In the footsteps of queer media lumari of the 60s and 70s, WNYC podst hosts Kathy Tu and Tob Low terview Gay Liberatn Front fou…
Contents:
- ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
- GAY MENS PRS BOOKS
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
Gay Men’s Prs was an pennt publishg hoe for our muny. Between 1980 and 2000 produced nearly 300 books. Its output spanned fictn and poetry, art and photography, scholarly and practil, memoirs and guibooks. It ma a lastg ntributn to gay culture. * gay men's press *
Wh lns of pi sold, XY has been THE sential glossy magaze for young gay men sce 1996. The Gay Liberatn Front was an anizatn regnized for publishg the first gay liberatn newspaper the world, "Come Out! So you probably know that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts 1969, which is nsired one of the cg events of the Gay Rights Movement.
GAY MENS PRS BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-mens-prs: The Fancy Dancer by Patricia Nell Warren, The Shelf by Kay Dick, The Men wh the Pk Triangle: The Te Life-and-Death... * gay men's press *
Perry Brass and Karla Jay were active members a group lled Gay Liberatn Front, which was a big activism group New York at the time, and also published magaz like Come Out and Rat and many more.
Michael Bronski was active Boston and ran somethg lled Gay Sunshe Prs, which published a lot of material the 1970s.
THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
* gay men's press *
So for the sake of this panel I've been volved wh the Gay Prs om 1970, worked on Fag Rag Boston, Gay Communy News, and now I unexpectedly and weirdly teach at Harvard as a Profsor of Activism the Media and Women Genr Studi. >> I'm Perry Brass, I was a member of the Gay Liberatn Front for basilly three years, one of the most excg perds of my life.
>> I'm Karla Jay, I was also a very early member of the Gay Liberatn Front, a member of Radil Lbians, which did the Lavenr Menace Actn.
And I wrote for a number of early newspapers, cludg Rat, Subterranean News, Woman News, and I was the East Coast Corrponnt of The Lbian Ti, and I wrote for dozens of gay and lbian newspapers around this untry and abroad. Rob says, oh, e on and wre, and Rob kd of shoved me ont of a typewrer and I really owe her for that and I vered a lot of lbian and gay stori for papers like that. And I thk the experience of lbians was really very different bee unlike later gay papers, which we'll talk about, we didn't have the fanc to have our dividual papers.
Homosexualy Renaissance England by Alan Bray, September 1982, Gay Men's Prs edn, Paperback English * gay men's press *
By the time I was 19 I'd pleted a novel that was blatantly homosexual and I was told that the only way uld be published would be if I changed the genr and have the characters to the oppose sex.
So my first actual publishg was synonymo basilly wh the gay movement, what we now ll the LGBT movement and that was Come Out. After that some of my wrgs started to appear other gay papers, and I was clud Ian Young's groundbreakg anthology, The Male Me, which was the first anthology of gay poetry, openly gay poetry the English language.