The Advocate (Issue No. 390, March 20, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine (formerly "America's Leading") (Newsprint Magazine) (Formerly, The Los Angeles Advocate)

San Mateo, CA: Liberation Publications, Inc.. Offered is Issue No. 390 of The Advocate (March 20, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 100 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: News Analysis (Bathhouses: Scapegoat For AIDS Fears or Real Health Threat? - New Controversy Erupts in San Francisco; CDC's [James W.] Curran Says He Was Misrepresented On Bathhouse Closure); California's Gay Rights Bill: Powers Behind Passage [AB 1] by David B. Goodstein (with separate interviews of AB 1's principal sponsor Art Agnos and Speaker Willie Brown Jr.); The 'Ghettoization' of Gay Art by John Rechy; centerspread portfolio of art works by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975); Cover Story - Double Reflections: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy on Art, Love and Faith by Mark Thompson (interview); Who Killed [Pier Paolo] Pasolini? by Edward Guthmann ("Filmmaker Philo Bregstein raises new questions in 'Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die?'" with interview quotes); No Laughing Matter: The Wit and Wisdom of Eddie Murphy by D. Frank Culbertson; Novelist Daniel Curzon: A Thorn in His Side (article with interview quotes). Covers detached but present and show periodic edge chips and short closed edge tears. Interior pages are in excellent condition and tightly bound. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1984.