Tyler and Brad's Index to Early Gay Publications

The 1970s

 

1970s PAGE 1: Alternate, Aware, Blue Boy, Dilettante: The Renaissance Man Magazine of the Arts, Entertainment & Eros, ERA: The Magazine of the New Age, Fag Rag: Gay Male Newspaper, Gay Forum, Gay Sunshine, In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View

1970s PAGE 2: Lewd Conduct, Mandate: The National Magazine of Entertainment & Eros, Magnus, Manroot, Man's Way , Mr. In, Queen's Quarterly, Spree, Upfront, Zipper, Gay Scene, Gay Times, more.

1970s PAGE 3: Even more! 1970s PAGE 4: Vector in the 70's

PAGE 1 Mattachine Review

PAGE 2 One Magazine

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PAGE 3 1960's

PAGE 4B 1970's part 2

PAGE 4C 1970's part 3

PAGE 5 Regional Publications

 

 

GAY PUBLICATIONS OF THE 70'S

(70's publications that began in the 60's will be listed on that page.)

 

 

 

 

ALTERNATE

 

The premiere issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate: What's Happening In Your World" (Vol. 1 #1, November 1977) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. A quality, glossy stapled Newsweek-size magazine containing 68 pages including front and rear covers. The publication was devoted to gay and lesbian news, articles, photospreads, community resources, and reviews, well-illustrated with drawings, artwork and photographs.

 

Highlights of this issue include:

*article "The Fireworks Behind The Bowl Benefit" (on the ill-fated Star-Spangled Night to benefit the Save Our Human Rights Foundation at which Bette Midler, Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, and others, performed);

*article "The Celebration That Almost Was" (focusing on Richard Pryor's performance and vitriolic comments on-stage at the above Bowl benefit; his statements on stage are reprinted verbatim);

*article "Tracking Down Anita's Source" (on Anita Bryant);

*article "A Pansy Is A Flower, Not A Fruit...";

*news update "Troy [Perry's] $100,000 Fast";

*photospread of the Second Annual Gay Rodeo in Reno, Nevada;

*article "Gay Collaborators" by John Rechy;

*lengthy article, well-illustrated with photos, entitled "Stonewall: Was It Really Eight Years Ago?";

*article "It Started With Stonewall" by Jim Kepner (from ONE, Inc.);

*anonymous article "I Was a Gay Vice Cop";

*photospread "Ye 1977 Renaissance Faire";

*article on the Nazi extermination of homosexuals; *much more.

 

 

The second issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate: What's Happening In Your World" (Vol. 1 #2, December 1977) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. A quality, glossy stapled Newsweek-size magazine containing 76 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Highlights of this issue include:

*lengthy news update "Anita: Back on the Stump" (with a half-page photograph of poor Anita after receiving a cream-pie in the face);

*news article "A Tough Campaign, a Sweet Victory in S.F." (on Harvey Milk's election victory as San Francisco Supervisor in the newly-created 5th District);

*article "Blue Collar Gays";

*article "Jock: The Newest Religion" (on gay men working out, with four photos);

*photospread "Play Ball!" (on the Gay World Series, with photos);

*news article "The Great Slave Auction" (an innocent fundraiser busted by the LAPD; with five photos);

*article simply called "Politics" (on Harvey Milk's election victory);

*article "Polk: A Celebration Lost" (gay Halloween on Polk Street in San Francisco, with six photos);

*article on and interview of gay filmmakers Sam and Joe Gage (with three photos);

*article and photospread "'Encore' Benefit, D.C." (with five photographs of the stars: Tom Gauger, Gloria Steinem, Dave Kopay, Gotham, Barbara Cook, and Cassie Culver);*much more.

 

 

The third issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate: What's Happening In Our [note subtitle change from "Your" to "Our"] World" (Vol. 1 #3, February 1978)

 

Highlights of this issue include:

*article and photospread "The Year That Was";

*cover story "Woman of the Year: Anita Jane Bryant";

*short article "Thank God For Anita" by Fred Halsted ("She's terrific and has been the biggest boon for homosexuals since Crisco");

*article on the black gay community entitled "Nigger Queers" (with artpiece by Bill Schmeling);

*lengthy film and stage reviews (with photos);

*article, with photos, on the huge "Night Flight" party held at the Gay Community Center in San Francisco;

*Quentin Crisp interviewed ("All you need for happiness is a toothbrush");*much, much more.

 

 

The fourth issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate: What's Happening In Our World" (Vol. 1 #4, 1978) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California.

 

Highlights of this issue include:

*article on and interview of Josette Mondanaro entitled "Going To The Wall: Josette Mondanaro Takes on the Capitol and Wins";

*article "Constitutional Convention: A Call from the Right" (on the right-wing "Americans for a Constitutional Convention" whose main impetus was to outlaw abortion entirely);

*article "Attack on the 'Body Politic'" (on the much-harassed and now defunct Canadian gay publication);

*photospread featuring the magnificent photography of Efren Convento Ramirez (with seven photos);

*article "Banned From Air Play" (on the FCC decision to shut down the only gay "pirate" radio station KDHS in San Francisco);

*news report on the murder of Sal Mineo;

*article "The Boy Who Would Be Pharoh" (on Tutankhamun);

*article on gender roles entitled "Of Queens, Coronations, and Abdications!" ("Being a 'Queen' is a privilege and rare gift...like Divine Right!")

*article and photospread on white water rafting along the Colorado River;

*article "The Sodom Syndrome" (on the dangerous religious view that gays play a pivotal role in ushering in the End Times);*much, much more.

 

 

The fifth issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate: What's Happening In Our World" (Vol. 1 #5, 1978) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. A quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers containing 68 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Highlights of this issue include:

*lengthy article, with photos, entitled "Exiles in Paradise" (on gay and lesbian runaway street youth);

*Special Gay Sports feature with two articles, with photos, the first entitled "Physical Education: A Survey of College Athletes" and the second "[The] International Union of Gay Athletes";

*lengthy ballet review entitled "Buck Nijinsky Rides Again!" (with three photos);

*article "New York's Gay Anarchists" (with photo);

*lengthy interview of Dusty Springfield (with two lovely photographs, one full-page);

*article "The Politics of Punk Rock" (with two photos);*much, much more.

 

 

Sixth issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate" (Vol. 1 #6, 1978) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. Edited by John Rowberry, a quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and pages containing 68 pages including front and rear covers.

 

The publication was devoted to gay and lesbian news, articles, photospreads, community resources, and reviews, well-illustrated with drawings, artwork and photographs. Highlights of this issue include:

 

*article "[The] Kinsey Report: Stereotypes Shattered" ;

*article "Briggs' Billion Dollar B-" (on California State Senator John Briggs, whose Proposition 6 - the infamous "Briggs Initiative" - would have denied homosexuals teaching positions);

*article "Sexploiting the Dallas Cowboys" (with photos);

*article "The Prison Gangs! Who Really Runs American Prisons?" ;

*three-page cartoon layout entitled "Beau" by artist Bill Ward ;

*lengthy article, well illustrated with photos, entitled "Women on Record" (on Olivia Records);

*article "Looking for a Class Murder" (on Arthur Bell and his investigation into the John Knight hustler murder case);

*three-page photospread "Roundup in Reno: 3rd Annual Gay Rodeo" ;

*tasteful four-page male nude layout from photographer Charles Collum .

 

 

Seventh issue of "Alternate: The American Magazine of Sexual Politics" (Vol. 1 #7, December 1978) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. Edited by John Rowberry, a quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and a mixture of glossy and non-glossy internal pages containing 68 pages including front and rear covers.

 

*article "The Milk Train Won't Stop Here Anymore" (on the assassination of Harvey Milk: "You could say there were three deaths that tragic morning: liberal pro-gay San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, upfront gay supervisor Harvey Milk, and right-wing, homophobic, pro-death penalty ex-Supervisor Dan White");

*article "Getting Violent: Gays on the Defensive" ;

*article "Hear Comes the Band!" (with photos, on San Francisco's "Gay Freedom Day Marching Band & Twirling Corps");

*article "Fanta Sex: Liberating the American Sexual Dream" ;

*conclusion of article "The Prison Gangs! Sex Behind Bars" ;

*three-page cartoon strip "The Adventures of Beau" by artist Bill Ward ;

*exercise article "New Bodies for Old" (with photos);

*four-page male fashion layout ;

*article on and interview of puppeteer, actor, singer, designer, and craftsman Winston Tong (with photos);

*article on Billy Hayes and "Midnight Express" (with photos);

*article "Holier Than Thou" by Daniel Curzon (he writes sarcastically, "Gay atheists are always hunchbacked and given to shoplifting. They are atheists because they were raised in strict religious environments and are trying to get revenge. They commonly drink the blood of newborn lizards and break wind every time they hear the name of the Pope...").

 

 

Eighth issue of "Alternate: The American Magazine of Sexual Politics" (#8, January 1979) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. Edited by John Rowberry, a quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and a mixture of glossy and non-glossy internal pages containing 68 pages including front and rear covers.

