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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 | ||
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"Gay Sunshine" Continued from 1970's Page 1
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.
With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, community resources, and classifieds. 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);
Number 25 of "Gay Sunshine: A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Summer 1975) 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 32 pages including front and rear covers.
Highlights include: *lengthy FABULOUS interview of Taylor Mead (with two photographs, one by Gerard Malanga); *article "[Jean] Cocteau's White Paper on Homophobia" by Rictor Norton (with photograph of Jean Cocteau and two drawings from "Le Livre Blanc"); *black-and-white photospread "The Male in Art Deco"; *a lengthy interview of Peter Orlovsky (with photograph).
Special Issue on on Gay Latin America. Double issue #26-27 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Winter 1975-1976) 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 article "Mexican Gaylife in Historical Perspective" by Clark L. Taylor, Jr. (with three facsimile illustrative reproductions of "41 Maricones Para Yucatan" dated 1901); *article "Reflections on the Pyramid: A Mexico City Diary" by N.A. Diaman; *short interview of Nancy Cardenas, a Mexican lesbian-feminist; *article "Gay Encounters in Guadalajara" by Joseph Michel Carrier (on cruising in Guadalajara, accompanied with four photos taken from a Mexican newspaper illustrating the four supposed kinds of male homosexuals - the handsome, the ugly, the peasant, the aristocrat); *poetry by Ernesto Banuelos Enriquez (in both Spanish and English, translated by Erskine Lane); *article "Guatemalan Diary" by Erskine Lane; *lengthy article "Tinselled Bucks: An Historical Study in Indian Homosexuality" by Maurice Kenny; *lengthy interview of author Gore Vidal (with four photos); *a new poem by Allen Ginsberg entitled "Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass"; *much more.
#28 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Spring 1976) 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 28 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
*lengthy joint interview of gay poets Jonathan Williams and Tom Meyer (with four photos); *new poems by Jonathan Williams; *new poems by Tom Meyer; *special "Appeal to Gay Sunshine Readers" from Winston Leyland ("Gay Sunshine's demise is not imminent. But recent increases in typesetting, printing and postal costs have placed the paper in a crisis"); *article "The Films of [Pier Paolo] Pasolini" by Lee Atwell (with two photos); *poetry by Harold Norse, John Giorno, Raymonde Saint-Pierre, Salvatore Farinella, David Chura, James Kirkup, Robert Peters, Dennis Cooper; *Massachusetts State Representative Elaine Noble interviewed (the first open lesbian to be elected to a state office, with two photos); *poet and small press publisher Kirby Congdon interviewed (with photo); *new poems by Kirby Congdon; *blistering critique of the Los Angeles Advocate, entitled "Capitalist Manifesto" by Lionel Biron; *much more.
double-issue #29-30 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Summer-Fall 1976) 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.
*lengthy lead article "Russia's Gay Literature & History: 11th - 20th Centuries" by Simon Karlinsky (with seven photographs and illustrations); *poetry by gay Russian poets Sergei Esenin, Mikhail Kuzmin, Sophia Parnok, Vyacheslav Inanov, Nikolai Klyuev; *article written by incarcerated John S. Wojtowicz, then in the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Federal Penitentiary, to The New York Times ("This is the first newspaper article I have ever written but it is necessary") along with the brief rejection letter from William H. Honan, Arts and Leisure Editor of the Times ("Dear John: I'm very sorry to say no to this after all of our correspondence, but this [article] just won't work for us. The problem is that I just don't believe you have profoundly come to grips with the motives for your crime..."); *lengthy interview of gay poet Edouard Roditi (with two photos; "T.S. Eliot was so shocked by Nazi anti-semitism that he eradicated it out of his own writing...After his wife's death, he shared an apartment with a homosexual friend"); *poetry by Edouard Roditi; *double-page selection of boy-love poems from the volume "In Praise of Boys: Moorish Poems from al-Andalus (second series)" translated by Erskine Lane; *article "Sex in the Mexican Baths" by Clark L. Taylor; *article "Latin American Fiction: Machismo vs. Gayness" by Alfredo Villanueva; *interview of poet Kenward Elmslie (with two photos); *delightful, lengthy poem "Some 'I Remembers'" by Kenward Elmslie, here a few excerpts: "I Remember vomiting (to my horror) on Shirley Temple's framed photograph, which I kept on my bedside table, as I was sure I'd marry her when I grew up, partly because we were both born in April...
"I Remember going through wartime trains, coach after coach, staring at sleeping sailors, and the bump on one side of their summer whites...
"I Remember going all the way to Brooklyn to see Tab Hunter's first movie, 'Island of Desire'...
"I Remember making love with Joe Brainard after having taken LSD. Very rubbery and weird..." *two new poems by Allen Ginsberg ("A Dream" and "C'mon Jack"); *much more.
Issue #32 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Spring 1977) 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 28 pages including front and rear covers. With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, reviews, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:
*lengthy article on boy-love in Arab history entitled "Arab Civilization and Male Love" by Marc Daniel, translated from the French homophile journal "Arcadie" by Winston Leyland (with two photos of Sicilian boys of Taormina by 19th century photographer Baron von Gloeden; sections include "Arab Customs Before Mohammed"; "The Koran and Homosexuality"; "The Greek Muse and Boys"; "Boy Love in Arab Poetry" with numerous, splendid examples; "From Poetry to Reality" with subsections "Loose Boys and Male Prostitution" and "Boy Love and Free Thought"); *critic, playwright, and social historian Martin Duberman interviewed (with four photos, including a delightful shot of him as a child, circa 1940); *article "U.S. Gay Fiction: Historical Overview"; *rear page advertisement for Harvey Milk and Scott Smith's "Castro Camera Shop" then located at 575 Castro Street, San Francisco; *much more.
