Gaysweek was an American weekly gay and lesbian newspaper based in New York City printed from 1977 until 1979.
Considered the city's first mainstream weekly lesbian and gay newspaper, it was founded by Alan Bell in 1977 as an 8-page single-color tabloid and finished its run in 1979 as a 24-page two-color publication.
[1][2][3] Gaysweek was New York City's first mainstream weekly lesbian and gay newspaper.
A portion of Gaysweek archives are housed at Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
[3][6] In 2002, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston turned over a copy of the February 12, 1979 issue of Gaysweek, in relation to a lawsuit, which included an article titled "Men & Boys" that described a meeting in Boston in which Father Paul Shanley defended a relationship between a man and a boy.