The Advocate (Issue No. 425, July 23, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine (formerly "America's Leading") (Newsprint Magazine) (Formerly, The Los Angeles Advocate)

Malibu, CA: Liberation Publications, Inc.. Offered is Issue No. 425 of The Advocate (July 23, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen (as Editor-in-Chief) and Lenny Giteck (as Editor) and published by Niles A. Merton and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine with glossy covers containing 112 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. This issue was dedicated to David B. Goodstein, who died on June 22, 1985. Highlights include: A Piece of My Mind - Christianity and Sex: Holy Water and Baby Oil Don't Mix by Don Sanders; two-page news item, including photos, [David B.] Goodstein Dead at 53: Cancer Takes Life of Gay Activist, Advocate Owner; IPLGY [Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth]: Giving Refuge to Harassed Gay Youngsters by Peter Freiberg; Rep. Gerry Studds: Out of the Closet, Still in the House (interview); one-page news item, including photos, entitled Texas Attorney General [Jim Mattox] Joins [Gay Activist] Fight to Uphold Sodomy Law Decision; Profile: [Artist] Bill Moore (article with interview quotes); Lesbian Perspectives [Part One of Five] - Writing in the Margins by Barbara Smith ("[on] the difficulties she's encountered being heard in the black community as an open lesbian"); five-page male fashion photospread entitled Summer of '85: Seductive Southern California Fashion; The Demise of the Gay Male Model by Brad Gooch; Rudi Gernreich: In and Out of Fashion by Stuart C. Timmons; Designs for Life: An Interview With Sir Cecil Beaton; Design - Form After Function: The 'Ideal' Gay Bar by George Whitmore and Jose Vidal (with blueprint); Hot Living is the Best Revenge (short article on John Preston, with interview quotes). Condition: covers edge-ragged and detached but present; internal pages tightly bound. . Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1985.