special double issue #33/34 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Summer/Fall 1977) 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 40 pages including front and rear covers.With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, reviews, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:
*lengthy interview of Tennessee Williams (with two photos, including one of Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal taken in the 1950s); *short story "A Night of Love" by Edouard Roditi; *Robin Maugham interviewed (with four photos, including one of Robin Maugham and Peter Burton); *poetry by Dennis Cooper, Felice Picano, Jim Everhard ("Rosa Luxemburg, Drag Queen"), Will Inman, Richard Ronan, others; *article "John Le Gay Brereton: An Early Australian Gay Poet" (with his photo); *article "Buga Views of Normal Mexican Homosexuality" (with two photos and three Mexican illustrations from popular culture genres containing stereotypical gay images, i.e., one of a gay Mexican waiter, a joto: "For example, one of the 'Ay, Tu!' 'Oh, you!' is a phrase supposedly very popular among homosexuals"); *article "Shotgun Parade: A Personal Account of the Spontaneous March and Rally for Gay Rights, June 7, 1977, San Francisco" (with photo of marchers: the author ads in bold "THIS IS ONLY ONE FAGGOT'S ACCOUNT. THERE ARE AT LEAST 5,000 OTHER STORIES"); *short article on Latin American gay artist Luis Caballero by Edouard Roditi (with portrait shot and three half-page examples of his male artwork); *short stories "Five Short Stories (Fire Island)" by Rolf Tor Jarlsson; *rear page advertisement for Harvey Milk and Scott Smith's "Castro Camera" then at 575 Castro Street, San Francisco; *much more.
double issue #36/37 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Spring/Summer 1978) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the early days of the activist gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 28 pages including front and rear covers. With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, reviews, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:
*lengthy interview of poet Robert Peters (with three photos, including one of young Paul Trachtenberg); *short boy-love story "A Kind of Fulfillment" by Don Ronk; *poetry by Edouard Roditi, David Emerson Smith, Richard Ronan, Dennis Kelly, E.A. Lacey, others; *article "The Elements of Gay Theatre" by Richard Hall (with two photos, including one of Heikko Kerin and Jim Krestalude in the production of "Love Match"); *article "The New Censorship and Repression" by John Rechy; *rear page advertisement for Harvey Milk and Scott Smith's "Castro Camera" shop at their new location on 2362 Market Street, San Francisco; *much more.
Of special note is the last-minute press insertion of a four-paragraph news item entitled "HARVEY MILK ASSASSINATED" written by Winston Leyland, reading in small part:
"On the very same day that this issue was going to press (November 27), word reached us of the murder of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk...” "I mourn his passing. Let us hope that his death will not throw our San Francisco gay community into disarray. We need to unite and continue the struggle for gay rights - Winston Leyland."
Special issue on Brazil, double issue #38/39 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Winter 1979) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the early days of the activist gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 40 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
*magnificent seven-page photospread entitled "Carnival in Rio" by photographer Alair Gomes (with 14 half-page photographs); *short stories by gay Latin American writers Darcy Penteado, Gasparino Damata, Edilberto Coutinho, Caio Fernando Abreu, and Joao Silverio Trevisan; *artwork by Nuki and Robert Gluck; *article "Homosexuality and the Inquisition in Brazil, 1591-92" by Stephen W. Foster; *article "The Entendidos: Middle Class Gay Life in Sao Paulo" by Frederick L. Whitam; *article on the life and tragic suicide of Klaus Mann by Richard Hall (with portrait photo); *article "Boy-Love in the Far East" by Jameson Donald (with four photos); *two splendid watercolors by Nuki; *article "Sodomy Among Native American Peoples" by Antonio Requena;*much more.
double issue #40/41 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (Summer/Fall 1979) edited by Winston Leyland and published by the Gay Sunshine Collective out of San Francisco, California during the early days of the activist gay liberation movement. A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 40 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
*lengthy interview of poet Robert Duncan (with three photos, including one of Robert Duncan taken in his Berkeley apartment during the summer of 1942); *article "Prison Sex at Age 16" by Dalton Loyd Williams (with haunting woodcut entitled "Prison Corridor" by S.N. Reese); *article "Tender Mornings: Progress of a Faggot Father" by Jack Purdom Latham (with splendid, tasteful nude photo of father and son a la Sally Mann); *four watercolors by artist Nuki; *article "Latin America: Myths and Realities" by E.A. Lacey; *much more.
double issue #42/43 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (1980) A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 32 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include:
*lengthy interview of gay French novelist Roger Peyrefitte (with portrait photo); *poetry by Dinos Christianopoulos (translated from the Greek); *splendid article entitled "Charles Warren Stoddard: Gay Idyls of the South Seas" (with portrait photo); *male artwork by Jose Lima (with biography of artist); *Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma interviewed; *magnificent article on Hans Bluher and Magnus Hirschfeld on the Wandervogel movement (with two photos: a rare photograph of Hans Bluher, and one of Magnus Hirschfeld; in addition, the front cover of the November 1912 issue of "WANDERVOGEL IN HESSEN UND AM RHEIN" is reproduced);*much more.
Special double issue #44/45 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (1980) A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 56 pages including front and rear covers.With splendid photographs and illustrations, the paper contains articles, news updates, poetry, reviews, community resources, and classifieds. Highlights include:
*magnificent, lengthy "GAY SUNSHINE'S 10th ANNIVERSARY: Our Friends' Letters of Congratulations" (with letters from Will Inman, Royal Murdoch, Robin Maugham, Peter Burton, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, David Chura, E.A. Lacey, Robert Peters, Charles Shively, Ned Rorem, Samuel M. Steward aka Phil Andros, Rudy Kikel, Kirby Congdon, John Dolan, Simon Karlinsky, Rick Paul, Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig, Steve Abbott, Roger Austen, Nuki, Brad Mulroy, Richard Mills, Richard Hall, Richard Ronan, Dennis Kelley, and Raymonde Saint-Pierre); *article "After Whitman and Auden: Gay Male Sensibility in Poetry Since 1945" by Rudy Kikel (with several splendid poetry examples); *lengthy interview of San Francisco Board of Supervisor Harry Britt (with photo of Harry Britt and Winston Leyland); *short story "First Communion" by Joseph Torchia ("In which The Kryptonite Kid finally meets Superman"); *Malcolm Boyd interviewed (with two photos); *poet James Broughton interviewed (with photo); *article "A Man of Youth: Wilhelm Jansen and the German Wandervogel Movement" by Richard Mills (with two photos: one of Wilhelm Jansen taken in 1936, and one of a group of Young Wandervogel taken at Bremen Harbor, 1911);*much more.
