Women in the Life magazine started out as a four-page newsletter and evolved over a ten-year period into a 26-page glossy cover magazine that was saddle-stitched and printed on heavy stock paper. If it affected Black lesbians the magazine covered it: art, politics, literature, history, relationships, family, and sexuality. Black culture. Black pride. Black life. As the artistic arm of the Women in the Life brand from 1993 to 2003, Women in the Life Magazine focused on an audience in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding region that few, if any, mainstream or LGBT media outlets considered in their coverage. Women in the Life distributed the magazine free of charge at local social events and at other outlets, many of which are no longer in existence, including: Sisterspace and Books, Whitman-Walker, the Black Lesbian Support Group, Lammas, Lambda Rising, Mr. Henry’s on Capitol Hill, Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer, DC LGBT Center, Blue Penguin, The Phase, Hill Haven, the Brass Rail, Kramerbooks, The Mill and the Hung Jury. Beaver Press, a woman-owned publishing company on Oglethorpe Street NW Washington, D.C., was contracted to print the magazine. Women in the Life sold subscriptions and distributed the magazine nationally at bookstores. At its peak, Women in the Life Magazine reached hundreds of thousands of readers across over 40 cities, supporting and affirming queer communities of color during a crucial period in American history and the LGBTQIA+ movement for equal rights.