Gay sunshine journal

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Contents:

• Winston Leyland:
• "John Giorno: The Poet in Recent York" (interview)
• "Jack Spicer Revisted" (review of Manroot, number 10)
• Peter Hujar: photograph of John Giorno
• Gianfranco Mantegna: photograph of John Giorno at St. Mark's
• Les Levine: photograph of John Giorno, Peter Orlovsky, and Allen Ginsberg outside of the Republican Convention
• Daniel Asher: photograph of Jackie Curtis, William Burroughs, and John Giorno in
• Winston Leyland and Don Jackson: "Advocate: A Turn to the Right?" (essay)
• Jack Latham: "A Faggot Father Speaks Out" (essay)
• Tina Efron: photograph
• Edgar Austin:
• "Communal Sleeping Room, Tokyo" (poetry)
• "Another for

  Gay Sunshine: A Journal of Gay Liberation (33 Issues)

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  A substantial jog of the post-Stonewall gay tabloid, 33 different individual issues plus a single duplicate. Vol. 1 Nos. 4, , , 26/27 (a double issue), 28, 29/30, 31, 32, 33/34, 35, 36/37, 38/39, 40/41, 42/43, 44/45, 46 (2 copies). Tabloid format. Illustrated. Near Fine overall with light creasing and reading wear, typical toning with age; uncommonly nice shape. A radical Left LGBTQ+ journal originally begun as a project of the Gay Sunshine collective, which became associated with Gay Sunshine Press after the collective splintered. Features interviews with William S. Burroughs, John Rechy, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet, Gore Vidal and more. The first issue here, #4, features a very ahead-of-its-time photo spread titled "Gender Fuck" with members of the San Francisco radical theater group The Cockettes.

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  Title

  Gay Sunshine: A Journal of Gay Liberation (33 Issues)

  Publisher

  Gay Sunshine & Gay Sunshine Verb, Berkeley
  
  

  
  Cover of Gay Sunshine No. 8
  (August )
  
  
  Winston Leyland, San Francisco, WINSTON LEYLAND may not be a household name but he is one of the most important figures in post-Stonewall gay liberation. In the battle for gay rights, activists hold wielded swords of various dimensions but none has been mightier than the diminutive sword of Mr. Leyland's pen.
  Winston Leyland's association with the Berkeley gay lib tabloid, Gay Sunshine, led to one of the most successful stories in gay publishing. By Leyland (who had immigrated to the United States from England as a boy) was the publisher and editor of Gay Sunshine Journal, which had moved to San Francisco.
  Gay Sunshine's twelve year history of intellectual dignity on the cutting edge of the gay experience remains unmatched by any gay publication since. Its pages burst with a cornucopia of gay history, sex, politics and culture. Essays, fiction, poetry, graphics, and interviews with such figures as William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams were grist for Mr. Leylan
  

  First edition, first printing, letter O of 26 specially bound copies signed by Ginsberg and Orlovsky. This is publisher and editor Winston Leyland's have copy of the deluxe issue, additionally signed by him on the title page, and with two unpublished autograph letters signed from Ginsberg to Leyland laid in. The first letter, dated 26 November , praises the submit publication, mentions meeting John Rechy, and discusses other matters of gay publishing. The second, with the signed envelope dated 7 September , sends Leyland a postcard of the famous photograph Ginsberg took of Neal Cassady and Natalie Jackson in Winston Leyland (b) was a leading figure in American LGBT publishing and won the Stonewall Book Award in He established the Gay Sunshine Press in , which was notable for its pioneering anthologies of gay writing from other cultures, and his Gay Sunshine Journal () was particularly influential for its interviews with prominent gay writers of the era, including Ginsberg himself. Gay Sunshine A14c. Octavo. Photographic portrait frontispiece, and other illustrations. Original