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The Body Politic
"The Body Politic" (1972-1987) published by The Body Politic Editorial Collective (later the non-profit Pink Triangle Press) out of Toronto, Canada during the heady and activist days of the early gay liberation movement.
Conceived in a basement in a downtown Victorian flat in 1971 by members of Toronto Gay Action and others, the emerging Body Politic Editorial Collective, and later the non-profit Pink Triangle Press, were faced with relentless persecution by Canadian postal and law authorities. Early on, mainstream newspapers, particularly The Toronto Star and The Globe, refused to carry any advertisements for The Body Politic; in 1977, the police raided the offices of The Body Politic (as they would do again); in 1979, the non-profit publisher of The Body Politic, the Pink Triangle Press, and its three directors went on trial in Toronto charged with using the mail to distribute "obscene, indecent, immoral, or scurrilous" material (specificially, issue #39 offered in this collection which contained an article on intergenerational relationships entitled "Men loving boys loving men" by Gerald Hannon; the lengthy pre-trial report in issue #49, also offered in this collection, is entitled "Her Majesty the Queen vs. Pink Triangle Press"). Ultimately, the defendants were found not guilty, although the legal costs of defense and continuing harassment constantly challenged the survival of this publication.
Printed on newsprint paper and issued in tabloid (fold-over) format through issue #45 (with each issue typically 24-32 pages), and then in large stapled newsprint magazine format thereafter (with each issue typically 48 pages in length).
Packed with literally thousands and thousands of news items (Canada and the United States), articles, interviews, profiles, history, photographs and photospreads, art and illustrations, book, film, music, and stage reviews, fiction, radical social analysis, gay liberation politics, pride news and events, community forums, resources, vintage advertisements, and classified ads.
Topics and personalities include (many with photographs and/or artwork): intergenerational sex and relationships; gay fathers; gay sons; gay lovers; John Briggs and Proposition 6 (which would have outlawed gay teachers in California); gays in the Soviet Union; homophile history; Harry Hay; McCarthyism; the Mattachine Society; ONE, Inc.; S&M culture; Radical Fairies; gay rights; discrimination; witchhunts; police entrapment; fag-bashing; protests; censorship; obscenity laws; kiss-ins; gays and lesbians in movies and video; age-of-consent laws; the culture of bodybuilding; sexism; bathhouses; opera; the Man/Boy Love Conference; undercover vice cops; guerilla theatre; bar raids; machismo; sex education; gay youth; Alfred C. Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute; the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; public sex; gays in prison; Colette; romance; AIDS; the gay olympics; sex and aging; Liberace; lesbian porn; the gay hanky code; men and moustaches; camp; safe sex; gay and lesbian leather culture; gender; Provincetown; Oscar Wilde; Black and White Men Together; male prostitution; gay and lesbian small press; sexual fetishes; gays in dance and theatre; circumcision; spirituality; sexual orientation; immigration; Homosexuals Anonymous; gays in the military; gays in Cuba; gay self-defense; gays in Calgary; Michel Foucault; filmmaker Fredrich Wilhelm Murnau; ballet; teaching sexuality; gays in the Netherlands; Cannes; the Night of Rage - gay riots in San Francisco following Dan White's light sentence for the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk; Cape Cod; gay history; David Hockney; Mary Daly; lesbian mothers; child custody; sex toys; Fourth Annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival; William Friedkin's film "Cruising"; Toronto Gay Film Festival; Adrienne Rich; Walt Whitman in Ontario; gay and disabled; Eleanor Roosevelt; the International Gay Association; Havelock Ellis; Bette Midler; NAMBLA Conference; Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE); radical drag; Martin Sherman's play "Bent"; San Francisco; Toronto steam bath raids; est; gay life in Nicaragua; Andrea Dworkin; pornography; the early gay movement in Germany (1860-1933); artificial insemination; Tom O'Carroll; history of and personalities behind the Body Politic Collective; Elsa Gidlow; children's liberation; filmmaker Lothar Lambert; Arthur Bressan's film "Abuse"; history of male photography and pornography; delightful "Hetero Hanky Code"; gay pulps; Phil Andros; gay and lesbian pride parades; David Bowie; recreational drugs; AIDS; W.H. Auden; racism; filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole; Alan Turing; the Green Party; gay men in Syria (article entitled "Born to Lose"); the murder of gays in Toronto; Rob Joyce (a Vancouver youth counselor who was falsely accused of buying sex from a teenage male prostitute); Spartacus Travel Guide; gays in comic books; jocks; "The Wings" (cinema's first gay film from 1916); lesbian "skirt-chasers"; Canadian gay archives; condoms; gays in Poland; the Catholic Church; child abuse manipulation and hysteria; homosexuality and the Third Reich; gays in small town America; gay rock bands; gay men's theatre; high school reunions; the Sleaze Ball in Sydney; history of circumcision; article "Confessions of a High-School Faggot"; Karl Heinrich Ulrichs; Anne Bonny and Mary Read (lesbian pirates); gay oppression in Mexico; drag culture; John Cheever; Edward Carpenter; gay inmates; gay male fantasies; gays in the seminary; gay foster parents; Canada's report "Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution"; avant-garde and underground films; gay Mormons; Rainer Werner Fassbinder; monogamy; Bill Sherwood and his film "Parting Glances"; Roy Cohn; Christmas shopping for dildos; Lyndon LaRouche's AIDS Initiative; the Meese Commission on pornography; the "Ottawa Homosexual Vice Ring" scandal; final issue devoted to The Body Politic, with articles from 17 members of the Collective who write about the publication's history, relevance, and personal memories;
Interviews of (with photographs): Christopher Isherwood; Quentin Crisp; author and activist Charlotte Bunch; David Haughton; singer Heather Bishop; comedian Robin Tyler; playwright John Herbert (who wrote "Fortune in Men's Eyes"); Dennis Altman; David Watmough; John Damien (fired from the Ontario Racing Commission for being gay; he died from AIDS several years later before the case was decided); Jim MacSwain ("The Bearded Lady"); Lou Harrison; Pat Bond (then playing Gertrude Stein); Toronto Mayor John Sewell; gay poet Don Garner; The Nylons; Michel Tremblay; playwright Sky Gilbert; Edmund White; The Slits; Gay Bell; William Burroughs; Thomas Disch; Mary Meigs; Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; Kenneth Anger; singer Teresa Trull; Quinlan Sisters; concert producer Ruth Dworin; transsexual "Wanda Nevada"; Rita Mae Brown; comedian Sheila Gostick; singer and songwriter Lorraine Segato; Jim Fouratt; Carole Pope (from the musical group "Rough Trade," formerly the "Bullwhip Brothers"); author Timothy Findley; singer Beverly Bratty of Bratty and the Babysitters; singer Tom Robinson; Donna Deitch and Jane Rule; playwright Jovette Marchessault; Toronto filmmaker Midi Onodera; gay black Vietnam vet James Credle; lesbian singer Ferron; dancer Danny Grossman; singer Cris Williamson; writer Scott Symons; Glenway Wescott (on "Remembering [Jean] Cocteau"); Michael Hardwick (after losing his fight before the U.S. Supreme Court on Georgia's sodomy law);
Gay music reviews or articles on: Steven Grossman; Meg Christian; Alix Dobkin; Kay Gardner; "Lavender Country"; "Lavender Jane Loves Women"; Chris Robison; Cris Williamson; "On the Edge" by Baba Yaga; "Like a Mountain" by the Izquierda Ensemble; "Boston Ride" by Lilith; "Live Dream" by Cris Williamson; "From Women's Faces" by Terese Edell; "Out and About" by Betty Kaplowitz; Casse Culver; Teresa Trull; Margie Adam; Lesbian Concentrate; Willie Tyson; Jade and Sarsaparilla; Linda Tillery; Gotham; Tom Robinson Band; "Eve's Song/Song for Cheryl" by Eve Morris; "Flying Lesbians" by the Flying Lesbians; "Gay Name Game" by Tom Wilson; The Nylons; Holly Near; "Tryin' to Survive" by The Berkeley Women's Music Collective; "We Deny None of Our Changes" by Maggie and Jude; "Foxglove Woman" by Trish Nugent; "Something Moving" by Mary Watkins; "Blatantly Offensive, Man Enough to be a Woman, Things Your Mother Never Told You" by Wayne Country and the Electric Chairs; TBA; Heather Bishop; Rough Trade; David Sereda; "Popular Songs" by Clive Robertson; "All-American Boy" by Tom Wilson; "Catch the Fire" by Charlie Murphy; "Love Across the Nation" by TBA; "North by Northwest" by Tom Robinson; "Too Much To Dream" by Paul Parker; The Parachute Club; Sound Women; "Weapons" by Rough Trade; "Frankie Goes To Hollywood"; "The Edge of the Horizon" by Karen Beth; "Making Waves" by Kate Clinton; Eric Presland and Norman Penney (whose first cassette was entitled "File Under Gay"); Ferron; "You are my world" by the Communards; Jimmy Somerville and the Communards; "Stop Making Cheese" by the Look People; the Slits;
Artwork by: comic-strip artist Gary Ostrom, David Aldrich, Claire Weissman Wilks, Tony Wilson, Matt Gould, Rob Flack, comics by Tom Hachtman; comic-strip artist Rand Holmes;
Authors include: John D'Emilio, Scott Jones, Paul Goodman, Jane Rule, Jonathan Katz, Scott Tucker, Andrew Hodges, Eric Bentley, Robin Hardy, Ian Young, Michael Lynch, Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Michael Riordon, Ken Popert, Paul Pearce, Tim McCaskell, John Greyson, Allan Berube, Peter Jackson, Thomas Waugh, Karla Jay, Joy Parks, Joan Nestle, Michael Lassell, Stan Persky, Neil Bartlett; Richard Summerbell; Gerald Hannon; Jim (James) Steakley; Rita Mae Brown (who, disguised as a male, visited a male bathhouse);
Photographs and photospreads by: Philip Hannan, Norman Hatton, Andreas Hansen (from the book "Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin"); Lisa Kanemoto (from her book "We Are"); David Blair; Richard Plowright; Guy Desranleau; Mark Brickell; Gerald Hannon; Raphael Bendahan (drag photographer);
Poetry by: Robert Gluck, Dennis Cooper, George Stanley, Gavin Dillard, Ian Young, Jack Anderson, David MacLean, Scott Tucker, Jon Bracker, Paul Goodman, Gerald Hannon, John Lemaire, Paul Verlaine (the first appearance of the long-suppressed gay poem "Hombres"), Mikhail Kuzmin, Jack Thomas.