Last published issue in newspaper format (the final issue was published in book format; Issue #46 of "Gay Sunshine" subtitled "A Journal of Gay Liberation" (1981) A newspaper issued in tabloid (fold-over) format, when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers.Highlights include:
*article "The Cult of the Returned Apollo: Walter Pater's Renaissance and Imaginary Portraits" by Robert Peters (with splendid illustration entitled "Apollo" by Aubrey Beardsley) *short biography, with photo, written upon the death of Royal Murdoch (1898-1981) by Winston Leyland; *article "Service Industry Interviews: Gay Workers" by John Robinson and Lauren Jeunesse (very interesting interviews of gay men working in societally-considered "low status" industries: restaurants, clothing store, manicurist, secretary); *article, with photo, "In Memoriam: Robin Maugham 1916-1981" by Peter Burton; *much more.
"H.E.L.P. Drummer"
Fabulous, historical, and rare. March 1973 issue of "H.E.L.P. Drummer" (Volume 2 #6) published by HELP Incorporated ("Homophile Effort for Legal Protection," an organization to fight police entrapment and provide legal assistance to gay men) out of West Hollywood, California. John Embry was Editor of the publication and Larry Townsend was President of the organization. A tabloid (fold-over) newspaper; when unfolded to full length it contains 32 pages including front and rear covers.
Containing articles, news items (including political, LAPD, vice squad, and entrapment), columns, reviews, classifieds, vintage advertisements, and male beefcake photographs. Highlights include:
*2/3-page photograph entitled "Spring! And a Young Man's Fancy" featuring male fashion models Jimmy Hughes, Paul Strand, and Bill Cable ("Stoner") in beachwear offered by Ah Men, a male fashion outlet;
*half-page advertisement for Fred Halsted's gay film "TRUCK IT!" (with four photos);
*photograph of then Los Angeles Mayor-candidate Tom Bradley holding a news conference for Gay Media and Community Representatives in the H.E.L.P. center: shown in the photograph are, among others, Tom Bradley, Drummer columnist Jim Kepner, Advocate News Editor Robb Cole, H.E.L.P. President Larry Townsend, and Drummer Editor John Embry;
*full-page feature entitled "OPERATION: TOILET" ("H.E.L.P. Super-Attorney Albert Gordon has launched an all-out attack on the L.A.P.D.'s favorite haunt: the mens' room. Toilets, or 'T-rooms,' as they are known in gay vernacular, in Los Angeles parks and city-owned buildings have long been known as being extremely dangerous. Just to go in one is taking your life in your hands. Now gay rights champion Gordon has found them to be unhealthful as well");
*short column by Robert Payne entitled "Slavery: That Great Old Tradition";
*gay film reviews of "Loadstar" and "Truck It";
*article "A Look Back at the Posing Strap: Drummer Visits A.M.G." (the Athletic Model Guild, with 10 vintage photos);
*vintage advertisements for the Black Pipe bar (with two beefcake photos); Dude City; Nero (with beefcake photo); Club Wellington (with large beefcake photo); Falcon's Lair (with Tom of Finland artwork); many others;
*much, much more.
April 1973 issue of "H.E.L.P. Drummer" (Volume 2 #7) published by HELP Incorporated ("Homophile Effort for Legal Protection," an organization to fight police entrapment and provide legal assistance to gay men) out of West Hollywood, California. Ron Harris was Editor of the publication and John Embry the recent President-elect of the organization. A tabloid (fold-over) newspaper; when unfolded to full length it contains 32 pages including front and rear covers.
Containing articles, news items (including political, LAPD, vice squad, and entrapment), columns, reviews, classifieds, vintage advertisements, and male beefcake photographs. Highlights include:
*tabloid cover photograph of hunky young man by Pat Rocco;
*two large front-page photographs of Ah Men fashion models, including one of Colt model Erron;
*outstanding political carton regarding the upcoming Los Angeles mayorial elections showing a clenched fist on the back of a gay man lying dead or unconscious ("LEPERS!" [cries Police Chief] ED DAVIS") next to a standing-proud gay man being held by Tom Bradley ("CITIZENS!" [cries Mayorial candidate] TOM BRADLEY");
*delightful column "Dear Auntie" ("Dear Auntie, I've got to do something about this vanity of mine. I spend hours before the mirror admiring my beauty. Signed, Tim"..."Dear Tim, That isn't vanity, dear, that's imagination");
*travel article on Palm Springs by Kurt Kreisler;
*quarter-page ad for Colt Studio featuring beefcake photograph of model Stacy;
*article on Pat Rocco's SPREE ("Society of Pat Rocco Enlightened Enthusiasts" with three photos);
*beefcake photos of Jim Cassidy and Joe Markhum;
*exercise column "JIMMY'S GYM" featuring letters to and answers by Jimmy Hughes (with his photograph);
*H.E.L.P. news column "Footnotes" by Larry Townsend;
*2/3 pages "FASHIONS IN SKIN FLICKS" featuring nine small shots from the Jaguar film "Greek Lightning" (with photos of Jimmy Hughes, Steve Nelson, Ted Lee, Ace Angel, Rudy Thomas Foley, and Jon Steele);
*much, much more.
June-July 1973 issue of "H.E.L.P. Drummer" (Volume 2 #8) published by HELP Incorporated ("Homophile Effort for Legal Protection," an organization to fight police entrapment and provide legal assistance to gay men) out of West Hollywood, California. Ron Harris was Editor of the publication and John Embry the recent President-elect of the organization. A tabloid (fold-over) newspaper; when unfolded to full length it contains 24 pages including front and rear covers.
