
The calendars are arranged physically by size but appear in the finding aid in alphabetical order by title. Some have undergone water damage in the past. Some of the calendars have been "used" before being donated and include handwritten appointments and other inscriptions throughout. Some of the earliest calendars from the 1970s are quite rare. Only a few of the calendars in this collection feature or are targeted specifically at women, but include some featuring the popular lesbian cartoon "Dykes to Watch Out For" as well as a calendar/journal that features lesbian "herstory." None in this collection are directly marketed to the transgender community.

Most recently, the magazine had a revamp in with Levi Johnston. There are also calendars that celebrate or commemorate other aspects the LGBT community, such as Pride or the AIDS crisis, or feature the visual work of LGBT artists, such as Keith Haring. Competed in the Worlds Strongest Man Competition weighing lbs. Many of the producers of these calendars are in fact publishers of pornography magazines and videos marketed to gay men.

Some of these fetishize a particular racial or ethnic group, including Black, Latino, or Asian men, and others focus on physical characteristics such as youth, hairiness, or endowment, or on subcultures such as the Levis and leather scene or drag. Most frequent are those aimed at gay men which feature nude or nearly nude male models. The LGBT calendar collection contains various sorts of historic calendars with an LGBT theme.