Itemization Of Issues In Tabloid Format 1972 - #5 1973 - #8, 9, 10 1974 - #11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 1975 - #17, 18, 19, 20, 21 1976 - #22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 1977 - #30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39 1978 - #40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45
Now Large Stapled Newsprint Magazine 1978 - #47, 48, 49 1979 - #50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 1980 - #60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 1981 - #70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79 1982 - #80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 1983 - #90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 1984 - #100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109 1985 - #110, 111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120 1986 - #122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133 1987 - #134, 135 (Final Issue Published)
CHICAGO GAY CRUSADER
14 issues (out of a total publication life run of 26 issues) of the short-lived " Chicago Gay Crusader " published during the years 1973-74 by the "Advocates of Gay Action" Co-op.
A newspaper primarily focused on the gay community in Chicago, Illinois, with articles, news items, columns, reviews, poetry, events, resources, classifieds, photographs, and fabulous vintage advertisements.
With fantastic photo coverage of Chicago's 1973 Gay Pride Week (issue #3 devotes 5-1/2 pages to photographs from Pride Week). Other photospreads include: Mr. Gold Coast Contest; Mr. Man's Country Contest; Charles Pierce (then appearing in Chicago); Felicia's 7th Annual [Drag] Contest; the ONE Banquet held in Chicago (in attendance were gay pioneers Dr. Franklin Kameny from Washington, D.C. and Morris Kight from Los Angeles); Ms. Butch and Ms. Fem Contest (held at the Baton); Miss Gay Illinois [drag] Beauty Contest; a splendid front cover photograph of Sally Rand, then appearing in the Music Hall room of Man's Country (a Chicago gay bathhouse); much more.
Other highlights include: significant coverage on the horrific and tragic French Quarter Bar fire in New Orleans which killed 32 gay bar-goers; issue #2 contains a historical cover photograph from 1969 of demonstrators in front of the Stonewall Inn in New York City; article (with photo) on Dr. Frank Kameny and Morris Kight who, upon their visit to Chicago, streaked through Beckman House, Chicago's new gay information and service center; much more.
Itemization of Issues:
1973 - #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
1974 - #10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 Premiere issue of the short-lived and historically important
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #1, May 1973) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains eight pages including front and rear covers.
A newspaper primarily focused on the gay community of Chicago, Illinois, with articles, announcements, columns, resources, art and photography, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include:
-headline news article "CHICAGO PRESBYTERIANS DENY GAY MINISTER" (The five-paragraph motion from this denomination began: "'The Committee on Ministerial Relations [of the Presbytery of Chicago] does not recommend that final clearance be given to the Rev. David Sindt so that he may accept a call to the Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church for a specialized ministry to the Gay Community...It is important that the minister not be himself an advocate of homosexuality, as then homosexuality would simply be another form of idolatry. Our conversation with Mr. Sindt indicated that he was a committed advocate of homosexuality'"); -front page news article "Six Confrontations: When will [Governor Daniel] Walker get the message?" (with photo: "Illinois Governor Daniel Walker, elected on a progressive platform of concern 'for people,' has refused repeated requests from Illinois gay people to ban discrimination against them in State jobs"); -news article "Youth Abducted" ("Several weeks ago at the Gay Community Services Center located at 171 West Elm Street, a sixteen-year-old gay youth was surprised by his father and two Chicago police officers"); -short article "Law and the Homosexual" by Paul R. Goldman; -announcement "Gay Pride Planning Committee"; -splendid 1/4-page artwork for the upcoming 1973 Gay Pride Celebration Parade (to be held on June 24); -short news article "Gay Medical Students" ("Gay medical students in Chicago met for the first time in April"); -splendid ad "Best of Luck - Roski Fernandez - In the Miss Gay America Pageant, from a friend" (with photo); -Gay Pride Week Schedule of events; -vintage Chicago advertisements for "Up North Restaurant & Bar" (located at 6244 N. Western: "for us, by us"); Dial-A-Gay Message! ("phone us today!"); others; -much, much more.
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #2, June 1973) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
-headline article "ANNOUNCING GAY PRIDE WEEK 1973" and cover article "BIG PLANS FOR CHICAGO"; -cover photograph from 1969 of gay men at the Stonewall Inn, New York City; -short article "History of Gay Pride Week"; -full page advertisement for the 1973 Chicago Gay Pride Week ("One Thousand Gay Pride Balloons will kick off [the event]"); -news article "Gays March on Ann Landers"; -splendid half-page "Chicago walks away with Miss Gay America Pageant" (with artwork and four drag photos); -news article "Gay Rights Bills Planned" (with photo); -news article "Gays Shut Out, Picket [44th] Ward [Assembly's Annual Fund-Raising] Fair" (with three protest march photos); -news article "House Committee kills anti-gay Measure" by William B. Kelley (with delightful cartoon: "Egads!! funds for - gulmp - wa - dulmp! - homosexuals?"); -local and national news column "Eye on the News"; -delightful spoof "Ask Ann Slanders"; -Chicago social column "This Month Around Town - Out Of Town"; -news article "Repeal of Anti-Transvestite Ordinance Proposed"; -short news article "Charles Pierce wows Chicago" (with three fabulous photos); -splendid vintage advertisements from the Wooden Barrell Pub ("levis 'n leather friday nite, all the beer you can drink, a buck 'n a half"); Larry's Adult Books (with beefcake photo: "Find a Friend!"); The Baton (at 436 N. Clark Street: "Felicia presents 'The Baton Revue'"; with four drag queen photos); the Ramrod of Chicago (with male leather photo: "stop by when you're in town!"); others; -much, much more.
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #3, July 1973) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.. Highlights include:
-headline article "GAY GLORY 1973: GAY PRIDE WEEK HUGE SUCCESS - 2,500 March"; -outstanding five-page photospread with 65 photographs of the 1973 Chicago Gay Pride Week Parade and Celebration (each page individually headlined "GAY LOVE," "GAY UNITY," "GAY POWER," "GAY PRIDE," and "GAY GLORY"); -news article "Gay Rights Bills Filed in City Council"; -news article "Gays March on Cook County Jail: Protest of Prison Conditions" (with three photos); -quarter-page ad for female impersonator Craig Russell, then appearing at the Baton (with three small photos); -news article "Chicago Mourns New Orleans Fire Victims" (on the horrendous fire at a New Orleans gay bar that occurred on Gay Pride Sunday, June 24); -vintage advertisements for the Glory Hole ("Go-Go Boys Weekends"); Larry's Adult Books ("Find a Friend!"); Up North ("Dear World, Thanks for a great two years"); Britt Top's Wooden Barrell Pub (then featuring John Britt, with photo); others;
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #4, August 1973) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.
A newspaper primarily focused on the gay community of Chicago, Illinois, with articles, announcements, columns, resources, art and photography, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include:
-headline "CHICAGO GAYS MOBILIZE TO AID FIRE VICTIMS" (re the horrendous fire at a French Quarter gay bar that killed 32 people during Gay Pride Sunday on June 24) with five associated front cover articles: 1) "Morty Manford Helps To Organize" ("New York gay activist Morty Manford visited Chicago July 18 to aid in mobilizing Chicagoans for the National New Orleans Memorial Fund"); 2) "Benefit at Up North" (the gay bar and restaurant Up North); 3) "Trip Benefit Raffle" (a benefit raffle to be held at The Trip, 27 E. Ohio Street); 4) "Benefit Dance Scheduled" (at the Chicago Chapter of the Fire Victims' Fund); 5) "Blood Still Needed" ("Over 1,800 pints of blood are needed for the survivors of the New Orleans fire"); -centerfold appeal from the National New Orleans Memorial Fund headlined "YOU HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN THEM - HAVE YOU?" (with facsimile of upper front cover of the Chicago Sun-Times issue of Monday, June 25, 1973 headlined "FRENCH QUARTER BAR FIRE KILLS 32" that reprints two horrific photos - one entitled "Helmeted New Orleans fireman passes window where one fire victim tried to escape - and died" and "'My friends are up there!' shouts Laurell Quinton, who escaped the New Orleans barroom flash fire"); -news article "'Gay' Angle in Houston Murder Story Exploited" (on Houston serial killer Dean Corll); -news article "State Wavers on Gay Foster Parents" by William B. Kelley; -fabulous quarter-page advertisement for the Twenty-One Club (with two photos: "Tillie and Woody charm their guests"); -short article on the Wooden Barrell Pub at 2326 N. Clark Street (with two photos); -full page "Entertainer of the Month: [drag queen] Lotta Love" (with photo: "'Next,' announces Felicia, 'straight from Bughouse Square, the tall, tan and terrific LOTTA LOVE!");
Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #6, October 1973) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 12 pages including front and rear covers.