Containing articles, news items (including political, LAPD, vice squad, and entrapment), columns, reviews, classifieds, vintage advertisements, and male beefcake photographs. Highlights include:
*tabloid cover photograph showing a "Test shot of 'Q' for [the gay film] 'Story of Q'" (photo by Dick Anderson);
*H.E.L.P. organization advertisement offering bumperstickers "WARNING! THIS IS LOS ANGLES - DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS!"; "Big Brother is near - ENTRAPMENT PRACTICED HERE!"; "Warning: BEING IN THIS RESTROOM MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH.";
*short story "Sea Spawn: A Haunting Tale of the Spirit of the Surf" by Kurt Kriesler;
*H.E.L.P. column "DANGER!" (updates on police entrapment, such as: "BEACHES: As the weather grows warmer, so do the areas along the sunny strips of sand. That old T-room at the foot of Santa Monica Canyon is producing its usual stream of arrests...");
*article "NEWS OF SPREE" ("The Society of Pat Rocco Enlightened Enthusiasts" with one beefcake photo, and one photo of Los Angeles Councilman Robert Stevenson and Pat Rocco at the SPREE Awards Show);
*full-page comic art "PETER QUICK, PUBLIC DICK, AND FEATURING HIS BOSUM PAL ROLLOVER AGEN";
*vintage gay male advertisements, many with beefcake photos, from That Look, AMG, Ah Men, "talk, talk, talk" gay male telephone answering service, others;
*much, much more.
October 1973 issue of "H.E.L.P. Drummer" (probable Volume 2 #10) published by HELP Incorporated ("Homophile Effort for Legal Protection," an organization to fight police entrapment and provide legal assistance to gay men) out of West Hollywood, California. Ron Harris was Editor of the publication and John Embry the recent President-elect of the organization. A tabloid (fold-over) newspaper; when unfolded to full length it contains 32 pages including front and rear covers.
Containing articles, news items (including political, LAPD, vice squad, and entrapment), columns, reviews, classifieds, vintage advertisements, and male beefcake photographs. Highlights include:
*tabloid cover photo, and two-page interior photospread containing 17 shots, from the outstanding book of Japanese male photography "OTOKO" by Tamotsu Yato;
*large front page photograph of Gary Brandenburg ("Newest Drummer columnist is also a coverman. Gary Brandenburg is the author of Drummer's bodybuilding series 'Gary's Gym.' Gary is 6'1", weights 190 pounds, and is opening a gym at the New-Clear Institute");
*news article "Blacks Attacks Gays at H.E.G., 14 Hurt; Police Ineffectual" (the Homophile Entertainment Guild Dance at Troupers Hall in Los Angeles);
*news article, with three photos, entitled "Park Patrol Formed After Gay L.A.P.D. Zap";
*news column "Angles on the news" by Jim Kepner ("What took us so long to get to Stonewall?");
*exercise column "Gary's Gym" by Gary Brandenburg (with his photo);
*full-page "NEWS OF SPREE" ("The Society of Pat Rocco Enlightened Enthusiasts" with two male beefcake photos);
*vintage gay male advertisements with photographs and illustrations;
*much, much more.
"Journal of Homosexuality"
A scarce issue of an outstanding gay scholarly publication. second issue of the "Journal of Homosexuality" (Vol. 1 #2, Winter 1974-75) edited by Charles Silverstein and published by the Haworth Press out of New York City. A quality journal containing 112 internal pages.
Containing articles and book reviews, the articles appearing in this issue are as follows:
"An Automated Fading Procedure to Alter Sexual Responsiveness in Pedophiles" by D.R. Laws and A.V. Pawlowski;
"Identification and Measurement of Multidimensional Attitudes Toward Equality Between the Sexes" by A.P. MacDonald, Jr., Ph.D.;
"Heresy, Witchcraft, and Sexuality" by Vern Bullough, Ph.D.;
"The 'Booty Bandit': A Social Role in a Juvenile Institution" by Clemens Bartollas, Ph.D., Stuart J. Miller, Ph.D., and Simon Dinitz, Ph.D.;
"Psychiatric Opinion and Homosexuality: A Short Report" by R.F. Barr, M.D. and S.V. Catts, M.B.
Third issue of the "Journal of Homosexuality" (Vol. 1 #3, 1976) edited by Charles Silverstein and published by the Haworth Press out of New York City. A quality journal containing 96 internal pages.
Containing articles and book reviews, the articles appearing in this issue are as follows:
"Differences in Psychological Sex, Adjustment, and Familial Influences Among Homosexual and Nonhomosexual Populations" by Brenda D. Townes, Ph.D., William D. Ferguson, M.D., and Sandra Gillam;
"Age-Status Labeling in Homosexual Men" by Fred A. Minnegerode, Ph.D.;
"Homosexuals and the Death Penalty in Colonial America" by Louis Crompton, Ph.D.;
"Sodomy in Medieval Secular Law" by Michael Goodich, Ph.D.;
"Homosexuality in the Rorschach: A New Look at the Old Signs" by Steven J. Hendlin, Ph.D.;
"The Effects of a Homophile Organization on the Self-Esteem and Alienation of Its Members" by Jerrold S. Greenberg, Ed.D.
Fourth issue of the "Journal of Homosexuality" (Vol. 1 #4, 1976) edited by Charles Silverstein and published by the Haworth Press out of New York City. A quality journal containing 120 internal pages.
Containing articles and book reviews, the articles appearing in this issue are as follows:
"Iatrogenic Homosexuality: Gender Identity in Seven 46,XX Chromosomal Females with Hyperadrenocortical Hermaphroditism Born With a Penis, Three Reared as Boys, Four Reared as Girls" by John Money, Ph.D. and Jean Dalery, M.D. (many years later, one of the boys reared as a girl, unable to adapt to Dr. Money's arbitrary sex assignment, committed suicide);
"The Use of Stimulus/Modeling Videotapes in Assertive Training for Homosexuals" by Wayne D. Duehn and Nazneen S. Mayadas, D.S.W.;
"Code Switching and Sexual Orientation: A Test of Bernstein's Sociolinguistic Theory" by Malcolm E. Lumby, Ph.D.;
"Forbidden Colors of Love: Patterns of Gay Love and Gay Liberation" by John Alan Lee;
"Reported Consequences of Decriminalization of Consensual Adult Homosexuality in Seven American States" by Gilbert Geis, Richard Wright, Thomas Garrett, and Paul R. Wilson;
"Sodomy in Ecclesiastical Law and Theory" by Michael Goodich, Ph.D.
