communities and reach wider audiences.” wider reach and communities

of queer zines we hope to make them more accessible to diverse diverse to accessible more them make to hope we zines queer of

electronic copies of zines. By providing access to the historical canon canon historical the to access providing By zines. of copies electronic

usually about the following: the about usually database of the collection with links allowing users to download download to users allowing links with collection the of database

as above. That said, the most common content you’ll find on QZAP is is QZAP on find you’ll content common most the said, That above. as The primary function of QZAP is to provide a free on-line searchable searchable on-line free a provide to is QZAP of function primary The

Queer content can be literally anything created by folks who identify identify who folks by created anything literally be can content Queer

single page flyers, sticker, and punk patches. punk and sticker, flyers, page single

fall under the heading “queer.” heading the under fall

also has a small but important collection of ephemera including including ephemera of collection important but small a has also

and of course Friend of Dorothy. of Friend course of and collectivist approach that respects the diversity of experiences that that experiences of diversity the respects that approach collectivist

While the vast majority of the collection is zines (see p.2), QZAP QZAP p.2), (see zines is collection the of majority vast the While ✯ ✯

polyamorous, pansexual, omnisexual, asexual, homo, Saphist, faerie, faerie, Saphist, homo, asexual, omnisexual, pansexual, polyamorous, create. In curating such a unique aspect of culture, we value a a value we culture, of aspect unique a such curating In create.

Nancy boy, Brucey Boy, nelly, femme, butch, bulldagger, bulldyke, bulldyke, bulldagger, butch, femme, nelly, Boy, Brucey boy, Nancy encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to to continue to publishers zine emerging and current encourage

“The Misty Mynx Experience” Mynx Misty “The

bi, bisexual, fag, faggot, dyke, trans, tranny, queen, king, princess, princess, king, queen, tranny, trans, dyke, faggot, fag, bisexual, bi, a “living history” archive of past and present queer zines and to to and zines queer present and past of archive history” “living a Strikeback Collection” and sometimes it’s more, um..., creative, like like creative, um..., more, it’s sometimes and Collection” Strikeback

ID as queer) may use descriptors like: queer, kweer, gay, lesbian, lesbian, gay, kweer, queer, like: descriptors use may queer) as ID “The mission of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is to establish establish to is (QZAP) Project Archive Zine Queer the of mission “The name their own collection. Sometimes it’s as simple as “The Simon Simon “The as simple as it’s Sometimes collection. own their name

This is not exclusive by any means, but people who are queer (or (or queer are who people but means, any by exclusive not is This

When we acquire larger collections, we let the person donating donating person the let we collections, larger acquire we When ✯ ✯ Queer is all about people’s expression of gender and sexuality. sexuality. and gender of expression people’s about all is Queer

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follow the same storage scheme. storage same the follow

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For our purposes, if the content of the zine is queer then the zine is is zine the then queer is zine the of content the if purposes, our For

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poetry ✯

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manifestos ✯ ✯

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journaling/diary zines journaling/diary ✯ ✯ thousand instead of hundreds of thousands). of hundreds of instead thousand

languages from at least 15 countries (the vast majority are in English, English, in are majority vast (the countries 15 least at from languages

erotica/porn ✯

✯ magazine-like publications (but with a print run of hundreds or a few few a or hundreds of run print a with (but publications magazine-like

The materials in the collection are in more than a dozen dozen a than more in are collection the in materials The ✯ ✯

comics/comix ✯ ✯ can range from handwritten or handmade booklets to offset-printed offset-printed to booklets handmade or handwritten from range can

DIY (do-it-yourself) DIY ✯ sex Safer ✯ ✯ ✯

a profit or a living. Most zines are photocopied, but their production production their but photocopied, are zines Most living. a or profit a

The latest is probably from last week. last from probably is latest The ✯

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art ✯ (STDs) STIs ✯ ✯ ✯ Zines are publications done for the love of doing them, not to make make to not them, doing of love the for done publications are Zines

anti-assimilationism ✯ HIV/AIDS ✯

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magazine, usually produced by one person or a few individuals. individuals. few a or person one by produced usually magazine, The earliest zine in the collection is from 1973 from is collection the in zine earliest The ✯

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traveling ✯ health sexual ✯ ✯ ✯ is a self-published, small circulation, non-commercial booklet or or booklet non-commercial circulation, small self-published, a is

ageism ✯ lives QTPOC ✯ ✯ ✯ with just over 500 on-line. 500 over just with apostrophe) no “bean”, with rhymes “zeen,” (pronounced zine A

fat phobia fat ✯ bisexuality ✯

✯ ✯ The current collection is somewhere between 1500-2000 zines, zines, 1500-2000 between somewhere is collection current The ✯ ✯

classism ✯ issues transgender ✯ ✯ ✯ LGBTQ+ zines. LGBTQ+

racism ✯ gender ✯ ✯ ✯ QZAP was started in 2003 with roughly 350 zines 350 roughly with 2003 in started was QZAP ✯ of archive community a is Project, Archive Zine Queer the QZAP, ✯

politics ✯ desire ✯

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activism ✯ attraction/ same-gender ✯ ✯ ✯

feminism ✯ love same-gender ✯ ✯ ✯

popular culture popular ✯ sex same-gender ✯ ✯ ✯

music ✯ sex ✯ ✯ ✯

Who DoES ALL THIS? How Can you HELP? QZAP.ORG QZAP was co-founded by Christopher Wilde and Milo Miller after they ✯✯Financial Donations: Like pretty much every other labor of love / met as organizers of Queeruption 3 in 2001. As questions of identity, mad scheme we need operating funds. Most of our expenditures political and social actions and radical queer history came up, they in a given year go to web hosting costs, office supplies for ArchivE.QZAP.ORG would ask each other “didn’t So-and-so write about this in that zine?” storage and zine making, and printing costs for our own research and thus the idea of putting queer zines on-line was born. publications.

Fast forward a bit and their dreams of a queer zine digital archive ✯✯Zine Donations: Old zines, new zines, pink zines, blue zines. love child have come to fruition (and is now entering it’s angsty We’ll take them in ones and twos, or by the cartonful. teen years!) Along the way we’ve had a TON of help from friends, volunteers, interns, and collective members. As an entity, we’re not, ✯✯Technical Help: It’s such a hard thing to ask for, but we need really. QZAP operates as a loose collective with members spread a person with some pretty tight web dev skills to work with around the U.S.. Day-to-day Chris fields a lot of research questions us for a few months on the programming side of things. It’s a and helps keep the interns on track. Milo handles a lot of the web time commitment that we can’t afford to pay for, even though it infrastructure, digital archive, and tech-related things. EVERYONE should be compensated. Thus the hard ask. SO, if you’re reading contributes by scanning and cataloging, reading and making queer this and know someone who might be interested, please have zines, and joining in the making, eating, and dish-washing of our them get in touch. collective dinners. ✯✯Share the queer love: Help spread our propaganda around, talk As mentioned, QZAP offers for-credit and not-for-credit internships QZAP up to your peeps, bring us to speak or present or lead that focus on cataloging, research and zine-making. We also are workshops in your libraries and classes and community spaces. hosting the third summer of Zinester-in-Residencies, where we invite zinemakers, scholars, and librarians to spend a week or two to live in the archive and utilize its resources.

Finally, but most importantly, QZAP wouldn’t exist without the work of all the amazing zinesters who keep making zines and mini-comics and documenting our queer lives. 4Ccnd [email protected] june / 2016