Breve Suma, 1966-1969
by Enrique Fierro
Collection of verse written by prolific Uruguayan poet, journalist, essayist and translator Enrique Héctor Fierro Podestá (1941-2016). The work was written when the poet was in his mid-20s teaching in Montevideo — and was published ten years later when he was living in exile in Mexico. He subsequently served as director of the Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay (1985–1989) and as a professor at the University of Texas, Austin. The frontispiece is a full-page original illustration by Mexican artist and curator Tomás... Read More
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Calling Card: Janet Flanner
by Janet Flanner
Calling card for the American lesbian author and journalist Janet Flanner (1892-1978) bearing the words "Miss Janet Flanner" at upper left and "Paris" at lower right. Offset in black ink on white bristol card stock.Flanner lived in Paris from the mid-1920s until 1975, with the exception of the years of the Nazi Occupation. She was a central member of the American expatriate community where her friends included Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein and other major queer literary figures. Under... Read More
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Shades of Gay
by Bob Foltz
An adult coloring book portraying scenes of gay life in San Francisco in the late 1970s, with clones; disco queens; drag queens; leather daddies; lesbians; punks; Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; and other archetypes shown in locations including two of the main gayborhoods of the era, Castro Street and Polk Street.Also portrayed are locally and nationally recognized personalities who were members or allies of the gay community: Supervisor Harvey Milk (1930–1978); disco diva Sylvester (1947–1988); drag performer, actor and singer Divine... Read More
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The Government Has Blood on Its Hands / One AIDS Death Every Half Hour
by Gran Fury
Sticker version of an iconic AIDS activist graphic produced by Gran Fury for ACT UP/ New York in 1988: a bloody red handprint accompanied by forceful texts blaming government inaction for the deadly toll of the AIDS crisis. The strip of three crack-and-peel stickers offered here tells a particularly poignant story: Each graphic is revised in marker pen to reflect the tripling of the death rate by 1990, changing "One AIDS Death Every Half Hour" to "Three AIDS Deaths Every... Read More
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La Casa dei demoni
by Nicola Guiducci
Artist's chapbook by photographer and musician Nicola Guiducci juxtaposing details of paintings by Théodore Géricault and pages from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Adonais" with nude photographs of a handsome, tattooed young man plus one of a young man in frumpy drag. All were shot in the baroque interiors of the Milan apartment of cultural impresario Oliviero Leti, who uses the space as an invitation-only club. Although the colophon indicates a limitation to 100 signed copies, no signature appears in this... Read More
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The Social Setting of Homosexuality
by Ernest Van Den Haag
Text of an informal talk on the social psychology of homosexuality and anti-homosexual sentiment presented at a 1963 meeting of the New York chapter of the Mattachine Society, the first enduring homosexual organization in the United States. Author Ernest Van Den Haag (1914-2002) was a practicing psychoanalyst and an adjunct professor of sociology at New York University; he went on to serve as professor of jurisprudence and public policy at Fordham University. The dust jacket illustration is by artist Mario de... Read More
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AIDS in Amsterdam
by Mariëlle Hageman
Extensively illustrated overview of the history of AIDS in Amsterdam prepared by the Amsterdam City Archives and other municipal agencies for distribution in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on AIDS, held in Amsterdam in June 2018. Discusses the responses of policymakers, healthcare providers and affected populations, including community organizing, activism and cultural expression. CONDITION: Slight dent to head of spine.
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Bookplate: Ex Libris K. David
by Carl Hermann Holzhey
Bookplate in the form of an original etching by German artist Carl Hermann Holzhey (1878–1935, or 1936 according to one source). The spelling of the last name is sometimes cited as Holzhe. Little biographical information on the artist appears in web searches—but library and museum holdings and sales records document that he was commissioned by a number of patrons to produce bookplates and was a fairly prolific printmaker and illustrator. The bookplate offers a visual pun on the name of the... Read More
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Three Note Cards With Analog Color Photographs of Black Male Nudes
by Jamal
Three blank note cards, each featuring a tipped-on analog print by African American photographer Jamal, who published under his own imprint, Brothers/The MPP Company, based in Oakland, Calif. Two are color and one is black-and-white. All show muscular young Black men fully nude. Jamal's work represents reclaiming and honoring of the Black male body through the erotic gaze of a Black gay photographer. CONDITION: Two as new; one with diagonal crease to outside upper corner of card; all with original blank... Read More
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Bookplate: Oskar Leuschner Ex Libris
by Stanislav Kulhanek
Bookplate in the form of an original etching by Czechoslovakian printmaker Stanislav Kulhánek (1885-1970) featuring a nude young White male crouching on the back of an eagle with an oval vignette of a cloudy sky as the background. The combination of the handsome young man and the enormous eagle evokes the classical myth the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus—but here with the power relationship reversed by showing the youth dominating the raptor. The figure holds a large book aloft with... Read More
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Barnyard Sex
by Rodd
A graphic novella featuring full-page reproductions of ink-and-wash drawings depicting the homosexual adventures of a college student who takes a summer job as a farmhand. The illustrations are distinctive for depicting smiling all-American boys cheerfully demolishing the conventions of Middle Western rectitude—a fact humorously underlined by the occasional appearance of farm animals, including a rabbit, popping up to look on in astonishment. Initially produced around 1970, the work offers an example of the efforts of anonymous publishers to distribute homosexual imagery... Read More
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Amours secrètes d'un gentleman
by XXX (pseudonym of Edward Sellon)
Despite the publication date, Amours secrètes d'un gentleman is in fact a clandestine volume produced circa 1955 by celebrated French pornographer Eric Losfeld (1922-1979). Although not credited as such in the publication, the work is a translation of a British novel, The New Epicurean, or the Delight of Sex (1865) by Charles Sackeville (pseudonym of Edward Sellon, 1816-1866). A French edition first appeared in 1890. The book follows the picaresque erotic exploits of the eponymous gentleman. Among the chapters is "Les Deux... Read More
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55 écrivaines
by Stéphane Foenkinos, Stéphanie Murat & Raphaëlle Valbrune
Catalog of an exhibition of works by French photographer Stéphanie Murat representing male model Stéphane Foenkinos crossed-dressed and posed in portraits representing 55 celebrated women writers, ranging chronologically from Sappho to Anna Gavalda and alphabetically from Christine Angot to Marguerite Yourcenar. The volume is mainly devoted to full page plates in color or black-and-white accompanied by short quotations from the authors portrayed. One holding in WorldCat: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.). No holdings in the Catalogue Collectif de France.
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Six Blank Note Cards Reproducing Black-and-White Male Nudes
by Frank "Franco" Tarsitano
Note cards reproducing black-and-white photographs of muscular Asian, Black, Latine and White men in their 20s and 30s, all shot against blank studio backdrops by San Francisco photographer Frank "Franco" Tarsitano (although no photographer's credit appears). Five of the cards show nude or semi-nude men individually or in groups. One shows a pair of men kissing; both are wearing U.S. Navy uniforms. Tarsitano published the cards under the Q Cards imprint of his Ram Studios Photography business. Three cards of the... Read More
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The Trouble With Harry Hay
by Stuart Timmons
American gay activist Harry Hay (1912-2002) was best known for his leadership in 1950 in co-founding the Mattachine Society, the first enduring homosexual organization in the United States, and for his subsequent role in 1978 as cofounder of the Radical Faerie movement. The Trouble With Harry Hay by biographer Stuart Timmons (1957-2017) draws on Hay's own memories as well as documentary sources to portray the arc of his life from an international boyhood to his longtime involvement in the Communist Party... Read More
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