Manscape 2: #7, Summer 1987...
Lewis, Jackie, editor & publisher...
Gay Studies
This section includes literature by gay authors, as well as nonfiction works on related subjects, and the ephemera of gay and transgender political and social organizations. Many items that are relevant to the broader LGBTQ+ movement will also be found listed in the Lesbian studies section.
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Caucus Connections: publication of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the NEA; vol. 8, #2, December 1995; History resolution sparks debate
Kent: GLC/National Education Association, 1995. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, news, reports, services and resources, very good newsletter of folded, nested sheets. More
Cat.No: 229438
Causes in Common: reproductive justice & LGBT liberation [brochure]
New York: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, [2010s]. Six-panel brochure folded to6x9 inches, color photos, organization information, detachable mailer-card, very good on heavy glossy stock. A national organizing initiative. More
Cat.No: 237579
Cecil Knockherworst Weatherbee commemorates the second hanging of Sweet Lips: April 1972 [pinback button]
San Francisco: n.pub. 1972. 1.75 inch diameter button, black text on a white background with red lips; very good. Sweet Lips, a.k.a. Richard Walters, was a columnist for the Bay Area Reporter focusing on the gay gossip of the Polk and Tenderloin areas. More
Cat.No: 229060
Cecil Knockherworst Weatherbee commemorates the third hanging of Sweet Lips: April 1973 [pinback button]
San Francisco: Mfg. by Dave Valentine, 1973. Oval button, about 2.75 inches across, in a slightly convex shape so that the lips appear to bulge out. Sweet Lips, a.k.a. Richard Walters, was a columnist for the Bay Area Reporter focusing on the gay gossip of the Polk and Tenderloin areas..... More
Cat.No: 229059
Celebration '90" newsletter of Gay Games III and Cultural festival, August 4-11, 1990 #5, Nov./Dec. '88
Vancouver: Metropolitan Vancouver Athletic & Arts Association, 1988. Newspaper. 8p., folded tabloid newspaper, articles, photos, teams, resources, very good on newsprint. Below the fold article on San Francisco Athletics dissolving the organization and passing on sponsorship of the games by Summer of 1989. More
Cat.No: 215659
The Celebration '90: Gay Games III and Cultural Festival, official program, August 4-11, 1990, Vancouver
Vancouver: Metropolitan Vancouver Athletics and Arts Association, 1990. Magazine. 75p., + ads, 8.5x11 inches, events, ads, resources and services, very good souvenir magazine in stapled purple pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 74199
Center for Special Problems [brochure]
San Francisco: The Center, [1980s?]. Six-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, list of bullet-point questions teens ask themselves, Who we are, services we offer, very good on heavy orange stock with drawing of hands and flower on front panel, hand-corrected phone number. The Center was a division of the City..... More
Cat.No: 244543
Center Stage: vol. 2, #7, Feb. 1989 - April 1991 (broken run of 6 issues)
New York: Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, 1989-91. Six issues, various pagination, 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, reviews of Broadway and Off Broadway shows, very good first edition booklets in stapled pictorial wraps. Issues include: 2:7, 11, 12, 3:2June/July 1990 & April 1991. At some point the publishers dropped the volume..... More
Cat.No: 184270
The Center's 15th Anniversary Dinner & Dance [souvenir program]
Los Angeles: The Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center, 1986. Magazine. [40p] 8.5x11 inches, program for the event, photos, ads, very good souvenir program in glossy white stapled pictorial wraps. The event took place November 22, 1986 at the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles Ballroom and starred Miss Peggy Lee..... More
Cat.No: 209789
Centerstone: the news magazine of the Stonewall Alliance of Chico; [five issue broken run]
Chico, CA: Stonewall Alliance of Chico, 1991-1996. Five issues, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, stapled sheets and booklets, news, features, eventys, resources, photos, calendars, local ads, some hole-punch otherwise very good newsletters. Issues included are: 1:Winter/Spring 1991, 1:10 Summer 1993, 2:1, Jan. 1996, 2:7 July 1996 & 2:10 Oct. 1996. Several..... More
Cat.No: 198768
Cerebral: fetish, dance, sex; #23
Antwerp: Cerebral Fetish, 2012. 58p. includes covers, 4.25x5.75 inches, erotic fetish photos, ads, events, very good glossy pocket-size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes a report on Folsom International - Europe. More
Cat.No: 253612
The Challenge and Progress of Homosexual Law Reform
San Francisco: Council on Religion and the Homosexual/Daughters of Bilitis/SIR & tavern Guild, 1968. 72p., 5.5x8.5 inches, introduction, notes, list of homophile organizations, lightly worn wraps, staples are rusted otherwise quite good. Essays on Homosexuality, #2. More
