The Advocate (Issue No. 417, April 2, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine (formerly "America's Leading") (Newsprint Magazine) (Formerly, The Los Angeles Advocate)

Malibu, CA: Liberation Publications, Inc.. Offered is Issue No. 417 of The Advocate (April 2, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen (as Editor-in-Chief) and Lenny Giteck (as Editor) and published by David B. Goodstein and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 112 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item [U.S.] Supreme Court Lets Two Antigay Rulings Stand ([1] high school guidance counselor Marjorie Rowland, who was dismissed by Mad River school district in Montgomery, Ohio, after she confided to her secretary and several faculty colleagues that she was bisexual and involved with another woman; [2] the attempt by Detroit MCC to hold worship services in the state's prisons); one-page news item HTLV-III Antibody Test is Licensed: Gay Group [Lambda Legal Defense] Will Sue to Stop It; one-page news item Baltimore City Council Votes, Says No to Gay Rights Bill; one-page news item West Hollywood Moves on Domestic Partners, Discrimination in Bars; Faces: People to Watch (short profiles, with portrait photos, on Tom Ammiano, Eric Rofes, and Cass Magnuski); Visionary Filmmaker James Whitney: An Appreciation by William Moritz; Cover Story - Troy Perry and Malcolm Boyd: Two Gay Clergymen Speak About Ecstasy, Sex and Spirituality (interview); Notes on an Emerging Species: Test Tube Gays for a Brave New World? by Jim Wilson; 'Lust in the Dust': New Horizons for a Divine Cult Legend (article on Divine, with interview quotes); Maurice Bejart: Liberating the Soul of the Male Dancer (article with interview quotes). Condition: covers detached but present and show periodic edge chips and short closed edge tears along lower edge of front cover and edges where covers detached. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1985.