Item
Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
publisher
Yale University
description
The Beinecke holds a number of archival collections that deal with issues of sexuality and sexual identity. The Beinecke holds one of the most complete collections of Gay and Lesbian serials in the world. Gathered by Knud Rame, a Danish bookseller and astrologer, the Rame collection contains more than 3400 issues of around 200 different titles, dating between 1906 and 1993. This extraordinarily expansive group of periodicals features items in English, French, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Japanese. The earliest item is a 1906 issue of Adolph Brand’s Der Eigene, often called the first true homosexual periodical. The collection advances up to the early 1990s with a run of Christopher Street.
peer reviewed
Audrey J. Li