The Advocate (Issue No. 243, June 14, 1978): Touching Your Lifestyle, A Liberation Publication (Formerly Los Angeles Advocate) (Gay Newsprint Newsmagazine Magazine Newspaper)

San Mateo, CA: Liberation Publications, Inc.. Offered is Issue No. 243 of The Advocate: Touching Your Lifestyle (June 14, 1978) edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by David B. Goodstein and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-folded newsprint newsmagazine containing 48 pages including front and rear covers (missing the classified section insert). Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Special Book Section (with inside features Gaybooks: From the Furtive World of the '50s to the Fad-style of the '70s by Richard Hall; The Perils and power of Publishing Gay Books - panel discussion with June Arnold, Martin Duberman, Richard Hall, Arnie Kantrowitz, Dolores Klaich, Patricia Nell Warren, and Bob Wyatt; W.H. Auden: In Faithless Arms, In Faithful Love; Gay Presses by Ian Young; Gay Book Clubs by Paul O'M. Welles). Other highlights include: Fighting the [John] Briggs Brigade by David B. Goodstein; Burt Pines interviewed; Chris Glaser interviewed; Harvey Fierstein interviewed; Patricia Bosworth interviewed; Sandra Dee interviewed; much more. Pages very lightly age-toned as per newsprint stock used; lower edge of front cover shows periodic small edge chips (to blank margin only). . Very Good. Newspaper. 1st Edition. 1978.