The Advocate (Issue No. 426, August 6, 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. 426 of The Advocate (August 6, 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 thin, glossy covers containing 92 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: A Piece of My Mind - To Sit With Gay Love: Coming Out in the Classroom by James M. Saslow; two-page news item, including photos, entitled Massachusetts Governor [Michael Dukakis] Refuses to Change Policy Banning Gay Foster Parents; news item Gay Minister [Rev. Larry Uhrig] 'Disinvited' by Democratic National Committee Following Publicity; news item Two Gay Men [Jack McCarty and Victor Amburgy] Among TWA Hostages [Flight #847] Return to San Francisco, Tell of Ordeal; full-page news item, including photos, entitled Executive Order 50 [by New York City Mayor Edward Koch banning antigay discrimination by firms and agencies doing business with the City] Struck Down by New York Court of Appeals; news item, with photo, New Orleans Writer [Johnny Greene] is Fired After AIDS Article Appears; Interview - Rosemary Kuropat: New NGTF Administrative Head; four-page photospread Alive With Pride '85'; Cover Story - Safe Sex: Guidelines That Could Save Your Life by Michael Helquist; Lesbian Perspectives [Part Two of Five] - Wanting 'It': The Power of Latinas by Cherrie Moraga; Interview - Critic Robert Jacobson: Keeping in Tune With a Gala Night for AIDS. Condition: the thin, outer covers are detached but present and show tears along cover fold and several small, periodic edge chips; the internal pages are in Fine condition. . Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1985.