Frontiers (Vol. Volume 2 Number No. 9, August 31-September 14, 1983) Gay Newsmagazine Newsprint Magazine

Bob Craig and Jerry Hyde (Publishers)

Published by Frontiers Publishing Corp., North Hollywood, CA, 1983

About this Item

Offered is the August 31-September 14, 1983 issue of Frontiers newsmagazine (Volume 2 No. 9) published by Bob Craig and Jerry Hyde (Frontiers Publishing Corp.) out of North Hollywood, California. A large left-folded newsprint magazine containing 48 pages including front and rear covers, plus the 12-page Frontiers Classifieds laid in to center, as issued. Features include: opening letter "The High Cost of 'Free' Publications" ("'Free' publications are anything but, and Frontiers publishers Bob Craig and Jerry Hyde, and Editor Gary Steele, who have found this out through excruciatingly detailed experience, tell just how you come to be reading this, free of charge"); Opinion Piece "Yes, Virginia, There are Lesbians and Gays in East L.A." by Tommy Escarcega ("Linguistic, geographic, racial, and income barriers have all conspired to make the gay/lesbian population of East Los Angeles invisible to the 'west-of-downtown' community"); News Section (including "Gays Jailed Over AIDS Scare in Haiti"; "Steve Schulte Confirms Upcoming Departure from Gay Center Post"; "Police Retreat From Commitment To Seek Lesbian and Gay Recruits"; "Stroke Victim Sues Popper Manufacturers"); news item and memorial "Bill Harless, 31, Loses Valiant Fight" (Bill Harless was one of the first volunteers for the AIDS Project Hotline and, as a person with AIDS, the subject of several articles in publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times to California Magazine); article "Just What Is a Radical Faerie?" ("Mike Varady journeyed to the San Diego hinterlands and the Fourth Annual Faerie Gathering in pursuit of the answer, and chronicles his quest"); Congressman Gerry Studds Interviewed ("Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds gives his views on closeted Washingtonians, the gay movement, and the changes in his life since his dramatic uncloseting"); article "Mansfield Mania Strikes Hollywood" ("The sunset of Hollywood's Golden Age saw some spectacular solar flares, of whom Jayne Mansfield was surely one of the most florid. Vincent Colicchio shows how her memory is being kept alive by a rabidly-growing group of acolytes"); Anne Carlisle Interviewed ("Filmex '83's big hit, 'Liquid Sky', is returning to Los Angeles after breaking house records in New York. John Bryant interviews the star, androgynous Anne Carlisle, and elicits some startling views on sex roles, drugs, and hyperfast-lane living in the 80s").

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frontiers (Vol. Volume 2 Number No. 9, August 31-September 14, 1983) Gay Newsmagazine Newsprint Magazine
• Publisher: Frontiers Publishing Corp., North Hollywood, CA
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• Binding: Magazine
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
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