

Early Gay Literature
[Gay Activism]
20 Questions About Homosexuality
New York: Gay Activists Alliance, 1973
8vo, pp. 24. Original olive green stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
The New York-based Gay Activists Alliance was founded in 1969, six months after the Stonewall riots. Single-issue, politically non-aligned, the GAA quickly established itself as one of the most effective and well-organised gay pressure groups in the early years of the Gay Liberation movement.
This pamphlet, answering questions about homosexuality and the gay lifestyle not just for wider society but for those looking to acclimatise to their sexuality in the face of a hostile world, is a wonderful, touching survivor from the Gay Rights movement of the early 1970s. A fine copy, too.
BURNS, John Horne
A Cry Of Children
New York: Harper & Bros., 1952
8vo, pp. 276. Original grey and blue three-quarter cloth, lettered in white on spine.
First edition.
Published a year before Burns' death in Florence of a cerebral haemorrhage,... [more]
WILLINGHAM, Calder
End As A Man
New York: Vanguard Press, 1947
8vo, pp. 350. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition of the author's first book, based on the time he spent as a cadet at the Citadel, a military college in... [more]
WILLINGHAM, Calder
End As A Man
New York: Vanguard Press, 1947
8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition of the author's first book, in a striking dustjacket designed by Roy Sanford.
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[MILK, Harvey]
I Promise You This:
San Francisco: David Emerson Smith for Poets and Artists, 1979
8vo, pp. 29. Illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay politician to be elected to public office in... [more]
[Gay Rights]
In The Spirit Of Stonewall
New York: World View 1979
8vo, pp. 85, 5 pp. advertisements. Stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
A collection of gay rights articles which first appeared in Worker's Worldmagazine.An American ... [more]
[ed. CURB, Rosemary and MANAHAN, Nancy]
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking The Silence
Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1985
8vo, pp. 383, 3pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Original photographic boards.
First edition.
When this book... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Gay Ephemera] [Mattachine Society]
Mattachine Society: Minutes Of Coordinating Council Meeting
N.p. [San Francisco] N.p. 1953
11 pp., typed (rectos only) and mimeographed, three on white paper and eight on yellow. Hole-punched in three places in left... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Gay Ephemera] [Mattachine Society]
Mattachine Society: Minutes of Coordinating Council Meeting
N.p. [San Francisco] N.p. 17 January 1954
3 pp., typed, rectos only. Inked initials ('VCEB') in top right corner of top page, mark of rusted paper clip to top... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Gay Ephemera] [Mattachine Society]
Mattachine Society: Minutes of Coordinating Council Meeting
N.p. [San Francisco] N.p. 7 February 1954
9 pp., typed, rectos only. Mark of rusted staple to top left. Hole-punched in three places in left margin. Two ink corrections, one... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BANG, Herman
Mikael
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1904
8vo, pp. 379. Contemporary threequarter marbled cloth boards, leather ribbed spine and corners, spine and device on front panel... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Fall 1960
8vo, pp. [248-280]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. III No. 4.
Early issue of this... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Spring 1961
8vo, pp. [40-72]. Original red stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. IV No. 2.
Early issue of this long-running... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Summer 1961
8vo, pp. [76-108]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. IV No. 3.
Early issue of this long-running... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter 1962
8vo, pp. [4-34]. Original blue stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. V No. 1.
Early issue of this long-running and ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Fall 1962
8vo, pp. [40-71]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. V Nos. 2,3,4.
Early issue of this... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter, Spring 1963
8vo, pp. [4-36]. Original grey stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VI Nos. 1,2.
Early issue of this... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[PERIODICAL]
One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies
Los Angeles: One Institute, Summer, Fall 1963
8vo, pp. [40-71]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. Vol. VI Nos. 3, 4.
A scarce survivor, and ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