A newspaper primarily focused on the gay community of Chicago, Illinois, with articles, announcements, columns, resources, classified ads, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include:
-headline "GAY SWITCHBOARD CENTRALIZES OPERATIONS" (on Chicago's new Gay Switchboard and Information Exchange); -news articles including "Rights Bills To Get Hearing!"; "Cops Guilty In Bar Payoff"; "Judge Overturns Anti-Drag Law"; others; -vintage advertisements for Ms. ("Your Hostesses Marge & Chee Chee" at 661 North Clark); the Gold Coast (with artwork by Etienne: "if you're looking for ACTION"); others; -news article "Illinois Total Tops $4,500" (funds raised for the New Orleans fire victims); -news article "Officer Manley strikes again" ("Blond former patrolman John Manley...could carve another notch in his gun, stick, or whatever after Sept. 28. On that date, the onetime queerbaiter added a new feather to his second cap: that of gunslinger"); -news article: "Poet [W. H.] Auden Dies"; -delightful half-page cartoon strip "The Adventures of Granny Goosemgood" ("WILL SUPER GOOSER FIND KING KRAB? WHAT ARE HER POWERS? WHAT IS MAYOR DOILY UP TO? WILL HE PAY THE RANSOM? OR WILL LANCE AND MICKY GET THE CRABS?? HAVE A BOTTLE OF A-200 READY FOR THE NEXT EPISODE!");
-full page advertisement for the Glory Hole in Old Town Chicago ("DON'T JUST SIT THERE! C[ome] celebrate! OUR 1st Anniversary, TUES. NOV. 6, 9PM to MIDNITE - Free Beer");
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #7, November 1973) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.Highlights include:
-headline "GAYS ZAP NBC AND GILLETTE" with accompanying article "DEMONSTRATION AT MERCHANDISE MART" (with two photos: "Chicago gay activist groups joined a nationwide chorus of protest against anti-homosexual themes and derogatory jokes in NBC-TV network shows"); -news article "High Court Lets Old Sodomy Conviction Stand"; -news article "Hazards, Bias in [Gay] Bars To Be Investigated"; -news article "Identify Dead Woman Accused of Bar Shooting" ("The bartender who was shot at the Baton, 436 N. Clark St., Oct. 23, has now been released from the hospital and is recovering without complications. In the meantime, the woman accused of the shooting and subsequently killed by police has been identified"); -delightful illustrated half-page advertisement for the Chicago Transvestite Association; -lengthy news article "MCC [Metropolitan Community Church, Chicago] Begins $100,000 Fund Drive"; -chilling photograph reprinted from The Chicago Daily News on November 3, 1973 entitled "Suspect in 33-death fire arrives" ("Raymond Wallender - center - who told authorities in Sacramento, Calif., that he set a French Quarter bar fire that killed 33 persons, is escorted by policemen after his arrival at New Orleans Airport Friday night"); -delightful news article "[Dr. Franklin] Kameny [of Washington D.C.'s Mattachine Society] 'Solicits' Police Chief for Sodomy" ("In a challenge to the District of Columbia sodomy law, veteran gay rights activist Dr. Franklin E. Kameny has sent letters soliciting three top law officials for gay sex acts"); -Gay Crossword Puzzle; -column "Bobby Barfly" by Bobby Barker; -splendid centerfold photospread of Chicago drag ball entitled "FELICIA'S 7TH ANNUAL COSTUMES ON REVIEW" (with 16 photos); -delightful comic strip "The Adventures of Granny Goosemgood" by Al Revchenbach ("CAN SUPER GOOSER SAVE THE DAY?? OR WILL SHE BE THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL?? WILL MAYOR DOILY PAY THE RANSOM?? OR WILL LANCE AND MICKY GO FOR A SWIM?? WILL CHICAGO BECOME THE CRAB CAPITOL OF THE USA?"); -splendid examples of calls received "Friday Night on the Gay Switchboard"; -classified ads "Pat's Personals" ("CHICAGO BUTCH LEATHER LOVERS - Dig 3-way or groups with same");
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #10, February 1974) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 12 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
-cover stories include "[Rev.] TROY PERRY TO SPEAK HERE" (Metropolitan Community Church); "PARADE DATE PICKED" (Gay Pride Week 1974); the delightful, upcoming "ANN LANDERS LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST?" (with photo: "Gay Horizons, a new group in the city, claims to have asked Ann Landers to 'serve on our distinguished panel of judges'"); -lengthy Chicago gay news column "Eye on the News" by William B. Kelley; -half-page announcement "ATTENTION ALL GAY MEN AND WOMEN: WHAT DO YOU WANT?" (from David Ojeda: "A new Chicago firm is opening a private and commercial club featuring live entertainment, food, and drinks, and a billiard lounge"); -delightful article "Gay Graffiti in Chicago" (with three graffiti photos); -quarter-page announcement "UP NORTH PRESENTS MARDI GRAS COSTUME PARTY" ("King and Queen, Drag and Costume"); -classified ads "Pat's Personals"; -article "More Views on Ann Landers" ("Ever since Ann Landers unequivocally stated in 1973 that she considered homosexuality a 'sickness' and 'dysfunction,' she has been inundated with letters on the subject" - accompanying the article are two letters, including one to Ann Landers from Don Slater of the Homosexual Information Center in Los Angeles); -two lengthy letters from gay prisoners;
Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #12, May 1974) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.
A newspaper primarily focused on the gay community of Chicago, Illinois, with articles, announcements, columns, resources, classified ads, art and photography, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include:
-cover article "CRUSADER WINS OSCAR" (with photo of Chicago Gay Crusader Editor Michael Bergeron accepting the Oscar from drag queen Felicia: "It was Chicago's Academy Awards night at the Baton, 436 N. Clark, on Apr. 2, right after the Los Angeles production was streaked by the Advocate's Robert Opel...The 'Chicago Gay Crusader' was voted winner [for the title "Group Pushed for Better Rights and Life in the Gay Community"]"); -delightful cover article "STREAKERS!" (with photo showing printer-draped streakers Franklin E. Kameny [President of the Washington, D.C. Mattachine Society] and Los Angeles gay activist Morris Kight streaking through Beckman House, Chicago's newest gay information and services center); -news article "Gay VD Clinic To Open"; -news article "Happy Birthday To Us!" ("This is the 12th issue of 'The Chicago Gay Crusader' which marks our first year of publication"); -news article "Catty Winners Picked" (with photo of drag queen "Tilly: [winner of] Queer of the Year") with delightful categories including "Tearoom Queen of the Year," "Miss Vapors Award," "Good Witchie-poo Award," "Fancy Fake Dancer Award," "Bad Bar Boy of the Year Award"; -news article "Anti-drag law still in use, may be fought" by William B. Kelley; -delightful photo of Los Angeles' most famous pair, Matthew and Buddy of Glendale, "enjoy[ing] the [Chicago] Gay Crusader"; -beefcake photo of Glen Mansfield accepting first prize in the 1974 Mr. Trip Contest; -events article "CHICAGO IS THE PLACE TO BE DURING GAY PRIDE WEEK 1974!"; -delightful cartoon of a man showing up at the front door of the Sexual Freedom League with his cow (the man inside tells him, "Now, just a minute!"); -splendid quarter-page artwork for the upcoming Gay Pride Celebration and Parade; -half-page photospread entitled "The Many Faces at the ONE Banquet" held in Chicago (with seven photos, including Jim Gates, Chairman, ONE of Chicago; Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, Washington D.C. Mattachine Society; Morris Kight, Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center; lesbian author Valerie Taylor; Jim Bradford of Mattachine Midwest; Michael Bergeron, Editor of the Chicago Gay Crusader); -large photograph of drag queen Peaches (named "Entertainer of the Year"); -vintage advertisements for The Grubsteak at 508 N. Clark (with Etienne illustration: "It's chow time, pardner!"); Wacker Health Club ("Forty Years at the Same Location"); Jamie's (with beefcake artwork by Etienne: "Chicago's friendliest bar!"); The Gold Coast and the Leather Cell (with artwork by Etienne); Man's Country (with beefcake illustration: "eat, drink, dance, enjoy some steam"); others;
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #13, June 1974) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
-cover stories include "City interferes with gay rally"; "Court rules on sex in bushes"; "Gay ads on CTA" ("The Chicago Gay Pride Planning Committee has been successful in placing advertising on Chicago Transit Authority trains and buses"); "Baths called 'bordello'" ("Allegations that a gay Near North Side health club operates an 'Orgy Room' as a 'male bordello' and made a $20,000 payoff for immunity from police raids were printed under a banner headline by the 'Chicago Daily News'");
-news article "Marshall Field [publisher of the Chicago Daily News] disclaims responsibility for [Mike] Royko" ("As an aftermath of anti-gay comments published by Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko which generated wide-spread protests by gay and non-gay readers, newspaper publisher Marshall Field has told gay activists that 'I do not want you to think that his feelings are necessarily ours'"); -article "History of Gay Pride Week"; -male beefcake group photo of Mr. Broadway Sam's Contest (group shot of Philip, last year's winner; Michael, Mr. Broadway Sam's 1974; Hiram, first runnerup; and Bob Levy); -Gay Pride Week Schedule of Events; -news article "Aunt Lena & the 21 Club adorables raise over $500.00 for Beckman House" (with four splendid drag queen photos); -1/6 page ad from Buddy and Matthew of Glendale (with photo of this famous Los Angeles leather couple: "Wishing you much Love during this week of pride!"); -news article "Social workers discuss gay parents"; -short news article entitled "Bistro anniversary" with three photos ("The Bistro, Chicago's biggest dance bar, celebrated its first anniversary June 5. Owner Eddie Dugan invited 600 guests, who enjoyed a dance band, free drinks, and birthday cake"); -news article "Gays vs. gays at APA [American Psychiatric Association] meeting" (with four photos); -news article "Gays go to fair this year" (with three photos: "Gay people got their chance to make a presence at the 44th Ward Fair this year after being denied last year"); -lengthy letter from reader Deane Sorensen with response from Chicago Gay Crusader staff member Bill Kelley (William B. Kelley) headlined "Reader writes of frustrations, goals of gay movement"; -announcement "Chicago walks away with Miss Gay America Pageant" (with photo of drag queen Shawn Luis, 1974 Miss Gay America from Chicago's The Baton); -vintage advertisements for "The New" Knight Out (at 2936 N. Clark Street); Saugatuck Lodges (with beefcake illustration); others;
