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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Castro Street Fair. Ninth annual, August 15, 1982
San Francisco: 1982. 16p., 6x9 inches, very good in stiff, stapled pictorial wraps showing a crowd at the previous fair, rear cover map with locations of booths, food area etc., illustrated with photos, ads, event schedule etc. More about Castro Street Fair. Ninth annual, August 15, 1982
Cat.No: 167221
![Castro Street Fair: 34th annual [program] Where everyone can have a gay ol' time, Oct. 7, 2007](/pictures/thumb/237578.jpg?v=1557368747)
Castro Street Fair: 34th annual [program] Where everyone can have a gay ol' time, Oct. 7, 2007
San Francisco: Castro Street Fair, 2007. Magazine. [60p] includes covers, 5.25x8.25 inches, photos, event schedule, ads, services and resources, very good digest -size program in stapled pictorial wraps. More about Castro Street Fair: 34th annual [program] Where everyone can have a gay ol' time, Oct. 7, 2007
Cat.No: 237578
![Castro Street Fair: 37th annual [program] Get your Freak on! Oct. 3, 2010](/pictures/thumb/237949.jpg?v=1557976159)
Castro Street Fair: 37th annual [program] Get your Freak on! Oct. 3, 2010
San Francisco: Castro Street Fair, 2010. Magazine. [44p] includes covers, 5.25x8.25 inches, photos, event schedule, ads, services and resources, very good digest -size program in stapled pictorial wraps. More about Castro Street Fair: 37th annual [program] Get your Freak on! Oct. 3, 2010
Cat.No: 237949
![Castro Street Fair: 40th anniversary [program] starring Peaches, October 6th, 2013](/pictures/thumb/233959.jpg?v=1548905906)
Castro Street Fair: 40th anniversary [program] starring Peaches, October 6th, 2013
San Francisco: Castro Street Fair, 2013. Magazine. [40p] 5.25x8.25 inches, photos, event schedule, ads, services and resources, very good digest -size program in stapled pictorial wraps. More about Castro Street Fair: 40th anniversary [program] starring Peaches, October 6th, 2013
Cat.No: 233959
Castro sweep police riot; October 6, 1989
San Francisco: Castro Sweep Project, 1999. 4p. pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, for the exhibition "marking the 10th anniversary of the Castro Sweep police riot ... the single most massive official attack on queer human rights in the history of San Francisco" - p. 2, very good in pictorial self-wraps. More about Castro sweep police riot; October 6, 1989
Cat.No: 119007
Castro Theatre Calendars: six calendars, October 2006 - July 13, 2008
San Francisco: The Castro Theatre, 2006-2008. Calendar. Six brochure-style glossy calendars folded to 7x9 inches printed both sides in full-color on glossy stock. Calendars for Oct. 27, 2006 - January 4, 2007; March 9 - April25, 2007; October 5 - December 1, 1007; December 2, 2007 - February 8, 2009; March 20 - May8, 2008; May 9 - July 13, 2008. More about Castro Theatre Calendars: six calendars, October 2006 - July 13, 2008
Cat.No: 237015
Castro Theatre Winter '97 program calendar
San Francisco: Castro Theatre, 1997. Newspaper. Large broadside folded to 8.5x11 inches, heavy white newsprint, color cover still from "The Graduate", calendar on rear, inside find detailed descriptions of the various films accompanied by b&w still shots, introduction with monochrome shots, very good. More about Castro Theatre Winter '97 program calendar
Cat.No: 229822
Catalina Video: vol. 2, #1, January 1983 edition: 'Warehouse' delivers its load!
Los Angeles: Catalina Video, 1983. 4p., folded tabloid format, photos, advertising catalog & newsletter for the gay porn distribution company. More about Catalina Video: vol. 2, #1, January 1983 edition: 'Warehouse' delivers its load!
Cat.No: 236862
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 about Caucus Connections: publication of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the NEA; vol. 8, #2, December...
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 about Causes in Common: reproductive justice & LGBT liberation [brochure
Cat.No: 237579
CCR newsletter: vol. 2, #2, March, 1978; Anti-Bryant Crusade
Phoenix: Citizens for Constitutional Rights, 1978. [8p] 8.5x11 inches, articles, news, editorials, services and resources, local ads, events, services and resources, mild toning otherwise a very good newsletter in stapled wraps. Cover stories and letter to the editor deploring Anita Bryant. More about CCR newsletter: vol. 2, #2, March, 1978; Anti-Bryant Crusade
Cat.No: 229440
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 about Celebration '90" newsletter of Gay Games III and Cultural festival, August 4-11, 1990 #5,...
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 about The Celebration '90: Gay Games III and Cultural Festival, official program, August 4-11, 1990,...
Cat.No: 74199
Center stage: vol. 2, no. 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. More about Center stage: vol. 2, no. 7, Feb. 1989 - April 1991 (broken run of 6 issues
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 as the entertainment. More about The Center's 15th Anniversary Dinner & Dance [souvenir program
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 have mailing labels address to José Sarria! More about Centerstone: the news magazine of the Stonewall Alliance of Chico; [five issue broken run
Cat.No: 198768
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 about The Challenge and Progress of Homosexual Law Reform
Cat.No: 186063
![Change the Face of television [brochure] In the Life Club](/pictures/thumb/215591.jpg?v=1496289036)
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 about Change the Face of television [brochure] In the Life Club
Cat.No: 215591
Changes: no. 3, spring 1974
Simpsonville, MD: Changes/PEER Collective, 1974. Newspaper. 44p. folded tabloid newspaper in two sections, comix, political cartoons, radical columns, news, services, very good on newsprint. Underground radical political newspaper. Articles on the murder of George Jackson in prison, Racism in Hopward County, LGBT and Women's Rights, Black Panthers, the US still... More about Changes: no. 3, spring 1974
Cat.No: 186520
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 about Changing men: issues in gender, sex and politics; #15, Fall 1985: Men confronting pornography issue
Cat.No: 189190
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 about Cheaters San Francisco Convention 1984 [program
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 about Chicago Filmmakers presents the 11th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival...
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 about Child care in the best interest of the children... Volunteers needed. Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day...
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 about China: AIDS and the epidemic of capitalism; reprinted from Revolutionary Worker #1116, August 26,...
Cat.No: 121227
![Christ Chapel Orthodox Episcopal Church of God [Press Release] April 18, 1977](/pictures/thumb/208708.jpg?v=1484089642)
Christ Chapel Orthodox Episcopal Church of God [Press Release] April 18, 1977
San Francisco: Christ Chapel Orthodox Episcopal Church of God, 1977. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed one-side-only with letterhead on white stock. Press release concerning Gay Liberation Alliance and EXODUS a gay-deprogramming organization and a chapter of that organization in El Paso, TX called EAGLE. Christ Chapel was presided over by... More about Christ Chapel Orthodox Episcopal Church of God [Press Release] April 18, 1977
Cat.No: 208708
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