It is arguable that the “gay and lesbian” press began with the dramatic moment when Oscar Wilde was seen carrying an issue of The Yellow Book on his way into prison for acts of “gross indecency.” Although gay and lesbian “issues” covertly (or not so covertly) emerged during the early part of the twentieth century in theater and arts journals like Broadway Brevities and the avant-garde journal View, it was not until 1953 that gay and lesbian political concerns came to the fore in the publication One (under the auspices of the Mattachine Society) and in the Daughters of Bilitis’ newspaper The Ladder. Since Stonewall (1969), the proliferation of the gay and lesbian press has been tremendous if not (in some cases) troublesomely banal (Out, for instance).