"Chicago Gay Crusader" (Issue #18, February-March 1975) published by the Advocates of Gay Action Publishing Co-op out of Chicago, Illinois. Only 26 issues were published of this newspaper during the years 1973-75, and I am individually listing those issues I have. A folded tabloid newspaper, as issued, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers. This issue is packed with splendid photographs. Highlights include:
-cover photograph and article on fan dancer Sally Rand (with interior photo: then "at least 70 years old," she was appearing in the Music Hall of Man's Country, a private membership-only gay bathhouse at 5015 N. Clark Street); -beefcake photograph of John Vogel, 1975 Mr. Man's Country/Chicago; -beefcake photograph of Milton White, Jr., 1975 Mr. Club Baths Chicago; -three-page photospread from the 1975 Mr. Man's Country Contest (with 26 mostly beefcake photos); -news article "Mayor [Richard J.] Daley tries to close Bistro" ("The liquor license of Chicago's largest and most popular gay dance bar - the Bistro at 420 N. Dearborn St. - was revoked Feb. 10"); -photo from "Gary's Surprise Birthday Party" ("Employees of Man's Country/Chicago surprised manager Gary Chichester with a birthday cake during the club's Christmas party"); -ten male beefcake photos of contestants at the 1974 Mr. Club Baths Contest; -full-page photospread containing 26 photos taken at the 1974 Ms. Butch and Ms. Fem Contest (held at the Baton); -four photos taken at the Christmas pageant held at the Snake Pit; -photo of drag queen Dina Jacobs ("Dina Jacobs will represent the Gay Crusader in the Miss Gay Chicago Contest on March 27 & 28 at the Baton, 436 North Clark Street); -article "Leather and things: one man's viewpoint" by Fred Alexson (with three photos courtesy of Colt Studio); -photo of disco queen Gloria Gaynor (who had appeared at Our Den on February 4, and at the Bistro on February 5); -three drag photos taken at the Bistro Benefit for Gay Horizons; -five drag photos taken at the Christmas Pageant at Man's Country; -lengthy article, with portrait photos, entitled "CRUSADER'S TOP TEN THANK YOUs" (with bios and portrait photos of Jack David, Woody Moser, Chuck Renslow, Jim "Felicia" Flint, Gary Chichester, Mary "Smokey" Schneider [no photo], Paul R. Goldman, Alan Putz, Bob Vandiver, and Matthew & Buddy of Glendale, California); -vintage advertisements from Jamie's (at 1110 North Clark Street); Lady Chatterly's Adult Bookstore (at 3910 N. Sheridan Road: "Finally 'Comes Out' with an Expanded Gay Section"); Carol's Pub (at 2519 N. Halsted Street, with photo); Man's Country (at 5015 N. Clark Street: "why settle for anything less?"); others; -much, much more.
Chicago Gay Pride
"Chicago Gay Pride" (1971), a special publication issued by the Gay Pride Week Committee for the upcoming gay pride parade and celebration to be held from June 20-27, 1971. A large newspaper containing 24 pages including front and rear covers.Containing pride news, announcements and schedule of events; articles; resources; vintage advertisements; art and photography. Highlights include:
-cover article "Gay Pride celebration June 20-27!" (with nine front cover photographs from Chicago's 1970 pride parade and celebration, which "started in Bug House Square and ended in a dance at [the] Civic Center"); -news update "Ortez holding up in prison" ("Ortez is an 18-year-old black gay man, one of the founders of Chicago Gay Liberation's Black Caucus"); -article "CGA Center is open for you" (on the Chicago Gay Alliance Community Center, with photo); -article "The Orderly" by Robbie Skeist ("These are some scraps of writing I did connected with homosexuality while I was working as an orderly in a private mental hospital in Chicago. I changed the names so the patients and the staff won't get hassled"); -historical article "The story of ONE" by Bob Long (on "One of Chicago," the oldest legally chartered homophile organization in the midwest); -article "On becoming a Gay male..." by Murray Edelman ("I would like to share some of my personal experiences and changes since Gay Liberation started"); -article "How straights relate to gays" by George Alexander; -article "The History of Gay Liberation" by Jack Onge; -article "On brotherly LOVE" by "Tom"; -lengthy article "Statement by GLF/T.W.G.R." by Chicago's Third World Gay Revolution and Chicago's Gay Liberation Front ("Gay liberation is inherently revolutionary"); -vintage ads for Chicago's Club Alameda ("Featuring Go-Go Boys of Chicago"); The Club Yo-Yo ("Where Gentlemen Meet"); The Shack (with full-page artwork by Etienne); "Maria Montez - 'The Latin Dream - as featured at The Blue Dahlia" (with large photo); many others; -much, much more.
"Contact: The Gay Newspaper of the South"
Issue #5 of the short-lived and long-defunct "Contact: The Gay Newspaper of the South" (July 31, 1974) then published every three weeks by Contact Publications out of Houston, Texas. A fold-over tabloid newspaper with photo cover, when unfolded contains 28 pages including front and rear covers.
Containing news, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, reviews, gay guide, classified ads, vintage advertisements, art and photography, including male beefcake photos. Contents include:
-news article "Tony Kent Murdered in New Orleans" (the former owner of Dixie's at 701 Bourbon Street, one of New Orleans' first gay bars; with photo of Tony Kent taken in 1965); -full-page ad for the Mr. Gay Texas 1974 Contest (with photo of C.J. Harrington, Mr. Gay Texas 1973); -news article "FBI Wanted Off Gays' List" (in 1962, Dr. Franklin Kameny, President of the Washington, D.C. Mattachine Society, added several public officials, including the President of the United States, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, the U.S. Attorney General, and the Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, to the mailing list for a Mattachine publication entitled the "Gazette"; an FBI agent was dispatched on behalf of J. Edgar Hoover demanding that Hoover be removed from the mailing list); -news article "[Dr. Franklin] Kameny Fights D.C. Sex Law"; -timeline article "History Of The Gay Lib Movement"; -news article "La Bastille Sues Sal Mineo" (on Mineo's change of mind to direct and act in the play "Fortune in Men's Eyes" at La Bastille"); -three-page beefcake photospread, including centerfold, of Mr. Gay Texas 1973 C. J. Harrington; -advice column "Hey Joe" by Joe Forester ("Q. I am 17. My parents found a batch of male photograph books I had hidden in the bottom of my closet");
-full-page photospread of the opening of Houston's Farmhouse Nightclub (with five photos); -vintage advertisements for the Club Baths of Dallas ("Opening Soon - Real Soon!"); Mr. Frizby Private Bath Club (with beefcake photo); Farmhouse Club (with photo); Canal Baths of New Orleans (with splendid artwork); The Locker ("Houston's Full Leather Bar," with beefcake artwork); half-page fashion ad for Ah Men of Houston ("Ready For Action" with three beefcake photos); Club Baths of Houston (with beefcake photo); others.
Issue #6 of the short-lived and long-defunct "Contact" now subtitled "GAY Newspaper & Guide" (August 28, 1974) then published every three weeks by Contact Publications out of Houston, Texas. A fold-over tabloid newspaper with photo cover, when unfolded contains 28 pages including front and rear covers.
Containing news, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, reviews, gay guide, classified ads, vintage advertisements, art and photography, including male beefcake photos. Contents include:
-article "Homosexual Acts: A Serious Crime?" by Walter Thomas (with a lengthy and highly interesting chart entitled "Public's Ranking of 'Crime'" from a study conducted by Dr. Peter H. Rossi from John Hopkins University); -news article "Gays Not Suing Fort Worth Police" ("No suit will be filed, apparently, against the Fort Worth Police Department for its recording of license plate numbers June 22 at the Texas Gay Conference"); -two page beefcake photospread of shirtless, hunky contestants in the Mr. Gay Texas Contest (with six photos; the contest was held at Houston's Bayou Landing); -full-page advertisement for the Club Baths of Houston (feauring a large beefcake photo of a handsome blonde man); -four page beefcake photospread, including centerfold, of model Bruce Eden, 1974 Mr. Club Baths International (six photos by Primus Photography); -astrology column "Your Future Is Gay"; -vintage advertisements from Ah Men of Houston (with two beefcake photos); Primus Photography (with beefcake photo of Zack); The Wonder's (with beefcake art; located at 3207 Montrose); others; -advice column "Problems? Hey Joe" by Joe Forester ("Q. Everyone says I am better-than-average looking and must have great success in meeting people in the bars. But the fact is, I don't have good luck in picking up tricks. Besides looks, can you give me any tips on picking up tricks?"); -gay social column "Where'iz-at: New Orleans" (with four photos);-much, much more.
Issue #7 "Contact" now subtitled "GAY Newspaper & Guide" (October 23, 1974) then published every three weeks by Contact Publications out of Houston, Texas. A fold-over tabloid newspaper with photo cover, when unfolded contains 48 pages (as stated "A 48 PAGE MONSTER!") including front and rear covers.
