Houston Breakthrough

Houston Breakthrough
Where Women Are News
1976-1980

This section of this site will feature downloadable and searchable PDF files of Houston Breakthrough, which is a departure for the coverage of this site. It was, at least for its first few years, a Feminist Newspaper, with probably less than two percent "lesbian content." But the late 1970s were important times for the women's movement and this paper's material was indeed relevant. This includes coverage I was very pleased to capture, that of the National Women's Conference in Houston in November 1977.

I thank one of the paper's founders, and editors Gabrielle Cosgriff for loaning me her archives and giving permission
for their inclusion on my site. Janice Blue was the Publisher and they both did the editing.

The issues having a black background, and no link attached to "PDF" are ones for which I have not had access.
If you can provide scans or loan me the missing ones I would be most appreciative.

1976

Vol 1-1, Jan 1976, PDF

Vol 1-2, Feb 1976, PDF

Vol 1-3, Mar 1976, PDF

Vol 1-4, Apr 1976, PDF

Vol 1-5, May 1976, PDF

Vol 1-6/7, Jun/Jul 1976, PDF

Vol 1-8/9, Aug/Sep 1976, PDF

Vol 1-8, Oct 1976, PDF

Vol 1-9, Nov 1976, PDF

Vol 1-9, Dec 1976, PDF

1977

Vol 2-1, Jan 1977, PDF

Vol 2-2, Feb 1977, PDF

Vol 2-3, Mar 1977, PDF

Vol 2-4, Apr 1977, PDF

Vol 2-5, May 1977, PDF

Vol 2-6, Jun 1977, PDF

Vol 2-7, Jul/Aug 1977,
PDF

Vol 2-8, Sep 1977, PDF

Vol 2-9, Oct 1977, PDF

Vol 2-10, Dec/Jan 1977/78, PDF

Instead of a November 1977 issue, Breakthrough had one of its proudest accomplishments: three daily issues during the Interntional Women's Year (IWY) Conference; for the amount of work, a rather insane endeavor

Nov 18, 1977, PDF
Nov 19, 1977, PDF
Nov 20, 1977, PDF

1978

Breakthrough experienced a crisis in May and suspended publication, only eeking out slim 8-page issues for several
months, with much reduced content and focus. By Dec it had returned to the normal size of around 28 pages.

Vol 3-1, Feb 1978, PDF

Vol 3-3, Mar 1978, PDF

Vol 3-4, Apr 1978, PDF

Vol 3-5, May 1978, PDF

Vol 3-5, Jun 1978, PDF

Vol 3-6, Jul/Aug 1978, PDF

Vol 3-7, Sep 1978, PDF

Vol 3-8, Oct 1978, PDF

Vol 3-9, Nov 1978, PDF

Vol 4-1, Dec/Jan, 1978/79, PDF

1979

Vol 4-2. Feb 1979, PDF

Vol 4-3, Mar 1979, PDF

Vol 4-3, Apr 1979, PDF

Vol 4-4, May 1979, PDF

Vol 4-5, Jun 1979, PDF

Vol 4-6, Jul/Aug 1979, PDF

Vol 4-7, Sep 1979, PDF

Vol 4-8, Oct 1979, PDF

Vol 4-9, Nov 1979, PDF

Vol 4-10, Dec/Jan 1979/80, PDF

1980

They celebrated the new decade by becoming a general circulation paper, and changing their byline from "Where Women Are News" to "It's All News to Us." This shift had been coming gradually as their coverage went less just women-oriented to more mainstream, also to reflect their large percentage of male readers.