bisexual’.

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...

"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...

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/

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!) 1/6

@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.

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

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

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...

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

An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose! Happy Pride, y'all!! Read the full zine at: archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...

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

ahhh I'm so glad they arrived!! even though the first parcel got lost in the mail, this gave me a chance to include a @qzap.bsky.social postcard so it's totally worth it!! 💚

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

We're so exited to announce that we were interviewed by the amazing @caboosezine.bsky.social for the current issue of Razorcake! It's issue no. 146, and it's sliding scale $3–$6+ USD from their website. razorcake.org/razorcake-14...

Call for Proposals! Are you a librarian, archivist, historian, or memory worker preserving LGBTQ history? Join us for the 2026 Queer History South Conference! Submit a proposal by visiting invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026.

Yo check it! Longtime QZAP friend and fellow Wisconsin zinester @johnporcellino.bsky.social is on the cover of Razorcake, interviewed by the incomparable @caboosezine.bsky.social ! razorcake.org/razorcake-14...

Hayyyy!!! We'll be tabling at the Milwaukee Zine Fest next Saturday, April 19th, 2025. If you're in Milwaukee please come by and pick up copies of our zines, including Milo's latest "High Fives Are Gay", some of our new buttons, and maybe a Circle-A Archivist t-shirt. See Ya There 🩷🖤🩷

HOMOS PAY TAXES, HOMOS NEED ART GRANTS. From NEA organizing in the 1990s, Minnie Bruce Pratt Papers. Still relevant.

Send us your LGBTQ newspapers! These LGBTQ+ newspapers from the 1990s spotlight Black queer voices and community activism across the Midwest. Headlines feature Mandy Carter’s organizing in Cleveland, cellist Ed Moore’s musical activism, and students and educators coming out in schools.

Send us your zines! - #ZINEPAVILION Your zines will be seen & enjoyed by thousands of library workers at the ALA Annual Conference and will become an important part of the Zine Pavilion. Zines will also be donated locally in Philadelphia to help build new zine collections & expand Zine Libraries!

We had a lot of fun talking with Emma about QZAP and zines last week! www.atlasobscura.com/articles/que...

So cool to see other folks discovering queer zines, and especially Kate's Rebel Fox! We have a couple of other issues here at QZAP: archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...

hi folks! big changes happening at the #Homosaurus that have been in the works for a year+. We're moving towards an entirely community-owned and led model to invite more people in, decentralize leadership, invite broader participation and translation. The #HomosaurusCollective is the result

This coming Sunday, March 23, 2025, we’re going to be tabling with some of our zines at the Community Celebration of Life of Carl Bogner at Cactus Club, from 1 – 3:30pm, though the celebration will run into the evening, culminating in a screening being put together by the amazing SeenMKE.

Last week we spent the weekend working with the folks at Piedmont University to preserve the Lillian Smith Center. Lillian was a lesbian writer who wrote about and fought for gender and racial equity in the 1920s until her death in 1966.

Hey-o! I'm stoked to be facilitating a zine workshop with the UWM LGBTQ+ Resource Center tomorrow. I'll be bringing some zines from the collection to show, and will be demoing a couple of zine making styles. March 13th, 2025 1:30pm—3:30pm LGBTQ+ Resource Center

Over at QZAP we've got a new post from Valeria about the Spanish language zine Mala Leche #1 , published in Chicago in 1992. Over the past couple of weeks she took the time to translate large sections of it and does her usual amazing analysis of this camp classic. gittings.qzap.org/mala-leche/

Zine du jour: Scooter’s Happy Fag (1990s)❤️ Thank you @charliefwelch.bsky.social

This is amazing, and we're so happy that CZF is thriving! Also, we wanted to say that if you don't get in to the 'big' zine fest, please consider starting your own zine event in your community. Host the equivalent of a basement show zine fest! DIY is part of the zinester's DNA, anyone can do it!