Containing news, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, reviews, gay guide, classified ads, vintage advertisements, art and photography, including male beefcake photos. Contents include:
-cover article "Texas DPS [Department of Public Safety] Terms Gay Libbers 'Subversive'"; -cover article "In Congress: A Long Road To Travel, But the Trip Has Begun" ("Washington, D.C. - A proposed amendment to the Equal Rights Bill to protect gays by adding to the original bill the term 'sexual orientation' was introduced in the House of Representatives recently"); -lengthy article "Texas Gay Task Force Formed by 24 Groups" (with TGTF's Official Statement); -news article "AT & T Changes Discrimination Policy"; -news article "New Minister for MCC [Metropolitan Community Church] New Orleans"; -news article "San Francisco Cops Make Sweep" ("In this city noted for its fair attitude toward and treatment of gays, it came as something of a shock and a definite setback in police-gay community relations when the San Francisco police made a sudden sweep of the gay area of Castro Street recently, arresting 14 persons"); -article "Gay Marriage: The Successful Definition" by David Christian; -five page male beefcake photospread, including centerfold, of Dale Layne, winner of the 1974 Mr. David Contest held in Miami on August 5 (with seven photos); -short article on Elton John (with photo); -vintage advertisements for Ah Men of Houston (with beefcake artwork); Club Baths of Dallas (with beefcake photo); The Marlboro (at 4100 Maple in Dallas, with cowboy art: "Come to where the flavors at..."); Club Baths of Houston (with beefcake photo of C. J. Harrington); Terry's Ranch (with artwork: "Where the Cowboys go"); The Club Bath Chain (with beefcake photo); male fashion store Adon's Swinger Shop (with four photos); others.
issue #11 of the short-lived and long-defunct "Contact: GAY newspaper & guide" (April 16, 1975) then published every three weeks by Contact Publications out of Houston, Texas. A fold-over tabloid newspaper with photo cover, when unfolded contains 44 pages including front and rear covers. Containing news, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, reviews, gay guide, classified ads, vintage advertisements, art and photography, including male beefcake photos. Contents include: -cover story "VD Care [for gay men]: Quality is Uneven" (with reports from New York, Dallas, Chicago, Denver, and Minneapolis); -short news article "Lige Clarke Dead" (who, with his lover Jack Nichols, founded the influential and early gay liberation publication "GAY" out of New York City); -vintage advertisements for the gay bar Bourbon Pub on Bourbon Street in New Orleans (with male beefcake photo); gay male fashion outlet Adon's Swinger Shop in Houston (with four male beefcake photos); Club Baths of Dallas (with male beefcake illustrations); Ah Men of Houston (with two photos of Colt model Stoner); Club Baths of Houston (with male beefcake photo); the Mimi Park All Male Theatre (with photo of Casey Donovan in his new film "Casey!" and two actors from the film "Roundabouts"); others; -half page announcement for the upcoming "Miss Gay South Pageant" (with splendid photo of drag queen Norma Christie, 1972 Miss Gay America); -beefcake photospread of centerfold model Guy Henderson of Houston (with four photos, including double-page centerfold); -two page photospread from the 1975 Mr. Club Baths International Contest held in Miami (with six male beefcake shots of the contestants); -much, much more.
issue #13 of the short-lived and long-defunct "Contact: GAY newspaper & guide" (May 28, 1975) then published every three weeks by Contact Publications out of Houston, Texas. A fold-over tabloid newspaper with photo cover, when unfolded contains 36 pages including front and rear covers. Containing news, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, reviews, gay guide, classified ads, vintage advertisements, art and photography, including male beefcake photos. Contents include: -cover story "Iowa Senate Votes Sex Reform" ("The Iowa Senate has approved a comprehensive revision of the state's entire criminal code that removes all penalties for consensual sodomy"); -news article "NOW Finds Lawyers in [leather] Murder Case" ("Facing the murder trial is Paul C. Green, 27, who is charged with the pistol slaying of Joseph Chamberlain, 34, great-nephew of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister of the 1930s"); -news article "Chicago Man Says He's Being Framed" ("David Welch sounded very tired. 'I'm worried sick,' he said. 'That's what you get for having sex with a kid.' Welch, 23, goes on trial in May on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting 16-year-old Stuart Paddock, the son of a suburban Chicago publisher and millionaire real-estate man"); -news article "Police Beating Sparks Dallas Political Plans"; -question and answer column "Hey Joe" by Joe Forester ("Dear Joe: From your column in the latest issue, I got the name of a gay prisoner in Terre Haute to write to...You gave his age as 56. [He] says he is 25. How come? Who is right? Do you really know?"); -vintage advertisements for Club Houston and Club Dallas (with male beefcake illustration); Ah Men of Houston (with beefcake photo); Me, Tarzan (with three photos, including staff "Bwana, Tiger, Cheeta & Jane"); the Farmhouse ("Houston's Number One Super Bar"); Club Bath Chain (with listing locations of all of their bathhouses in the United States and Canada); Leather Forever; the Detour in Houston; others;
Issue #14 of the short-lived and long-defunct "Contact: GAY newspaper & guide" (June 18, 1975) then published every three weeks by Contact Publications out of Houston, Texas. A fold-over tabloid newspaper with photo cover, when unfolded contains 44 pages including front and rear covers. Containing news, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, reviews, gay guide, classified ads, vintage advertisements, art and photography, including male beefcake photos. Contents include: -cover story "Georgia Students Elect Gay President" (male student Jodie O'Connell of the University of Georgia); -news article "Grandma's Knitting Clinches Alibi, Frees David Welch in 1 Case" (with photo of David Welch and his grandmother: "County Judge Saul E. Epton dismissed indecent-liberties and other charges May 19 against David Welch, after an unusual preliminary hearing that followed Welch's indictment by a grand jury...[The case involved] Stuart Paddock, the 16-year-old son of a millionaire suburban Chicago newspaper publisher who is a close friend of the state's attorney, Bernard Carey...Welch swore that he couldn't have taken indecent liberties with teen-aged hitchhiker [Fred] Warf on Feb. 1 because he was visiting his parents in Jackson, Mich., at the time...But it was the elderly grandmother who turned the trick, after she was escorted into the courtroom and helped gently into the witness stand..."); -news article "11 Fired at LA Gay Center as Politics, Services Clash" (with photo); -three page photospread of "some of the [male] models used as centerfolds in CONTACT'S first year" (with 13 male beefcake photos); -vintage advertisements for Dirty Sally's (with locations in Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, and Pensacola); Colt Studio (with five male beefcake photos); Adon's Swinger Shop (with four male beefcake photos); Canal Baths (in New Orleans); Ah Men of Houston (with nine male beefcake photos, including one of Cal Culver - Casey Donovan); others; -much, much more.
DAVID
Fabbbbulousssss!
Thirteen vintage, and very early issues, of "David Magazine" subtitled "Entertaining and Informing Gays" published out of Jacksonville, Florida. David Magazine was the fore-runner to the popular gay magazines of today, such as In Touch, Honcho, and Advocate Men. These issues of David Magazine are a delightful glimpse into the past and the social lives of gay men living on the coast or inland Florida.
Accompanied by hundreds of photographs, the issues contain news items, social events, bar news, articles, reviews, interviews, poetry, fashion, columns, cartoons, drag queen events and coronations, classified advertisements, fabulous vintage ads, and plenty of male beefcake (all non-nude).
Itemization:
Non-glossy covers, non-glossy pages: Vol. 1 #3 (January 1971) - 24 pages Vol. 1 #4 (February 1971) - 32 pages Vol. 1 #7 (May 1971) - 40 pages Vol. 1 #8 (June 1971) - 40 pages Vol. 1 #9 (July 1971) - 48 pages Vol. 1 #10 (August 1971) - 56 pages Vol. 1 #11 (September 1971) - 56 pages Vol. 1 #12 (October 1971) - 64 pages
Now glossy covers, non-glossy pages: Vol. 2 #1 (November 1971) - 60 pages Vol. 2 #2 (December 1971) - 60 pages Vol. 2 #6 (April 1972) - 68 pages Vol. 2 #7 (May 1972) - 68 pages
Now glossy covers, glossy pages: Vol. 2 #9 (July 1972) - 84 pages
August 1974 issue of the vintage gay magazine "David" (Vol. 4 #2) now published by David Publications out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A glossy, stapled Newsweek-size magazine containing 80 pages including front and rear covers. David Magazine was the fore-runner to the popular gay magazines of today, such as In Touch, Honcho, and Advocate Men, and is a delightful glimpse into the past and the social lives of gay men living on the coast or inland Florida. The issue contains news items, bar news, articles, reviews, interviews, profiles, photospreads, fabulous vintage ads, plenty of non-nude male beefcake, and now a few pages devoted to artistic male nudes. Highlights include: - article on the early gay movie "A Very Natural Thing" (with six photos); - article on, and interview of, top male model Barry Wooddell (with six photos, three of them full-page); - lengthy article on Hollywood musicals entitled "That's Entertainment!" (with 12 spendid photos); - article on the theatre musical "Damn Yankees" (with three photos: one full-page of Gwen Verdon, one of Ray Walston, and one of the two actors on stage); - article on, with interview comments from, actress Elizabeth Taylor (with four splendid photos, two of them full-page); - article on, with interview comments from, singer Melba Moore (with two photos); - six-page photospread, including centerfold, of cover model Chris; - article on T.O.S.O.S. - 'This Other Side Of Silence' - a collective of male gay writers, composers, poets, performers, and singers (with four photos);
July 1974 issue of the vintage gay magazine "David" (Vol. 4 #1) now published by Mark Henry Enterprises out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A glossy, stapled Newsweek-size magazine containing 80 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
- article on gay Fort Lauderdale subtitled "Where the Dudes Are!" (with seven photos and map); - article on the first outdoor gay motorcycle run "Dogwood '74" hosted by the Atlantis Motorcycle Club (with eight photos); - book review of "Another Man" by Jim French - aka Rip Colt (with three photos, including double-page); - article on Lucille Ball in "Mame" (with seven photos); - article on singer Lainie Kazan (with two photos, one full-page); - article on, and interview comments from, female impersonator Roby Landers (with two photos, one full-page); - centerfold model John Vogel (with shots by Bob Vandiver); - four-page male fashion photospread from That Look (with five photos); - splendid eight-page portfolio of the art and photographic work of Tee Jay Johnston (with two photos of Tee Jay Johnston, one in his studio and one of him in drag; seven photographs; and two full-page art pieces, including rear cover);
January-February 1974 issue of the vintage gay magazine "David" (Vol. 3 #12) published by David Magazine out of Jacksonville, Florida. A glossy, stapled digest-size magazine containing 92 pages including front and rear covers as well as eight-page center fold-out.