 

*exclusive article "With Intent to Kill: The Arrest of David Likens" ;

*article "Investigating the Police: The Threat Against Gays" by activist Jean O'Leary ;

*article on gays wearing police drag on the streets and in bars, and LAPD's angry reaction entitled "Unlawful Impressions" ("Los Angeles' para-military police happily give vent to all their pent-up homophobe emotions when coming upon gay uniform enthusiasts done up in high-police drag");

*delightful two-page "It's Award Time!" (including the "Poetic Justice Award - To confessed assassin Dan White..." and "Let 'Em Eat Unleavened Bread Award - To ultra-rightwing homophobe Jerry Falwell...");

*three-page cartoon strip "Beau" by artist Bill Ward ;

*book excerpt "The Boston Sex Scandal" by John Mitzel (with photos);

*article "Exuming Pasolini" (on the films, life, and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, with photos);

*splendid article and photospread "Gay Photography" featuring representative works of photographers Efren Ramirez, Crawford Barton, Jeff Clark, Roberta Dill, Hal Fischer, Sandra Graham, Ginny Lloyd, Robert Opel, Blair Paltridge, Greg Reeder, and Fisher Ross .

 

 

Ninth issue of "Alternate: The American Magazine of Sexual Politics" (#9, May/June 1979) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. Edited by John Rowberry, a quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and pages containing 68 pages including front and rear covers.

 

 

*article "The Rise of The Third Wrong: David Duke and the New Klan" by Penni Kimmel (on the Ku Klux Klan, with six photographs);

*article "Sin & Redemption In Austin" by Steven Saylor (on the arrest, trial, and conviction of Billy Ray Green);

*article "Bare Bottom Boys" by John Bauhaus (on male erotic dancers, with illustration by Harry Bush);

*article "The Thing That Ate the Advocate" by Dean Gengle (a "Discordian critique" of "The Advocate Experience");

*short story "Fallen Idylls" by Martin Wong ;

*short story "Heathcliff in Italy" by E.A. Sklepowich ;

*cartoon series "Beau" by artist Bill Ward ;

*article "4 Faeries 4" by James Armstrong (on the performance of "Nutcracker" by the San Francisco Ballet Company, with five photos);

*lengthy review of the recently published book "Lovers" by Michael Denneny (with two photos);

*article "Providence in Provincetown: The Lifestyle" by John Preston (with seven photos);

*inset to previous article "The Great Debate: Provincetown vs. Fire Island" ;

*short article on and interview of photographer Charlie Airwaves (with four photos);

*music and book reviews; classifieds advertisements.

 

 

The tenth issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate: The American Magazine of Sexual Politics" (#10, August/September 1979) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. Edited by John Rowberry, a quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and pages containing 72 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Of special note: This issue features separate interviews of four gay filmmakers (Tom DeSimone; Jack Devoe; Arthur J. Bressan; and Rosa von Praunheim) .Also appearing in this issue are the lyrics of "The Ballad of Dan White" by Lenny Anderson and "Twinkle Insanity" by Art Peterson, written in response to Dan White's light sentence and "twinkie defense" for the assassination of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.

 

*article "New York New York" (with 15 photos: "The Alternate's special look at the Big Apple includes the rebuilding of 8th Avenue from a demi-slum into the newest gay enclave; Loft Living, New York's answer to the West Coast rancho delux; along with a variety of notable briefs");

*article on and interview of fashion designer John Stavros (with four photos);

*short story "Stone, The Stranger" by Charles Hufford (with splendid illustration by Kagane);

*short story "Leaving" by Jim Marko ;

*interview of male fashion model Scott MacKenzie (with five photos);

*splendid five-page photospread entitled "Days of Alexandria: The Erotic Images of Constantin Cavafy" by photographer Lawrence A. Reh (accompanied by select poetry from Cavafy);

*two-page illustrated spread entitled "Attitude: Paper Doll Book Preview" with gay and lesbian paper dolls by artist Tom Tierney ;

*article "Provincetown: The Resort" by John Preston (Part Two of series, with three photos);

*article on and interview of gay filmmaker Tom DeSimone entitled "Tom De Simone & the Idol" by Harold Fairbanks (with four photos);

*article on and interview of gay filmmaker Jack Devoe by Spike Wood (with five photos);

*article on and interview of gay filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan by Edward Guthmann (with four photos);

*article on and interview of Rosa Von Praunheim by Harold Fairbanks (with three photos);

*theatre, book, and music reviews; classified advertisements.

 

 

The eleventh issue of "Alternate" now subtitled "The American Magazine for Grown Up Gays" (#11, January/February 1980) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. Edited by John Rowberry, a quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and pages containing 72 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With special memorial photospread on the life and times of Harvey Milk entitled "This Gentle Lion...Long Remembered" (with nine photographs).

 

*absolutely delightful, insightful correspondence between Alice in Wonderland and Daniel Curzon entitled "Alice in Realityland: The State of Literary Politics" by Daniel Curzon (with eight illustrations by John Tenniel: "'Dear Daniel, I have written this wonderful novel about Gay Life - or at least one part of it - and I think it's pretty good. At least my agent, my creative writing teacher, and Barbara Gittings tell me it is. How can I get it published? Sincerely, Alice'...'Dear Alice, You can't. Yours truly, Daniel Curzon'");

*interview of Robert Patrick entitled "Robert Patrick: The Playwright as Moving Object" by Harry Hart-Browne (with four photos);

*Alternate's Annual "The '79 Awards" (for the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Wiretap Award [to] "The Mormon organization, for developing ultra-effective spying techniques to check on wet dreams, sex drives, and potential disruptive homosexual impulses among its school of young, fair-haired blue-eye male converts");

*article on and interview of Allen Young entitled "Allen Young: Gays Hold Up Half the Sky" by William Russo (with two photos);

*an excerpt from his new novel entitled "Boys Don't Jump Rope" by Daniel Curzon (with illustration by Olaf);

*article entitled "Words That Maim and Kill" (on sexual assault in male prisons);

*short story "Crystal" by Mark R. Lewerenz ;

*five-page photospread on Harvey Milk entitled "This Gentle Lion...Long Remembered" (with nine photos);

*music, book and theatre reviews;

*poetry by gay Finnish poet Rauli Vettenranta entitled "Tristesse Nordica" (in both Finnish and English);

*lengthy translated poem entitled "Chant D'Amour" by Jean Genet (with commentary by translator Walter Mosley);

*article "Reintroducing John Horne Burns" by John Mitzel (with a photograph of each author);

*review of Nancy Reynolds' "The Dance Catalog" (with seven photos).

 

 

Special Gay Art Issue with fabulous front cover, the twelfth issue of the very short-lived but splendidly produced "Alternate" now subtitled "The American Magazine for Grown Up Gays" (#12, March/April 1980) published by John Embry and Alternate Publishing Company out of San Francisco and West Hollywood, California. Edited by John Rowberry, a quality stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and pages containing 72 pages including front and rear covers.

 

*article "Gay Art In America" by Michael Endicott-Ross (with two artworks: "Embrace" by Robert Quigley, and "Big Wave" by David Martin);

*article "The New York Galleries" by John Preston (with five artworks: Robert Mapplethorpe's "Bull's Eye"; "Leather Hood and White Sheets" by Hilton Brown; "Before Time Changes Them" by Andrew Sychel; "Man to Man" by Robert Gable; and Untitled Drawing by Gary Finkel);

*article "David Hockney: A Philistine Portrait" by Daniel Curzon (with four of Mr. Hockney's works: "Artist and Model"; "Portrait of an Artist: Pool with Two Figures"; "Two Boys Aged 23 and 24"; and "The Room");

*portrait of Bernard Kagane (with four works: "Cain"; "L'Epidemie"; "Le Trapeziste"; and "Crucifixion");

*article "The Gallery Owners: Three Profiles" by John Preston (with five photos, list of galleries, and other non-gallery art sources);

*profile of Robert Opel (with three photos, including his famous nude appearance at the Los Angeles City Council hearing on the issue of nude beaches; "Of white-haired Police Chief Ed Davis, Opel asked: 'Am I obscene?'");

*profile of George Platt Lyons (with untitled photograph from 1938);

*profile of Olaf (with three untitled art pieces);

*lengthy "West Coast Portfolio: A Selection of Seven Contemporary Artists who Reside and Create on the West Coast" featuring artists - each with a representative work - Frank Bettencourt, Mark Mulleian, Ron Dwyer, Charles R. Musgrave, Lou Rudolph, Anthony - Tony - De Frange, and Chuck Arnett ;

*a lengthy excerpt from "Port of Saints" by William S. Burroughs ;

*theatre, film, and book reviews;

*article "George Whitmore: The Political is Personal" by John Preston .

 

 

 

 

AWARE

 

The premiere issue of a long-defunct, splendidly produced but long-forgotten gay magazine entitled "AWARE" (Vol. 1 #1, 1974) published by Tony Leon and Gemini Publications out of North Miami, Florida. A high-quality, glossy stapled digest sized magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Artistically laid out, the issue contains articles, personality profiles, events, fashion, and a few tasteful male nude photographs. Highlights include:

 

*One-page photospread from the Mr. & Miss David Pageant (with 22 photos);

*article on Jack Campbell, owner of the Club Baths, then in 34 cities (with four photos);

*article "Gay Justice: Is There Sexual Freedom in Florida?" by Rick Tynell;

*article on composer and pianist Michel LeGrand (with five photos);

*male fashion photospread from "Taurus: Men's World of Fashions" out of Miami, Florida (with six photos);

*article on, and interview with, Charo (with two photos);

*article on comedian Charles Booth - Tubby Boots (when young, chosen as the caricature for Tubby in the "Little Lulu" comic strip, with two photos);

*much more.

