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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![Bi Friendly San Francisco [handbill/newsletter] #14, August 1989](/pictures/thumb/237053.jpg?v=1556159887)
Bi Friendly San Francisco [handbill/newsletter] #14, August 1989
Sn f: Bi Friendly San Francisco, 1989. Single 8.5x14 inch sheet printed one side with colloge of handwritten text and images (photocopied) horizontal fold creases, corner creased otherwise good on white stock. Events for August 1989 included Bis and BATS (Bay Area Theatre Sports) Bi Hootenanny in Berkeley, Mexicali Potluck... More about Bi Friendly San Francisco [handbill/newsletter] #14, August 1989
Cat.No: 237053
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 3, #6, Nov/Dec 1979
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1979. Magazine. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in tan pictorial wraps. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 3, #6, Nov/Dec 1979
Cat.No: 236094
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 4, #1, Jan/Feb 1980
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1980. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in tan pictorial wraps, fold crease for mailing and address label. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 4, #1, Jan/Feb 1980
Cat.No: 236095
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 5, #5, Sept/Oct 1981
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1981. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in tan pictorial wraps, fold crease for mailing and address label. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 5, #5, Sept/Oct 1981
Cat.No: 236096
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 5, #6, Nov/Dec 1981
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1981. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in tan pictorial wraps, fold crease for mailing and three-hole-punch. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 5, #6, Nov/Dec 1981
Cat.No: 236097
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #2, Mar/April 1983
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1983. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in blue wraps. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #2, Mar/April 1983
Cat.No: 236100
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #3, May/June 1983
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1983. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in tan pictorial wraps. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #3, May/June 1983
Cat.No: 236101
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #4, Jul/Aug 1983
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1983. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in yellow wraps with 3-hole punch. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #4, Jul/Aug 1983
Cat.No: 236102
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #5, Sept/Oct 1983
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1983. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in white pictorial wraps with 3-hole punch, fold crease and mailing label. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #5, Sept/Oct 1983
Cat.No: 236103
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #6, Nov/Dec 1983
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1983. Magazine. 12p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in green wraps with 3-hole punch, fold crease and mailing label. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 7, #6, Nov/Dec 1983
Cat.No: 236106
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 8, #1, Jan/Feb 1984
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1984. Magazine. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in cream pictorial wraps with 3-hole punch, fold crease and mailing label. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 8, #1, Jan/Feb 1984
Cat.No: 236107
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 8, #2, Mar/April 1984
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1984. Magazine. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in blue pictorial wraps with 3-hole punch, fold crease and mailing label. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 8, #2, Mar/April 1984
Cat.No: 236108
The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 8, #4, Jul/Aug 1984
San Francisco: The Bisexual Center, 1984. Magazine. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good newsletter in orange pictorial wraps. More about The Bi-monthly: newsletter of the Bisexual Center; vol. 8, #4, Jul/Aug 1984
Cat.No: 236110
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 about The Big Ad: for full-framed men and their admirers, vol. 2, #6 and vol. 3, #2 [two issues
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 about Binoche photographies 4 Mai 1996
Cat.No: 71567
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 about Bisexuality [brochure
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 about Bizarre Contacts vol. 2 #3, special TV issue
Cat.No: 180017
Black & White Men Together - SFBA: A Deck of 52 &Getting Our Act Together [two leaflets]
San Francisco: BWMTSFBA, [1981]. Two leaflets, 5.5x8.5 inches printed one side only, very good. Leaflet #1 is for a Gaymes Night & Dance and #2 is a call for joining all gay men together to fight against racism and The New Right or Moral Majority. More about Black & White Men Together - SFBA: A Deck of 52 &Getting Our Act Together [two leaflets
Cat.No: 237103
The Black Cat Cafe; "Bohemia of the Barbary Coast" [greeting card, framed with an original business card for manager Travis Dick]
San Francisco: the Cafe. 4x6.5 inch four-panel card, cover featuring a 1952 Travis Dick drawing of cats drinking and dancing in the street out front of the famous establishment; 1972 reprint of the original card. This is professionally mounted in a 14.5x17.5 inch frame with UV resistant plexiglass, together with... More about The Black Cat Cafe; "Bohemia of the Barbary Coast" [greeting card, framed with an...
Cat.No: 220487
The Black Cat Cafe; "Bohemia of the Barbary Coast" [greeting card]
San Francisco: the Cafe, 1972. 4x6.5 inch four-panel card, cover featuring a 1952 Travis Dick drawing of cats drinking and dancing in the street out front of the famous establishment; interior features a sepiatone photo of Jose Sarria in drag, captioned the "Nightingale of Montgomery Street." Back cover reads "Compliments... More about The Black Cat Cafe; "Bohemia of the Barbary Coast" [greeting card
Cat.No: 172888
Black Lesbians and Gays / from silence to celebration / Boyond the 28 days / 7th Annual National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference and Institutes [poster]
Secaucus, NJ: the Conference, 1994. 18x24 inch poster, very good. Artwork is by Durham (no first name given). More about Black Lesbians and Gays / from silence to celebration / Boyond the 28 days / 7th Annual National...
Cat.No: 235441
Black Tie Optional: San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band & Twirling Corps in concert, Jon R. Sims, Conductor [program]
San Francisco: The Band, 1979. Six-panel brochure/program, 5.75x11 inches, biographies, history, event program, mild wear, white stock with black bow tie cover illustration. More about Black Tie Optional: San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band & Twirling Corps in concert,...
Cat.No: 226399
Black/Out: the magazine of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays vol. 2, #2, Summer 1989; We are family: a special section: we remember our brother, Joseph Beam
Washington: National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays, 1989. Magazine. 60p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with b&w photos, essays, articles, resources, very good magazine in stapled wraps. AIDS, Audre Lorde, Joe Beam, etc. More about Black/Out: the magazine of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays vol. 2, #2, Summer...
Cat.No: 191937
Blazing Star: vol. 2, #1, July 1976: Blazing Star returns
Chicago: Blazing Star/NAM, 1976. [14p] 8.5x11 inch newsletter, illustrated with drawings and cartoons, features, opinion, ads, resources, lightly-toned on covers, sheets stapled top-left corner. Blazing Star was a lesbian/feminist chapter of the New American Movement established in Chicago. Stories on Gay Rights legislation, Lavender & Red Book review, lesbian mothers..... More about Blazing Star: vol. 2, #1, July 1976: Blazing Star returns
Cat.No: 211564
Blow Yourself Up: Tantrum presents... San Francisco's premiere junk culture magazine [Fourth issue]
San Francisco: Tantrum, [1996]. Magazine. [37p] 8.5x11 inches, articles, cartoons, photos, poetry, very good stapled zine in pictorial wraps. Targeted to "the ultra-sophisticated, semi-misanthropic, post-queer, quasi-glamorati." More about Blow Yourself Up: Tantrum presents... San Francisco's premiere junk culture magazine [Fourth issue
Cat.No: 212106
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