The gay men's magaz QQ and Ciao! were unabashedly liberated, but they still tered to an exclive dience.
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DISVERG THE “GAY LIFTYLE” THROUGH 1970S MAGAZ
* 1970s gay magazines *
Today, we remember the creasgly outspoken polil movement for gay and lbian rights.
Lnched the sprg of 1969 wh the slogan “For Gay Guys Who Have No Hangups, ” QQ was a glossy nsumer magaze. ” But unlike gay liberatn magaz and newspapers of the time, voted ltle space to polics or activism. Hilrbrand wr that gay travel guis were not a wholly new ia.
In the 1950s and ’60s, some gay men turned word-of-mouth scriptns of lol scen to guis nsistg of the nam and addrs of bars, wh d scriptns.
VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
“The turn toward liftyle, straight and gay, volved a turn toward nsumptn as a form of self-ventn, yet the gay liftyle media stcted s rearshp not only how to bee ‘themselv, ’ as the straight publitns, but also how to bee gay, ” Hilrbrand wr.