 

 

The second issue of a long-defunct, splendidly produced but long-forgotten gay magazine entitled "AWARE" (Vol. 1 #2, 1975) published by Tony Leon and Gemini Publications out of North Miami, Florida. A high-quality, glossy stapled digest sized magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Artistically laid out, the issue contains articles, personality profiles, events, fashion, and a few tasteful male nude photographs. Highlights include:

 

*front cover photo by David Vance;

*one-page photospread showing the Mr. Club Bath winners at recent contests (with seven photos);

*article on female impersonator Tiffany Jones, "The Texas Tornado" (Kenneth Whitehead, with two photos);

*article "Gay Justice: Gays Denied Constitutional Rights" by Rick Tynell;

*article "Machismo!" by Jesse Monteagudo;

*splendid seven-page photospread by Tom from Taurus Studios of various drag, beefcake, and male nude contests and events (with over 75 photos);

*short profile of Billy Silverstein (with two photos: "That beautiful blond who hands you a towel and a smile at Club Miami");

*much, much more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLUE BOY

 

 

The premiere issue of "Blue Boy," later "Blueboy" (Issue #1, 1974) edited by Don Westbrook and then published by "blue boy inc." out of Washington, D.C. (after a brief hiatus, the publishing offices were moved to Miami, Florida). A quality Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and non-glossy internal pages and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With articles, photo classified ads, astrology, fashion, and photographs, including male beefcake. Highlights include:

*lengthy article "Here's Gay Washington" by Cade Ware (on gay life in Washington, D.C., with five photos);

*beefcake centerfold of Dale, Blue Boy's "First Cover Guy" (cover, centerfold, and interior full-page shot);

*article on a gay wedding held in New York entitled "A Bronx Wedding";

*three-page male fashion spread entitled "Worn Free! Jocks, Jeans and Jewelry" (with five photos);

*vintage gay advertisements.

 

 

 

Fourth issue of "blueboy: the national magazine about men" (Issue #4, January-February 1976) edited by Don Westbrook and now published by Blueboy, Incorporated out of Miami, Florida. A high-quality, glossy Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With articles, fashion, reviews, artwork, and tasteful male nude photographs. Highlights include:

 

*magnificent - magnificent - eight page photographic portfolio from Jim French (Rip Colt) from Colt Studio (there is also a full-page ad from Colt Studio as well);

*five-page photospread entitled "Textures" by David Vance (where male figures are interposed on natural landscapes, splendid);

*travel article "If Your [sic] Going To San Francisco" by Tom McNamara (with ten full-color photos of Bay-area Victorian houses);

*lengthy "Lover's Horoscope" (with 13 photos);

*photospread "The Massage" (with 13 photos);

*short story "Coming Down" by Len Seaberg, with full-page illustration by Stavrinos;

*male fashion spread "Doing the Streets of San Francisco" (with 11 photos);

*vintage gay male advertisements;

*much more.

 

 

Sixth issue of "blueboy: the national magazine about men" (Issue #6, May-June 1976) edited by Don Westbrook and published by Blueboy, Incorporated out of Miami, Florida. A high-quality, glossy Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With articles, fashion, reviews, artwork, and tasteful male nude photographs. Highlights include:

 

*magnificent - magnificent - eight page photographic portfolio from Jim French (Rip Colt) from Colt Studio entitled "Olympus: A Photo Essay by Jim French";

*article on homosexuality in prison entitled "Sex in the Slammer" by A. Gold with full-page illustration by Stavrinos;

*six-page male artwork "Animal Lovers" with lovely pen-and-ink drawings by gay artist Richard Roesener;

*illustrated fashion spread entitled "Ronald Kolodzie: Sketchbook of Fantasy Collections";

*five-page photospread entitled "The Tub" by photographer Marikko;

*lengthy article on, and interview of, David - Dave - Kopay (with 13 photos);

*six-page male photospread entitled "The Skindiver";

*five-page male fashion beachwear spread entitled "Water Sports" (with swimwear by Avante out of Coral Gables, Florida);

*six-page "Lover's Horoscope" with illustrations by Bruce Fitzgerald;

*vintage gay male advertisements; *much more.

 

 

 

The ninth issue of "blueboy: the national magazine about men" (Issue #9, November-December 1976) now edited by Bruce Fitzgerald and published by Blueboy, Incorporated out of Miami, Florida. A high-quality, glossy Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With articles, fashion, reviews, artwork, and tasteful male nude photographs. Highlights include:

 

* special cover feature on "MUSCLES: And The Men Who Make Them." Also, there is a lengthy article on, and interview of, Arnold Schwarzenegger (with six photos).

*five-page photospread entitled "HOT SHOTS: PUMPING IRON" (with 18 fabulous bodybuilding photos);

*lengthy article on, and interview of, Arnold Schwarzenegger (with six photos);

*article "Gays and the Church" by Clarke Taylor;

*splendid brown-tinted photospread entitled "The Fitting Room" photographed by Giugno (with 20 photos);

*article on gay hardware store "Nuts and Bolts" in New York City owned by Martin Seliger (with four photos);

*five page male photospread "Exercise In Red" by Marikko;

*six-page male fashion spread entitled "Two For The Road";

*fabulous five-page male photospread entitled "LA Muscle" (scenes from a forthcoming film by Jack Deveau);

*vintage gay male advertisements; *much more.

 

 

 

 

Dilettante: The Renaissance Man Magazine of the Arts, Entertainment & Eros

 

Second issue of "Dilettante: The Renaissance Man Magazine of the Arts, Entertainment & Eros" (Issue #2, July 1974) edited by John Devere and published by Dilettante, Inc. out of New York City. A high-quality, glossy stapled Newsweek-size magazine containing 68 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Highlights include:

*splendid 12-page photospread featuring the male photography of Roy Blakey (with 12 photographs, including front cover and centerfold, with accompanying article on Roy Blakey along with his photograph);

*article on Peter Bogdanovich and his film "Daisy Miller" entitled "Gilt Guilt, or, Bogdanovich Bogs Down" (with two photographs of actress Cybill Shepherd from the film);

*article on dancer Louis Falco (with two photos);

*lengthy article and splendid photospread on three Greenwich Village boutiques: Bartolini, Bellardo, and Murasan-Robin (sculptor Carlos Bartolini, sculptor Paul Bellardo, painter Andre Murasan, designer Jean-Claude Robin) entitled "Beautiful, Bizarre, Bold" (with 12 magnificent photos of models Tolin, Zorina, and Patrick at the boutiques);

*article and review of the Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey production of "Frankenstein" entitled "Last Night, Somebody Cut Off My...Best Friend's Head!" (with three photos from the film: portrait of Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro, and Udo Kier and Dalila di Lazzaro);

*much more.

 

 

Third issue of "Dilettante: The Renaissance Man Magazine of the Arts, Entertainment & Eros" (Issue #3, September 1974) edited by John Devere and published by Dilettante, Inc. out of New York City. A high-quality, glossy stapled Newsweek-size magazine containing 64 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Highlights include:

*splendid cover photograph of Barbra Streisand and short inside article on her entitled "Wanted: A Film for 'Funny Girl'" (with three shots of Streisand from her latest film, "For Pete's Sake");

*article on Fire Island entitled "Isle of Fire" (with four photos);

*lengthy review of film "A Very Natural Thing" written and directed by Chris Larkin (with three photos from the film: one of Bo White, and two of male lovers played by Robert Joel and Curt Gareth);

*article on the off-Broadway production of "Let My People Come" with seven splendid photographs by Roy Blakey: four of Alan Evans and Denise Connally, two of Joe Jones and Tobie Columbus, and one of Ian Naylor and Diana Darzin;

*article on, and interview of, dancer James Evans (with three photos);

*much more.

 

 

 

 

ERA: The Magazine of the New Age

 

 

Fabulous! The second issue of a long-defunct and long-forgotten gay male magazine entitled "ERA: The Magazine of the New Age" (Volume 1 #2, April 1974) edited by Martin B. St. John and published by Lane West out of Hollywood, California. A quality, stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and a mixture of glossy and non-glossy internal pages, and containing 96 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Containing articles, fashion, personalities, entertainment, and a few tasteful male nude photographs (Eddie Van was the staff's photographic consultant), contents include:

*article, interview, and photospread of model Bill Williams;

*article "The Boys in the Bank" by Randy Wicker (on bank robber John Wojtowicz, known in Manhattan's gay community as 'Littlejohn Basso', and Ernest Aron, then undergoing a sex-change operation);

*article and photospread on Southern California's San Diego Carnival (with five photos);

*gay short story "The Mark" by Kurt Kreisler;

*fashion article and photospread "From Drags to Riches" featuring fashion wear for female impersonators designed by Pat Campano (with ten photos);

*excerpt from "Flesh and the Nimbus" by Bill James (with six photographs from the book);

*article on Ann Miller ("Miller on Tap" with two photos, one a splendid full-page shot);

*coverage of various drag and male beefcake balls and contests - Los Angeles' Crystal Ball, Inglewood's Camelot Ball, Fat Shirley's Mr. & Miss Valentine Contest, the Queen of Hearts Pageant (all well-illustrated with fabulous photos);

*"Men of the New Age" Lyle Charles and Manuel (profiles with eight photographs, including front cover and centerfold);

*fabulous article on, and interview with, female impersonator Fel Andrews (with five photos, including double-page and two full-page shots in color);

*article on, and interview with, Ralph Campo of the New-Clear Universal Foundation (with seven photos, including two of Ralph Campo with Gary Brandenburg and one with Mae West);

*one-act play "Ludwig and Wagner" by Robert Patrick (with seven shots from the stage production with John Albano and Joe Pichette);*much more.

