Wraps. Condizione: Fine. Cover by Kathy Rogers (illustratore). 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" stapled white wraps printed in red. [28] pages. Fine, without flaw. The Ladder was the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, issued monthly from 1956 to 1970, and once every other month in 1971 and 1972. It was the primary publication and method of communication for the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the US, and importantly contained an ongoing running bibliography of lesbian literature in every issue. In this issue, one of the first edited by Barbara Gittings, a report on the East Coast Homophile Organizations Convention of 1963, at which Dr. Albert Ellis had announced that "the exclusive homosexual" was a psychopath, setting off a firestorm in the LGBTQ community.
Wraps. Condizione: Fine. Cover by Helen Sanders (illustratore). 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" stapled beige wraps printed in brown. [28] pages. Wraps rubbed, upper wrap with a few spots of soiling, a sound copy. The Ladder was the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, issued monthly from 1956 to 1970, and once every other month in 1971 and 1972. It was the primary publication and method of communication for the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the US, and importantly contained an ongoing running bibliography of lesbian literature in every issue. In this issue, a short story by Vern Niven and a review of the state of lesbian fiction by Gene Damon and Lee Stuart.