Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- GAY SUNSHE
- GAY SUNSHE #16 INCOMPLETE
- GAY SUNSHE; A NEWSPAPER OF GAY LIBERATN, #44/45 10TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE, 1970-1980
- GAY SUNSHE; A NEWSPAPER OF GAY LIBERATN, #11 FEBARY-MARCH 1972: GAYS ZAP S.I.R.
- GAY SUNSHE: A NEWSPAPER OF GAY LIBERATN.
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
GAY SUNSHE
Gay Sunshe Rerds * gay sunshine newspaper *
DcriptnThe rerds nsist of publitns, edorial rerds, d-visual materials, and admistrative and personal rerds llected, ed and/or created by Wston Leyland as the publisher of Gay Sunshe Journal, Gay Sunshe Prs, and Leyland Publitns, 1970-2005. Hist/B Note edor, anthologist and publisher of Gay Sunshe Journal, Gay Sunshe Prs and Leyland Publitns, was born 1940 Lanshire, England.
GAY SUNSHE #16 INCOMPLETE
From the llectns of the Sparrows' Nt Library and Archive. Gay Sunshe #16 INCOMPLETE A Newspaper of Gay Liberatn Published Jan-Feb 1973. Published by... * gay sunshine newspaper *
Leyland moved to Berkeley the fall of 1970 and beme volved wh the newly formed tabloid gay liberatn paper Gay Sunshe Journal. Durg the first perd (1970) the paper was published by an pennt llective affiliated loosely wh the Berkeley Gay Liberatn Front (GLF). The tle of the paper reflects part the fact that “sunshe” was a unter-culture slang word for acid (LSD) as well as the general implitns of light: the dawn of gay liberatn.
The early post-Stonewall issu of Gay Sunshe Journal are filled wh much lol and natnal news of monstratns and other gay liberatn activi.
The report on the San Francis gay liberatn monstratn of 1970 at the Stud bar, Gary Alr’s first-person acunt "My Gay Soul, " and Huey Newton's Black Panther manifto on gay liberatn appeared origally Gay Sunshe Journal durg this early perd. Followg the llapse of the Berkeley GLF early 1971, the origal Gay Sunshe llective was dissolved and the paper spend.
GAY SUNSHE; A NEWSPAPER OF GAY LIBERATN, #44/45 10TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE, 1970-1980
Gay Sunshe; a newspaper of gay liberatn, #44/45 10th anniversary issue, 1970-1980: 56p. two sectns, fold tabloid newspaper, two sectns, illtratns, photos, ads, very good on newsprt, lor ver. Wh short origal ntributns by a number of major gay lerary figur (Gsberg, Robert Peters, Kirby Congdon, Rob Mgham, Richard Ronan and many more, and longer ntributns by Joseph Torchia, Walt Curtis, Mallm Boyd, Rudy Kikel, Jam Broughton and others. * gay sunshine newspaper *
Durg this send perd the paper poed a balanced approach as a talyst the natnal gay muny, enuragg the buildg of gay alternative stctur and groups, and raisg nscns on pivotal issu. The paper published -pth material on the opprsn suffered by gay prisoners and on other gay liberatn topics, as well as solicg and prtg more gay lerary material.
Several articl by Ralph Schaffer, a Los Angel gay activist, appeared the paper, as well as articl on his murr 1972. Durg the ial phase of this perd, Gay Sunshe Journal ntued to appear tabloid format but beme more -pth— number of pag per issue as well as tellectually. Leyland began an acclaimed seri of -pth terviews wh gay wrers and artists—subsequently published two book volum as Gay Sunshe Interviews.
Durg the years Leyland actively took the iative seekg out novative and pneerg material for publitn, cludg historil and lerary says, non-Wtern gay lerature translatn, gay fictn, and gay poetry.
GAY SUNSHE; A NEWSPAPER OF GAY LIBERATN, #11 FEBARY-MARCH 1972: GAYS ZAP S.I.R.
