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Mattachine Review: vol. 5, #9, September, 1959: Undesirable Discharge from the Air Force by Call, Hal, editor, H.L.A. Hart, Walter C. Alvarez, Willem Tomsson, Rev. Hallidie Smith, James Hubbart, Hal Boyle, et al - 1959

by Call, Hal, editor, H.L.A. Hart, Walter C. Alvarez, Willem Tomsson, Rev. Hallidie Smith, James Hubbart, Hal Boyle, et al

Mattachine Review: vol. 5, #9, September, 1959: Undesirable Discharge from the Air Force by Call, Hal, editor, H.L.A. Hart, Walter C. Alvarez, Willem Tomsson, Rev. Hallidie Smith, James Hubbart, Hal Boyle, et al - 1959

Mattachine Review: vol. 5, #9, September, 1959: Undesirable Discharge from the Air Force

by Call, Hal, editor, H.L.A. Hart, Walter C. Alvarez, Willem Tomsson, Rev. Hallidie Smith, James Hubbart, Hal Boyle, et al

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San Francisco: Mattachine Society, 1959. Magazine. 32p. including covers, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on military/gay trends and directives. Also a report on immorality and treason in re; The Wolfenden Report.
The Mattachine Society, forerunner of Daughters of Bilitis, One, Inc. and Homosexual Information Center etc., founded in 1950 in Los Angeles by Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich.A member of the CPUSA, Hay structured the small group like a Communist Party cell. Hay was expelled from the CP (at his own insistence) as a "security risk" to the party because of his involvement in the Society. The name derives from a French medieval and renaissance masque group. The magazine was founded in 1954 with the first issue appearing in January, 1955.
  • Seller Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB US (US)
  • Format/Binding Magazine
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Publisher Mattachine Society
  • Place of Publication San Francisco
  • Date Published 1959