18 Queer Magazine Covers That Show Just How Far We Have Come

In the spirit of LGBT history month, your dedicated editors did a hunt through the Google archives in pursuit of breakthrough magazine covers.
Pioneer print pubs like ONE, The Ladder, and HIM led us down a rabbit hole of early issues of LGBT periodicals.
Here are some of the most intriguing ones we came across from the 1950s to today.
ONE magazine, 1953

Two Magazine, 1964

The Ladder Magazine, 1964

Two Magazine, 1966

First Issue of HIM Exclusive (now Gay Times), 1974

First issue of Metrosource Magazine, 1990

K.D. Lang in The Advocate, 1992

Out Magazine Issue No. 1, 1992

Interior designer Ty Ross (grandson of former U.S. Barry Goldwater) on the cover of the first POZ Magazine cover, 1994

MLB player Billy Bean, Advocate magazine, 1999

DNA Magazine, 2000

Passport Magazine first issue, 2001

Frank Ocean, The Advocate, 2012

Michael Sam, OUT AFRICA MAGAZINE, 2014

Barack Obama, OUT Magazine, 2015

Aydian Dowling, GT Magazine, 2016

Prince William on the cover of the UK’s attitude Magazine, 2016

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