Dm Vtage Gay Magaze Febary 1966, Vol 5, No 12 5 1/4" x 8 1/2", 38 pag. Based Philalphia, DRUM was published monthly startg 1964 by the homophile activist group the Jan Society and eded by Clark Polak. DRUM took s tle om a quote by Henry David Thore: "If a man do not keep pace wh his
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DM VTAGE GAY MAGAZE
Dm Vtage Gay Magaze Febary 1966, Vol 5, No 12 5 1/4" x 8 1/2", 38 pag. Based Philalphia, DRUM was published monthly startg 1964 by the homophile activist group the Jan Society and eded by Clark Polak. DRUM took s tle om a quote by Henry David Thore: "If a man do not keep pace wh his * drum magazine gay *
Published monthly begng 1964 by the homophile activist group the Jan Society and eded by Clark Polak, Dm took s tle om a quote by Henry David Thore: “If a man do not keep pace wh his panns, perhaps is bee he hears the beat of a different dmmer. ”Dm differed om earlier homophile magaz that clud a batn of news and eroti. Begng April 1965 featured the first ongog gay-themed ic strip, the erotic parody ic Harry Chs: That Man om A.
“I envisned a sort of sophistited but down-to-earth, magaze for people who dug gay life and Dm’s view of the world. One of the most important homophile activists of the 1960s, Clark Phillip Polak was the print of the Philalphia-based Jan Society (1963–1969); the founr, publisher, and edor of Dm magaze (1964–1969); and the lear of the Homosexual Law Reform Society (1965–1969). In retrospect, most of the pre-Stonewall gay publitns were relatively assiatnist and tame.
Clark Polak, a brash homophile lear the mid-Sixti, appropriated edorship of the newsletter, and told Strematter he “began dm Magaze as a nsistently articulate, well-eded, amg and rmative publitn.
DM VTAGE GAY MAGAZE
I envisned a sort of sophistited, but down-to-earth, magaze for people who dug gay life and dm’s view of the world. ”) In addn, Polak was the first gay edor to hire a profsnal clippg service to obta gay-related articl om around the untry. Veteran gay journalist Jack Nichols addnally told me that “dm published nus – ontal nus – first, any gay publitn Ameri.
” dm even boasted the first gay ic strip (the risqué “Harry Chs: The Man om A. Polak’s formula proved enormoly succsful; by 1966, dm‘s 10, 000 circulatn surpassed that of all the then-extant homophile publitns bed. New York pre-Stonewall activist Dick Lesch relled for me a heated discsn among movement lears the Sixti regardg “which one of them is the Mart Luther Kg of the gay movement....
Dm was light hearty alternative to the more solemn and staid homophile magaz issued s day, and ntas a mixture of serns and humor. ) and physique photographs taken by Bob Anthony, Mel Roberts, Frank Hollfelr, Jovan Stud, Neil Edwards, Jay Mchell, and Mols Stud, Published by the Jan Society of Ameri, an early homophile anizatn out of Philalphia, Pennsylvania.