first edition Magazine
1959 · San Francisco
by Call, Hal, editor, Helen Kitchen Branson, Dick Tyner, Harold Weir et al.
San Francisco: Mattachine Society, 1959. Magazine. 32p. including covers, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Incest, Sunday Morning of an Auntie, Dark Secret et al
The Mattachine Society, forerunner of Daughters of Bilitis, One, Inc. and Homosexual Information Center etc., founded in 1950 in Los Angeles by Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich. The name derives from a French medieval and renaissance masque group. The magazine was founded in 1954 with the first issue appearing in January, 1955. (Inventory #: 199439)
The Mattachine Society, forerunner of Daughters of Bilitis, One, Inc. and Homosexual Information Center etc., founded in 1950 in Los Angeles by Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich. The name derives from a French medieval and renaissance masque group. The magazine was founded in 1954 with the first issue appearing in January, 1955. (Inventory #: 199439)