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Sacramento’s LGBT newspaper archive went missing. Here’s how the community brought it back
Center for Sacramento History archivist Sabrina Holecko holds a Mom Guess What newspaper on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, that featured a cover story on what different LGBTQ symbols meant in 1993. - Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee/TNS

Sacramento’s LGBT newspaper archive went missing. Here’s how the community brought it back

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An unofficial but near-complete print archive of a pioneering LGBT newspaper from Sacramento is spread between two libraries in the region. The paper, Mom Guess What was founded Nov. 1, 1978 by Linda Birner and published until around the end of 2009. Birner approached the Center for Sacramento History around late 2021 to donate some copies of her publication and other items, telling staff not long thereafter that file cabinets with voluminous copies of the paper had been taken and destroyed. The center followed up on her claim by seeking to rebuild the archive for Mom Gue...

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