On Our Backs

Publication

Wanderground Lesbian Archive/Library

Name/Title

On Our Backs

Secondary Title

Entertainment for Adventurous Lesbians

Description

On Our Backs was the first women-run erotica magazine and the first magazine to feature lesbian erotica for a lesbian audience in the United States.

Context

Not to be confused with Off Our Backs.The title of the magazine was a satirical reference to off our backs, a long-running feminist newspaper that published the work of many anti-pornography feminists during the 1980s, and which the founders of On Our Backs considered prudish about sexuality.

Publication Details

Publication Type

Magazine

Periodical

Periodicals/Newsletters

Volume/Number/Issue

Holdings: Summer 1984 (Premier Issue); and many bi-monthly issus - - to be catalogued | Also 2004 Calendar - the Best of Lesbian Sex: A Collection of Erotic Photography from the Magazine

Place Published

City

San Francsico, CA

Date Published

1984 - 2006

Publication Subjects

Sexuality; Erotica

ISSN

0890-2224

Create Date

July 25, 2024

Update Date

August 6, 2024