The Oliver Frey impact on advertisg. Growth of the "Pk Pound" the late 1970s and early 80s led to an explson advertisg the gay prs.
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OLI FREY: ZX SPECTMS, SUPERMAN & GAY ART.
Also known as 'Zack', Oliver Frey has been arog the gay imagatn for four s. His rnchy hero Rogue prowled the pag of 'Him' magaze the UK d * oliver frey gay comics *
As a young teenager he sketched imag of a more sexual nature, always homoerotic.
He missned a monthly seri, and Oliver Frey’s profsnal gay reer was unr way. Before long a growg number of gay anisatns were lg up to missn Frey illtratns.
COMI FTIVAL PRENTS OLIVER FREY – THE GRAPHIC GAY GAZE
In 1978 Frey and his partner Roger Kean joed forc wh Purnell to form Street Level, which ntued to publish HIM together wh Teenage Dreams, Hot Dog, and the HIM Gay Library seri. Street Level also beme volved wh the gay club Heaven, which opened s doors December 1979, arrangg theme nights promoted through HIM magaze. In October 1982 they moved om London to the small market town of Ludlow, where for a year Frey ntued producg ‘Rogue’ strips for Millivr’ Mister magaze, and created a new gay ic-strip lled ‘The Street’ for the re-lnched HIM liftyle magaze, later renamed Gay Tim.