David Magazine was the fore-runner to the popular gay magazines of today, such as In Touch, Honcho, and Advocate Men, and is a delightful glimpse into the past and the social lives of gay men living on the coast or inland Florida. The issue contains news items, bar news, articles, reviews, interviews, profiles, photospreads, classified advertisements, fabulous vintage ads, plenty of non-nude male beefcake, and now a few pages devoted to artistic male nudes. Highlights include: - article on, with interview comments from, actor Timothy Bottoms (with full-page photo); - article on, with interview comments from, singer Margaret Whiting (with full-page photo); - article on singer Lana Cantrell (with full-page photo); - article by gay Atlanta State Penitentiary inmate Larry Bruce Smith entitled "Homosexual & Prison"; - five-page photospread of model George Payne;
November 15, 1973 issue of the vintage gay magazine "David" (Vol. 3 #11) published by David Magazine out of Jacksonville, Florida. A glossy, stapled digest-size magazine containing 80 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: - five-page photospread on male leather wear from Leather Forever out of San Francisco (plus a full-page advertisement from Leather Forever); - article on the first Coltour to the Isla de Oro in the San Blas Islands off the east coast of Panama (sponsored by Rip Colt of Colt Studios, with two photos); - article on gay bike clubs entitled "The Chain Gang" (with full-page photo of Colt Studio model Stoner); - interview of black singer Alaina Reed (with three photos); - short article on 1974 Miss David Brandy Lee (with two photos); - six-page beefcake photospread of Mr. David 1974 C.J. Harrington; - short article on photographer David Vance (with his photograph, as well as several portrait and physique shots from his camera);
October 15, 1973 issue of the vintage gay magazine "David" (Vol. 3 #10) published by David Magazine out of Jacksonville, Florida. A glossy, stapled digest-size magazine containing 80 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: - article on the history of female impersonators entitled "It's Nice To Fool Mother Nature" by Gene Arceri; - four page male fashion photospread from That Look (with five photos, including Stoner of Colt Studio fame) - article on, with interview comments from, Mama Cass Elliot (with full-page photo); - article on Anita Loos and Carol Channing (with two delightful photos: the first taken of them by Richard Avedon in 1949, and the second taken by Matha Swope in 1973); - article on the first Mr. Club Houston Contest (with three photos);
Eleventh issue of the vintage gay magazine "David: Entertaining and Informing Gays" (Vol. 1 #11, September 1971) published out of Jacksonville, Florida. A non-glossy, stapled Newsweek-size magazine containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: - short article on, with interview comments from, Dom Orejudas, spelled Orejudos in this piece - aka Etienne (with two splendid photographs of him, one full-page, and three reproductions from his male art); - photographs from the Miss David Pageant (including photos of male models Carpenter and Bruno from Colt Studio, Craig Russell, Tiffany Jones); - article on, with interview comments from, singer Tom Jones (with two photos, one full-page); - article on, with interview comments from, actress Sarah Miles (with three photos, one full-page); - short article and splendid two-page photospread entitled "Josephine Baker at Carnegie Hall" (with nine photos); - one page article on, with interview comments from, Lynne Carter, who had just moved to Provincetown (with two photos);
"Detroit Gay Liberator"
issue #7 (misnumbered #6 according to my notes) of the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (December 1970), an early and vintage radical gay liberation publication published by the Detroit, Michigan chapter of the Gay Liberation Front. A large folded newspaper, as issued, containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Containing gay liberation news, articles, history, politics, reviews, poetry, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. With a splendid front cover illustration ("HO, HO, Homosexual!"), highlights include: -Christmas greetings "MISTLETOE" ("For best results, hold this paper over your head and kiss someone"); -article "Episcopal Church Hard to Swallow: See How They Run, See How They Snide"; -open letter "To My Sisters: A Letter to Women's Lib"; -article "Same Chain: Sexism and the [Black] Panthers" ("At a recent Angela Davis demonstration at Detroit's Federal building, Michael D., speaking on behalf of Detroit's chapter of the Black Panther Party, struck a blow against all homosexuals and all women. He accomplished this act of verbal oppression by referring to the anti-Angela Davis demonstrators...as homosexuals [not equal sign] women [not equal sign] less than men...'Not only will I come over there and kick yo head in, I just might bring my Blue seal grease with me and make you my woman...'"); -gay public appeal "GLF [Gay Liberation Front] NEEDS YOU!"; -article "Gay Lib Goes to Denby High School"; -article "Street Theatre: Guerilla/Gorilla" ("A great stir has been caused in both the straight and Gay communities by several of the acts performed by some of our more exuberant members..."); -much more.
issue #22 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (November 1972) now published by the Pansy Press out of Detroit, Michigan (the Gay Liberation Front had dissolved by this time). Now a folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -cover story "Capital March" (with photo: "Fifty gay people from all over Michigan marched in Lansing October 28 for the defeat of the Traxler Bill, full rights for women and gays, and the repeal of all anti-gay laws..."); -cover story "The Right to Teach" (with updates on four gay and lesbian teachers throughout the country who had recently been reinstated); -article on David Bowie, who was "in Detroit at the Fisher Theater on October 8 for a rock'n roll happening" entitled "Lady Stardust" (with photo); -article "Tiptoe Through the Tearooms" by Jon Queen; -article "F- is not the answer" by David Steinecker ("Sexual liberation means that john sex, group sex, bathhouse sex...are desirable"); -poetry by Ian Young (including "Toby"; "Boy in Chinatown"; "Photos of Chris"); -centerfold poster of Queen Victoria with an anti-VD message ("Even A Queen Can Get The Clap!"); -article "Oppression at its ugliest: they want our brains!" by Louis Landerson (on psychosurgery used on homosexuals); -full page advertisement for gay film "Song of the Loon" then showing at the Krim Theater;
Issue #34 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (February 1974) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -splendid front cover illustration ("This is how we felt doing this issue"); -cover story "Media Images & Guidelines" (on the recently-formed Gay Media Task Force); -news article "The instant cure" ("In a long-awaited decision, the American Psychiatric Association's board of trustees voted unanimously Dec. 15 to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders..."); -news (with topics "'Moral Filth' Organizing in N.H."; "Civil Service Win"; "Union Protection"; "Accepting TS [Transexuals]"; others); -news article "Prison Sexuality: Censorship Suit" ("James Stokes, an inmate of the Maryland State Prison here, has filed suit against Warden Gerald McClellan and the prison's mail censor charging that they have illegally deprived him of the right to receive and possess education and political literature from outside. The two newspapers specifically named in the suit are Akwesasne Notes, a Native American publication, and Gay Liberator"); -article on gays in prison entitled "We are all criminals"; -article "A Wilde Eyed Radical: Oscar Wilde" by Don Milligan; -half page illustrated advertisement for the Wood-Six Twin Theatre ("Detroit's Finest and Only Intimate Male Theatre");
issue #36 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (April 1974) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -splendid front cover illustration (Karl Marx: "What do you think of gay liberation, Dr. Freud?" Sigmund Freud: "It's nonsense, Mr. Marx. The instincts must be disciplined"); -cover features "Protest Closes Council" (Ann Arbor); "No Porno in Ypsi"; "Conference Aimed at APA"; -news article "Drug Experiments" ("American Civil Liberties Union attorneys have warned against a possible trend in Dade County, Florida courts where one judge has ordered several male sex offenders to submit to injections of female hormones to lower their sex drive"); -article "Scrunching the Uglies: How the APA Changed Us From a Sick Minority to a Bunch of Pumpkins"; -news column "The Vice Report: Cruise With Care"; -article "The Politics of Coming Out" by Don Mager; -rear cover full page announcement "Ann Arbor GLF [Gay Liberation Front] Presents: Friday, April 12, 8:00 pm, Hill Aud., In Concert Allen Ginsberg and Bhagavan Das" (with further info, and photograph of Allen Ginsberg); -much, much more.
issue #37 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (May 1974) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -NEWS ARTICLE "Nazi Recruiting" ("San Francisco: A sharp controversy has erupted here over the appearance of several ads for the American Nazi Party - National Socialist League - in a local gay bar paper"); -article "Understanding the Closet: The Straight Mind-Set" by Don Mager; -NEWS ARTICLE "Hookers Fight Forced Quarantine" (with photo); -article "Lesbians & the Law" by Karla Dobinski; -review of off-Broadway stage production of "Tubstrip" (with photo of actors Walt Holiday and T.J. D'Agostino);
issue #38 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (June 1974) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -article "Live better electrically" (with photo of Model AV-6 Visually Keyed Conditioner: "One of the exhibits at the APA convention was an aversion therapy display, a 'visually keyed conditioner' made up of a shocking device linked to a slide projector"); -a stinging critique of gay pioneer Dr. Franklin Kameny entitled "Gay Stars: Where Are We Being Taken?" ("We criticize Frank Kameny not because he is male or wears a suit, but because we see him as a political threat to the success of gay liberation"); -article from series "Gays In History" on Ethel Smyth (with photo); -article "In the Spirit of Stonewall: 5 Years of Gay Liberation" (with photo, featuring eyewitness reports first published in the Village Voice); -simply fabulous illustrated double-page announcement for the upcoming 1974 Gay Pride Week; -article "What To Do If You're Arrested" (containing gay legal resources); -much, much more.
issue #39 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (August 1974) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -NEWS ARTICLE entitled "Rape" ("Detroit - A knife wielding rapist, stalking the heavily gay neighborhood around Six Mile and Woodward, has assaulted and raped at least ten male victims so far this summer"); -article on Michigan's third annual Gay Pride Week held in Detroit entitled "Some Weeks Are Special"; -a series of articles on gays and the Catholic and Episcopal Churches; -article "Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears" (with three photos); -wonderful double-page centerfold artwork ("LIVING EVERY DAY GAY - MENTAL HEALTH IS GAY IS MENTAL HEALTH IS GAY"); -much, much more.
