Monday, November 16, 2009

The Washington Blade Shuts Down

The Washington Blade, serving our community for 40 years, has closed its doors for good.

While not totally surprising, the suddeness was a bit of a shock.

The question now -- what becomes of the Blade's archive? I would hate to think that this archive, which covers our history since Stonewall in 1969 to the upcoming vote in the DC City Council for marriage equality on Dec 1 (the Blade's last front page headline), will be lost.

1 comment:

Ivan said...

Wikipedia says "Archives of the Washington Blade are maintained... on Microfilm at the Microfilm Reading Room of the Library of Congress, and in the Alternative & Underground Press Collections of ProQuest (formerly called UMI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.