Common Lives/Lesbian Lives

Common Lives/Lesbian Lives
FrequencyQuarterly
Circulation2500
First issue1980
Final issue1996
Based inIowa City, Iowa
LanguageEnglish
ISSN0891-6969
OCLC8234014

Common Lives/Lesbian Lives (CL/LL) was a collectively produced lesbian quarterly which published out of Iowa City, Iowa, from 1981 to 1996.[1] The magazine had a stated commitment to reflect the diversity of lesbians by actively soliciting and printing in each issue the work and ideas of lesbians of color, Jewish lesbians, fat lesbians, lesbians over fifty and under twenty years old, disabled lesbians, poor and working-class lesbians, and lesbians of varying cultural backgrounds. Common Lives/Lesbian Lives was a cultural milestone in the lesbian publishing world, as it was one of the first lesbian journals or magazines published from outside the urban/coastal New York/Los Angeles/Berkeley scene.[2]

  1. ^ Barnett, Meg; Killgore, Vicky; Ferentinos, Susan (1997). "A Timeline of 1970's Austin Lesbian-Gay Activism: 1968 to 1983". Austin Lesbian Activism in the 1970s Herstory Project. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  2. ^ "Common Lives/Lesbian Lives". Iowa Women's Archives – University of Iowa Libraries. 2005. Archived from the original on August 21, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2018.