OUT f and articulat the ntributn of gay men and women to the culture through a provotive blend of fashn, pop culture, and journalism, spirg rears to nsir the ever-evolvg meang of gay.
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ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
ONE Magaze was published om 1953 until 1967 by the Los Angel gay rights anizatn ONE, Inc., an offshoot of the Mattache Society. It was the first... * magazine one gay *
ONE, Inc., was one of the first gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat. 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.
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. 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.
ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
(Both were nnected to Knights of the Clock, a social club open to Black and whe cis gay men. 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.