Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter

Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter
EditorLaverne Gagehabib, A. C. Barber, Vivienne Walker-Crawford
CategoriesLesbian
FrequencyBimonthly
First issue1982
Final issue1984
CountryUnited States
Based inBerkeley, California
LanguageEnglish
OCLC69262012

Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter was a bimonthly magazine focusing on Black lesbian life and culture. Originally titled Black Lesbian Newsletter, Onyx was based in Berkeley from 1982 to 1984. It was created by Laverne Gagehabib, A.C. Barber, and Vivienne Walker-Crawford. The newsletter contained fiction pieces, opinion articles, news, reviews, poems, personal ads, art, and photographs. Onyx was the earliest of the three San Francisco Bay Area publications which focused on Black lesbian life and culture, the others being Aché: A Journal for Lesbians of African Descent and Issues! The Magazine for Lesbians of Color. Onyx covers were illustrated by Sarita Johnson. Its editors included Marlene Bonner.