San Francisco Public Library recently added three packages of digital magazine archives to its electronic resources, which means you have the backfiles of dozens of magazines available at the tip of your fingers.
The Magazine Archives
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 1-4 (ProQuest)
89 publications covering music, television, and film. Enter into the database and click publications at the top to see all of the magazines available.
Health & Fitness Magazine Archive (ProQuest)
9 publications with coverage starting in 1950: Flex, Men's Fitness (UK), Men's Fitness (US), Men's Health, Prevention, Women's Health, The Women's Health Activist, Women's Health Weekly, and Zest.
LGBT Magazine Archive 1 & 2 (ProQuest)
44 publications mostly from cities across the US, with some coverage from Europe and Australia. Anything That Moves and Homocore are two magazines in the archive published in San Francisco.
Black Interest
Here are a couple highlights from the new databases to promote More Than A Month, the SFPL celebration of Black history and culture.
"Time was, a rap artist in an expansive mood would call up some of his MC pals and have them flow over a track just to mix things up. Now, from producer-driven projects such as the current releases from Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs and DJ Clue to compilations like the Ruff Ryders' Ryde or Die Vol. 2 and 'big tent' albums like Dr. Dre 2001, guest appearances on hip hop albums are as much about corporate synergy as they are about giving shout-outs." - "Partners in Rhyme," Dec 1, 2000 issue of VIBE magazine
Reading VIBE from almost any point in the twelve year archive (1992-2014) is like reading something from a contemporary magazine, so often do the same themes of black celebrity, technology, and issues of inequality come up in the writing and photographs featured in the magazine. Even the graphic design of the magazine seems apt for the 2020s.
"... if I wanted to make money, I wouldn't be doing this at all and if I wanted to make money I would not choose documentary. I would tell anybody who's interested in documentaries, that is not the pursuit that you should follow in order to make lots of money," -- filmmaker Marlon Riggs in the April 1, 1990 issue of BLK magazine. (See Riggs documentaries available through SFPL.)
BLK was a black, queer interest magazine published in Los Angeles and is available full text in the magazine archive from Dec 1, 1988 (no. 1) - Mar 1, 1994 (Vol. 5, no. 3).
"Poetry is an essential nutrient to some; a new and as yet unexplored pleasure for others... Read these words aloud; share them with your brothers and sisters around you, and take them with you on the next stage of your journey." - The Editor, Mark Allen Haile, in the Jul 1, 1997 issue of Kuumba.
Kuumba was a poetry journal for black lesbians and gay men. It was an offshoot of BLK magazine, listed above, published in Los Angeles. There are a couple issues of this lit mag in the LGBT Magazine Archive from 1991 and 1997.
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