Signed by Author - 1st Edn. - Hardver - Falstaff Prs - 1932 - Condn: Fair - No Jacket - ON GOING NAKED BY JAN GAY ILLUSTRATED BY ZHENYA 1932 PUBLISHED BY FALSTAFF PRESS NUDISM SUPERARE LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED 16/1000 SIGNED!!!! The thor's real name is Helen Reman. 163 clean pag wh many photos and illtratns by Zhenya. SIGNED BY JAN GAY on the pyright page, showg this to be number 16 of 1000 prted. After she vised var nudist mps Germany and Swzerland prompted Jan to wre her book "On Gog Naked", which she published 1932 wh "ratns" by Zhenya. The book was so succsful that she started her own nudist lony Highlands, New York lled the Out-of-Doors Club. Her book was also quickly adapted to a "roadshow" film lled "Back to Nature" which was shown theaters across the unty the Summer of 1933 to adult only dienc. In orr to promote the book, film and club, Jan ved several journalists om the Associated Prs, Uned Prs and NEA Service to observe and wre about the mp. The Out-of-Door Club, the most exclive and famo of the nudists loni of the time, started a nudists movement Ameri which beme extremely popular and lasts today. She ntued as the Director of the mp at least through 1933 and was charge of terviewg all of the guts before allowg them ." "Helen Reman is more monly known today as Jan Gay, the name she ed for volvement a study of the gay muny lled "Sex Variants", nducted by Dr. Gee W. Henry and sponsored by the "Commtee for the Study of Sex Variants, Inc.", which Helen found. In about 1927 (possibly earlier), Helen met Eleanor Byrn and the two women beme very close and moved together at 225 W 34th Street, New York Cy. They traveled together to Mexi that year and on the ship manift back to New York Eleanor gave her name as Eleanor Byrn Reman. By 1930 both women had changed their nam to Jan and Zhenya Gay when they took another trip to London. Both women would keep the nam through the rt of their liv. he same year Jan and Zhenya wrote an illtrated a childrens book lled "Pancho and His Burro". It would be the first of over 45 children's books that Zhenya would illtrate durg her life. Jan, who was already well intified as a lbian, may have already vised the Instute for Sex Study wh Magn Hirschfeld Berl - probably wh Zhenya 1927 or 1930. Or she may have met Magn durg another trip that Jan and Zhenya took 1931, sailg back om Bremen September of that year. Durg this trip they vised var nudist mps Germany and Swzerland which prompted Jan to wre her book "On Gog Naked", which she published 1932 wh Holborn Hoe (New York) wh "ratns" by Zhenya. The book was so succsfull that she started her own nudist lony Highlands, New York lled the Out-of-Doors Club. Her book was also quickly adapted to a "roadshow" film lled "Back to Nature" which was shown theaters across the unty the Summer of 1933 to adult only dienc. In orr to promote the book, film and club, Jan ved several journalists om the Associated Prs, Uned Prs and NEA Service to observe and wre about the mp. The Out-of-Door Club, the most exclive and famo of the nudists loni of the time, started a nudists movement Ameri which beme extremely popular and lasts today. She ntued as the Director of the mp at least through 1933 and was charge of terviewg all of the guts before allowg them " From Gay History Wiki "ver wear, spe ver is cracked down one si, si prev owners name otherwise clean and tight wh mor marks spots as typil wh age" - ON GOING NAKED (rare ltd ed 16/1000 SIGNED!!!!)
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JAN GAY
Jan Gay was ahead of her time--an openly queer woman who spearhead some of the first studi of lbians. She's largely been fotten. Until now. * jan gay artist *
Des before a formalized queer activist movement popped up, a rearcher named Jan Gay cid to seek liberatn a different way. For Gay, the rearch was a sort of Trojan horse.
JAN GAYE
Jan Gaye is famo for her former spoe, the late Marv Gaye. Marv Gaye was an Amerin soul sger and songwrer. Jan is an actrs known for her work Lobster Man, Tavis Sey, and Marv Gaye. They met when she was 17 and Marv was 33. Dpe their age gap, they got along and madly fell love. They married October 1977. * jan gay artist *
Gay saw her study as a subtler type of activism—a way to document the many shas of queer inty, but also to show the world that queer people were far more like the rt of society than they had been given cred. What ma her rearch all the more radil is that Gay herself was openly a lbian. Today, we have many ways to remember Gay: as a picture-book thor, a nudist lear, and the one-time roommate of Andy Warhol.
In honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth this year, I have renstcted parts of Gay’s life through material held at the Library of Congrs and the Johns Hopks Medil Archiv, as well as om letters sent to me om a fay member of Gay’s. The glimps of Gay’s legacy highlight how early queer people envisned rearch as a way to advote for their muny—and how they were nohels erased om that From Harper's BAZAARFour upl of women pose for a photo, . 1910 (Photo by Kirn Vtage Stock/Corbis via Getty Imag)Kirn Vtage Stock//Getty ImagJan Gay was born wh the name Helen Reman on Febary 14, 1902 Leipzig, Germany.
Gay’s father, Ben Reman, was a proment doctor and anarchist activist, who also had a hab of womanizg. Gay was born while her mother revered om mental health Gay moved to the Uned Stat, she studied at Northwtern Universy. In 1927, to distance herself om her father, she changed her name to Jan Gay—eher as a nod to the dual meang of the word gay, or, more likely, as a reference to her mother’s fay.
Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. * jan gay artist *
(Gay was her maternal grandfather’s middle name. ) Around the same time, she met Eleanor Byrn, an illtrator who eventually took on the psdonym Zhenya Gay.
Gay also beme an early figure the nudism movement: She served as the director of the Out-of-Door Club, a nudist lony of 50 people Highland, New York, where she enuraged rearchers to study the psychologil differenc between nudists and people who wore cloth.