Gay Life was a weekly newspaper about gay culture published by the LGBT Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland. It was distributed in

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and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

History

In September 1979, the GCCB began to put out a monthly newsletter that evolved into the ''Baltimore Gay Paper (BGP)''. The ''Gay Paper'' eventually became ''Gay Life''. The lesbian activist Gail Vivino volunteered to use the basement of her

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apartment at 2745 N. Calvert Street to host the production space for the newspaper, as well as the switchboard for the GLCCB. The production space later moved into a building at 241 West Chase Street. The editor and co-founder of the newspaper was Louise Kelley, a lesbian and feminist activist who wrote for Women's Express, served as a board member for the Chase Brexton clinic, worked on the Schmoke administration's Task Force on Gay and Lesbian Issues, and coordinate women's activities for the GLCCB. In 2016, ''Gay Life'' was purchased from the GLCCB and merged into the LGBT newspaper ''Baltimore OUTloud.'' Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library maintains a partial archive of the newspaper on

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in its Periodicals Department Collection. The newspaper is also available on microfilm at

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, and the

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References

External links

Gay Life
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