[2] The magazine was first published on November 1, 1971, by an informal collective, operating out of the home of Glad Day Bookshop owner Jearld Moldenhauer.

[3] Many members of the collective had been associated with the underground publication Guerilla, which had been relatively gay-friendly but alienated some of its LGBT contributors when it altered Moldenhauer's article about the We Demand protest of August 28, 1971.

[1] At a September meeting of the Toronto Gay Alliance, Moldenhauer first proposed the idea of launching a gay-focused publication.

[1] In that same year, the magazine ran into minor legal difficulties when an installment of cartoonist Rand Holmes' Harold Hedd strip depicted an act of fellatio.

[5] In 1982, Toronto City Councillor Joe Piccininni failed in an attempt to have the magazine barred from the city council's press gallery, following a cover story on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence which Piccininni deemed disrespectful to Roman Catholicism.

[8] As well, actor and writer Diane Flacks was nominated for a Dora award for outstanding performance in the play Body Politic.

Writers associated with the magazine included Gerald Hannon, Rick Bébout, Chris Bearchell, Hugh Brewster, Stan Persky, Michael Lynch, Stephen O. Murray, John Greyson, David Rayside, Herbert Spiers, Ian Young, Ed Jackson,[9] Sue Golding, Robin Hardy, Richard Summerbell, Thomas Waugh, John Alan Lee, Tim McCaskell, and Gary Kinsman.