Editore: Liberation Publications, Los Angeles, 1987
Da: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale
Magazine. 97p. includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, letters, stories, drawings, photos, light handling wear, old price penned on front wrap, else very good digest-size gay men's magazine in stapled pictorial wraps.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Hollywood, 1987
Da: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
Softcover. 8 1/2" x 11" 44 pp. Staple-bound in color pictorial wraps. 88 pp. color photos, features and ads. Near Fine in color pictorial wraps.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 411 of The Advocate (January 8, 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 measuring 10-1/4" by 12-1/2" (now with glossy covers) containing 108 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and special section entitled Fabulous Florida! Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item, including photo, entitled Berkeley Extends Spousal Benefits to Gays; half-page news item Gay Organizations Taking Aim at Louisiana Sodomy Laws; half-page news item, including photo, entitled [James] Dronenburg Loses Bid for New Hearing in Battle with Navy; Cover Story - Visions of the New Year (with predictions from "some of the leaders and thinkers, movers and shakers - some gay, some not - who are concerned with gay issues" - most accompanied with portrait photograph; Armistead Maupin - Design for Living: Strengthening The Body Politic Seven Ways by Armistead Maupin); centerspread portfolio featuring photos of celebrity dolls made by Glen Offield; Special Travel Section - Fabulous Florida! (including article on Miami/Ft. Lauderdale; short article on, with interview quotes from, Mayor Richard Heyman; article on Key West; article on Orlando; Florida Directory); Poet Robert Peters: What the Madman Knows (article with interview quotes). Condition: short closed tears and small chip along outer narrow spine fold (to staples); light cover wear.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 426 of The Advocate (August 6, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen (as Editor-in-Chief) and Lenny Giteck (as Editor) and published by Niles A. Merton and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine with thin, 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: A Piece of My Mind - To Sit With Gay Love: Coming Out in the Classroom by James M. Saslow; two-page news item, including photos, entitled Massachusetts Governor [Michael Dukakis] Refuses to Change Policy Banning Gay Foster Parents; news item Gay Minister [Rev. Larry Uhrig] 'Disinvited' by Democratic National Committee Following Publicity; news item Two Gay Men [Jack McCarty and Victor Amburgy] Among TWA Hostages [Flight #847] Return to San Francisco, Tell of Ordeal; full-page news item, including photos, entitled Executive Order 50 [by New York City Mayor Edward Koch banning antigay discrimination by firms and agencies doing business with the City] Struck Down by New York Court of Appeals; news item, with photo, New Orleans Writer [Johnny Greene] is Fired After AIDS Article Appears; Interview - Rosemary Kuropat: New NGTF Administrative Head; four-page photospread Alive With Pride '85'; Cover Story - Safe Sex: Guidelines That Could Save Your Life by Michael Helquist; Lesbian Perspectives [Part Two of Five] - Wanting 'It': The Power of Latinas by Cherrie Moraga; Interview - Critic Robert Jacobson: Keeping in Tune With a Gala Night for AIDS. Condition: the thin, outer covers are detached but present and show tears along cover fold and several small, periodic edge chips; the internal pages are in Fine condition.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 422 of The Advocate (June 11, 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 128 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: A Piece of My Mind - Stonewall: A Good Symbol but Not the Birth of Gay Lib by Donald Vining; Gays and Police: Old Problems, New Hope by Peter Freiberg; one-page news item Future Uncertain for San Francisco Gay Center: Pride Foundation Loses Lease; one-page news item Boston Gay Couple [David Jean and Donald Babets] Appeals Removal of Foster Children; two-page photospread A Mass for AIDS (in Santa Monica, California); Cover Story - Virginia Apuzzo: Gay Pride, Gay Politics (interview); Gay Trivia; two-page portfolio of objects made by artist-in-wood Rene Soulard; Out of the Convent and Into the Heat: Lesbian Nuns Tell Their Stories (article on 'Lesbian Nuns' editors Nancy Manahan and Rosemary Curb, with interview quotes); Gay Men in Nicaragua: Living on Both Sides of the Revolution by Doniphan Blair; book review of The IGA Pink Book (with accompanying Gay and Lesbian Map of the World); A Village Stroll: Gay Lib Landmarks by George Whitmore. Condition: outer covers detached but present and edge-ragged; internal pages tightly bound and in excellent condition.