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Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1980
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 292 of The Advocate (May 15, 1980): America's Leading Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 48 pages including front and rear covers (this copy is missing the classified ads). Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: Exclusive Interview: [John] Anderson, GOP Maverick, Comes Out for Gay Rights; Insurance & You - Does Being Gay Make a Big Difference? Hot Tips on How to Avoid Disaster by Scott Anderson; Mariposa Foundation Spreads Its Wings: Fighting Bias With Knowledge by Scott Anderson; Dennis Altman: The View From Down Under (interview); centerspread portfolio by artist Kas Sable; Sandy Duncan: Broadway's Plucky New Peter Pan (article with interview quotes); Jerry Orbach: Broadway's Long-running Leading Man (article with interview quotes); Herb Vogler: The Production Stage Manager Takes a New 'Direction' (short interview); Larry Fuller: The Prize-winning Choreographer Behind Those Blockbuster Hits (article with interview quotes); Ernest Martin: Guiding Light at Civic Light Opera (article with interview quotes); two-page male fashion spread. Condition: missing classified ads; the right edge of the innermost sheet shows small chips and short closed tears; chipping to upper outer spine fold.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1980
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 303 of The Advocate (October 16, 1980): America's Leading Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 76 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: lengthy The Age of Consent: An Issue and Its Effects on the Gay Movement by Pat Califia [Part One]; centerspread portfolio by photographer Michael Koslow; Fiction - Part 9 of Pilgrims by Dennis Forbes; one-page male nude photospread from the magazine "Strap No. 3" from Western Man; From the Underground Closet: Gays Against Hitler by Ian Young; Frank Zappa: A Crude, Crazed Cultural Renegade (article with interview quotes); Producer Phil Mandelker (article with interview quotes); Actress Tovah Feldshuh (article with interview quotes). Condition: one page shows light, minor edge wear; front cover shows two short closed edge tears.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1981
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 312 of The Advocate (March 5, 1981): America's Leading Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 76 pages including front and rear covers, entertainment section, and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: New York Sodomy Case Might Resolve Gay Issue at U.S. Supreme Court (Roz Richter from Lambda Legal Defense interviewed); two-page art portfolio of works featured at The Advocate Show at New York's Hibbs Gallery; Alcoholism: A Gay Drunk's Sobering Story by Ted W. (includes a discussion of gay Alcoholics Anonymous groups); Baltimore's Gay Renaissance: America's Largest Small Town Discovers a Dynamic New Community by J.R. Conrad; Chicago's Howard Brown [Memorial] Clinic Is a "Family Affair"; Legal Guide for Gay and Lesbian Couples: Advice for Living Together by Attorneys Hayden Curry and Denis Clifford; Need Advice? Here's a Guide to Low-Cost Gay Legal Clinics by William Conroy; Spacey and Lusty: The Blooming of Bloolips; Theatre Closet Comes Out in Baltimore (the new gay theatre group); Cover Story Merry Musicmakers: Hitting Our Stride with a Tempo for the Times (covering music and choral groups in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco); Vincent Virga's American Gothic (author of 'Gaywyck' with article and interview quotes from the author).
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1983
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 365 of The Advocate (April 14, 1983): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine containing 100 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: L.A.'s Controversial 'Long-Time Activist' Morris Kight (article with interview quotes); Cover Story - Devilish Delights in The City of Angels: A Tour of Gay Playgrounds by Steve Holley and Scott P. Anderson; Banking on Success and Designing for Gay Dollars by Steve Holley (on Unity Savings and the Bank of Los Angeles in West Hollywood); New Tricks of the Trade: A Pound of Prevention and Other Assorted Fantasies by Arnie Kantrowitz ("After my 37th trip to the neighborhood clap specialist, I began to think I was having bad luck. After my 73rd trip, I was suspicious. That's when I started bringing my flashlight to the baths"); centerspread portfolio by artist Robert Morgan; Editor Margaret Cruikshank: Filling a Void with 'Lesbian Studies' (article with interview quotes); 'Lesbian Studies: Present and Future' reviewed; Memorial - Tennessee Williams, 1911-1983 by Charles Faber.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1984
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 395 of The Advocate (May 29, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 104 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item Researchers Track Down Virus They Believe Is AIDS' Cause (with photo of Dr. Robert Gallo and Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, at press conference); 1-2/3-page news item Move For Cityhood Gains Steam in West Hollywood (with photo of Ron Stone, Cityhood Campaign Chair); New Brew for Gays Makes Novel Debut: Beer Takes a Walk on the Wilde's Side by Lewis Perdue (on Wilde's Beer); Cover Story - The Myths, Meanings & Mysteries of Leather (Minority's Minority Steps From the Shadows: Gay Male [Leather] Activists by Arnie Kantrowitz [on GMSMA]; A Fresh Look at Leathermen as Urban Aboriginals by Mark Thompson; short Leathersex and AIDS by Geoff Mains; Beyond Leather: Expanding the Realm of the Senses to Latex by Pat Califia); centerspread portfolio by photographer Mark D. Roberts; Leather Poet Jim Holmes: Views From Afar (interview); International Review: A New Generation of Gay Cinema at the Berlin Film Festival by David Mark Thomas; Playwright Robert Chesley: Waking Up to the Dark Side of Romance in 'Night Sweat' (article with interview quotes); Kathy Acker: A Survivor's Vision of Sex and Social Change (article with interview quotes). Condition: outer covers show light, minor periodic edge and corner wear.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1984
