The Advocate (Issue No. 422, June 11, 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. 422 of The Advocate (June 11, 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 128 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: A Piece of My Mind - Stonewall: A Good Symbol but Not the Birth of Gay Lib by Donald Vining; Gays and Police: Old Problems, New Hope by Peter Freiberg; one-page news item Future Uncertain for San Francisco Gay Center: Pride Foundation Loses Lease; one-page news item Boston Gay Couple [David Jean and Donald Babets] Appeals Removal of Foster Children; two-page photospread A Mass for AIDS (in Santa Monica, California); Cover Story - Virginia Apuzzo: Gay Pride, Gay Politics (interview); Gay Trivia; two-page portfolio of objects made by artist-in-wood Rene Soulard; Out of the Convent and Into the Heat: Lesbian Nuns Tell Their Stories (article on 'Lesbian Nuns' editors Nancy Manahan and Rosemary Curb, with interview quotes); Gay Men in Nicaragua: Living on Both Sides of the Revolution by Doniphan Blair; book review of The IGA Pink Book (with accompanying Gay and Lesbian Map of the World); A Village Stroll: Gay Lib Landmarks by George Whitmore. Condition: outer covers detached but present and edge-ragged; internal pages tightly bound and in excellent condition. . Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1985.