 

 

Fabulous! The fourth issue of a long-defunct and long-forgotten gay male magazine entitled "ERA: The Magazine of the New Age" (Volume 1 #4, June 1974) edited by Martin B. St. John and published by Lane West out of Hollywood, California. A quality, stapled Newsweek-size magazine with glossy covers and a mixture of glossy and non-glossy internal pages, and containing 96 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Containing articles, fashion, personalities, travel, entertainment, and a few tasteful male nude photographs (Eddie Van was the staff's photographic consultant), contents include:

*two poems by Allen Ginsberg to inside front cover ("Message II" and "Big Beat");

*lengthy article on the stage production of "The Rocky Horror Show" (with eight fabulous photos of the performers, including several of Tim Curry and Kim Milford);

*article on, and interview with, Helmut Berger (with four photos);

*one-act play entitled "Hymen & Carbuncle" by Robert Patrick;

*article on LaMama Hollywood (with four photos, including three cast shots, one of Robert Patrick and one of June Perz);

*column "Auntie Lou Cooks" by Lou Rand (author of the "Gay Cookbook");

*Era's coverman Frank Sanford Jr. (with profile and seven photos, including front cover);

*two articles on, and interview with, drag performer Charles Pierce (with seven photos, two of Sally Rand who had just co-starred with Charles Pierce);

*profile and photospread of Era's "Man of the New Age" Dennis Walsh (with six photos, two of them full-page color shots to centerfold);

*profile, interview, and photospread of female impersonator China Nuyen (with five photos, including rear cover and one double-page shot);

*one-page photospread of model Blaine Denver (with four photos);

*lengthy exercise column "A Fuller Life" by Rod Fuller (with two photos);*much, much more.

 

 

 

Fag Rag: Gay Male Newspaper

 

The premiere issue of "Fag Rag: Gay Male Newspaper" (June 1971) published during the dynamic and activist days of the early gay liberation movement. Published out of Boston, Massachusetts, by the Fag Rag Collective, when unfolded contains 16 pages.

 

Containing news, articles, poetry, art and photographs, it was not until issue #5 that writers used their actual byline.

 

Contents include: activist news; article "To Be 19 and Gay"; article "'Doctor, Doctor!' Fags vs. Shrinks"; question and answer article "How is declaring my gayness going to keep me out of the Army?"; photographs from the May 12, 1971 demonstration in front of the Mattapan Chronic Disease Hospital protesting the use of electrical shocks for homosexuality (aversion therapy); article in poetry form "Coming Out"; article "Let There Be a Vietnam in Each of Our Hearts: Let Vietnam Invade Us" ("Six days at Peace City - I was walking on the campsite and somebody yelled out 'Faggot!' It made me feel tightness inside. Like the way I feel a lot outside on Babylon's streets - accosted and threatened"); lengthy article on gay libertation actions in Georgetown entitled "Gay May Day" ("Tuesday we returned to the streets in the morning, there were 10 pigs for every one of us"); article "'Revolutionary' Sexism"; article "Cuba Si? Gayness & the Cuban Revolution"; much more.

 

Offered is the third issue of Fag Rag: A Gay Male Newspaper (Summer 1972) published during the dynamic and activist days of the early gay liberation movement. Published out of Boston, Massachusetts, by the Fag Rag Collective, when unfolded contains 24 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art and photographs, it was not until issue #5 that the writers used their byline.

 

Contents include: article "Fag Rag Blues 2: What Does Not Change/Is The Will To Change" ("After a long winter, we finally have FAG RAG 3 and hope every faggot will like it and every straight man will come out or drop dead on reading it"); article "[J. Edgar] Hoover Goes Underground" ("And now he's dead. I was really happy and relieved when I heard about it. I know that some other bad guy will take his place, but at least he's gone...We all know about Hoover being a 'bachelor,' the rumors about him and Clyde Tolson - who inherited Hoover's house, dogs, and money - and how careful Hoover was in selecting his F.B.I. agents - men only, and with certain specified physical characteristics"); news articles "Gay Pride Week"; "GML [Gay Male Liberation] ZAPS Witchdoctors"; "Gays Confront Dems"; article "Homosexuality and Institutions: Psychiatry - Cure or Disease?"; short article from a gay inmate at the Billerica House of Correction entitled "ABC's of the American Cream Machine"; article "C- As An Act of Revolution"; article "'Out, Out, Damn Faggot' - the 4th Venceremos Brigade"; article "Gay Yoga: On Body, Mind, & Politics"; article on drag queen Sylvia Sydney entitled "'My Name is Tangerine' - Sylvia Sydney, Still Ripe and Looking to be Squeezed"; a statement, reprinted in English, from the French gay liberation organization FHAR [Front Homosexual d'Action Revolutionnaire] founded on March 10, 1971; short article "To the GAY ARTISTS...ALL of US!!!!!"; much more.

 

 

Fourth issue of "Fag Rag: A Gay Male Newspaper" (January 1973) published during the dynamic and activist days of the early gay liberation movement. Published out of Boston, Massachusetts, by the Fag Rag Collective, when unfolded contains 24 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art and photographs, it was not until issue #5 that the writers began using their byline.

 

Contents include: article "Hustler: A Boy for All Seasons, An Interview Between a Hustler and his Customer"; article "Vietnam: A Gay Vet Speaks"; article "The Two Ages of Faggotry" (with subtitles "Young and Gay" and "Old and Gay"); article "Faggots and Welfare"; article on the first international gay liberation congress held in Milan, Italy, on October 15, 1972 (the congress was organized by the Turino brach of Italy's national gay liberation organization FUORI - Fronte Unitario Omossesuale Rivoluzionario Italiano); three-page poem, with photographs, entitled "License to Innocence"; second installment of "C- As an Act of Revolution, Or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"; a delightful, irreverent article "ADONIS 1972" (billed as "The Country's First Male Pageant" held at the Bradford Hotel; "A fellow faggot sitting next to us leaned over within earshot and whispered, between puffs on his Sylva Thin cigarette, 'You KNOW, a lot of people left after the swimsuit competition'"); interview of a gay male prisoner "at a local New England State Prison" entitled "Love Behind Bars"; letter from a gay prisoner entitled "Letter from Walpole Prison"; article "I Am A Black Faggot"; article "Rest Stop: Police Entrapment on Interstates"; much more.

 

 

 

Fifth issue of "Fag Rag: A Quarterly of Gay Male Liberation" (Summer 1973) published during the dynamic and activist days of the early gay liberation movement. Published out of Boston, Massachusetts, by the Fag Rag Collective, when unfolded contains 24 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs, resources.

 

Contents include: lead article "A Tribute to Faggots" ("Allen Ginsberg made a most profound comment about the recent change in faggots: 'Fags have lost that Wounded Look they had ten years ago'"); article "The Homosexual in Society" by Robert Duncan; lengthy interview of Christopher Isherwood by Arthur Bell; article "Marshall Bloom: Gay Brother" by Allen Young ("Marshall Bloom was still in his closet when he committed suicide on November 1, 1969, yet I am confident that his spirit is with me as I write this"); poem "Ode To A Suicide" by Vincent Sacardi; article "Group Sex" by Charley (Charles) Shively; first-hand account "Seminary Sex" by Dan Kiefer; poetry by John Weiners, David Eberly, Charley Shively, Diedre Phelps, others; short story "The Boy Who Spoke In Pornography" by J. C. (John) Mitzel; review "Having never been to Majorca: A Review of Kenneth Pitchford's 'Color Photos of the Atrocities'" by Charley Shively; reprint of letter to "Miss Mary Finn, Nursing Supervisor, Mass. Mental Health Center" from John Kyper ("Dear Miss Finn: In mid-July you interviewed me for a position as a psychiatric aide...On the sixth of November I called, and you informed me that you could not hire me because of my homosexuality"); one page memorial to gay pioneer Prescott Townsend (1894-1973); much more.