College English
A special issue devoted to "The Homosexual Imagination: In Literature, In the Classroom, In Criticism" edited by gay scholars Louie Crew and Rictor Norton. Offered is the November 1974 issue of "College English: An Official Journal of the National Council of Teachers of English" published out of Urbana, Illinois. A quality stapled journal measuring 6-3/4" by 9-3/8" and containing 164 internal pages.The rich, scholarly contents include:
-"The Homophobic Imagination: An Editorial" by Louie Crew and Rictor Norton ("Homosexual literature is written, read, criticized, and taught within a generally hostile environment"); -Gay drama critic, poet, and songwriter Eric Bentley interviewed; -article "Toward a Gay Criticism" by Jacob Stockinger; -article "Giving a Gay Course" by poet and college professor Ron Schreiber; -article "Homosexuals and Literature" by Arnie Kantrowitz (author of the gay autobiography "Under the Rainbow" which was being written at the time); -article "Some Notes of a Homosexual Teaching Assistant in his First Semester of Ph.D. Work" (by an anonymous author); -poetry by Peter Robins, Eric Bentley, Daniel Curzon, Dan L. Fee, Robert Lynn Penny, and Paul Mariah; -delightful "A Garland of Gay Proverbs" (including "In the inevitable perverseness of things, some fish constantly attempt to walk on land and some birds refuse to use their wings: thus Perversity becomes Progress" attributed to Casimir Dukahz, and "I should have been President. I could have made it, too, if it hadn't been for this fag thing" attributed to Gore Vidal); -article "But for fate and ban: Homosexual Villains and Victims in the Military" by Roger Austen; -article "Modern Black Drama and the Gay Image" by Jon L. Clayborne; -excerpts from Allen Ginsberg's interview in "Gay Sunshine";-much, much more.
"Gay Rights: A Libertarian Approach"
Pamphlet "Gay Rights: A Libertarian Approach" (no date, circa mid-1970s) written on behalf of the Libertarian Party by Dr. Ralph Raico, history professor at the State University College at Buffalo, New York. There is no place or publisher indicated. A quality stapled pamphlet measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers.
The text is divided into three sections:
"I. Human Sexuality vs. State Power" ("The possible forms of human sexual expression based on voluntary choice are very much greater than those sanctioned by any contemporary society");
"II. Attitudes of Other Political Movements and Parties" ("And as for the run-of-the-mill liberal politicians, we have a right to suspect the extent of their genuine tolerance. Consider, for example, one of the more 'liberal' of these men, Sargeant Shriver - who was [George] McGovern's Vice-Presidential candidate in 1972. In a speech in Chicago to Mayor Daley's precinct workers, on October 24, 1972, Shriver whiningly complained of the unfair attacks on McGovern in these terms: 'And then they say that George McGovern wants to give blanket amnesty to everybody - draft dodgers, deserters, queers, kooks...'");
"III. The Libertarian View" (their printed platform includes "Repeal of all laws regarding consensual sexual acts betweeen adults"; "Repeal of legislation prohibiting unions between members of the same sex"; "An end to the use of loitering statutes and entrapment procedures as a means of harassing gays and prostitutes").
In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View
#13 of "In Touch" then subtitled "Celebrating Gay Awareness" (October 1974) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Hollywood, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*lengthy article on, and interview of, actor Marc Singer (with 11 photos); *lengthy article on, and interview of, gay singers Michael Cohen and Steven Grossman (with nine photos); *article and photospread "Tourbiking in San Luis Obispo" (with 15 photos of Rick Lewis and his brother Chuck Lewis); *article on, and interview of, playwright Terrence McNally (with eight photos); *male fashion-spread "Underwear Cavalcade" (with 11 photos); *article on, interview of, and photospread of In Touch Discovery Dennis Coats (with seven photos, including centerfold); *In Touch articles on film, books, music, and theatre (all well-illustrated with photos); *special report on cowboys and rodeos entitled "Marlboro Country!" (with 20 photos); *vintage advertisements; *much, much more.
#14 of "In Touch" then subtitled "Celebrating Gay Awareness" (November 1974) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Hollywood, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 80 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*lengthy article on, and interview of, actor Beau Bridges (with ten photos); *article "New Horizons For Catholic Gays"; *lengthy article on, and interview of, gay film superstar and Colt model Kenneth Sprague - Dakota (with 11 photos); *interview and photospread of In Touch Discovery Tony Sappington (with 14 photos including centerfold); *special report on Broadway theatre (with 12 photos); *fashion spread featuring model Doug Alexander (with six photos, including front cover); *vintage advertisements; *much, much more.
#16 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (February-March 1975) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*short story "Chance Encounter" by Robert Bentley; *four-page article on, and interview of, Ethel Merman by Douglas Dean (with eight photos); *article on Peggy Lee, then appearing at Studio One in West Hollywood (with five photos); *lengthy Special In Touch Report entitled "ME Tarzan" on the history of Tarzan in Hollywood films (with 14 photos); *In Touch Discovery and Centerfold Ed Haney (with 11 photos); *article on, and interview of, artist Mark Mulleian (with nine photos); *article on, and interview of, female impersonator Craig Russell (with five photos); *lengthy male fashion article and photospread entitled "A Weekend in the Country" (with 12 photos, including "Jack," star of J. Brian's "Seven in a Barn"); *article on the San Francisco gay bar "Buzzby's" (with three photos); *photospread introducing Ric Ketchum (13 photos, including one full-page in color, photography by Hy Chase); *much, much more. With fabulous vintage ads, including one from Colt Studio and another from Jim French's "A State of Man, Inc."