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 425 of The Advocate (July 23, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen (as Editor-in-Chief) and Lenny Giteck (as Editor) and published by Niles A. Merton and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine with glossy covers containing 112 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. This issue was dedicated to David B. Goodstein, who died on June 22, 1985. Highlights include: A Piece of My Mind - Christianity and Sex: Holy Water and Baby Oil Don't Mix by Don Sanders; two-page news item, including photos, [David B.] Goodstein Dead at 53: Cancer Takes Life of Gay Activist, Advocate Owner; IPLGY [Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth]: Giving Refuge to Harassed Gay Youngsters by Peter Freiberg; Rep. Gerry Studds: Out of the Closet, Still in the House (interview); one-page news item, including photos, entitled Texas Attorney General [Jim Mattox] Joins [Gay Activist] Fight to Uphold Sodomy Law Decision; Profile: [Artist] Bill Moore (article with interview quotes); Lesbian Perspectives [Part One of Five] - Writing in the Margins by Barbara Smith ("[on] the difficulties she's encountered being heard in the black community as an open lesbian"); five-page male fashion photospread entitled Summer of '85: Seductive Southern California Fashion; The Demise of the Gay Male Model by Brad Gooch; Rudi Gernreich: In and Out of Fashion by Stuart C. Timmons; Designs for Life: An Interview With Sir Cecil Beaton; Design - Form After Function: The 'Ideal' Gay Bar by George Whitmore and Jose Vidal (with blueprint); Hot Living is the Best Revenge (short article on John Preston, with interview quotes). Condition: covers edge-ragged and detached but present; internal pages tightly bound.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 427 of The Advocate (August 20, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen (as Editor-in-Chief) and Lenny Giteck (as Editor) and published by Niles A. Merton and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine 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: A Piece of My Mind - The Gay Italian Stallion's Painful Family Dilemma by George De Stefano; one-page news item Toronto Hosts Seventh Annual International Gay Conference (IGA); news item American Bar Association Again Refuses to Endorse Gay Rights; full-page news item Gay's the Word Bookstore on Trial Over Banned 'Obscene' Literature; In Depth - They're Taking Our Children by Dave Walter (on custody rights); one-column news item Rock Hudson Has AIDS; AIDS: The Tip of the Iceberg by Michael Helquist; Marriage & Etiquette: 25 Ways NOT to Leave Your Lover by Arnie Kantrowitz; Lesbian Perspectives [Part Three of Five] - Myths, Images and the Creation of Reality by Dorothy Allison; Cover Story - 'Kiss of the Spider Woman': Sex and Politics Mix in an Explosive New Movie (Interview - Hector Babenco: Powerful Dreams Woven in 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'; film review by Marcia Pally; Commentary: Portrait of a Gay Man as Political Prisoner by Malcolm Boyd; 'Kiss' and Tell: The Boys of Ipanema, On the Beach with Manuel Puig [article with interview quotes]). Covers detached but present and show light narrow waterstain along upper front edge and periodic edge chips and short closed edge tears, particularly along the outer narrow fold. The interior pages are in excellent condition and tightly bound.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 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.