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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. Seller Inventory # 013242
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Title: The Advocate (Issue No. 279, November 1, ...
Publisher: Liberation Publications, Inc., San Mateo, CA
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Newspaper
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