#17 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (April-May 1975) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*exercise column "In Touch Body" by David Carter (with portrait shot); *profile and photospread of Darrell Gillett (with five photos by Hy Chase); *lengthy article on Debbie Reynolds entitled "The Lady Is A Star" (with 14 photos); *article on homosexuality in prison entitled "The Need For Human Contact" (with four photos, one from "Fortune & Men's Eyes"); *lengthy article on, and interview of, prominent gay political figure David Glascock (with four photos); *column on gay San Francisco life entitled "Bay Area Beat" by Douglas Dean (with five photos, including one of Steve Edwards, Acme Man of the Year); *profile and lengthy photospread of cover and centerfold model Tod Jonson entitled "A Man Called Beautiful" (with 12 photos, including front cover and centerfold, by Hy Chase); *article on, and interview of, Craig Dudley (with six photos by Roy Blakey, one full-page shot in color); *separate interviews of young stage actors Stan Bond, David Cahalan, and Joe Jones (each with photos); *lengthy article on, and interview of - yes - Charlton Heston entitled "Conversation With A National Monument" (with 15 photos); *much, much more. With fabulous vintage ads, including Jim French, Target, Rho-Delta Press (Roy Dean), many others.
#18 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (June-July 1975) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*article "Commorating [sic] Stonewall" by Frank Golovitz; *two-page photospread featuring Pete Cardenas entitled "Macho" (in six photos by Hy Chase); *fabulous lengthy article on Studio One's fabled "Tommy" premiere party entitled "Before & After Super Party" (with 18 photographs, including Elton John, the Cycle Sluts, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Kearns - Grant Tracy Saxon, Paul and Linda McCartney, Richard Chamberlain, Pat Ast, Ann-Margaret); *two-page interview of superstar Glenda Jackson (with five facial shots); *article on San Francisco's Polk Street entitled "Positively Polk Streeet!" (with four photos); *profile of In Touch's cover and centerfold model Michael Delfino (with 12 photos, including front cover and centerfold); *lengthy article on, and interview of, Michael Kearns entitled "Grant Tracy Saxon: Encounter With A Happy Hustler" (with six photos); *article on gay singer Mickey Turner entitled "Life is the song, love is the music" (with four photos); *much, much more.
#20 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (October-November 1975) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *exclusive In Touch two-page article entitled "My Pleasure Man" by Mae West promoting the current reprint of her 1928 novel "Pleasure Man"; *article on, and interview of, Tab Hunter (with eleven photos, several from his films); *article on Ann-Margaret by Neal Peters (with nine photos); *tasteful photospread of Jay Shannon (with four photos by Hy Chase); *article on, and interview of, actor Robert Burton - "Skip" Burton of TV Series "Lassie" fame (with three photos); *article on, and interview of, actor Michael Greer (with three photos); *article on, and interview of, actor Andre DeShields who played in the Broadway smash hit "The Wiz" (with four photos); *photospread of In Touch cover and centerfold model Danny Delaney; *separate articles on, and interviews of, three "Gallery of Rising Stars" - actor Karl Ellis, comedian Kevin James, and actor Robert Reiser (all accompanied by photographs); *much, much more.
#22 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (March-April 1976) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*two-page photospread of Todd Mason (six photos by Jim Morris); *actor Bruce Davison interviewed (with five photos); *singer Melba Moore interviewed (with photo); *singer Shirley Bassey interviewed (with photo); *article "The Vision of Tom O'Horgan: A Modern Day Magician Jazzes Up The Stage" (with portrait photo and seven photos from his productions); *article on Barbra Streisand entitled "A Star is Reborn" by James Spada; *article "New York New York" by Vito Russo (with five photos); *travel article "Cruising the High Seas: Aboard the Queen Elizabeth II" by Roger Asquith; *article "Pals: Male Bonding in the Movies" by Damon West; *photospread of In Touch Discovery Dana O'Brian (with 13 photos, including front cover and centerfold); *interview of young actor Richard Zacharry (with two photos); *interview of young actor Jim Faber (with three photos); *vintage advertisements; *much, much more.
issue #23 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (May-June 1976) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*three-page photospread of ex-Marine Steve de Luise; *splendid four-page interview of Sal Mineo (with his portrait); *Martin Sheen interviewed ("The outspoken actor takes on the world," with his photo); *article "The Discos" by Wayne Sage ("The vise-like grip which sex...has always held on gay social life is loosening to the tune of $50,000 sound systems"); *travel article on London entitled "London: Finding Action Across the Pond" (with 12 photos); *Tennessee Williams interviewed (with portrait illustration of the playwright by Chris Nickens); *article on gays in the military entitled "In Which We Serve" by Roy L. McCollough (with a splendid, full-page shot of five sailors in the U.S. Navy stationed in Singapore, circa 1900); *seven-page photospread of Gerry Arthur (including full-color centerfold); *profiles on rising stars Don Scotti and Burton York (with a photo of each); *magnificent four-page art layout entitled "Jean Genet's Sailors Through the Eyes of Jean Cocteau" (with ten drawings by Cocteau); *vintage advertisements; *much, much more.
#24 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (July-August 1976) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 96 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *short article on, and interview of, aspiring dancer Sal Guange (with six photos); *article on, and interview of, actor Russ Tamblyn (with four photos); *article "San Francisco: Baghdad by the Bay" by Bob Kiggins (with five photos); *author Christopher Isherwood interviewed (with splendid full-page illustration of the author by Chris Nickens); *article "Haiti: Pearl of the Antilles" (with 13 photos); *article "Tattoo" by Barnaby Shackleford (with five photos and one illustration); *interview of gay filmmaker Wakefield Poole (with portrait shot, and nine stills from his films); *photospread of In Touch coverman and centerfold model Bob Buck (photographs by Hy Chase); *article "Off and Running" by Patricia Nell Warren ("The author of 'The Front Runner' looks back on her controversial bestseller and forward to the next"); *photospread of Michael Walsh (with nine photos by Mike Arlen); *much, much more.
