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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Announcing the 2000 & 2001 Felipa Award; nomination form
San Francisco: IGLHRC [International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission], 1999. 6p. + 4p. form boun-in, 5.5x8.5 inches, texts in three languages, English, Spanish and French, very good booklet in stapled wraps. Includes a description of the organization, the purpose of the award and the guidelines as well as the... More about Announcing the 2000 & 2001 Felipa Award; nomination form
Cat.No: 237939
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Annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival [aka Outfest] [Four broadside schedules]
Los Angeles: Gay and Lesbian Media Coalition et al, 1988-1992. Newspaper. Four film schedule broadsheets folded to 8.5x11 inches, photos, descriptions, stills, very good on newsprint. Included are the 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th schedules, 1988, 1990-1992. More about Annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival [aka Outfest] [Four...
Cat.No: 234257
Anti-Gravity Show No. 1. Up in the Air. Charles Biscuit Band. M&M Mime, plus special guest. Fri. May 19 [handbill]
San Francisco: Gay Community Center, [1978]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, folded for mailing, address and postage markings on the back, along with faint tape traces. More about Anti-Gravity Show No. 1. Up in the Air. Charles Biscuit Band. M&M Mime, plus special guest....
Cat.No: 217168
Antiretroviral Agents for HIV [chart]
Ingelheim am Rheine: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, 2003. 13x11 inch wall chart printed both sides in color, front side depicting stages of HIV infextion with color graphic and verso a wall chart of daily dosing of available antiretroviral agents with color photos of the capsules and caplets. More about Antiretroviral Agents for HIV [chart
Cat.No: 224694
APLA update: vol. 2, #2 & 4, vol. 3, #1, 3-5, June 1990 - June 1991 [Six issue broken run]
Los Angeles: AIDS Project Los Angeles, 1990-1991. Magazine. Six issue broken run, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches each, photos, resources, news, events, actions, notices, several have three hole punch otherwise very good pastedbound magazine format newsletters. More about APLA update: vol. 2, #2 & 4, vol. 3, #1, 3-5, June 1990 - June 1991 [Six issue broken run
Cat.No: 199308
Arcadie: mouvement homophile de France, revue littéraire et scientifique, #300, vingt-cinquième année, décembre 1978
Paris: Arcadie, 1978. Paperback. pp611-674, 5.5x8 inches, text in French, very good gay journal in paperback in slim decorative wraps. The most important gay journal of the 1950S. More about Arcadie: mouvement homophile de France, revue littéraire et scientifique, #300, vingt-cinquième...
Cat.No: 184256
Archives Bulletin #5-A, June 1987
Hollywood: IGLA, 1987. 6p., 7.5x10 inches, very good simple interim newsletter of 3 sheets stapled upper-left corner. The IGLA Bulletin interim issue. Includes a report on the death of June Mazer, the recent publication by the Archives of a Book of Obits, a call for more space, the March on... More about Archives Bulletin #5-A, June 1987
Cat.No: 237467
Are You Being Discriminated Against Because of AIDS/ARC? [brochure]
San Francisco: San Francisco Human Rights Commission, [1986?]. Eight-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, information on legal rights, list of services and resources, very good on light blue stock with Coit Tower and other SF sites drawn on front panel. More about Are You Being Discriminated Against Because of AIDS/ARC? [brochure
Cat.No: 238067
Are You Being Discriminated Against Because of Your Sexual Orientation? [brochure]
New York: The Lesbian & Gay Discrimination Documentation Project of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, [1985]. Eight-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, very good on peach stock. Includes extensive information on discrimation by employers and on the Project with community contacts including S.A.G.E. & B.W.M.T...... More about Are You Being Discriminated Against Because of Your Sexual Orientation? [brochure
Cat.No: 237940
Aris Project Community Newsletter and annual report to the community fiscal 1993-94 two items [newsletter and report]
San Jose: Aris Project, 1994. Two pieces, six-panel newsletter and six-panel report with fact sheet, services, resources, photos, reports, very good. The summer 1994 newsletter and fiscal report for the Santa Clara County AIDS and HIV support project. More about Aris Project Community Newsletter and annual report to the community fiscal 1993-94 two items...
Cat.No: 234435
The Arrow: bulletin of the Mackay Society #2
New York: Mackay Society, 1985. 4p., 6.5x8.5 inches, vertically folded wraps with photo of Mackay. Program for first annual meeting in New York and listing of events, with an announcement for a Hubert Kennedy talk on anarchism and free love. More about The Arrow: bulletin of the Mackay Society #2
Cat.No: 133438
The Arrow: bulletin of the Mackay Society, #3
New York: Mackay Society, Spring 1986. 8p., 7x8.5 inches, very good newsletter in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes report from the first annual meeting in New York. More about The Arrow: bulletin of the Mackay Society, #3
Cat.No: 144647
Art for AIDS: 19th annual, Friday, October 9, 2015, City View at Metreon
San Francisco: UCSF Health Project, 2015. Magazine. 48p., 8.5x11 inches illustrations, photos, very good catalog for the event in stapled pictorial wraps. More about Art for AIDS: 19th annual, Friday, October 9, 2015, City View at Metreon
Cat.No: 236430
Art for AIDS: Friday, September 23, 2011, The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center
San Francisco: AIDS Health Project, 2011. Magazine. 44p., 8.5x11 inches illustrations, photos, very good catalog for the event in stapled pictorial wraps. More about Art for AIDS: Friday, September 23, 2011, The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center
Cat.No: 163259
Art With Heart: auction 2004; a fundraiser for Casey House Raise your paddle!
