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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cat.No: 236110
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]
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
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
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
Cat.No: 220487
Black Lesbians & Gays Weaving the Future!: the 5th annual national black gay & lesbian conference [leaflet] Oakland, California, February 14-17, 1992
Los Angeles: B.G.L.L.F./ Black Gay & Lesbian Leadership Forum, 1992. Single 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet printed one side only on lavender stock. More
Cat.No: 242299
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
Cat.No: 235441
Black Suit New Girl: musical performance 26 August, 2011, Bexco, Busan; The 10th International Congres on AIDS is Asia and the Pacific
Busan, South Korea: The HORN Contents Crew & SOWOL Arts Symphony Orchestra, 2011. Six panel program folded to 5.5x11.5 inches, texts in English and Korean, performers with color headshots, story line, songs, very good on heavy semi-glossy stock. More
Cat.No: 242836
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
Cat.No: 226399
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
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
Cat.No: 212106
Bodies Like Ours: support and information for people born with atypical genitalia [card]
[Seattle]: ISNA/Intersex Society of North America, [2000s]. Single 3.75x8.5 inch card printed both sides with information about Intersex children. More
Cat.No: 241673
The Body Positive: a magazine about AIDS vol. 4, no. 11, December 1991
New York: Body Positive, 1991. Magazine. 40p., includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, photos, illustrations, articles about AIDS treatments and actions by ACT-UP, toned newsletter in booklet format, stapled pictorial wraps on newsprint. More
Cat.No: 203512
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