Covering the East Bay counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano, East Bay OutNOW! focused on stories and people both from places like Oakland and Berkeley, who affiliated themselves with the San Francisco gay scene, and places like Vallejo and Vacaville who saw “the ‘gay Mecca’ as a curiosity that had little to do with your own lives.” This publication focused on the 22,000+ residence who had their cultures, concerns, and communities in the East Bay.