ssue #40 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (September-October 1974) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -lengthy article "What Is Gay Culture?" by Allen Young (with splendid photo montage); -article from "Gays In History" series on Rosa Bonheur; -article "On the Need for Gay Studies" by Don Mager; -article "Queers Not Allowed" by Michael Christianson ("Gay people in the United Straights do not have rights like survivorship, nor do gay couples get any tax breaks"); -short story "hi school reunion" by alta; -article "Toward Transvestite Liberation" by Sheila Sullivan (with photo of Holly Woodlawn); -much, much more.
issue #41 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (November 1974) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 12 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -article "Homophobia As Mind Control" (a lengthy review of John Lauritsen's "Religious Roots of the Taboo on Homosexuality"); -profile of poet Paul Goodman from series "Gays in History" (with photo); -article "Sexism in Men's Prisons"; -article "The XYZ Affair: Biology Can Be A Confusing Science" by M. L. Christianson (on homosexuality and sex chromosomes); -article "Notes of a Radical Transexual" by Margo; -much, much more.
issue #42 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (December 1974 - January 1975) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: -article "Gays vs. SWP" by David Thorstad ("Many of my friends in the gay movement have urged me to tell why I left the Socialist Workers Party in December 1973"); -news article "Heterosexist Justice: homosexuality is 'dirt' and rape is 'fun'" ("Fort Meyers, FL - Vincent Webb, 19, was sentenced to ten years probation, required to seek psychiatric aid and to abstain from liquor, after being charged with second degree murder. Welch pleaded guilty to the charge that he beat a man to death who had 'lured' him to a motel and made homosexual advances toward him"); -article "Male Rape" by Don Mager (as researched by the Gay Radio Collective); -article "Sex Rapes in Monroe Reformatory" by Harold Myers and Larry Storseth ("Since I have been in this Institution, I have had the experience of knowing of four reported rapes on residents and nothing at all done about it because there was not [any] way of proving the act was committed"); -list of "Queer Quotes" (Allen Ginsberg: "America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel"); -memoir "Growing Up Gay" by Mary Anne Deutschmann ("I was eleven years old and in the 7th grade when I first became aware of my homosexuality in a rather harsh way");
#43 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (February-March 1975) now published by Gay Liberator, a Gay Media Collective, out of Detroit, Michigan. A folded tabloid newspaper, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. An early and vintage radical gay liberation publication containing gay liberation news, articles, letters, history, politics, reviews, poetry, photography, artwork, community resources, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include:
-article "An Airing of Differences...On the 'Need' to Fit In" by Allen Young (“the following exchange of views can be helpful in the evolution and development of the gay liberation movement”); -article "Pornography Obscenity" by John Mitzel (“Nowadays, both of these words are used indiscriminately; they are tossed at those people whom censors would like to discredit and silence. They are used to revoke Constitutional freedoms of those who challenge or threaten the present power arrangement in any way”); -article "Does the SWP [Socialist Workers Party] Really Matter?" by Garry Ormistan; -article "Celebrating the Gay Imagination" by Don Mager (a lengthy review of “The Homosexual Imagination” edited by Louie Crew and Rictor Norton); -excerpt "Memorandum Regarding the Activities of Don Giovanni in Hell" by Gary Jane Hoisington (from his unpublished novel); -article "Harmodius and Aristogiton" by the "Bookish Butterfly."
#44 of "Gay Liberator" (April-May 1975) Highlights include:
-article "Soviet Suppression" by Allen Young; -viewpoint “Religion, Gay Liberation – Compatible?” by Art Gursch; -article "Therapeutic Police State" by Don Jackson (which begins: “During 1971, the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in Los Angeles sent out a press release urging parents and school officials to refer ‘pre-homosexual’ boys to the Institute for treatment. Boys who prefer dolls to baseball bats, boys who try on mama’s shoes or who play with jacks instead of guns, were rounded up and hauled off to UCLA for treatment. The cure consisted mostly of electrical shocks and similar tortures. Since the boys ranged in age from 4 to 12, it is still too early to tell if any of them will turn out to be homosexual despite the cure; however, the boys did learn not to get caught playing with dolls…”); -short story "A Strategy for Escape" by Don Mager; -article "Tooth Fairy Pulls for Gay Liberation” by Donald Klein, DDS;
#45 of "Gay Liberator" (June-July 1975) Highlights include:
-news article "Homophobia Can Kill" by Ron Dayman (reprinted from The Body Politic, which begins: “What supposedly began as a campaign by the Ottawa Police to fight a rising crime rate has ended in a homosexual witchhunt by local authorities”); -editorial "SAIGON: The War in Southeast Asia and Gay Liberation - One Struggle" (editorial); -article "Smashing Stereotypes" by Jerry Rosco; -splendid centerfold announcing Detroit's upcoming 1975 Gay Pride Week; -article "Mixed Up Methodists"; -article "Liberation, Education & the Homosexual" by Dennis Altman (which begins: “Let us be quite clear: If we are to seriously talk of liberation we are talking of an enormous project that involves no less than the total remoulding of man and her society”);
#46 of "Gay Liberator" (Fall 1975) Highlights include:
-lengthy, scathing critique and analysis by Christopher Z. Hobson of his mother's bestselling novel, "Consenting Adult" (Laura Z. Hobson) entitled "What It Is Like To Be The Mother Of A Homosexual" (“I am the homosexual in this book, ‘Jeff Lynn.’ In fact, apart from three characters who have walk-on parts totaling no more than ten pages, I am the only homosexual in the book”); -fabulous centerfold photospread of Detroit's 1975 Gay Pride Parade; -article "Sappho" by the "Book Butterfly”; -article “Gay Ageism” by A. Nolder Gay;
#47 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (Winter 1975-1976) Highlights include:
-article "A Journey to the End of Meetings: A Personal Odyssey Through the Lesbian Movement" by Karla Jay; -article "Survival in a Hostile World: A Gay Viewpoint" by Allen Young (which begins: “Some gay people believe that gay liberation is unnecessary. They think that they are already liberated. Chances are they have a large income, or a unique living and working environment which brings them into contact with only certain kinds of people – other gay people, artists, etc. – or they are so ‘outrageous’ in their behavior that they are accepted simply on the basis of an unthreatening eccentricity”); -splendid centerfold calendar poster for 1976 in green, white and red entitled "200 YEARS OF GAY OPPRESSION 1776-1976"; -article "Sex is Good" by Will Hollis;
-article “The dark side of over 30” by “Carla”; -lengthy letters to the editor regarding Christopher Z. Hobson's scathing review and analysis of his mother's book, "Consenting Adult" (Laura Z. Hobson), in the previous issue, including letters from Jonathan Katz and Allen Young.
#48 of "Gay Liberator" formerly the "Detroit Gay Liberator" (Spring 1976) Highlights include:
-fabulous front cover photograph (“Why are the cops FASCINATED by us?”); -news column "The Vice Report" (with illustrated street sign: "CRUISE WITH CARE"); -article "D.B. [David B.] Goodstein: Advocate for the Right"; -open letter "In Defense of the Gay Liberation Movement: An Open Letter to David Goodstein and The Advocate"; -article "Sexual Identity" by Greg Turner (“During the last two and one half years, I’ve been very active in the gay liberation movement in Detroit. In the struggle for liberation, I’ve learned how to put out a newspaper, do TV and radio shows, and organize demonstrations and dances. My consciousness has been raised on how gays are oppressed by sexism, capitalism, the family, the church, government, etc., and how gay oppression is related to other forms of oppression. My political understanding has increased tremendously, but I still don’t understand my own gayness”); -lengthy review of Susan Brownmiller's book "Against Our Will" by John Lauritsen entitled "RAPE:FEAR:RAPE:FEAR:RAPE:FEAR:FEAR - Rape Hysteria, Censorship, and the Struggle for Sexual Freedom"; -poetry by B. Jeffrey Sarasson; -article "The Politics of Gay Communal Living" by Ron Dayman.
FLORIDA ALIVE
Nine issues of the vintage, long-forgotten and long-defunct gay publication out of Florida entitled "Alive!" - a few issues are titled "Florida Alive!" (1977-1979), the 1977 issues published by Jack Campbell (owner of the gay Club Bath chain) out of Coconut Grove, Florida with the later 1979 issues published by Christian Lange out of Miami. A quality, glossy stapled magazine varying in page length (see itemization below).
Packed with articles, interviews, gay news (particularly Dade County and Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign), photographs, art, resources, bar and entertainment news, and vintage advertisements. The 1977 issues feature male beefcake photospreads, while the latter issues feature short, tasteful male nude layouts.