 

 

Issue number six of Fag Rag (Fall-Winter 1973) published during the heady and exciting activist days of the early gay liberation movement. Published out of Boston, Massachusetts, by the Fag Rag Collective, when unfolded contains 32 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs, and community resources. Highlights include:

 

*article "Red & Gay: Oppression East and West" by Tom Reeves ("In order to prevent Communist or American police from using information in this article against gays in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, names have been changed and the identities altered slightly");

*article "Blowing in the Wind" by Charley (Charles) Shively (on fag-bashing);

*article "Gay American Day In Rose Kennedy's Estate" by John Wieners ;

*article "How To Proselytize" by John Mitzel ("There are literally millions of MEN out there nervously awaiting your approach. All they need is a slight push or a gentle coaxing shove - and they're yours! How to do it? Simple! Use this handy 1-2-3 Guide to Proselytizing. You can help save the world by turning MEN into FAGGOTS...and getting a little fun out of it too!");

*article "On Jealousy" by Edward Carpenter (an excerpt from his book "Love's Coming Of Age");

*article and political theatre, with photographs, entitled "Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism" by the Living Theatre Collective (i.e., "Meditation Two: On Authority, With a Text on Government as a Reflection of the Master/Slave Relationship");

*article "Some Notes on Myra B." by John Mitzel and Steve Abbott (on Gore Vidal's novel "Myra Breckinridge");

*article "Wallflower at the Revolution" by Charley Shively ("Sexual 'freedom' does not mean sexual 'liberation'")

*an "Open Letter to the [Los Angeles] Advocate" ("The Advocate is the only national gay newspaper that attempts to report news of interest to gays everywhere. Some of us have always found it crassly commerical and sexist");

*poetry by N.A. Diaman, Michael Lalley, Sativa Sagittarius, David Eberly, Charley Shively, others;

*much more.

 

 

 

Special Fag Rag "Xmas Blasphemy Issue." Eleventh issue of Fag Rag (Issue #11, Winter 1974) published by the Fag Rag Collective out of Boston, Massachusetts. Printed on newsprint paper, when unfolded contains 28 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources. Highlights include:

 

*article "Stone Age Sex" by Arthur Evans (from his "Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture");

*delightful "column" "Ask Dr. Andrew Genn: What Are Gay Hormones?" ("Dear Dr. Genn, I usually don't write to strange men to solve my personal problems, but someone at the bar told me that you were a great help. I'm entered into the Mr. Memphis Groovie-Guy Contest, and some nasty queen - my ex, as it happens - is spreading rumors that my testosterone level and sperm count are in decline on account of me 'going gay'");

*article "Dr. Frankel, Where Are You?" by Allen Young (a memoir);

*delicious article "On The Bumping Off Of Two Perfectly Nice Greek Ladies" by John Mitzel;

*article "Conjugal Contraries" by John Weiners (with a photograph taken of him by Gerard Malanga);

*a simply fabulous entry entitled the "Lord Baby Jesus Christmas Gift Catalogue" (offering gifts of prejudice, blackmail, genuine look-alike stigmata wounds, predestination certificates, crippling Christian guilt, etc.);

*gay Christmas carols (i.e., "Jingle Chains," "We Three Queens Of Orient Are");

*centerfold poems "Question" by William Barber and "Christmas 1962" by Paul Mariah;

*a conversation between Bunny LaRue and Danny McGonagle entitled "Smart Quean's Shopper's Guide to Today's Religions: How to Get Your Dollar's Worth";

*article "Sexual Holiness" by Jerome Perlinski;

*article "Faggot Femininity" by John Cummings; much, much more.

 

 

 

Special issue on race. Twelfth issue of Fag Rag (Issue #12, Spring 1975) published by the Fag Rag Collective out of Boston, Massachusetts. Printed on newsprint paper, when unfolded contains 28 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources. Highlights include:

 

*short story "Southie" by Tom Reeves (based on the historical L Street Beach in South Boston which was built in 1865 to "allow men and boys to disrobe and store their clothing while enjoying their bath");

*poem "L Street" by David Emerson Smith (with two photos of the L Street Beach);

*poem "WHAT HAppENEd in CHILE?" by "Jesse" - an excerpt:

 

"America

Amerika

how cold does

your blue steel

glint

glimmer

and gleam

from sea to shing sea..."

 

*article "No Cosmic Ribbon: An Aborted Dialogue" by Larry Anderson (poetically-arranged musings on the politics of sex in the black and Third World communities);

*article "Beyond the Binary: Race and Sex" by Charley (Charles) Shively;

*marvelous article "40 Years of Frederic Prokosch" by John Mitzel;

*short response to John Mitzel's article (above) by Boom-Boom (Bunny) LaRue entitled "F. Prokosch: An Angry Response" ("Isn't this Mitzel something? He sure goes after the lookers!");

*article "The Sensual Drug-Users of the Middle Ages" (from Arthur Evans' "Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture");

*article "The Disappearance of Reality" by Gary Jane Hoisington;

*article on prisons, prison reform, and prison wages by Ronald Rose;

*article "For An Unholy Alliance: Gays and Abortion" by Steven Abbott and Thom Willenbecker;

*poetry by John Wieners, Rudy Kikel, Joseph Hagarty, Charley Shively, Kenneth Dudley, Boom-Boom LaRue, many others;

*much, much more.

 

 

 

A magnificent, collaborative issue between Fag Rag and Gay Sunshine honoring the Fifth Anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion.

 

Fag Rag #9 and Gay Sunshine #22 (single issue) edited by Winston Leyland and jointly published by the Fag Rag and Gay Sunshine Collectives (Summer 1974). A massive issue containing 48 pages, with news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources. Contents include:

 

*article "Indiscriminate Promiscuity as an Act of Revolution" (probably by Charley - Charles - Shively);

*lengthy six-and-one-half page interview of Ned Rorem (with photographs);

*article "Reflections on the Gay Movement" by Rictor Norton;

*painting "Nude, Carolina Beach" by John Button;

*male nude woodcut by R. Stearns;

*article "John Horne Burns: A Forgotton Faggot" by John Mitzel;

*two lengthy reviews of poets Harold Norse and Paul Mariah;

*article "The Betrayal of Donald Webster Cory?" by John Kyper and Steve Abbott;

*cartoon strip "Sswishhh" by Bruce Reifel;

*article "Gay Liberation Without Marx or Jesus" by Craig Alfred Hanson;

*four-page photospread with seven photographs entitled "David Greene & Friends" by photographer David Greene;

*article "On Human & Gay Identity" by Allen Young;

*two-page interview of filmmaker Arthur Bressan;

*poetry by Paul Mariah, Robert Peters, William Barber, Salvatore Farinella, Kenward Elmslie, Perry Brass, Allen Ginsberg, Kirby Congdon, Ron Schreiber, Harold Norse, others; *much, much more.

 

 

Fag Rag (Issue #13, Summer 1975) published by the Fag Rag Collective out of Boston, Massachusetts. Printed on newsprint paper, when unfolded contains 36 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources. Highlights include:

*lengthy article on the John Kennedy assassination entitled "Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing, Or: The Gay Version of the Warren Report and Its Critics" by John Mitzel (with photos);

*gay singer and songwriter Chris Robison interviewed by Ian Young (with photos);

*article "The Mass Murder of Women and Gays" (an excerpt from Arthur Evans' book "Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture");

*four memorials of Allyn Amundson (1934-1975, with photos);

*poetry by John Laporta, David Emerson Smith, Edmund Miller, Ralph Kunkel, many others;

*article on gays in prison entitled "Master Key: A Guide for Staff Training in Corrections";

*delightful article on Judy Garland entitled "Relation of Biographies of Judy Garland to the Average Level of the U.S. Money Supply" by Bunny LaRue;

*a compilation of letters to Charley - Charles - Shively entitled "Dear C-" *much, much more.

 

 

Fag Rag (Issue #14, November-December 1975) published by the Fag Rag Collective out of Boston, Massachusetts. Printed on newsprint paper, when unfolded contains 28 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources. Highlights include:

*delightful gay liberation article "B- As An Act Of Revolution" by Charley - Charles - Shively;

*two-page poetry layout entitled "Poets on Commercial Street?" with poetry by George Whitmore, David Eberly, Edmund Miller, and Freddie Greenfield (with photos);

*one-act play "St. George & The Dragon" (first performed by the Men's Group of the Boston Lavender Theatre on June 28, 1975 at the Gay Pride Picnic on the Boston Common);

*delightful "Weather Report" by Bunny LaRue ("It's all just another form of conditioning, mass media's conspiracy of bourgeois falsifications to push goods. You think these thugs would give us anything for free if it didn't suit their purpose?");

*article "Sex Magic" (an excerpt from Arthur Evans' "Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture");

*a one-page portfolio of photographs by James Griffith (with five photos);

*a blistering, witty attack on certain gay men's sexual practices by John Mitzel;*much, much more.

 

 

Fag Rag (Issue #15, February-March 1976) published by the Fag Rag Collective out of Boston, Massachusetts. Printed on newsprint paper, when unfolded contains 28 pages. With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources.

 

Highlights include:

*article and accompanying photospread entitled "Revolutionary Phantasy" by Charley - Charles - Shively;

*article "About Igal Roodenko" (with two photos);*delightful travel memoir "Fruit Fly Bikini Bingo" by Salvatore Farinella (along with three of his poems);*centerspread poem, with lovely artwork, entitled "A Poet's Word To A Blue Painter" by Steve Jonas;

*article "Mitzel Probes the Mysteries of the Male" by John Mitzel;

*article "Homosexuality and Class Warfare" (an excerpt from Arthur Evans' "Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture");*much, much more.

