New Female Mimics; vol. 5, #3, Fall, 1979: Introducing Sulka
by Christy, Kim, editor, Sulka, Linda Lee
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About This Item
Wilmington: Eros Goldstripe Publishing, 1979. Magazine. 48p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, profusely illustrated with b&w and color photos of drag queens female impersonators, very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. "Female Mimics", the first large-format magazine that catered to the transgender community, represents an important stage in the development of that community. By breaking with the digest format, FM offered a far more compelling vision of crossdressing, focusing on professional impersonators and the venues where they were featured. "Certainly," noted Bob Davis and Carol Kleinmaier in AEGIS 2/1, "the editors wanted straight and closeted people to feel as safe reading the magazine as they were at these shows. The audience had to feel secure in their heterosexuality and protected from the 'freaks and queers' on the other side of the footlights or in the photos. Thus, in these early issues, there is no sex mentioned, not even implicitly." FM also covered drag balls - like the club performances, easy to photograph - and amateur impersonators, but had little information on transsexuals. The overall effect of emphasizing photos over text is, as Davis and Kleinmaier note, to "make the ball queens creatures of fantasy, not real people," a trend that still continues in current magazines. Nonetheless, FM represented an important step in the development of positive transgender identification.
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- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 318104
- Title
- New Female Mimics; vol. 5, #3, Fall, 1979: Introducing Sulka
- Author
- Christy, Kim, editor, Sulka, Linda Lee
- Format/Binding
- Magazine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eros Goldstripe Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gay Studies; Serials, journals, magazines; erotica; transgender;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Pictorial Wraps
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