INSIDE STORY June 1958
1958
June 1958 edition of this bi-monthly gossip magazine.
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FIGHTING LESBIANS
n.d.
Pulp erotica with a toweringly bonkers prologue set amidst an ancient Aphroditic orgy of castration on an unnamed Mediterranean isle: "This happened thousands of years ago. All that is left is an Island and some ruins--And some women who still prefer making love to women."
THE GIRLFRIENDS: An In-Depth Study of Love Between Woman and Woman!
1969
Sleaze erotica; an "important and relevant study" of lesbian swinging, framed with classic '60s faux-psychiatric pontifications to circumvent obscenity laws.
'TIS TYME YE SHUDE OFFER'TH UP THINE THANKS [Collection of Five Gay Holiday Cards and Posters in Accompanying Pictorial Envelope
1968-9
Collection of five explicit gay-themed Stonewall-era cartoons presented as mock holiday cards and posters, all signed "Chic."
BEST GIRLFRIENDS
1979
Late '70s erotica following the adventures of a "big-city lesbian." Part of the "Eve's Journals" series.
EL TORO: Volume 1, Issue 1
[ca. 1965]
An uncommon, [likely] pre-Stonewall gay men's magazine.
EL TORO: Vol. 1, No. 1
(1964)
With color and black and white photographs throughout as well as original art including a cover by Steve Masters, two pieces signed Santiago, and an advertisement for Seattle's Maclane Studio, a mail-order gallery of erotic male artwork.
JR.: Special Edition, Winter 1968, No. 5-5
(1967)
An uncommon issue of JR.,
THE MODERN MALE: No. Two, Autumn 1967
(1967)
The scarce, second issue of MODERN MALE, an uncommon male physique photography publication produced by pioneering gay interest, New York magazine publisher, Tomorrow's Man.
DOUBLE HEADER!
1972
Sleaze erotica, with bisexual themes communicated through baseball metaphors ("They were switch hitters! These are the chicks who dig both men and women..
TAILS OF SCORPIO Vol. 1, No. 5 [September 1979].
1979
Small collection of material from the Scorpio Leather Club ("Scorpio L.C
POOL OF LONELINESS
1977
Late '70s pure sleaze erotica of revived "boarding school passions", titled shamelessly after Radclyffe Hall's classic WELL OF LONELINESS to give the reader a hint. Midwood #60930.
LOCKER ROOM LOVERS
(1982)
Guy Press (GYP-107) gay sleaze paperback set in a locker room.
HOLLYWOOD WIFE SWAPPERS
1969
"Bares the Orgiastic Behavior of the Lesbians, the Bi-Sexuals, the Heteros and the Lavender Lads of Tinsel Town."
LESBIAN TWINS
1960
"Without seeming dumb, I had to know, had to hear her confirm my meager conception of lesbianism." Midcentury sleaze pulp that has, like its hero, a fairly limited grasp of its subject matter.
PLAY AT GAY
1975
Mid-'70s sleaze anthology.
DUO: Herb Ritts Photographs Bob Paris & Rod Jackson
(1991)
Striking collection of seminude photographs of bodybulider (and former Mr.
BABY MAKES THREE
1953
Early sleaze hardcover, the story of an altruistic young woman who seduces a college professor and his wife.
TOUCHABLE
1951
Early sleaze, or, as the publisher put it, a "Highly Readable Novel."
LESBIAN NURSE
1965
"Beneath Her Calm Efficiency Raged Fires of Perverted Lust!" Pulp erotica combining traditional sleaze with nurse-novel tropes; includes a passing mention of the "race prejudice" faced by an African American nurse, though neither sensitivity nor social realism can otherwise be said to feature highly in this work.
GAYS & DOLLS
1968
Sleaze pulp with a better title than most.
MANROOT - No. 10 - Late Fall 1974 Winter 1975: The Jack Spicer Issue
1973
Issue of this San Francisco lit mag with a stellar cover drawing of Jack Spicer, by an artist credited only as "Gleep!!!" Collects poetry and essays related to Jack Spicer by an impressive list of authors: Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Ron Loewisohn, Stan Persky, Jonathan Williams, Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, John Wieners, Fran Herndon, and more.
DEBUT OF A BELATED LESBIAN
1968
"The Bizarre True-Life Story Of A "Normal" Woman Who Suddenly Discovered She Was Attracted To Other Women!" Standard erotic sleaze with an epigraph from Baudelaire's Femmes Damnees and an introductory claim that "Ann Summerhill" is a pseudonym for a 36-year-old "authoress" whose work "is known by readers of our top national magazines." Per the cover, both A Ram Classic (#RC 515) and A Fact Book.
MARRIED LESBIANS
1968
Late '60s sleaze pulp, photo-illustrated in black and white, presented as the "case histories" of "more than forty married deviates who managed to lead Lesbian lives sub rosa."
[Seven Signed Photographs from the 1993 Gay Rights March on Washington]
(1993)
Original photographs documenting the April 25, 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, one of the largest protests in American history and the third major march for LGBT rights (the first of the three to include bisexuals in the official title; a vote to add "transgender" failed to pass with a sufficient majority).
