Gay Comix (later spelled Gay Comics) is an unrground ics seri published om 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cse, Gay Comix featured the work of primarily gay and lbian rtoonists. Much of the early ntent was tobgraphil, but more diverse them were explored later edns. Autobgraphil them clu fallg love, g out, reprsn, and…
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GAY COMICS
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Many of them posss a distctly homoerotic flavour and mt have given great pleasure to many young stunts durg their studi. Gay Comix (later spelled Gay Comics) is an unrground ics seri published om 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cse, Gay Comix featured the work of primarily gay and lbian rtoonists.
Gay Comix also served as a source for rmatn about non-mastream LGBT-themed ics and events. The ntents of Gay Comix were generally about relatnships, personal experienc, and humor, rather than sex. Artists producg work for Gay Comix clud.
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Kchen Sk Prs published the first five issu of Gay Comix; thereafter was published by Bob Ross, publisher of the Bay Area Reporter gay newspaper. Andy Mangels eded issu #14 to #25 and a special issue featurg Barela; Mangels changed the tle to Gay Comics startg wh issue #15, part to divt of the “unrground” implitns of “ix”. Excerpts om Gay Comix were clud a 1989 anthology tled Gay Comics.
Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn. The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role. Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974.