White Crane Journal
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates White Crane Journal was a quarterly magazine for exploring and enhancing gay wisdom, spirituality, and culture, published from 1989<ref name="Adler2006">Template:Cite book</ref> to 2010.<ref name=WCJ/> It was a non-profit publication supported entirely by the subscriptions of its readers. It was headquartered in San Francisco.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
History
The White Crane Newsletter was created by Robert Barzan, a former Jesuit priest,<ref name="Hudale2008">Template:Cite book</ref> in the Summer of 1989, and later renamed the White Crane Journal. The magazine's initial goal was to explore gay spirituality.<ref name="Adler2006"/> Barzan published the journal for seven years.
In 1996, Barzan passed the journal on to Toby Johnson and became publisher emeritus. Johnson published White Crane Journal for seven years, converting it to a digital format. Johnson, in turn, handed over publishing responsibilities to Bo Young, previously a poetry editor and associate editor for the quarterly.
Bo Young invited Dan Vera share the work of publishing White Crane, where they intended to continue a forum of discussion and sharing in the 21st century in the spirit of the Heart Circles they learned from Harry Hay, where they met.
Final status
The journal appears to have ceased publication with White Crane number 81, the 20th Anniversary issue, released 4 January 2010.
The journal was published by the White Crane Institute, which also published books under the White Crane Books imprint. The White Crane Institute website has archived samples and table of contents from issues 31–58 (Winter 1997 – Fall 2003),<ref name=past_issues>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and full copies of issues 69–81 (September 2006 – January 2010).<ref group=lower-alpha>The last issue available online as of 29 August 2018 was number 81.</ref><ref name=WCJ>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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