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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Back Drop Club Information and Party Brochure May 1989 to December 1989
Sunnvale, CA: Back Drop Club, 1989. [16p] 8.5x11 inches, Club history and information, event and party calendar, application forms, membership rules and dues, very good in unbound nested sheets. House organ for the California BDSM club originally called The Menlo Park Scool of Bondage. More
Cat.No: 218854
Bar Rag; vol. 1 no. 3, First half of April 1971
LaVerne, CA: Pin Chinn, 1971. [12p] 8.5x11 inches, 6 single sheets, mimeographed, bar ads, bits and pieces of news, report on the Bay Area Reporter being sued, stapled at left, very good. Cheaply-produced free San Francisco gay bar newspaper. One holding located in OCLC as of 9/2015. More
Cat.No: 198581
![Barbary Coasters Motorcycle Club [invitation card]](/pictures/thumb/209712.jpg?v=1484089959)
Barbary Coasters Motorcycle Club [invitation card]
San Francisco: Barbary Coasters Motorcycle Club, 1986. Four panel invitation, 4.25x5.5 inches, cover logo, information printed on third panel, very good on heavy yellow stock. 20th anniversary celebration March 19, 1986 at Claifornia Club. More
Cat.No: 209712
![Baron - Montreal [pinback button]](/pictures/thumb/226446.jpg?v=1530159067)
Baron - Montreal [pinback button]
Montreal: Baron de Montreal, [no date]. Pinback Button. 1.5x1.5 inch square pinback button with two bears frolicking on a white field and the words Baron MTL in Centuryl Gothic font and Raoul Vennat Enr. and a phone number on edges, discoloration and rubbing to edges and a small spot of... More
Cat.No: 226446
The Bay Area Gay Alliance; what is BayGay?
San Francisco: Gay Alliance, [197-?]. Single 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill printed one side, with some a handwritten note in ink on back referring to a Prison Reform for Gays meeting at Duboce on rear, fold creases, discoloring, for organizational outreach. More
Cat.No: 72622
![Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights membership information [brochure]](/pictures/thumb/224328.jpg?v=1524713034)
Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights membership information [brochure]
San Francisco: BAPHR, [1970s?]. Six panel folded brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, bullet -pointsinformations, application form, blue stock, also a folded 8.5x14 inch sex-act and health questionnaire laid-in with explicit lists of sex acts and diseases. More
Cat.No: 224328
![Bay Area Regional Rodeo programs 1993-1995 [three programs]](/pictures/thumb/218912.jpg?v=1507781400)
Bay Area Regional Rodeo programs 1993-1995 [three programs]
San Francisco: Golden State Gay Rodeo Association, Bay Area Chapter, 1993-1995. Magazine. Three issues of the program, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, program, event calendar, photos, ads, resources, very good souvenir magazines in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 218912
Bearplay #3
Las Vegas, NV: Bear Omnimedia, 2011. Magazine. 36p., includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, explicit b&w photos of husky, hairy, nude men with erections, ads for videos, photos, magazines etc., very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 205758
Bears Ahead: Harrison Street Fair Weekend Official Program; Labor Day Weekend, August 31-Sept. 4, 2006
San Francisco: Harrison Street Fair, 2006. Magazine. [48p] includes covers, 5x8 inches, ads, events, schedule, photos, very good semi-glossy event program in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 220712
Beau: vol. 1, #5, February 1990; Humped by 3 Dudes!
Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc., 1990. Magazine. 116p. including covers, 5.25x8.25 inches, erotic fiction, reviews, articles, illustrated with b&w cartoons, explicit photos and ads for sex toys, lightly-worn digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Special report: Gay Theatre since Stonewall. More
Cat.No: 187895
Beau: vol. 5, #1, June 1993; Used by a Butch Straight!
Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc., 1993. Magazine. 116p. including covers, 5.25x8.25 inches, erotic fiction, reviews, articles, illustrated with b&w cartoons, explicit photos and ads for sex toys, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 203759
Becoming Visible: the legacy of Stonewall, an exhibition on the history of New York's lesbian and gay communities, June 18-September 24, 1994
New York: The New York Public Library, 1994. [12p] 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, exhibition catalog, very good booklet in stapled blue pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 35862
Behind our backs & sumt'n to say: faggot sex & sissy speak; two magazines bound together
San Francisco: San Francisco AIDS Foundation at Bacchus Press, 1995. Paperback. 63p. & 51p., 9x12 inches, illustrations, resources for safe sex, AIDS, bound dos-a-dos, very good magazine in trade paper pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 179253
![Being Alive: People with HIV/AIDS Action Coalition newsletter July 1988, June 1995, June and July 1997 [four issues]](/pictures/thumb/221417.jpg?v=1552162903)
Being Alive: People with HIV/AIDS Action Coalition newsletter July 1988, June 1995, June and July 1997 [four issues]
Los Angeles: People with HIV/AIDS Action Coalition, 1988 & 1997. Four issue broken run, 8p., 20p. & 20p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, news, event calendars, services and resources, very good. More
Cat.No: 221417
![Berkeley Public Library's Annual Lesbian & Gay Author Reading: a unique and comfortable opportunity for cross-cultural dialog between the gay and straight communities [handbill] Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Darieck Scott & Canyon Sam](/pictures/thumb/229999.jpg?v=1539227223)
Berkeley Public Library's Annual Lesbian & Gay Author Reading: a unique and comfortable opportunity for cross-cultural dialog between the gay and straight communities [handbill] Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Darieck Scott & Canyon Sam
Berkeley: Friends of the Library, no date. Single 11x8.5 inch handbill in landscape format on lavender stock with photos of the three authors and event information, lightly-stained otherwise good. More
Cat.No: 229999
Berlin & Beyond #13: new films from Germany, Austria & Switzerland January 10-16 at The Castro
San Francisco: Goethe-Institut, 2008. Magazine. [32p]8x10.5 inches, filmographies, bios, schedules, stills, ads, very good program for the festival in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 234258
BETA: Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS; June 1989 - Summer 2008 (broken run of 21 issues and a summary sheet)
San Francisco: The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, 1989-2008. Magazine. Twenty-one issue run, various paginations, 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, tables, figures, stapled newsletters/magazines, a summary sheet from July 1996 on Protease Inhibitor drugs, very good. Published 4 times a year until the late 1990s then bi-annually, issues included are: June, November 1989... More
Cat.No: 191337
Beth Chayim Chadashim newsletter: two issues, vol. iv, number 12, June 1977 and vol. v, number 3, September 1977
Los Angeles: Beth Chayim Chadashim, 1977. 16p & 20p., 5.5x8.5 inches, folded color sheets, very good newsletters. LGBT congregations. More
Cat.No: 184265
The Beverly Stash presents: On Guard. Issue no. 10
[Beverly Hills, CA]: the underground newsletter, 1970. Single issue of the underground high school paper, mimeographed in wraps, staplebound, 7x8.5 inches, very good. Cover depict Nixon removing his mask to reveal Hitler. Discussion of school administration and events; text indicates that the group publishing it broke into the high school... More
Cat.No: 195029
Beyond baroque 802; vol. 11, no. 2, spring 1980: gay and Lesbian Theme issue
Venice, CA: Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1980. Magazine. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, poetry, very good newsprint poetry magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Gay and lesbian theme issue, primarily poetry (Ellen Marie Bissert, Robert Peters, Clifton Snider and many others). More
Cat.No: 156471
BH&A: Bill Hartman & Associates; Summer Update 1983 additions, deletions & changes to "1983 Guide to Gay & Lesbian Media Outkets in Northern California"
San Francisco: BH&A, 1983. 8p., 8.5x11 inches, fold creases otherwise good news release of nested folded sheets. Lists institutions, newsletters, newspapers and magazines, individual contacts etc. Breakdowns of the media outlets'needs, requirements, focus, addresses and contact numbers. Alice Reports, Off Our Backs, SF Vector etc. More
Cat.No: 220719
![The Big Ad: for full-framed men and their admirers, vol. 2, #6 and vol. 3, #2 [two issues]](/pictures/thumb/184266.jpg?v=1516518549)
The Big Ad: for full-framed men and their admirers, vol. 2, #6 and vol. 3, #2 [two issues]
San Francisco: Big Ad, [1990s?]. Magazine. Two issues of the digest-size magazine for bears and chunky hunks, mostly personal ads with ads for businesses catering to large men, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 184266
Binoche photographies 4 Mai 1996
Paris: the dealer, 1996. 63p., mauve wraps with Mapplethorpe self-portrait repro'd on the cover; super-glossy production, the very faintest sign of handling. Auction catalog, offering with illustrations works by Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and many other photographers' works. More
Cat.No: 71567
![Bisexuality [brochure]](/pictures/thumb/215557.jpg?v=1496288981)
Bisexuality [brochure]
San Jose & Boston: South bay Bisexual Organizers and Activists (SOBOA) & Bisexual Resource Center, Boston, [1990s?]. Six-panel folded brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, information on bisexuality, politics, and AIDS, very good on bright yellow stock. More
Cat.No: 215557
Bizarre Contacts vol. 2 #3, special TV issue
Hollywood: Jennifer Jordan Associates, 1982. Magazine. 48p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with explicit b&w and color photos of men in drag and transsexuals, a personals section with photos, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 180017
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