#25 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (September-October 1976) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *article "Howard Hughes & Jane Russell Fight Common Decency (Thank God)" by Dick Sheppard ("The author of 'Elizabeth' gives us a sneak preview of his new book, 'Hollywood Sensations', with photos); *photospread of 24 year-old Zsolt by photographer John Welles; *article on Bette Midler entitled "The Hollywood Bet" (with four photos); *splendid six-page spread of male sketches by artist Harry Bush; *article "So You Always Wanted To Teach" by Bob LaRiviere (on his first few years as a young, gay, high school teacher: "From the first week of school I was branded a faggot, and, since I don't consider myself to be particularly effeminate, I was curious to discover why I was labeled derogatorily - for this was the intent - so early in my teaching career"); *photospread of In Touch coverman and centerfold model David George; *autobiographical article "A Self Portrait" by model and gay film superstar Peter Berlin (with photos); *article "Out of the Locker: For a lot of pro athletes, it's safer inside"; *separate profiles of actors Ben Wilson and Hy Conrad (each with portrait); *much, much more.
#26 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (November-December 1976) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights:
*article on, and interview of, actor Jan-Michael Vincent (with four photos); *travel article "Boston" by Bob LaRiviere (with photos); *photospread of Jaime De La Costa entitled "The Hitch Hiker" by photographer Ryan Boyd; *autobiographical article "Tools of the Trade" by Brian Allen Goodrich (who relates his experiences as a runaway gay youth of sixteen, who, coming to New York City in 1966, becomes a male hustler); *article on Lucille Ball entitled "Still Loving Lucy" by Chris Nickens; *travel article "Australia" by Martin Smith (with photos); *photospread of In Touch coverman and centerfold model Bruce Barnes (with photography by Michael Rock); *article on, and interview of, actor Robert Redford (with four photos); *splendid article on Walt Whitman entitled "The Dear Love of Comrades" by Robert K. Martin; *lovely eight-page (non-frontal-nude) male photospread entitled "Men Together" by photographer Bob Finney; *much, much more.
#27 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (January-February 1977) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *article written exclusively for this issue by William S. Burroughs entitled "California Men" (accompanied by 14 photographs of young men at the beach: lying in the sand, skate-boarding, in the surf, hitch-hiking; Burroughs poetically describes these young men, what they are doing, and what they may be thinking); *article "Marilyn Monroe at 50: Wondering What the Legend Might Be Like Today" by James Spada; *profile on, and photospread of, Greg Lane (with photographs by Richard Savage); *travel article entitled "Is There Life in Pittsburgh: There is, but just try and find it" by Christopher McGlynn (with photos); *article on 19th century author Herman Melville by Robert K. Martin; *article entitled "French Cinema: The Boys Therein" by Peter Adams (with photograph from the film "The Conformist," and four photographs from Pasolini's "Salo"); *article on PFLAG - Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays - entitled "The 'Coming Out' of Parents" by Richard Stanley; *profile on, and photospread of, In Touch coverman and centerfold model Mark Dube; *article on, and interview of, gay filmmaker J. Brian (with two shots of this director, and seven portrait shots of actors from his films); *article on, and interview of, actor Jeff Bridges (with four photos); *much, much more.
#28 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (March-April 1977) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers. The issue features articles, personalities, arts and entertainment, reviews, illustrations, and tasteful male nude photographs.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *splendid, lengthy interview of author James Leo Herlihy "on the eve of his 50th birthday" (with portrait shots of the author at age 3, age 25, age 38, age 41, and age 46); *article on 19th century author Bayard Taylor and his novel "Joseph & His Friend," America's first gay novel; *fabulous article on Hollywood's (now gone) Gold Cup Restaurant by Jeff Watkins ("A seedy greasy spoon on the corner of Las Palmas and Hollywood Boulevard is their home, their place of business, and their last resort" referring to the male hustlers who frequented the small diner); *article on David Bowie (with four splendid early photos, three in color); *lovely five-page (non-frontal-nude) photospread entitled "Gymnasts Together" with photography by John Coons; *travel articles on Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto, Canada (with photos); *article on, and interview of, The Christy Twins (with photos: "Identical twins, they are the quintessential Southern California golden boys"); *separate profiles of actor Doug Latimer and dancer Reg Reidel (each article with photo); *short interview of Arthur - Art - Bell (with portrait photo); *article on, and interview of, gay film superstar Jack Wrangler (with four photos); *much, much more.
#31 of "In Touch: The Magazine for a Different Point of View" (September-October 1977) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *four-page tasteful male nude photospread of Ron Thorne (photographs by Charlie Airwaves); *travel article "A Gay Guide to Erotic Amsterdam" by John D. Stamford; *article on, and interview of, actor Nick Nolte (with two full-color photos); *article "A Lovers' Primer" by Jeremy Hughes (on gay permanent relationships); *actor Paul Winfield interviewed (with two photos, including portrait shot); *six page male levi photospread entitled "Torn & Tattered"; *article "Goodbye, Joan" by Christopher Nickens (on Joan Crawford's legacy); *tasteful male nude photospread of In Touch Discovery Cliff Rogers (including front cover and centerfold, with photos by Hy Chase); *tasteful male nude photospread of Scott Lanson (with photos by James Williams); *article on Christopher Marlowe, contemporary of William Shakespeare, entitled "Elizabethan Gay" by Robert K. Martin; *article on, and interview of, actor Larry Kert (with four photos, one with Liza Minelli);*and much, much more.
#38 of "In Touch For Men" (November-December 1978) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Los Angeles, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *travel article on London (with three photos); *article on, and interview of, actor Robert Mitchum (with portrait photo: "If I were homosexual, there are a lot of homosexuals whose company I would not tolerate...It's contrary to the whole concept of individualism..."); *splendid four-page portfolio entitled "The Art of Wayne Quinn" (with three art pieces reproduced, two in full color, one double-page); *article on, and short interview of, male vocalist Peter Brown (with full-page color photo); *article on Horatio Alger by William Russo; *tasteful male nude layouts of Kevin Coxe, Jerry Dean, and Paul Stokes; *delightful "Michael Kearns' Christmas List" (i.e., "ANITA BRYANT: A Coors commercial"; "JACK WRANGLER: a birth certificate"; "DALE EVANS: a gay following"; "ROMAN POLANSKI: Amy Carter"; "JOHN RECHY: an inflatable doll made in his own image" etc.);*and much, much more.
