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Offered is Issue No. 534 of The Advocate (September 26, 1989): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Mark Thompson (as Senior Editor) and Gerry Kroll (as Editor) and published by Niles A. Merton and Liberation Publications out of Los Angeles, California. A massive publication with glossy covers and newsprint pages, containing 124 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Contents include: news article "'Hot Bottom Plus Large Endowment Equals a Great Time' - Will a Hustler's Allegations [Steve Gobie] Turn Barney Frank's Career Into Barney Rubble?" (with photo); article "Legacy of a Double Life: Congressman's Two Worlds Collide In a Connecticut Courtroom" (on Arnold Denson and the late U.S. Representative Stewart McKinney); lengthy "Gay Life: The Year 2000" (with predictions from several gay and lesbian notables, each with their photo, including Roberta Achtenberg, Sally Miller-Gearhart, Nan Hunter, Rev. John J. McNeill, Jeff Levi, Susie Bright, gay erotic film star Al Parker, Harry Hay, Ben Schatz, Mathilde Krim, Martin Delaney); article "Looking Backward To The Other Gay '90s" by Jonathan Ned Katz (on the 1690s, 1790s, and the 1890s); humor "Close Encounters Of the Cured Kind: A Wry Look at Life After AIDS" by David B. Feinberg (after a cure for AIDS is found, including "Gay men, thankful for the altruistic deeds lesbians performed for them at the height of the epidemic, return the favor by running day-care centers at wimmin's music festivals"); article with interview quotes "Reading, 'Riting, and Renovating: David Van Auker Restores an Old School In the Old West" (with two photos); article "Minor White: The Eye That Shapes" (with four of his photographs). In lightly worn, corner-creased covers. Seller Inventory # 014431
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Title: The Advocate (Issue No. 534, September 26, ...
Publisher: Liberation Publications, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Magazine
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition