Vector: a voice for the homophile community; vol. 5, #8, August 1969: Tom Gillard, SIR's Groovy Guy
San Francisco: Society for Individual Rights, 1969. Magazine. 40p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, no nude male photos this issue, artwork and ads, rippling from dampness else good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps.
Cover story on the Kinsey Inst. Also a Memorial Mass for murdered gay man Frank Bartley. Back cover ad for the film "The Boys in the Band" S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men.The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.
Cat.No: 270293
Price: $25.00