San Francis: Gay Sunshe, 1980. Newspaper. 56p. two sectns, fold tabloid newspaper, two sectns, illtratns, photos, ads, very good on newsprt, lor ver. Wh short origal ntributns by a number of major gay lerary figur Gsberg, Robert Peters, Kirby Congdon, Rob Mgham, Richard Ronan and many more, and longer ntributns by Joseph Torchia, Walt Curtis, Mallm Boyd, Rudy Kikel, Jam * gay sunshine newspaper *
Among the books fund part by the grants were the Allen Gsberg/Peter Orlovsky llectn of love poems and letters Straight Hearts' Delight (1980), Jean Ge's Collected Poems (1981), the Brazilian gay novel Bom Crulo, and the anthology of gay poetry Orgasms of Light (1978).
GAY SUNSHE: A NEWSPAPER OF GAY LIBERATN.
Gay Sunshe: A Newspaper Of Gay Liberatn.: Fol. Fold Newspaper, 24 pp. Very Good, sunned. From the llectn of Douglas Calhoun, edor of the lerary journal Athanor. The piec were mailed om var prs and dividual thors, generally spanng om the late 1960s to the early 1970s. * gay sunshine newspaper *
Among the volum of Lat Amerin gay lerature, Leyland's favore was My Deep Dark Pa Is Love (1983), which clud fictn (and some non-fictn) by twenty-four wrers om five untri: Brazil, Mexi, Chile, Argenta, and Cuba. Gay Sunshe Prs—by 1991 the olst pennt gay prs the untry—ntued to publish gay lerary material and other non-fictn wh the amework of s non-prof stat. In 1984 Leyland started Leyland Publitns to publish books of gay eroti, fictn, and other pneerg material which need legally to be done unr a separate imprt.
Sce 1991 prev h Wston Leyland next h has published some of his bt reviewed books cludg Queer Dharma: Voic of Gay Buddhists, volum 1 and 2; Out the Castro; Out of the Closet to our Hearts; and Openly Gay, Openly Christian. Keepg te to the ternatnal spe of his publitns, Wston also has published Partgs at Dawn: An Anthology of Japane Gay Lerature and Out of the Blue: Rsia's Hidn Gay Lerature.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
Prev h Wston Leyland's next h last publitn me 2004 wh his 26th volume of Meatmen: An Anthology of Gay Male Comics, pletg his eighteen-year n of the provotive seri. Gay Sunshe was a radil unrground newspaper om Berkeley, created for the gay muny as an alternative to the more nservative gay prs, like SIR’s magaze Vector and to the existg unrground prs Berkeley, like the Berkeley Barb and the Berkeley Tribe, which did ver many gay issu, but wasn’t created for the muny.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
However, the goal of Gay Sunshe was the explore the tersectg radil polics of the Bay Area, not to be a sgle issue newspaper like past nservative gay publitns.
What is need is a newspaper that will reprent those who unrstand themselv as opprsed— polilly opprsed by an opprsor that not only is down on homosexualy, but equally down on all thgs that are not whe, straight, middle class, pro-tablishment… It should harken to a greater e— the e of human liberatn, of which homosexual liberatn is jt one aspect—and on that level ma s stand.
An article wrten by Konstant Berlandt Gay Sunshe om September 1970, “Fly Oakland, ” monstrat the growg ti of Gay radils the East Bay rejectg the gay nightlife scene San Francis and turng towards lol bars.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
WINSTON LEYLAND may not be a hoehold name but he is one of the most important figur post-Stonewall gay liberatn. In the battle for gay rights, activists have wield swords of var dimensns but none has been mightier than the dimutive sword of Mr.
Wston Leyland's associatn wh the Berkeley gay lib tabloid, Gay Sunshe, led to one of the most succsful stori gay publishg. By 1971 Leyland (who had immigrated to the Uned Stat om England as a boy) was the publisher and edor of Gay Sunshe Journal, which had moved to San Francis. Gay Sunshe's twelve year history of tellectual digny on the cuttg edge of the gay experience remas unmatched by any gay publitn sce.
In the mid 1970s, Leyland cid he wanted to publish material a more permanent book format so he found Gay Sunshe Prs as a non-prof rporatn which he served as edor--chief. " Gay Sunshe Prs, however, survived the Reagan years to bee the untry's olst ntuoly publishg book hoe of varied gay material. Always the pneer, one of Leyland's greatt ntributns to gay lerature has been publishg translatns om other cultur.