I just want to note, since misty's post reminded me of it! If you don't have a sense of where queer people and queer communities were at pre-internet, The Body Politic - an explicitly LGBT-focused Canadian magazine that ran throughout the 70s and 80s - is an incredible read and I hugely recommend it. You'll be amazed how many things are different and how many things are shockingly the same. A surreal and sometimes reassuring dive into queer history.
A ton of issues are available to read for free on archive.org thanks to uploads from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights:
