The Advocate (Issue No. 399, July 24, 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. 399 of The Advocate (July 24, 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 116 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Supplement Olympic Action. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item Archbishop [John O'Connor] Seeks to Undermine New York Mayor's [Edward Koch] Executive Order (to ban antigay discrimination in employment by private agencies); full-page news item Yale [University] Gays Win Furor Over Ad in Alumni Magazine; Vickey Monrean Has High Hopes For GRNL [Gay Rights National Lobby] (article with interview quotes); Cover Story - Good Gay Sports (Teaming Up Against Stereotypes by Lenny Giteck); 'The Enigma' That Was Alan Turing: A Tragic Price for Genius by Richard Plant; centerspread portfolio by photographer Zarko Kalmic; Olympic Action: A Supplement to The Advocate (Los Angeles To The Limit by Steve Holley; The Games; Los Angeles Gay Action: The Olympic Summer of '84; The Art Part: Art Festivities During The Olympics; Boys Just Want To Have Fun; Days and Nights in Los Angeles: A Guide to Lesbian Happenings; Style Action: A Shopping Tour; Tasting L.A. [guide to dining]); Breaking New Ground with Television's First Gay Sitcom 'Brothers' by Samir Hachem; The Workaday World of Las Vegas Hoofers by George Heymont; The Life and Art of Edmund Teske (article with interview quotes). Condition: wear and short closed tears along outer fold. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1984.