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 396 of The Advocate (June 12, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 100 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item (including photo) United Methodist Church Delegates Vote Ban On Gay Ministers at Historic Conference; Gay Couple Files Last Appeal in Los Angeles Deportation Case: Legally Married in Colorado in 1975 by Joan Cort (on Richard Adams and Anthony Sullivan); Cover Story - Reaching Out: Liaisons to the Gay Community (article of the same name subtitled Public Servants or Political Window-Dressing? by Lenny Giteck [with profiles of liaisons Chuck Forester, Lee Hudson, Kit Duffy, and Peter Drago]; San Francisco Police Officer Paul Seidler Bridges an Historically Wide Gap [article with interview quotes]); The Reverend June Norris Ministers to Gays (article with interview quotes); centerspread portfolio by artist CLWRIGHT; A Visit With Allan Carr: Hollywood's Can't-Stop Mogul by Vito Russo (article with interview quotes); Men Together [Dance Company]: Looking Sharp for a New Spring Season by Barry Laine; Tobias Schneebaum: Life, Sex and Ecstasy with the Head-Hunters of New Guinea (interview). Condition: outer covers show periodic light edge wear, tiny corner chip.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1984
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 399 of The Advocate (July 24, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 116 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Supplement Olympic Action. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item Archbishop [John O'Connor] Seeks to Undermine New York Mayor's [Edward Koch] Executive Order (to ban antigay discrimination in employment by private agencies); full-page news item Yale [University] Gays Win Furor Over Ad in Alumni Magazine; Vickey Monrean Has High Hopes For GRNL [Gay Rights National Lobby] (article with interview quotes); Cover Story - Good Gay Sports (Teaming Up Against Stereotypes by Lenny Giteck); 'The Enigma' That Was Alan Turing: A Tragic Price for Genius by Richard Plant; centerspread portfolio by photographer Zarko Kalmic; Olympic Action: A Supplement to The Advocate (Los Angeles To The Limit by Steve Holley; The Games; Los Angeles Gay Action: The Olympic Summer of '84; The Art Part: Art Festivities During The Olympics; Boys Just Want To Have Fun; Days and Nights in Los Angeles: A Guide to Lesbian Happenings; Style Action: A Shopping Tour; Tasting L.A. [guide to dining]); Breaking New Ground with Television's First Gay Sitcom 'Brothers' by Samir Hachem; The Workaday World of Las Vegas Hoofers by George Heymont; The Life and Art of Edmund Teske (article with interview quotes). Condition: wear and short closed tears along outer fold.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1979
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 279 of The Advocate (November 1, 1979): Celebrating [Formerly "Touching"] Your Lifestyle, a Liberation Publication edited by Robert I. McQueen and now published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 56 pages including front and rear covers (this copy is missing the classified ads). Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: Ballot by the Bay: San Francisco by Scott Anderson ("In the gay Mecca, with its goulash of ethnic and sexual minorities, the 'gay vote' is being tested"); David vs. the Goliaths: Gay Mayor in S.F.? by Scott Anderson (on candidate David Scott); Pacific Northwest by Lenny Giteck (covering Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver; also - Night of Violence in Portland by David Rogers; The Lesbian Outlook: Two Views by Debra Dragovich; Seattle: The Royer Report by Mark Hansmann); Fall Books (lengthy reviews); five photos of Patricia Nell Warren at her country home; centerfold art portfolio by Wade Reynolds; Jane Rule interviewed; Kaye Ballard (article with interview quotes); Maureen Scanlon (one-page article on with interview quotes); Designer Gregory Poe (article on with interview quotes). The edge of the innermost sheet shows periodic tiny closed edge tears (to blank margin only); short corner creases to a few inside pages; light cover wear.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1979
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 281 of The Advocate (November 29, 1979): America's Leading Gay Newsmagazine [Formerly "Touching" then "Celebrating" Your Lifestyle] edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 72 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: Pride on the Potomac: A Monumental March Marks a Big Moment in Gay History (The National March on Washington); Gay Power on the Potomac: D.C. in Washington by Lenny Giteck; author Hector Arce interviewed (author of "The Secret Life of Tyrone Power"); centerfold art portfolio by Sybil; articles on, with interview quotes of, Melissa Manchester, Melba Moore, Marlena Shaw, Boris Midney, and Bob McGilpin; Tenderloin Tessie's Tender Loving Care by Mark Thompson (on Perry Spink and a Senior Luncheon Program that he sponsors with the Metropolitan Community Church); Be a Homophile Oenophile On a Budget by Mark Thompson (on California wines).
