It won't be nearly as ntroversial as Time magaze's breastfeedg ver, but Newsweek's May 21 issue clar Barack Obama the untry's "first gay print." The acpanyg ver story was wrten by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--polil blogger. The magaze even giv the manr--chief a rabow halo. Obama, Sullivan wr, "had to disver his black [...]
Contents:
- ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
- THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
- IN THE EARLY 1950S, U.S. FEDS TRIED TO KILL THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE
- ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
- NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
- DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
Daniel Wenger on Bob Mizer, who found the first gay magaze the U.S., Physique Pictorial, and specialized photographg buff young men. * first gay magazine *
The followg year Dwight Eisenhower issued Executive Orr 10450, which said gays and lbians were perverts, crimals, mentally ill, and mt be blocked om any kd of feral employment. Come 1953, however, the Post Office oze an issue about homosexual marriage for three weeks before officials Washgton, D.
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
* first gay magazine *
A good example n be found le #5, which said ONE wouldn’t prt “scriptns of homosexualy as a practice which the thor enurag others, or wax too enthiastic about. ’s “strategy for silencg the homophile movement by prosecutg as a purveyor of smut.
IN THE EARLY 1950S, U.S. FEDS TRIED TO KILL THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE
The gay men's magaz QQ and Ciao! were unabashedly liberated, but they still tered to an exclive dience. * first gay magazine *
It’s stunng, now, to have a rource that so plaly documents the spiral and promise of a long fight, down to advertisements om gay European magaz and hts at genue tersectnal support, for example the ocsnal appearance of Marv Edwards, a Black acuntant who was the lover of ONE -founr W.
(Both were nnected to Knights of the Clock, a social club open to Black and whe cis gay men.
ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
While some see this se as the first time homosexualy was ever addrsed at that level of the urts, others say wasn’t a civil rights victory, jt a loophole built so people uld keep readg porn. On the first page of ONE’s first anniversary issue, which is also the first edn available through JSTOR, the magaze stated that “ONE do not claim that homosexuals are better or worse than anyone else, that they are special any but one sense. ” This one sense, which ONE is “voted to rrectg” through “scientific, historil, and cril pots of view, ” is that gay people are not cizens.
NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
On the whole, ONE do actively work to be tersectnal, but bee s thors were largely whe and middle-class, spe the obv prejudic gay Amerins faced durg the tim particular, there are still some tone-af moments.
DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
A 1965 profile of “an Amerin Indian homosexual named Elmer Gage” go to Elmer Colorado, publish signifint oral histori, and is aware of s otherns, and a 1959 “Report om New York” si-ey Jack Kerouac’s “rather sperate ncern” over his masculy, but that same article also lls Frank O’Hara “disappotgly stologil, ” and do not stop.