#40 of "In Touch For Men" (March-April 1979) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Hollywood, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *article on French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault by William Russo (with two paintings reproduced); *article on, and interview of, actor Jon Voight (with two photographs); *short story "The User" by Robert Locke; *part II article "Gay Mythology" by Jeremy Hughes ("Statues of Hercules, Apollo, Hermes, and Eros - all of uncertain sexuality at best - were the ones most frequently found in the gymnasia, as patrons of athletic contests"); *gay travel article on Spain entitled "A Spanish Flavor" by Barry Duke (with six color photos); *splendid four-page male art portfolio entitled "The Art of Richard Roesener"; *tasteful male nude photospreads of Tom Ellis, Mark Harrington, and Greg Alden; *two-page article on, and interview of, filmmaker Rosa Von Praunheim; *and much, much more.
#41 of "In Touch For Men" (May-June 1979) published by In Touch, Inc. out of Hollywood, California. A high-quality, glossy, Newsweek-size magazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers.
This spectacular issue contains the following highlights: *article on, and interview of, singer Sarah Dash (with three photos, two in color); *travel article on Denver entitled "The Men of Denver: The gay life, a mile up" (with 18 male beefcake shots); *article "Lost Boys" by Ian Whitcomb ("A personal look behind the closet doors of an English boys' school by musicologist and former teen rock idol Ian Whitcomb"); *article on, and interview of, actor Ryan O'Neal (with seven photos); *Part II of "The 10 Sexiest Men" by Jeremy Hughes (with ten portrait shots of Hollywood male actors and celebrities); *tasteful male nude photospreads of Nick Rogers, Jim Rogers, and John Dillon; *article on, and interview of, musician Ray Caviano (with two photos); *splendid four-page full-color photospread of "Mr. In Touch Portland" (with 27 photos: two group shots, and 25 photos of each contestant); *article "Hart Crane: A Gay Poet Before His Time" by William Russo; *and much, much more.
The Gay Clone
Issue #3 of "The Gay Clone" (May 1977, May Day Issue), published out of New York by the gay anarchist group Gay Men's Alliance and Lesbians Rising. A fold-over tabloid newspaper published annually (only a few issues were ever published), when unfolded contains 24 pages including front and rear covers.
Containing articles, news items, poetry, reviews, community resources, and artwork, contents include: *definitions of Gay Anarchism, Anarchy, and Anarchist ("ANARCHY - Absence of government; disbelief in, and disregard of, invasion and authority based on coercion and force; a condition of society regulated by voluntary agreement instead of government") *article "Anti-Authoritarianism" by Jim Kernochan; *article "Gay Autonomy" by Mark A. Sullivan ("If you are gay, you are a potential disturber of the bureaucratic peace"); *article "Coming Out" by Elliott Cephus Jay; *full-page report of recent activities by the Gay Men's Alliance and Lesbians Rising; *May Day Gay Anarcho Statement ("Our refusal to adhere to state laws concerning our sex lives is a defiant act of revolution"); *poetry by Walter Streng, Dan Diamond, Michael Stephens, Harold Pickett, Loretta Lotman, and Reg Kahney; *from Harold Pickett's poem "Democratic Concention":
"Democratic Convention 1976 Rock 'n Roll revolution little long-haired skinny boys w/red-green-yellow painted dayglo faces star-kissed eyes the rock 'n roll refrain of 'Getta job' yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip YIPPEE" *article "Evolutionary Liberation" by Michael Stephens; *half-page announcement for the upcoming 7th Annual Gay Pride March in New York City; *article "Looking at Gay Lib" by Harold Pickett; *article on Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov by Walter Steng ("Sergei Paradjanov was arrested in January, 1974, ostensibly for a variety of charges which included speculation in foreign currency, spreading venereal disease, homosexuality, and coercion to a homosexual liaison. Immediately after his arrest, an international defense committee was set up and an appeal on his behalf was signed by major European directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffault, Alain Resnais, Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Rossellini, and Joseph Losey...[Paradjanov] was held in custody until his trial in May, 1974, at which he was sentenced to five years hard labor on a charge of 'partial homosexualism.' At his trial, he refused the defending counsel offered by the Soviet authorities"); *much, much more.
#4 of "The Gay Clone" (May 1978, May Day Issue), published out of New York by the gay anarchist group Gay Men's Alliance and Lesbians Rising. A fold-over tabloid newspaper published annually (only a few issues were ever published), when unfolded contains 16 pages including front and rear covers. Containing articles, news items, poetry, reviews, community resources, and artwork, contents include: *full-page "WHO WE ARE..." ("We are Gay Anarchists. We celebrate gay liberation through spiritual freedom. Surpassing social conventions based on the powers of religions and governments, we reconvene our own souls in the bright light of liberation"); *article "Child Autonomy" by Jim Kernochan ("The idea that we are child molesters is perhaps the biggest myth that gays need to dispel"); *an interview with Mark Sullivan, gay anarchist and publisher of "The Storm!" entitled "ANARCHIST UNMASKS!" (with photo: "Anarchism is the idea that the quality of human life is improved when and where the reliance upon authority, hierarchy, and coercion is abolished"); *half-page photograph of the Tom Robinson Band with brief write-up; *article "Anarchy in Action" by Michael Stephens ("One cannot go to the South Bronx without realizing the failure of government and society to care for its people"); *poetry by Walter Streng, Elliott C. Jay, Joseph Kadlec, and Harold Pickett; *much, much more.
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About this site: Ebay is an amazing place and resource. There I found these wonderful detailed and annotated descriptions of various important and early gay publications. I felt compelled to save and share them. They are published here with the author Brad Confer's consent. They were written for the sole purpose of selling the material on Ebay and not with scholarly intent, but they are such a rich resource as is, that I present them here. They were written for the sole purpose of selling the material on Ebay and not with scholarly intent, but they are such a rich resource as is, that I present them here. It has taken me almost as much work as Brad to collect, reformat, organize and publish this information. Please write me if this site is helpful to you. If you want to contact Brad, his business is Bloomsbury Books and you can email him at bloomsbury@earthlink.net Most of these issues can be found at the New York Public Library and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archive among other places. | ||
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