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Offered is Issue No. 167 (July 2, 1975) of The Advocate: Touching Your Lifestyle edited by John Preston and published by David B. Goodstein and Liberation Publications, Inc. out of San Mateo, California. A large newsprint magazine containing 48 pages including front and rear covers (this copy missing the laid-in classified ads). Containing news, articles, columns, profiles, photos, and vintage advertisements, contents include: news item "New Mexico Scraps Sodomy Penalties"; article "A Warped Scenario Behind Marriage Bill" by Patty Prado Duke (on House Bill 2024 which stipulates that "Marriage between persons of the same sex is prohibited and void"); one-third-page ad for the Gold Coast (Chicago); full-page ad for The Whitman-Radclyffe Foundation (with photo: "Meet the chairman of the board, your clergyman, the mechanic, your favorite actress, and maybe your son or your daughter. They all live in a closet"); Advocate Special Report: Gay People and the Military (articles include "A Question of Banners"; "How to Get Help"; "A Perfect Test Case" - on Leonard Matlovich, with his photo; "How Uncle Sam Brought Me Out"; "The Enemy Sleeps in the Next Bunk"; "It's as Old as the Greeks"; "Honor Platoon WACs Fighting Discharge" - on Debbie Watson and Barbara Randolph, with their photos); one-third page photo of the Cycle Sluts; entertainment article "Linda Hopkins in 'Me and Bessie [Smith]'" (with five portrait photos of Linda Hopkins); full-page "A Div-oon Party!" (with five photos by Dennis Forbes, four of Divine); article "Christopher Street" by Arnie Kantrowitz (with six photos by James Solheim); profile "A Luxurious Position" (on Ann Elwell, with her photo); splendid two page photospread entitled "Karen Becker's Very Personal Journal" (with five photos). Seller Inventory # 014383
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Advocate (Issue No. 167, July 2, 1975): ...
Publisher: Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA
Publication Date: 1975
Binding: Newspaper
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
