Gay Activist & Lesbian Activist: February 1973; Taxi Commission Oppresses Gays
New York: Gay Activist Alliance, 1973. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newsletter on newsprint, services, resources, news, reports, events, ads, photos, toning, closed tears at folds, brittle and fragile.
First issue of Lesbian Activist on page three. This was likely the first of the tabloid-style issues. Started as a 20 page magazine style newsletter, transitioned to this tabloid format.
Cover stories on the Taxi Commission and President Bruce Voeller's open letter. President Voeller was a biologist who came out at age 29 divorcing his wife and joining the GAA. Dissatisfied with the outreach he formed National Gay Task Force in 1973. In the early 1980s he coined the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or A.I.D.S.
Cat.No: 272427
Price: $30.00