 

 

Combined issue #16/17 of Fag Rag (June-July 1976) published by the Fag Rag Collective out of Boston, Massachusetts. Printed on newsprint paper, when unfolded contains 36 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources. Highlights include:

*article by the Fag Rag Collective entitled "Second Five Year Plan" ("The spirit of Stonewall lives. Despite rumors to the contrary, the butterflies of '69 are still alive and not about to be pinned down on some millionaire's drying board...");

*snippets from Jack Sweetdream's "Trick Book";

*article on Enrique Velasquez de Crempian - "queen mother of the 40s and into the 50s" - by Raymond Smith;

*article "Sex Among the Zombies" by Arthur Evans (an excerpt from his "Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture");

*absolutely delicious, witty article "Contra Breeding: Mitzel Modestly Proposes 'Sterilize the Straights'" by John Mitzel;

*article "Competing Religions: A Fag Rag View of Beacon Hill Churches" ("Boston has long been lousy with churches. And, as parasites, they not only suck out the life, energy, and money of the community, they pour their own poisons back in");

*article "Country to City and Back Again" by Allen Young (with photos of Allen and his new country home);

*first-person memoir "Love Story" by Skip Burns ("It was late afternoon when I emerged from the subway at Sheridan Square. Young men in levis and leather huddled casually by the newsstands like so many FBI agents...And this was where we'd first fought back, that hot summer night in 1969, cops hassling young queens at the Stonewall Inn, defunct now, a shoving match to begin with, then the cops had to barricade themselves in the bar, four days of riots, a new sense of assertiveness, Gay Power, Gay Lib...");*much, much more.

 

 

#18 of Fag Rag (Fall-Winter 1976) published by the Fag Rag Collective out of Boston, Massachusetts. Printed on newsprint paper, when unfolded contains 24 pages.

 

With news, articles, poetry, art, photographs and community resources. Highlights include:

*radical gay liberation article "Incest as an Act of Revolution" by Charley - Charles - Shively;

*poetry by Tom Reeves, Ron Morgan, S.R. Lavin, Jack Veasey, Dick Higgins, R. Bogaert Smith, Maurice Kenny, Jerry Chadwick, Tom Felt ("Boychild"), John Weiners, others;

*facsimiles of letters regarding the banning of "Fag Rag" to U.S. prisoners;

*splendid centerfold artwork;

*article "Magic and Revolution" by Arthur Evans (from his "Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture");

*article "On Tender Lovemaking" by Allen Young;*much, much more.

 

 

 

GAY FORUM

 

Volume 1 #2 of "GAY FORUM" (November 15-30, 1971), published by H. Lynn Womack and the Guild Press out of Benjamin Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. A short-lived publication, the Editor-in-Chief was J. J. Proferes (gay pulp novelist) and the Editor-At-Large was Dr. Franklin E. Kameny (then President of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Mattachine Society). A tabloid-style (folded) newspaper printed on quality paper and containing 24 full-pages when unfolded.

 

Contents include:

*double-page male physique poster;

*magnificent vintage gay male advertisements with photographs from, among others, the Regency Baths, The Book Bin (out of Atlanta, Georgia), Village Books and Press, Continental Baths & Health Club, Dolly's ("The only d.c. bar with GO-GO BOYS"), Standish-Square Corporation, gay bar Lost and Found, Club Baths, Pub 9, Mark II Theatre, GSF, Slam Products, others;

*delightful political cartoon of Richard Nixon talking to one of his inner circle "Oh, I thought that when you suggested a Lady for the Supreme Court, you meant Dr. Kameny or Dick Leitsch!";

*news items (several with photos) including:

- "New D.C. Bar Is Picketed By Gays: Group Charges 'Racial Bias'" (the Lost and Found);

- "Teacher in Moral Charge"

- "Hollywood Gays Show Muscle At Polls"

- "S.F. Police Assess Male Prostitution"

- "National Lawyers Guild Passes Gay Rights Resolution"

*articles including:

- "Heterosexuals Have 'Problem' Gays Assert at Homosexual Conference"

*profile of young black actor Rob Jourdan (with three photos);

*travel article "Gay Fun Spots of the World" (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with several beefcake shots);

*film review of "Some Of My Best Friends Are..." (with three photos);

 

*splendid full-page street map of the Washington, D.C. area showing the locations of gay bars, bathhouses, bookstores, and restaurants;

*short review of erotic film "Sexualis, U.S.A." produced by Infinity Films and featuring Duane Dymond (with five non-nude photos);

*full-page news of gay campus and university organizations (Indiana University, Cornell University, and George Washington University);

*article "DANGER!" ("This is a list of danger spots in and around Los Angeles, provided by HELP, an LA Organization" - the list includes the Bank of America on Hollywood Boulevard, Venice Pier, the May Company Downtown Wilshire tearoom);

*much more.

 

GAY SUNSHINE

 

 

The second issue of "Gay Sunshine" (Issue #2, October 1970) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, radical comics, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

 

The front cover proudly proclaims "the bars are ours" with a photograph of cheering protesters in front of Oakland's White Horse Bar (see description below) .

 

Of special note, also, is the full-page text of Huey P. Newton's statement on gay liberation .

*article "GAY BARS - FLASH! VICTORY!" (on the continuing confrontation between the Gay Liberation Front and the White Horse Bar in Oakland: "The Picket Line - 50 people walking, dancing in circles, Lavendar Cowboy riding the White Horse up the middle, Gene on the accordian, others shouting cheers, giving out leaflets to passing cars whose passengers raise their fists in solidarity");

*article "Gay is the Most" by Nick Benton ("A homosexual is perhaps the most revolutionary person in our society");

*article "NACHO Upside Down" by Jim Rankin (on the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations: "Dying for years, if ever alive...");

*article "DISMISSED" by Cherie Matisse ("Three of us were on our way to a party. Apparently, we did a no-no driving and the S.F. pigs stopped us...'Where are you going?' asked the pig. 'To a GLF [Gay Liberation Front] party' answered Sandy. 'Open the door!' demanded the pig with his hand on his gun...");

*news on Gay Liberation protests in Greenwich Village in New York ("In the Times Square area alone, more than 400 gay people have been busted by police in August");

*statement from Huey P. Newton, Supreme Commander of the Black Panther Party, on gay liberation;

*article "OUR BODIES say YES...SOCIETY says NO";

*comic strip "GRIM FAIRY TALES PRESENTS THE TERRIBLE MONSTER" by Len Richmond;

*poetry by Paul Mariah, Mike Podhasky, Frank Reynolds, and Raji;

*news item "miracle (oink) mile" ("All signs have it that the war has come to the Miracle Mile - Folsom St. in S.F.");

*much more.

 

 

 

The third issue of "Gay Sunshine" (Issue #3, November 1970) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

 

Of special note is the large, magnificent, centerfold photograph of Allen Ginsberg taken by Richard Avedon.

*article "God Save the Queen" by Mike Silverstein ("The Camp attitude toward popular culture has always been subversive");

*article "If That's All There Is..." by Del Martin ("Goodbye to Vector...Goodbye to NACHO...Goodbye to Gay Liberation, too...Goodbye to the various Councils on Religion and the Homosexual...Goodbye to the male homophile community: 'Gay is good' but not good enough so long as it is limited to white males only...");

*anonymous memoir "He knew I was a Fairy";

*article "Parents As Bullies";

*article "Become We Must: A Gay Liberation Manifesto" by Charles P. Thorp;

*two-page centerfold photograph of Allen Ginsberg by Richard Avedon;

*article on the proposed "gay colonization" of Alpine County in California;

*article on the life and death of Janis Joplin by Goldie Glitters ("The first and most important thing I want to say is that: Janis was not hooked on drugs...Another thing they aren't talking about. Janis was gay. Janis was a Gay as I am!");

*article "DACHAU in America: Homosexuals Hideously Tortured, Used for 'Experiments' in Concentration Camps" by Don Jackson;

*much more.

 

 

The fourth issue of "Gay Sunshine" (Issue #4, December 1970) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

 

*short article "The Gay Liberation Movement in New York City" by Morgan Pinney;

*article on the planned "gay colonization" of Alpine County, California, entitled "ALPINE PAGE: Separatists Forming Alliance" by Craig Schoonmaker;

*poetry by Frank O'Hara, William K. Maximin, Jr., Jerry Weiss, Charles P. Thorp ("bold soul sister"), others;

*article "Gays In Tears: 500 Gays in Tears - Rosalind Russell Revealed as Right Winger" by Dr. Anthony Gardiner Lowell;

*open letter to the "Brothers and Sisters of the Cockettes Troupe" by Nan Taylor;

*letter from gay inmate Jim Rankin;

*article "Jock Lib, Gay Lib: Any Difference?" by Nick Benton;

*article "Gays in the Military" ("Don't panic at their [military] claims of having 'evidence' against you...SHUT YOUR G-D MOUTH - TIGHT!...SAY NOTHING AND SIGN NOTHING!");

*article "From the Men: Games Male Chauvinists Play" by Perry Brass;

Of special note is the large, fabulous, two-page "Genderf-" centerfold photographic poster. *much more.