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1983
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 374 of The Advocate (August 18, 1983): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine containing 68 pages including front and rear covers (this copy missing the classified ads insert). Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: fabulous and moving four-page photospread entitled A Photo Essay of 1983 Gay Pride Events; Good Friends: Raising Funds for AIDS (with short articles: Debbie Reynolds & Co.; Film Star Bud Cort; 'Dreamgirl' Sheryl Lee Ralph; Cabaret Singer Karen Akers); Cover Story - Chicago (Chicago Past: A Rich Gay History by Gregory Sprague; Chicago Present: An Active and Organized Gay Community by Chris Heim; Chicago Presents Performance Artist Hudson: The Art Scene's Gallant Gadfly [with interview quotes]; Windy City Troubadours [on Chris Clason and Tom Wilson]); centerspread portfolio by artist Joe Fuoco; May Sarton: A Woman and Poet Apart (interview); Video Bars: The Same Old 'Stand and Stare,' or the Shape of Things to Come? by Scott P. Anderson; Hudson Brown's Limp-Wristed Manual for Quiche Eaters (article with interview quotes). Missing Classified Ads section; issue is otherwise in Fine condition.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1984
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 389 of The Advocate (March 6, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 96 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: three-column news item Is [Philadelphia] Mayor [W. Wilson] Goode Indeed The Gay Community's 'Mutual Friend'?; three-column news item ACLU Suit Seeks Data About FBI Spying on Gays Since 1950: Court Test for Release of Documents; The Gay Vote: Something to Take Seriously? by Larry Bush; Is It Time to Grow Up? - Confronting the Aging Process by Toby Johnson; centerspread portfolio by photographer Richard Plowright; Cover Story - Inside China - Great American Youth: A Bicycle Tour by Rod Nelson; Lesbians and the Soap Opera Life: From 'Sister George' to 'All My Children' by Penny M. Landau; The Upstart Tendencies of Rikky George (article with interview quotes); Night Clubbing: Slick, Splashy and Even Sacrilegious, These New Gay Nightspots Have Something Different to Offer by Steve Holley. Outer narrow fold shows wear, a few small chips and periodic short closed tears; light creases to lower right corner of front cover.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, 1984
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please note: missing one column from the "Market Space" (ads to rear pages, not affecting news, features and photos); issue is otherwise complete. Offered is Issue No. 394 of The Advocate (May 15, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine with glossy covers measuring 10-3/8" by 12-1/2" and containing 104 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, and photographs. Highlights include: Virginia Apuzzo and the National Gay Task Force by Peter Freiberg; San Francisco's Pride [Foundation] Reaches Out with Service and Support by Ray O'Loughlin; Cruising the San Remo: Such Good Friends - Artists and the Gay Life in '50s New York by Brad Gooch; James Purdy: Staying True 'On Glory's Course' by Christopher Cox (interview); centerfold portfolio by photographer Henry Lewis (with six photos); two-page comic strip "Wendel" by Howard Cruse; Diana Kurys - On Making 'Entre Nous' - An Intimate Look at a Different Way to Love by Kim Garfield (article with interview quotes); one-page The 'Peculiar' Charms of French Pianist Daniel Varsano by Pam Brandt (article with interview quotes). Condition: missing one column from the 'Market Space' ads; in lightly worn covers showing periodic tiny closed edge tears and tiny chips, particularly along the lower edge of the front cover.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1980
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 296 of The Advocate (July 10, 1980): America's Leading Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 80 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: Model Marriage That Wasn't: The Inside Story Behind Anita Bryant's Divorce; Gays Around the Globe: The Issue is Everywhere by Lenny Giteck (with list of legal status of homosexuals by country); Seeing Sydney: Gay Life Down Under by Dennis Altman; Lucia Valeska: Leading Lesbian at NGTF (interview); New Orleans: Gay Pompeii Hasn't Heard the News by M. Rosenberg (with a directory of bars, restaurants, bathhouses, crisis intervention and counseling, religious organizations, political action, and publications for gays); centerspread portfolio by artist Gamar (Gary Richardson); fiction - Part 2 of Pilgrims by Dennis Forbes; one-page male nude photos from Western Man; Charting the New Gay Astrology by J. Lee Lehman (with glossary of astrological terms); Henry Fonda: America's Acting and Active Legend (article with interview quotes); Director Nagisa Oshima: Film Journeys in the Realm of the Senses (article with interview quotes). Periodic short closed tears and small chips to lower edges of front and rear covers.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1980
