“A lot of pre-frosh were hopefully able to look at the journal. And it’s fortunate that it [the journal’s release] corresponded with Gaypril but it wasn’t intentional,” he said.
Many University faculty and departments also publish journals, though they tend to be primarily theoretical and academic, Hughes said.
He said that though queer. is not the first undergraduate queer issues publication—Berkeley and Stanford have similar journals dealing with issues of gender and sexuality—it is the first to be written and read by students on more than one campus.
In a few weeks, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) will launch their own ’zine, Fuel, on issues of gender, feminism and sexuality.
“The overall aesthetic will by very different from a journal—we’re going for something that looks as low budget as it is,” RUS Chair Ilana J. Sichel ’05 wrote in an e-mail.
—Staff writer Claire Provost can be reached jprovost@fas.harvard.edu.