 

 

 

 

Fifth issue of "Gay Sunshine" (Issue #5, January 1971) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

 

*article "Showdown at 'The Stud' - Eyewitness Talks" ("More squad cars zooming in, pigs jumping out clubs in hand, running after and beating brothers. In the pig-created chaos, Chuck Christman, figuring that 'to get the hell out' was the cool thing to do, jumped into his Toyota and tried to drive out of the alley. Apparently some zealous paranoid pig running to beat another brother thought Chuck was trying to run him down. Pigs now going ape-sh*. Beating on the car, firing into it. In righteous panic, Chuck jumps out, runs down the alley. Pigs fire at him, he falls, they jump on him and beat him...Doctors say he will never recover use of his leg...Chuck is charged with five counts of assault...");

*article "THIRD WORLD GAY PEOPLE NEWS: Let's Get It On Together!";

*short article "TRANS [transsexual] LIB" (with list of demands);

*article "Right-in Chicken" by Mark Segal, Chairman of Gay Youth in New York City;

*letters from GLF members;

*article "C- Teasing: Way of Life" by Ralph Hall ("No, Robert Graves: drinking milk does not cause homosexuality in some men, people like you do, though!");

*article "Beating the Draft: A Gay Guide";

*news update on the D.C. Twelve ("FREE THE WASHINGTON TWELVE!");

*a call from the Transvestite-Transsexual Action Organization to provide support to the Angela Douglas Defense Fund (pre-op Angela Douglas was arrested on November 8, 1970 in Miami, Florida on a charge of "wearing clothing unbecoming to his or her sex");

*article "Vatican Rags at Grace Cathedral" ("Every Christmas at Grace Cathedral, located in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco, there is a traditional midnight mass. This year there was a complete mind-f* when the congregation turned around to find The Angel of Light. The performing troupe consisted of forty children [adults] dressed in home-made angel wings and phallic halos - biblical drag? - and the Cockettes"; with three photos); *much more.

 

 

 

 

The sixth issue of "Gay Sunshine" (Issue #6, March 1971) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 24 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

*news update "GLF [Gay Liberation Front] Action at 'The Stud'";

*news article "Gay Defense Rally at Hayward State" (with photo of Dr. Michael Silverstein, a gay professor recently dismissed; his speech is reprinted in full);

*poetry by Stephen Ben-Mordechai, including "RITCH STREET" which reads:

 

"I loved you and we knew how to/

get it on.

I felt your soul and you shared mine.

It could have gone on forever, but they called your/

locker number";

 

*two splendid woodcuts by Perry Brass;

*poetry by Paul Mariah, John Wieners, and Raji;

*article "Consciousness Raising for Gay Men";

*article "Growing Up In Chicago: Black & Gay" by Ron Vernon;

*article "Psychedelics and Gay Liberation: The Battle of Algiers" by the Rt. Rev. Michael-Francis Itkin;

*much more.

 

 

Seventh issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Male Paper of Gay Militancy" (Issue #7, June-July 1971) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

*lead feature entitled "The Forgotten Ones: Gays in Prison" (with two letters from Washington State Penitentiary inmates C. Chris Wheeler and "David"; attorney John Demco, and an appeal to support the Chris Wheeler Fund);

*article "Edward Carpenter: Gay Lib Precursor" (with several excerpts from his writings);

*news article, with photo, entitled "Gays Against War: April 24 [1971], San Francisco";

*Roberta Dill and Ed Luckin separately interviewed;

*article "Gay Draft Resistance" by David L. Aiken of the Gay Liberation Front, Washington, D.C.;

*article "Gay Bureaucrats - What Are They Doing To You?" by Mike Silverstein;

*article "Gay Militancy & Nonviolent Revolution" by the Most Rev. Michael-Francis Itkin;

*fabulous full-page illustrated poem by Allen Ginsberg entitled "Spring Anti-Wars Games 1971";

*poetry by William Barber, Steve Berard, Kirby Congdon, John Wieners, others;

*article "Konstantin Berlandt in Fantasyland: Traveling Adventures of the Late Great Writer" (with three photos);*much more.

 

 

Eighth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Paper of Gay Militancy" (Issue #8, August-September 1971) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

*splendid front cover by Tony DeRosa and Zack Mansfield ("GAY BROTHERS & SISTERS UNITE! FREE OURSELVES - SMASH SEXISM");

*article "Gay Lib: 'It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)'" by Allen Young;

*part two of the previous month's "Gays In Prison" featuring an interview with gay poet Paul Mariah, a former inmate;

*review of the film version of "Fortune and Men's Eye's" entitled "Fortune and Straight Men's Eyes" by Lee Atwell (with photo);

*a critical article on the Christopher Street West Gay Pride Parade by Gay Liberation Front member Chuck Avery;

*poetry by Paul Mariah, William Barber, Robert Peters, Larry Eigner, others;

*article "Kill the Queers!" by Don Jackson (on the American Psychiatric Association and National Association for Mental Health);

*article "Gay Revaunch on Psychology: An Angry Homosexual Gives His Views on Psychology" by Ralph S. Schaffer;*much more.

 

 

Ninth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Paper of Gay Militancy" (Issue #9, October-November 1971) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

*article entitled "Police Entrapment, Cont. (and cont. and cont.)" by Richard Nash ("First I was...falsely arrested and now I was being told that by playing along with the system, I could get off relatively easily");

*article "The Shape of Things To Come: Gay Consciousness in the Post-Scarcity World" by Jim Baker;

*poetry by Ian Young, Robert Peters, James Mitchell, Littlejohn, others;

*article "School is Not a Gay Place To Be..." by Warren Blumenfeld;

*article on the harassment, entrapment, and busts of gay men in San Francisco entitled "Fairy Tales Can Come True...It Can Happen To You!";

*article "Akhenaten of Egypt: No Closet Queen He" by Winston Leyland;

*lenthy review of the recent film version of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" (with photo of Dirk Bogarde and Bjorn Andresen from the film);

*article on the Gay Community Services Center of Los Angeles (then called the "Liberation House," with photo);

*much more.

 

 

Tenth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #10, January 1972) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

*a splendid illustrated cover by Tony DeRosa, a scathing attack on the complacency of San Francisco's Society for Individual Rights (Alice: "S.I.R. - Some of our people are hungry - some have no lodging - some are in jail only because they're homosexual..."; The Duchess: "Not now, boy! We've got important things to do! We're giving a drag ball next Saturday...");

*a magnificent group interview of the Gay Sunshine Collective: Winston Leyland, Morgan Pinney, Mark Ryan, Jim Hicks, Tony DeRosa, Zack Mansfield, and Lee Atwell (with group photo);

*delicious article "The Fairy Princess Exposed" by Craig Alfred Hanson ("We cannot really expect most fairy princesses to rip down their chandeliers, smash their plaster statues of David, kick their poodles out, or flee from fairyland to reality...");

*article on gays in Vacaville prison, Atascadero, G.I. prisons, and juvenile insane asylums entitled "We Are All Fugitives" by Don Jackson;

*lengthy article and book reviews entitled "Gay Lib & New Gay Lit" by Winston Leyland;

*poetry by Harold Norse, John Iozia, William Barber, Kirby Congdon, others;

*article on San Francisco's performing troupe, the "Cockettes";

*much more.

 

 

Eleventh issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #11, February-March 1972) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.

 

With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

*news article on the Gay Sunshine Collective demonstration at the SIR Convention held at the San Franciscan Hotel on January 15 (with a half-page photo collage);

*article on male prostitution, hustlers, male models, and their presence in underground newspaper classified advertisements entitled "Not Enough Sausage" by "Rink" ("'Not enough sausage.' That's what the model agency boss said SIR's 'Vector' magazine had told him about my photographs of two of their hustlers");

*short news article "Brother Assaulted at 'Shed'" (a recently-opened after-hours gay club in the Castro);

*article "SFPD Chief - San Francisco Police Department - Meets Gays";

*article on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - Bosie - entitled "Oscar & Bosie: Love Letters" by Winston Leyland (which reprints several letters between the two);

*short article on gay suicides;

*article "A Faggot Military Freak-Out" by Ralph Hall ("The USS Vulcan - AR5, an Atlantic fleet Naval repair ship - had been out to sea for over a month without yet reaching a berthing port of call. The ship's destination was Glasgow, Scotland. It was just prior a week before entering this port that an 18-year-old gay brother, a recruit just out of the Great Lakes boot camp in Chicago, Ill., was 'turned in' - put on report - by a higher ranking/rated enlisted man for allegedly engaging in an oral-genital 'homosexual' act with him...");

*splendid full-page ad for Wakefield Poole's "Boys in the Sand" starring Casey Donovan;

*much more.

 

 

Twelfth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #12, April 1972) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:

 

*lead article "Gay Death at Vacaville [Prison]" (regarding the death of gay inmate Westley Ashmore - nicknamed "Lil Bit": "[The guards] found that they had no weapon to cut the sheet with, so they let him hang...for 10 minutes before they removed him. When they did, he was in such bad shape...he vomited. They tried to revive him [but] were unsuccessful");

*letter from gay prisoner "Brother Asemore" from Vacaville Prison on "Lil Bit" ("You see [Lil Bit] and his pal are [homosexual] this is why action ws brought againsted tham [moved to the isolation ward]...In behalf of him I write his story because Ive been thire, this is happning now as I write this story some plase on this earth to some one, because its part of life. The mined has stoped for [Lil Bit] who next brother...");

*article "Homosexuality in the Movies" (with photos from "The Boys in the Band," "The Iliac Passion," "Death in Venice," and "Fellini's Satyricon");

*article "A Gay Day in Court" ("I went to court to be sentenced for a crime I did not commit");

*article on the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center subtitled "We've got a groovy thing goin'" (with group photo of Don Kilhefner, John Platania, Lee Sisson, Morris Kight, June Herrle, and Winston Leyland);

*lovely centerpage illustration, with poetry by Tony DeRosa;

*article "Gay Love" by Richard Nash;

*poetry by David Hirsh, Harold Norse, James Giancarlo, and Larry Eigner;

*article "Oppression Sickness" by Ralph Schaffer;

*much more.