Toronto: Casey House & M.A.C. Viva Glam, 2004. Paperback. 120p., 9x6 inches landscape layout, letters, patrons, index of artists, illustrated with color reproductions of the works to be auctioned, very good first edition trade paperback catalog in pictorial wraps. More about Art With Heart: auction 2004; a fundraiser for Casey House Raise your paddle!
Cat.No: 217308
The Ascension from the Ashes of Hell into the Gates of Heaven: the Reign of Fire and Ice Sunday Evening October 13th, 1996, Ridpath Hotel
Spokane: The Imperial Sovereign Court of Spokane, 1996. [8p] includes covers, 5.25x8.5 inches, very good event program in stapled pictorial white wraps. Emperor XX Reed Kennedy Smith & Empress XXIV Tina Louise Sapphire. More about The Ascension from the Ashes of Hell into the Gates of Heaven: the Reign of Fire and Ice Sunday...
Cat.No: 237950
Ask Us Anything [brochure]
Boston: The Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Speakers Bureau, [1980s?]. Six-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, very good on heavy stock. The organization formed in 1972 and trained speakers to answer questions at schools, workplaces and in workshops. No mention of AIDS nor any mention of technology so likely late 1970s... More about Ask Us Anything [brochure
Cat.No: 237943
At the Center: a monthly look at your community center vol. 1, #3, April 1991; Sacramento celebrates the Lavender Sweep
Sacramento: Lambda Center, 1991. [4p] includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, yellow handbill laid-in, news, reports, events, calendar, services and resources, very good newsletter. More about At the Center: a monthly look at your community center vol. 1, #3, April 1991; Sacramento...
Cat.No: 237328
Athletic Model Guild's Nude Wrestlers & Wrestling Information Catalog (volume 1 & 2) [two issues]
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1991. Magazine. First two issues, 32p. each, 5.25x8.25 inches, old price sticker on front wrap, illustrated with b&w explicit and graphic full-frontal photos of the models with catalog numbers relating to available VHS and Beta video tapes as well as cover and inner cover stills..... More about Athletic Model Guild's Nude Wrestlers & Wrestling Information Catalog (volume 1 & 2) [two...
Cat.No: 141161
Atraccion para hombres: no. 42, agosto del 2002
Mexico City: Narciso Hernandez Vazquez, 2002. Magazine. 64p., 5.5x8 inches, text in Spanish, illustrated with b&w and color erotic photos, very good digest size magazine in stapled color pictorial wraps. More about Atraccion para hombres: no. 42, agosto del 2002
Cat.No: 188128
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Australian HIV Surveillance Update: [handbill/newsletter] vol. 12, #1, January 1996
Sydney: National Center in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, 1996. Single 8.25x11.5 inch sheet newsletter printed one-side-only, light wear at top edge. Five boxes listing HIV and IDS numbers in 1994 and 1995. More about Australian HIV Surveillance Update: [handbill/newsletter] vol. 12, #1, January 1996
Cat.No: 235249
Avatar #1 Sept./Oct. 1977
San Jose: Phoenix Publications, in affliation with the Gay Task Force of Central California, 1977. Magazine. [10p] 8.5x11 inches, ads, articles, some toning and edgewear, otherwise very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps, First and only issue of the gay local affairs publication, with cover photo of mayoral candidate Jim Self. More about Avatar #1 Sept./Oct. 1977
Cat.No: 167714
The aWAKE Project; uniting against the African AIDS crisis
Nashville: W. PUblishing Group, 2002. Trade Paperback. xxi, 297p., wraps. A previous owner has made extensive pen notes in the table of contents, ostensibly for the purpose of creating an updated edition. Articles emanating from the AIDS and Africa conference, both political and religious. More about The aWAKE Project; uniting against the African AIDS crisis
Cat.No: 124169
Aware: Life OUTside: the radio newsmagazine for the LGBT community media kit
Chicago: Aware & Life OUTside, [2002]. Media publicity kit in glossy blue folder with label affixed front cover, contains a CD of The Best of Life OUTside recordings, nine press releases on station stationery, from one to several stapled pages, a 5x7 inch color photo of the radio personalities, and... More about Aware: Life OUTside: the radio newsmagazine for the LGBT community media kit
Cat.No: 204173
Axis: a new play written and directed by David Alphin [handbill]
San Francisco: New Performance Gallery, [1987]. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill in landscape format, printed one side only, abstract image, very good. More about Axis: a new play written and directed by David Alphin [handbill
Cat.No: 202354
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