The publication began in 1982 in Baton Rouge and moved to New Orleans in 1985.
Orginal publisher was Rip Naquin (shown at right), assisted by his husband, Marion
Martin Greeson, a female impersonator who uses the name Marsha Delain. Read about
their story. Naquin died in August 2017, see obituary. Marsha died a few months later,
in December, but before that sold the paper to TJ Acosta.

After Rip's death the paper missed a few months, and came back in October 2017
with someone Acosta hired as Publisher. That person did not work out, not did
another, and TJ Acosta has been the current Publisher since June 2018.

Of course Ambush covered news from across the state, but went further. They had a
large presence in Austin. I think this was because that city itself was poorly represented
by a newpaper of its own. Also, they were blessed with an agressive sales staff.
Ambush once in a while covered the Houston area, with a contributing columnist from
there, but generally left Dallas and San Antonio to themselves. They are lucky
to have Frank Perez writing about LGBTQ NOLA and Louisiana history.

1983
1-4-8304, PDF
& 1-7-8307, partial

1-9-8308, PDF

1-10-8309, PDF

1-11-8310, PDF

1-12-8312, PDF

1984
2-1-8401, PDF

2-2-8402, PDF

2-3-8403, PDF

2-4-8404, PDF

2-5-8405, PDF

2-6-8406, PDF

2-7-8407, PDF

2-9-8409, PDF

2-11-8411, PDF

1985
3-2-8502, PDF

\3-3-8503, PDF

3-12-8512, PDF

1988
6-2-8802, PDF

1988
6-6-8806, PDF

1994
12-10-9405, PDF

1996
14-24-9612, PDF

Again, issues from 1997 to 2017 can be found at

http://archive.ambushmag.com/

And from 1998 to the present at

www.ambushmag.com 

I scanned just a few after 1997 below...

1998
16-12-9806, PDF

Another observation is that once they became newspaper size they mostly adopted the practice of selling
ads on their cover page...quite unusual, but apparently worked for them, as they have done it for decades.

After the death of founder Rip Naquin...