 

 

Thirteenth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #13, June 1972) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.

Highlights include:

 

*article "Psychosurgery" by Don Jackson ("Psychosurgeons claim...that homosexuality results from a defect or injury to the hypothalamic nucleus of the brain. They propose to cure these conditions with brain surgery");

*article "[The] Politics of Rape" by David Howard;

*article "Christopher Street Rip-Off: San Francisco" by Winston Leyland (a blistering critique of the parade);

*article "Selling the Groovy Guy" by Craig Hanson (a critique of male beauty pageants, with photo of Groovy Guy Winner Jimmy Hughes: "The hustler has a short professional life - possibly 10 years at most - and then he is thrown out into the dungheap of the past, on top of the rest of the spent whores. The Groovy Guy? He's a mirage rising from the sands of the past only to fade into the sands of the future");

*article "Gays in Brazil - :24/'Veado'" by Allen Young;

*poetry by Rodney Price, Ian Young, Perry Brass, Zachary Swarr;

*lengthy one-and-one-half page poem "Some Thoughts on Christopher Street" by John Iozia;

*article "?Cuba Si?" by Allen Young;

*comic strip "The Adventures of Johnny Comeout";

*much more.

 

 

Fourteenth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #14, August 1972) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:

 

*fabulous art-and-photo collage cover: "WE ARE ALL FUGITIVES";

*article "The Daddy Tank" by Don Jackson (on brutalities inflicted on gays in prison);

*article "Psychiatry's 'New Cures' [for homosexuality]" by Louis Landerson ("There is something inherently evil about helping someone 'repress through punishment' one of his most basic drives, thereby permitting him to lead a 'happy heterosexual life'");

*short article on High School Gays United;

*article "Masculinity As An Oppressive Ideology" by Jim Chesebro;

*article "S&M and Gay Lib" by Craig Hanson;

*article "Gay Life Styles" by Richard Nash;

*delightful untitled comic strip by from Fuori;

*full-page ad for Le Salon (with photos);*much more.

 

 

Fifteenth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #15, October-November 1972) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:

 

*lead article on the death of gay activist Ralph Schaffer (1928-1972) entitled "Movement Martyr" (with photo: "On August 27th of this year, Los Angeles gay brother Ralph Schaffer was shot to death by an unknown assailant while he was working alone at the GayWill Funky Store, a project of Los Angeles' Gay Community Services Center. He was 44 years old");

*article "Metaphysics of Gay Liberation" by Ralph Schaffer (submitted to Gay Sunshine shortly before his murder);

*a "short, short" story "The Centaur at the Trucks" by Perry Brass;

*letter to Gay Sunshine from Greg Herkimer entitled "Gay Teenager Speaks Out";

*a splendid half-page list and discussion of current gay publications by Winston Leyland entitled "Gay Radical Press: 1972";

*poetry by Perry Brass, John Iozia, Jim Eggeling, Richard Tagett, Paul Mariah, Peter Goodman, including one sung to the tune of "Oh, Mary, don't you weep" (here's the first of six verses):

"Everybody gonna sing and shoot

to tell the world we're comin' out

the faggots' army is marchin'

oh, honey don't you weep.

Oh, honey don't you weep

don't you mourn

 

Oh, honey don't you weep

don't you mourn

the faggots' army is marchin'

Oh, honey don't you weep"

 

*full-page ad for Sandy Baron's record album "God Save The Queens"; *much more.

 

No. 16 of "Gay Sunshine: A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (January-February 1973) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 24 pages including front and rear covers.

 

Of special note is a lengthy interview of Allen Ginsberg by Allen Young at Ginsberg's farm in Cherry Valley, New York, on September 25, 1972 (the poet discusses gay male sexuality, Walt Whitman, his relationship with Peter Orlovsky, Cuba, gay liberation, Carl Solomon, Timothy Leary, yoga, William Burroughs, gay self-acceptance, much more; accompanied with several photographs).

 

Other highlights include:

*poem "please master" written by Allen Ginsberg in May 1968 ;

*special feature on gay prisoners ;

*poetry by Charles Shively, William Barber, Perry Brass, David Eberly, Ian Young, David Bowie, others ;

*article on "Radical Gay Cinema" (with three photos);

*an Open Letter on Ageism ;

*article "Faggots In Uniform" ;*much, much more.

 

 

Seventeenth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #17, March-April 1973) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers . Highlights include:

 

*lengthy interview of poet John Wieners (with portrait illustration and three photos);

*eight poems by John Wieners, here's an excerpt from "A Poem For The Old Man":

 

"God love you

Dana my lover

lost in the horde on

this Friday night,

500 men are moving up

& down from the bath

room to the bar.

Remove this desire

from the man I love.

Who has opened

the savagery

of the sea to me.

"See to it

his wants are filled

on California Street.

Bestow on him lar-

gesse that allows him

peace in his loins.

"Leave him not

to the moths..."

 

*lengthy article on Ned Rorem and his Paris and New York Diaries (with portrait illustration and photo);

*article "The Fantasy World of Wakefield Poole" (with photo of Cal Culver from "Boys in the Sand");

*magnificent centerspread and rear cover layout of the prints of Samuel Reese ("The artist, Samuel Reese, has spent 21 of his 40 years on Death Row in Missouri State Penitentiary. His two life and seventy-five year sentences - for armed robbery and murder...");

*gay activist, core member of the Gay Liberation Front, and then Director of the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center Don Kilhefner interviewed (with photo of Don Kilhefner and Winston Leyland, who conducted the interview);

*short review of "Otoko: Photo Studies of the Young Japanese Male" by Tamotsu Yato (with three photos);

*poetry by James Nolan, Paul Mariah, Michael Lally, Salvatore Farinella, Aaron Shurin, Charley Shively, William Barber, Robert Gluck, Robert Peters, Perry Brass, William Torphy, Ron Schreiber;

*short section of interview of Allen Ginsberg given by Allen Young not included in Gay Sunshine #16 due to space limitations; *much more.

 

 

Eighteenth issue of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (Issue #18, June-July 1973) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.

Highlights include:

 

*lengthy interview of gay poet Harold Norse given by Winston Leyland (with nine photos, including two of Mohammed in Tangier, one of Harold Norse and William Burroughs, and one of Gregory Corso and Harold Norse);

*poems by Harold Norse, including several unpublished "Mohammed Poems";

*lengthy prose poem "Inside Atascadero [State Hospital]" by Gene Ampon (a former inmate, and "Dedicated to all homosexual prisoners who must daily endure heterosexual justice-oppression");

*lengthy "Letter from an Absent Lover" by Ned LaCroix;

*article on Luchino Visconti's "Ludwig" (with photo);

*lengthy review of four poetry books by Allen Ginsberg (with photo of Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac's funeral);

*delightful article "Sports & the Macho Male" by John Mitzel ("ALL MEN ARE FAGGOTS!"); *much more.

 

Twenty-fourth issue of "Gay Sunshine" now subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Issue #24, Spring 1975) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the heady and activist days of the gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 36 pages including front and rear covers.

Highlights include:

 

*lengthy interview of gay poet John Giorno given by Winston Leyland (with four photos, including one of John Giorno, Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg out the the Republican Convention in Miami Beach, 1972; and one of Jackie Curtis, William Burroughs and John Giorno taken in 1975);

*lengthy excerpt of John Giorno's "Subduing Demons in America";

*criticism "[The Los Angeles] Advocate: A Turn To The Right?";

*lengthy letter from gay pioneer and Radical Fairy Henry - Harry - Hay (then with the "Circle of Loving Companions");

*article "A Faggot Father Speaks Out" by Jack Latham;

*splendid, lengthy article "The Poetry of Male Love" by Ian Young (with photo each of John Addington Symonds and Aleister Crowley);

*fabulous historical article "The Great Raid on Mother Clap's Molly House: Gay London in the 1720's" by Rictor Norton ("On a Sunday night in February, 1726, a squadron of police Constables converged upon the male brothel kept by Mother Clap in Field Lane, Holbern, tucked away between the Bunch of Grapes pub on one side and an archway on the other");

*splendid boy-love poems by Italian poet Sandro Penna;

*magnificent, lengthy interview of Charles-Henri Ford, then living in Kathmandu, Nepal (with seven photographs, including three of his young male friends);

*poetry by Charles-Henri Ford;

*article on Boyd McDonald's publication "Straight-to-Hell" by Andrew Dvosin (with excerpts from the magazine);*much more.

 

 

 

 

No. 19 of "Gay Sunshine: A Newspaper of Gay Liberation" (September-October 1973) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 20 pages including front and rear covers.