Cat.No: 186063
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Change the Face of Television [brochure] In the Life Club
New York: In the Life Media Network, no date. Eight-panel folded brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, photos, show descriptions, donation envelope, very good. A brochure asking for donations and offering Club Memberships to LGBTQ viewers for the PBS program. More
Cat.No: 215591
Change: a working woman's newspaper. Volume 2, No. 7, Oct-Nov 1972
San Francisco, CA: Change, 1972. Newspaper. 8p., folded tabloid newspaper, features, photos, comic strip, evenly toned, worn, stamped "Received" on cover, adress label on rear wrap else good condition on newsprint. Cover stories are "Elections", "Gay at Work", "Strike at Foremost", and "Welfare" More
Cat.No: 187706
Changing Men: issues in gender, sex and politics; #15, Fall 1985: Men confronting pornography issue
Madison: University YMCA Community Center, 1985. Magazine. 48p., 8.25x10.5 inches, features, essays, reviews, illustrations, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Formerly known as "M. gentle men for gender justice" More
Cat.No: 189190
Changing Men: issues in gender, sex and politics; #26, Summer/Fall 1993: The Warrior and Softfear
Madison: University YMCA Community Center, 1993. Magazine. 72p., 8.5x10.75 inches, features, essays, reviews, illustrations, wraps worn, old price sticker on front wrap else very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Formerly known as "M. gentle men for gender justice". Includes a special section on masculinity and mutliculturalism. More
Cat.No: 241593
The Channel: [7 issue broken run]
San Francisco: TGSF/ Transgender San Francisco formerly ETVC, Inc., 2000-2004. Magazine. Seven issue broken run, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with b&w photos, lightly-worn newsletters in stapled wraps with 3-hole punch in left margin for binding. House organ for transgender organization. Originally called ETVC Newsletter up until about volume 16..... More
Cat.No: 244181
Cheaters San Francisco Convention 1984 [program]
San Francisco: Cheaters SF, 1984. 24p., 5.5x8.5 inches, event schedule, ads, illustrations, very good program booklet in stapled white and blue wraps. Program for gay motorcycle club convention. More
Cat.No: 232014
Chicago Filmmakers presents the 11th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival November 8-17, 1991
Chicago: Chicago Filmmakers, 1991. Newspaper. 8p. folded tabloid newspaper program for the festival with thumbnail film stills and film descriptions, times and dates, calendar, very good on newsprint. More
Cat.No: 236552
Child care in the best interest of the children... Volunteers needed. Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day 6-27-82 [handbill]
San Francisco: Childcare Subcommittee, Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Celebration, 1982. 8.5x14 inch handbill, several creases, some foxing. "We lesbians and gay men must ally ourselves with children and young people and let them see we are not monstres as the Briggs, the Anitas, the Moral Majority and the media portray us..."..... More
Cat.No: 236641
China: AIDS and the epidemic of capitalism; reprinted from Revolutionary Worker #1116, August 26, 2001
[Cambridge: Revolution Books, 2001]. [12p] 5.5x8.5 inches, photos in text, very good pamphlet in stapled wraps. These reprints from the RCP's Revolutionary Worker argue that the restoration of capitalism in China made possible the spread of the epidemic. More
Cat.No: 121227
Christopher Street West/Los Angeles 1991 Together in Pride souvenir program gay and Lesbian Pride Celebration, West Hollywood, CA, June 22 and 23, 1991
West Hollywood: Christopher Street West Assoc. 1991. Magazine. 64p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, ads, event schedule, photos, services and resources, very good program booklet in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 236893
The Church and the Homosexual
San Francisco: Citizens News, [1965?]. 4p., folded tabloid newspaper format on white heavier stock. Excerpts from the Wolfenden Report, Towards a Quaker View of Sex, and other documents which were included at one time with issues of Guy Strait's Citizens News and as reprints individually. More
Cat.No: 58366
The Church for Unity and Service: a church for us [handbill]
San Francisco: The Church for Unity and Service, 1983. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed recto-only, red ink on white stock, portrait of Rev. Charles Thorpe, announcement and other info, very good. Announcement for a special service on Sunday, June 26, 1983 for Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade. Fifth year the Church..... More
Cat.No: 206911
Cinéaste; vol. 6, #1; Costa-Garvis on "State of Siege"
New York: Cineaste Publishers, 1973. 52p., 8.25x10.75 inches, photos, stills, very good film magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Radical American film questionaire part II, Male Chauvinist Musical by Robert patrick. More
Cat.No: 166139
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