first edition Newspaper
1974 · New York
by Gay Activists Alliance, Joe Kennedy, Morty Manford et al.
New York: Gay Activist Alliance, 1974. Newspaper. 4p., folded tabloid newsletter on newsprint, services, resources, news, reports, events, ads, photos, very good. Cover story on the new president and vp of GAA. Bruce Voeller resigned the month before due to conflicts over his actions outside of yet connected to the GAA. President Voeller was a biologist who came out at age 29 divorcing his wife and joining the GAA. Dissatisfied with the outreach he formed National Gay Task Force in 1973. In the early 1980s he coined the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or A.I.D.S. (Inventory #: 223787)