The Advocate (Issue No. 408, November 27, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine (formerly "America's Leading") (Newsprint Magazine) (Formerly, The Los Angeles Advocate)

Malibu, CA: Liberation Publications, Inc.. Offered is Issue No. 408 of The Advocate (November 27, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and now published by David B. Goodstein and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 64 pages including front and rear covers (this copy missing the classified ads). Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item Military Spends Millions to Exclude Gays; two-column news item Dan White Reported Eager to Return Home to San Francisco; From Fighting the Navy to Coloring the Canvas: Copy Berg - The Courage of An Original (on Vernon E. Burg III, with interview quotes); Cover Story - Beyond Clone (Gay as Religion: Free Thought in a Free Society by Toby Johnson; Gay as Spirit: To Be, Not to Have by Jerome Perlinski; Gay as Youth: New Identities, New Issues by Eric E. Rofes; Gay as Community: A Trace is Not Enough by Brett Averill); George Stambolian: When Male Fantasies Become Gay Realities (interview); Kenneth Anger Babbles On: 'Hollywood Babylon II' by Vito Russo (article with interview quotes); Catherine Turney: A Screenwriter Looks Back at the Hollywood Dream Factory - The Stars, the Scene, the Censorship (interview); The Collected Allen Ginsberg: On Paper, In Person, En Route to China (article with interview quotes). Condition: missing Classified ads; outer narrow spine fold shows closed tear and periodic wear and short creases. . Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1984.