Since the GLF members had no experience in publishing a newspaper, she tutored them on how to gather news, prepare the copy, and the legal requirements for production.

[4] In the first issue, they published a scathing critique of The Village Voice, an alternative newsweekly based in NYC, for not allowing the words gay and homosexual to be used in their classified ads section, after they had submitted an advertisement to them.

[8] Subsequent issues also featured various notable contributors, including: gay rights activists Perry Brass, Dennis Altman, Tony Diaman and Ellen Broidy, feminist Rita Mae Brown, transgender activist Angela Lynn Douglas, and photographers Diana Davies and Donna Gottschalk.

[12] Content in the various issues would feature personal accounts and photos of GLF marches and gay rights rallies, and poems, along with editorials.

The owner of the shop would let her come in after hours and set the copy for the newspaper, and then she would bring it to the people responsible for the layout, and they would work on it, and get it off to the printer.

[14] As she stood in the snow on a Village street corner in a pair of sneakers and a torn leather jacket, yelling Get your copy of Come Out!, a well-dressed couple passed by, pushing a stroller and looking at Shelley with horror.

He opined that Shelley took the initiative into examining, and then writing about the "subjugation of women", and as a result she was instrumental in forging "a liberated female identity".

However, in the long run, he contends that there is a strong case to reach the conclusion that the newspaper "shaped the debate on sexuality and gender for decades to come".

[17] She opined that the GLF knew if there was ever going to be any changes in the status-quo for the LGBT community, they would have to get involved in the "political process", in order to end discrimination against them.