1970s gay magazines

I found all the images for issue 1 on the same auction page so they seem to be the same publication. Peter Burton, editor of the later issues, claimed that everyone involved knew that gay men were the primary audience. I found a copy of the latter when I bought a batch of early OZ magazines.

The Sexual Offences Act of seemed in later years like a poor compromise but when the alternative being offered was celibacy or the risk of a prison sentence it was a start. Among the s' unique contributions to queer culture were the lifestyle magazines QQ, Ciao!

Bowie had the opportunity to be open about his sexuality but wisely waited until his profile had risen and he could make a declaration to a larger audience. What a lucky find indeed. See first and 7th. were unabashedly liberated, but they still catered to an exclusive audience.

This magazine carved spaces of identity and belonging for the LGBTQ+ community. The Fabulous ’70s Decade of After Dark Magazine When gay culture winkingly slipped into the mainstream Written & Photographed By FRANK RIZZO Billy Ordynowicz and Lawrence Degley have a gay obsession.

I have some copies of his famous prints that he so kindly sent me years ago, which I recently found stored in a box. Once again, the US is better served by book-length studies of gay zine culture and the like. More Britons will know the name Harvey Milk than they do Edward Carpenter — or Allan Horsfall — even though Carpenter and Horsfall devoted years of their lives campaigning for gay men to be treated equally under the law in the Britain.

Dyer refers to the title as a bisexual magazine which it may have appeared to be from the covers but this is contradicted by the ads. It really was daring gay its time. A lucky find for you, anyhow, even if not as collectable as OZ! It indeed was a lucky find.

Scotland, however, had to wait until for the same change in the law while in Northern Ireland sex between men was illegal until Two years after decriminalisation, not only was Jeremy being launched but OZ magazine devoted a portion 1970s its 23rd issue September, to gay material.

It was a daring and defiant publication from the s. I am confused. and Lesbian Connection. He was a visionary unafraid to magazine the rigid. A few more covers and some interior pages follow. We revisit the revolutionary pages of Honcho magazine.

George Mavety conceived Honcho.

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I just happened to find your website by accident, in a google search for Rex, the gay erotic artist. The gay men's magazines QQ and Ciao! This is frustrating but not too surprising. Using bisexuality as a kind of fig leaf was less a case of cold feet than a means by which the magazine might be smuggled under the radar of those who would otherwise object to its existence.

Britain may have been slightly ahead of the US in its tolerance of gay men but the lack of a written constitution meant that publishers, especially those regarded as subversive or disreputable, needed to tread carefully in the s and 70s as OZ and Nasty Tales discovered.

As usual, if anyone has further information to contribute then please leave a comment. Looking at the covers of Jeremyabove there seems to be 2 different covers both Vol 1 Issue 1. Honcho Magazine: Illuminating the Spirit of Gay Liberation in the s and 80s The satin glow of nostalgia unfurls.

Jeremy advertised its early issues in OZ and IT see below. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.