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 415 of The Advocate (March 5, 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 100 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: Should the Bathhouses Be Closed? by Peter Freiberg; The San Francisco Solution [on bathhouses]: Debate Continues on Its Legality, Effectiveness by Stephen Kulieke; Cover Story - Faces: Profiles in Gay Pride - The Advocate Guide to People Worth Watching (profiles, with portrait photos, of Victor Bumbalo, Tom Nolan, Bill Thom, Carol Hunt, Shawn Kelly, L. Page 'Deacon' Maccubbin, Muggs Regan, Chris Uszler); CDC to Host Major AIDS Risk-Reduction Conference; centerspread portfolio by photographer Richard T. Wardell; Special Section - Culture Clash (Reform or Revolution: The Challenge of Creating a Gay Sensibility by Michael Bronski; What Price Gay Nationalism? by Dennis Altman; Flaming Without Burning: The Role of Gay People in Society by Judy Grahn); John Schlesinger: Examining the Dark Heart of American Dreams (interview); Michael Bronski: Tracking the Elusive 'Gay Sensibility' (article with interview quotes); With an Eye to the Past, Allan Berube Helps a Community Create Its Future (article with interview quotes). Condition: outer covers detached but present and edge-ragged.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 413 of The Advocate (February 5, 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 88 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: full-page news items (Tough AIDS-Funding Fight Predicted [Congress]; [Virginia] Apuzzo Blasts New York City on Lack of Money for AIDS Services; Hepatitis B Threat Increases - Yet Few at Risk Are Vaccinated); one-column news item Dan White Free; Cover Story - Gays on the Tube: Television Images Past and Present (The Televised Gay: How We're Pictured on the Tube by Richard Laermer; Marlo Thomas: "Consenting Adult" Up Close [article with interview quotes]); centerspread portfolio of correspondence-art postcards by Sabato Fiorello; Mt. Athos: The All-Male Holy Mountain of Greece by Ron Ottley; Patrice Chereau: Defending a Difficult, Tragic 'Wounded Man' (short article with interview quotes); Jan Clausen: Radical Images From the 'Big Chill' Generation (short article with interview quotes); Stephen Dickson: 'A Nice Guy' With a Barracuda Bite (short article with interview quotes). Condition: covers show periodic wear along outer narrow spine fold.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 417 of The Advocate (April 2, 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 112 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item [U.S.] Supreme Court Lets Two Antigay Rulings Stand ([1] high school guidance counselor Marjorie Rowland, who was dismissed by Mad River school district in Montgomery, Ohio, after she confided to her secretary and several faculty colleagues that she was bisexual and involved with another woman; [2] the attempt by Detroit MCC to hold worship services in the state's prisons); one-page news item HTLV-III Antibody Test is Licensed: Gay Group [Lambda Legal Defense] Will Sue to Stop It; one-page news item Baltimore City Council Votes, Says No to Gay Rights Bill; one-page news item West Hollywood Moves on Domestic Partners, Discrimination in Bars; Faces: People to Watch (short profiles, with portrait photos, on Tom Ammiano, Eric Rofes, and Cass Magnuski); Visionary Filmmaker James Whitney: An Appreciation by William Moritz; Cover Story - Troy Perry and Malcolm Boyd: Two Gay Clergymen Speak About Ecstasy, Sex and Spirituality (interview); Notes on an Emerging Species: Test Tube Gays for a Brave New World? by Jim Wilson; 'Lust in the Dust': New Horizons for a Divine Cult Legend (article on Divine, with interview quotes); Maurice Bejart: Liberating the Soul of the Male Dancer (article with interview quotes). Condition: covers detached but present and show periodic edge chips and short closed edge tears along lower edge of front cover and edges where covers detached.
Editore: Liberation Publications, Inc., Malibu, CA, 1985
Da: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rivista / Giornale Prima edizione
Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is Issue No. 416 of The Advocate (March 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 108 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: 1-1/2-page news item Police Raid Atlanta Baths (The Club Atlanta and The Locker Room Health Club); news item Gay Leaders Pressure Bathhouse Owners to Urge Safe Sex; The Houston Defeat: Why? by Stephen Kulieke (with table of Houston Poll Results); Faces (short profiles, with portrait photos, of Nancy Wilson, Robert Hegyi, Sarah Craig, and Larry Gross); Cover Story - The Gay Changing Face of New York (James Saslow on Manhattan and The Gay Exodus to the Boroughs; Dennis Cooper on The East Village and Its New Gay Ways; Brad Gooch on Times Square and Its Raw Romantics); Arabian Nights: Gay Sex in the Heart of Islam [Saudi Arabia] by Vincent Traughber; An 'Unsung Genius' is Reclaimed: Dance Artist Jack Cole. Condition: front cover shows a few light spots, a few tiny edge chips and short closed edge tears; corner chip to rear cover.