The Seattle Gay News (SGN) was founded in 1976 to provide news coverage focusing on Seattle’s gay community; it is the third oldest LGBTQ+ newspaper in the US. Seattle Gay News started as a newsletter produced by the Gay Community Center. It provided news to a community that was largely ignored by mainstream newspapers and advocated for gay rights in numerous campaigns. Especially during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, it was an important source of information and helped members of the community to support each other. Since its founding, the SGN has widened its focus to Seattle’s LGBTQ+ community more broadly.

This issue was published April 3, 1992 and its headline reports on an ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) protest against Louis Sullivan, then the Secretary of Health and Human Services, because of the Bush administration's poor response to the AIDS epidemic. Protesters are photographed burning George H.W. Bush in effigy. Other front-page stories include a report on opposition to Operation Weed and Seed, which would spend millions of dollars on militarized policing in the Central Area as part of efforts to control illicit drugs, and a report on the Oregon Citizen's Alliance (OCA) attempts to amend Oregon’s state constitution to outlaw homosexuality.