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 302 of The Advocate (October 2, 1980): America's Leading Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 48 pages including front and rear covers (missing the classified ads insert). Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: cover story A Toast to Gay "Blendships": "When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot, Ours'll Still Be Hot" by Thom Willenbecher; English, Eccentric and an "Elder" of Our Tribe by Ian Young (article on Oswell Blakeston with interview quotes); Unspeakable Evils and Other Random Intersects by Brent Harris (William S. Burroughs interviewed); centerfold portfolio of works by sculptor Carole Jean Feuerman; one-page Danny Barkman Launches Zeppelin: A Former Test Pilot Takes Off in Palm Springs by William Franklin (article with interview quotes); half-page A Vacation for Four Virgins: A 'Camp" Memory of 'Resorting' to Getting Laid by Arnie Kantrowitz; Film Director Alan Parker Answers His Gay Critics by Samir Hachem (article with interview quotes); feature Dressing-Ups and Dressing-Downs with two articles: Mr. Blackwell on Himself by Charles Faber (article with interview quotes) and Van-Martin for Himself by William Franklin (article with interview quotes). Lacks classified ads; tiny closed edge tears along right edge of innermost sheet.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1980
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 300 of The Advocate (September 4, 1980): America's Leading Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 88 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: Do Your Parents Know? - Some Expert Advice on Coming Out (group interview with Don Clark, Betty Berzon, Charles Silverstein, and Betty Fairchild); Growing Up - And Out - With a Lesbian Mother by Donald Vining; SAGE [Senior Action in a Gay Environment] and Older Gays - Outreach to Our Own, New York City Knows How by Stephen Greco; Gay and Young [organization] Grows Up by Harvey Neville; Meet the Press: The Mastheaders Behind the Issues (splendid short profiles of contributors to The Advocate, with portrait photos); centerspread portfolio by photographer Crawford Barton; fiction - Part 6 of Pilgrims by Dennis Forbes; Barnard Hughes (article with interview quotes); Lesbians on Film by Martha Wheelock; A History of American Playwright Christopher Durang (article with interview quotes); two-page male fashion spread. Periodic short closed tears and tiny chips along lower edge of front cover.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA, 1984
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 390 of The Advocate (March 20, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 100 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: News Analysis (Bathhouses: Scapegoat For AIDS Fears or Real Health Threat? - New Controversy Erupts in San Francisco; CDC's [James W.] Curran Says He Was Misrepresented On Bathhouse Closure); California's Gay Rights Bill: Powers Behind Passage [AB 1] by David B. Goodstein (with separate interviews of AB 1's principal sponsor Art Agnos and Speaker Willie Brown Jr.); The 'Ghettoization' of Gay Art by John Rechy; centerspread portfolio of art works by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975); Cover Story - Double Reflections: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy on Art, Love and Faith by Mark Thompson (interview); Who Killed [Pier Paolo] Pasolini? by Edward Guthmann ("Filmmaker Philo Bregstein raises new questions in 'Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die?'" with interview quotes); No Laughing Matter: The Wit and Wisdom of Eddie Murphy by D. Frank Culbertson; Novelist Daniel Curzon: A Thorn in His Side (article with interview quotes). Covers detached but present and show periodic edge chips and short closed edge tears. Interior pages are in excellent condition and tightly bound.
Published by Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1984
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 403 of The Advocate (September 18, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine with thin glossy covers measuring 10-1/2" by 12-1/2" and containing 92 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: full-page news item, including photos, Massachusetts Primary Campaign: Rival [Peter Flynn] Focuses on Rep. [Gerry] Studds' Affair; full page news item, including photos, Potential City Council: Gays, Lesbians Caught Up in West Hollywood Vote Fever; full-page news item, including photos, Legacy of Activism: Bobbi Campbell's Brave Fight Against AIDS Ends; Special Section - Gay Tech: From the Practical to the Phantasmagorical (Bulletin Boards for Gay Computer Hackers by Arthur Kohn; Computer Sex and How to Get It by P. Gregory Springer; For Mensa Members Who Happen to be GAYSIG: Getting High on IQ by Andy Nyberg; Industrial Chic by William F. Franklin); Cover Story - Bette [Davis] & The Woman Gay Men Love to Quote by Arnie Kantrowitz; Backstage with Director Bruce Donnell (interview); Harlan Greene's Charleston Souvenirs (article with interview quotes). Condition: front cover shows tiny chips along lower edge; short creases, closed tears, and small chips along outer narrow spine fold.