Highlights include: *Leonard Matlovich interviewed (with photo); *center photospread of young hunks at the beach; *article "Gay Couples - Married or Just Shacking Up?" by Harold Ivey; *article on Dade County entitled "Polls show human rights election a virtual tie - gay turnout crucial" (regarding the gay rights ordinance making nation-wide news, with seven photos, including those who participated in the campaign - Rod McKuen, Elaine Nobel, Leonard Matlovich, Jack Campbell, and David - Dave - Kopay); *Elaine Nobel interviewed; *David Goodstein interviewed (publisher of the Los Angeles Advocate); *article "Key West - the Last Resort" (with eight photos); *G. Michael McKay interviewed (a popular Miami disc jockey on Love 94FM who came out of the closet in order to gain public understanding and support for the gay rights ordinance in Dade County, with three photos); *five-page photospread of Raul (photographed by Jerry Buzzelli); *article "Gays lose battle - set out to win the war" (on the defeat of Dade County's gay rights law which went down to a "crashing" defeat, with four photos); *Ruth Shack interviewed (who had sponsored the gay rights amendment to Dade County's anti-discrimination ordinance); *two page male photospread entitled "Alive In A Bathing Suit"; *Bob Stickney interviewed (owner of the gay Candlelight Club in Coconut Grove, with five photos); *male model and martial arts expert Sam Barger interviewed (with eight beefcake photos); *article on Miami's gay disco bar "Uncle Charlie's" (with two photos); *lengthy article on, and interview of, Gore Vidal (with portrait photo); *four-page tasteful male nude photospread of Jason York (photos by Bryan Harms); *article on the gay Atlanta bar scene (with 18 photos); *three-page male photospread entitled "Sleep" (photos by Bryan Harms); *article "Sand in Your Shoes: Gay Life in Florida's Gold Coast" (packed with 42 photos); *three-page male nude photospread of Robert Rodriquez (photos by Bryan Harms); *article and photospread "Inside the Biker Brotherhood" (with seven photos); *male nude photospread of cover model and biker Mark Dillard (photos by Bryan Harms);*much, much, much more.
Itemization of Issues
Volume 1 #1 (May 1977) - 32 pages Volume 1 #2 (June 1977) - 32 pages Volume 1 #3 (July 1977) - 32 pages Volume 1 #4 (August 1977) - 32 pages Volume 1 #5 (September 1977) - 40 pages Volume 2 #12 (May 1979) - 52 pages Volume 3 #1 (June 1979) - 56 pages Volume 3 #3 (August 1979) - 52 pages Volume 3 #5 (October 1979) - 52 pages
Gayzette
Issue #3 of the long-defunct and long-forgotten "Gayzette" (June 1973) published out of Grosse Pointe, Michigan by the Motor-City Alliance of Gays. A fold-over tabloid, when unfolded contains 24 pages. Containing news, articles, interview, columns, reviews, short story, classifieds, vintage ads, art and photographs, highlights include: -front cover photograph "Gay Candidate Connie 'Mac' McConnohie Runs for Common Council in Detroit" (with inside article headlined "LESBIAN ACTIVIST RUNS FOR OFFICE"); -news article "NY Gays Plan Pride Week"; -drag performer Sherene Dennis interviewed (with photo); -film review of Pat Rocco's "ONE Adventure" (with photo of Pat Rocco); -drag queen gossip column "Barbara Belts the Best"; -delightful satire "Hey There, Sports Fans!" by gay author Daniel Curzon; -gay short story "Out of the Closet" by Joseph Raphael; -centerfold article "Inside Morey's" ("Detroit's Gayest Showbar" with four photos); -much, much more.
"GPU News"
"GPU News" issued from 1971 through 1981 by the Gay Peoples Union, the most prominent gay and lesbian liberation organization active in the mid- and upper-midwest during these early years.
The contents of this publication focus on four primary areas: 1) EXTENSIVE gay and lesbian local, regional, state, national and international political, activist, legislative, and social news; 2) EXTENSIVE gay and lesbian articles (including gay sexuality), short stories, and poetry; 3) EXTENSIVE, in-depth, scholarly book reviews of gay and lesbian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journals and publications, photography, and bibliographies; and 4) EXTENSIVE gay and lesbian recording artist, music and record reviews.
Well illustrated with photographs and drawings, the magazine also contains editorials, columns, photospreads, periodic tasteful male nude photographs, complete directories of political, community services, religious groups, and social organizations for Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, calendar of events, classifieds, and vintage gay advertisements.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
INTERVIEWS OF David Kopay, Jonathan Katz (historian, author of "Gay American History" and other works), Marshall W. Mason (from the Circle Repertory in New York), Leonard Matlovich;
SHORT STORIES BY (to name a few) Roy F. Wood, Dan Allen, Gary Nicholas, Charles W. Polm, Robert Locke, Gabriel Lanci, Graham Jackson, J.D. Butkie, Kristen Anderson, Scott Jones, John D. Dolan, Daniel Curzon, Richard Hall, Paul O'M. Welles, Arnie Kantrowitz;
POETRY BY (again, to name a few) Jack Nichols, Gavin Dillard, S. Diane Bogus, Valerie Taylor, Dennis Cooper, Ian Young, John Rowberry, Glenn Sheldon, Elizabeth Louch;
ARTICLES INCLUDE: "The Urania Manuscripts" by Lee C. Rice; "The Florida Citrus Boycott" by Michael Mitchell (nee Anita Bryant); "Gay Rights for Straights, Too!" by Don Slater (formerly of ONE, Inc., then head of the Homosexual Information Center in Hollywood); "Day of Judgement - The San Francisco Riots" by John Rowberry (upon the light sentence given Dan White for the assassination of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone); "Lesbian Mothers; Legal Realities" by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (founders of the Daughters of Bilitis); "The Iranian Male - An Intimate Look" by Jerry Zarit; "[Anita] Bryant's Bible-Beating Bigotry" by Wayne Jefferson; "Sex In Space: A Brief Survey of Gay Themes in Science Fiction" by A. L. Thomas; "A Fresh Perspective on Greek Homosexuality" by Donna Martin; many, many more;
MUSICIANS, SINGERS, AND RECORDINGS REVIEWED INCLUDE (this is but a small sampling, well-illustrated with photographs): "Boy Meets Boy"; Robin Flower ("More Than Friends"); Conan ("Tell Ol' Anita"); Maxine Feldman ("Closet Sale"); Tom Robinson Band ("TRB TWO"); Lynn Frizzel ("Hurricane Anita [Bryant]"); Berkeley Women's Music Collective ("Tryin' To Survive"); Tom Wilson ("Gay Name Game"); Carl Bean ("I Was Born This Way"); "Sugar Mama/Women-Loving Women";
PHOTOSPREADS INCLUDE: Gay Pride Week in Sweden 1980; Gay Pride Weeks in New York, Milwaukee, Chicago; Grace Jones at the Baron; Gay World Series III; Mr. Club Milwaukee 1976; separate layouts of gay artwork by Regis Dho and Mario of Mexico; 1979 Gay Pride Week; 1975 Miss Gay Wisconsin and Mr. Groovy Guy Contests; much, much more.
ITEMIZATION OF ISSUES: 1971 - (2 of 3 issues - November and December, issue #2 and #3) 1972 - (11 issues) 1973 - (10 issues) 1974 - (11 issues) 1975 - 11 issues) 1976 - (12 issues) 1977 - (12 issues complete run) 1978 - (12 issues) 1979 - (12 issues) 1980 - (12 issues complete) 1981 - (1 issue, January 1981, probable last issue published).
NUMBER OF PAGES: The November 1971 issue contains 12 pages; by December 1971 the publication expanded to 16 pages; by October 1972 to 24 pages; by October 1974 to 32 pages; by January/February 1975 to 40 pages; by January 1977 to 48 pages; by June 1977 to 52 pages; beginning its decline in 1980, the number of pages dropped by April 1980 to 44 pages each.
April 1973 issue of "GPU News" published out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by the Gay Peoples Union, the most prominent gay and lesbian liberation organization active in the mid- and upper-midwest during the early, post-Stonewall years. A quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine printed on non-glossy paper and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: cover story "After Fire: Buffalo Seeks New Center" (on the fire that destroyed the new Gay Services Center in Buffalo, New York); news article "Denver Groups Fight Police"; full-page ad for the gay bar "Your Place" (with illustration); Part 2 of article "Female Homosexuality and Feminism: A Reevaluation" by Donna Martin; advertisement for the Saugatuck Lodge, a male gay resort (with male beefcake illustration); Robin Maugham's "Escape From the Shadows: An Autobiography" reviewed (with photo of Robin Maugham and W. Somerset Maugham); Poems for Women by Chris Mehl; article "A Look at Liberated London" by "Nosey" Parker; article "Glitter Rock: Sachet Meets Macho-chism" (with photos of Edgar Winter, Alice Cooper, Sylvester, and Wayne Country).
"Our Community: Nothing Human is Alien To Us"
"Our Community: Nothing Human is Alien To Us" (Issue #8, October 1971) published out of Dallas by The Circle of Friends, the oldest homophile organization in Texas (founded in 1965). A quality tabloid, when unfolded contains 12 large pages measuring nearly 11" by 17". With news items, social scene, gossip, classifieds, photographs and fabulous vintage ads.
Highlights include: "Beatings and Stabbings Continue at Lee Park" (with one photograph of an injured gay man); "Longhairs Arrested, Convicted, and Fined; Appeal Planned"; editorial "Victimless Offenses Should be Legalized"; "Police Harassment in Houston"; "New Entertainer in Town!" (with photo of drag queen Co Coa - "Co Coa is her name, and she's talented and terrific!"); "Jimmy Hughes Wins Groovy Guy '71 Title" (with photo of Jimmy Hughes); fabulous double-page advertisement from the Studio 9 Theatre at 4817 Bryan (at Fitzhugh) announcing new "All Gay Flicks" for October (with photos); much more.
"Our Community: Nothing Human is Alien To Us" (Issue #9, November 1971) published out of Dallas by The Circle of Friends, the oldest homophile organization in Texas (founded in 1965). A quality tabloid, when unfolded contains 14 large pages measuring nearly 11" by 17". With news items, social scene, gossip, classifieds, photographs and fabulous vintage ads.
Highlights include: "TROUBLE IN DALLAS! Trouble at the King of Clubs and the Candy Store" (on the harassment of these two gay bars by the Texas Liquor Control Board); "Police Encounter at the Detour" (when nine gay men were arrested by policemen); editorial "Wanted: A Metropolitan Tavern Guild"; fabulous one-page ad announcing "Opening Soon! '3 in 1' Bar Spa Theatre"; "Halloween in Dallas!" (article on the Zodiac [Drag Queen] Ball, with ten photos); review of the gay film "Some of My Best Friends Are..." (with two photos); much more. | ||
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