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Offered is Issue No. 414 of The Advocate (February 19, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen (as Editor-in-Chief) and Lenny Giteck (as Editor) and published by David B. Goodstein and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers 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: two-page news item, including photos, entitled Antigay Houston Vote: 4 to 1 (on the proposed ordinance and resolution that would make it illegal for city government to discriminate against homosexuals in hiring, firing and promotions); one-page news item Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Oklahoma Case; one-page news item Oklahoma May Be the Nation's Most Repressive, Antigay State; one-page news item Gay Men Urged Not to Take AIDS-Virus Test [by the National Gay Task Force]; Cover Story - Cupid Cometh: How to Have a Gay Romance (two-page cartoon layout by Donelan entitled Cupid Cometh: Shootin' for Love in All the Right Places; The Advocate Guide to How To Have a Gay Romance); Opening Up The Bar: Gay Lawyers Unite; Decorating the Wounded Butch: The Politics & Passion of Men Who Cross-Dress by Darrell Yates Rist; The Last Resort for Castro's Queens by James M. Saslow (on La Esquilita just off of Times Square in New York); From 'Making Love' to 'Crimes of Passion': Barry Sandler's New Takes on Old Taboos (article with interview quotes); Culture and Context: A French Activist [Jacques Vandemborghe] Tours Gay America (article with interview quote); Peter Klappert: Cries and Wonder From the Dark (article with interview quotes). Condition: outer covers detached but present and edge-ragged. Seller Inventory # 010745
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Title: The Advocate (Issue No. 414, February 19, ...
Publisher: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Magazine
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
