Physique magazines—also known as beefcake magazines—featured photos of attractive, sculpted, and statuesque young male models and bodybuilders under the guise of health and fitness content. In actuality, these publications were often made by and marketed to gay men, and aimed to provide mail-order erotic content that would have been otherwise difficult to find at the time. This catalogue features some of the publications and photographers that molded the genre, such as Fred Kovert, Bob Mizer, Bruce of Los Angeles, Tony Saxon, among many others.
A selection of underground newspapers and ephemera representative of the GI Movement – a campaign by active-duty servicemen to resist what they saw as an illegal and/or immoral war in Vietnam, and to fight for the freedom to express their discontent.
Akwesasne Notes, one of the premier chronicles of Native American activism, was published by members of the Mohawk Nation beginning in 1969. It covered the occupation of Alcatraz, the standoff at Wounded Knee, developments with the American Indian Movement and other groups within the US, and around the rest of the Americas. With the collaboration of Glad Day Press, which printed many posters for activist groups, the newspaper reprinted some of its centerfold designs as posters, and supplemented these with other designs. This is a selection of eighteen different posters produced during the 1970s.
