Sexuality

# 43176

BROPHY, Chris (compiler); BLONSKI, Annette (editor)

Australian women’s film & video : a catalogue of films and videos produced or directed by Australian women

/ compiled and researched by Chris Brophy ; edited by Annette Blonski. Melbourne : AFI Distribution Ltd., 1988.Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated; includes indexes, bibliography; a very good copy.

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# 43136

RU PAUL (supermodel of the world)

[RU PAUL]. Make love not AIDS

Postcard, unused, with portrait of RuPaul Charles by Mike Ruiz, printed verso ‘Make love not AIDS salutes RuPaul for his continued support in the fight against AIDS’.

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# 43135

TOM OF FINLAND

Tom of Finland : recent drawings. Philip Masonic : recent photographs

New York : Robert Samuel Gallery, 1980. Exhibition invitation card, 18 x 12 cms, three panels, folded, two illustrations, printed on heavy black card. Scarce Tom of Finland exhibition ephemera.

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# 41529

HILLERSBERG, Lars; SVEDBERG, Lena; DE GEER, Carl Johan, et al.

Puss. (Complete set, plus prospectus)

Stockholm : Puss, 1968-1973. A complete set of twenty-five issues; number 1 (January 1968) – number 24, (1973), plus the unnumbered issue and the rare prospectus which advertises the Puss preview presented at the Konsthall, 2-14 December 1967. Quarto (nos. 1-21 and the unnumbered issue, as well as the 4-page prospectus) and folio (nos 22-24); …

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# 42985

HAMMER, Barbara (1939- )

Goddess Films : sales & rentals.

Berkeley, CA : Barbara Hammer / Goddess Films, [1979?]. Single sheet, 350 x 270 mm, folding to 180 x 90 mm, printed on both sides, photographically illustrated; light creasing and marks to the outer covers when folded, otherwise excellent condition. Important – and very scarce – trade brochure for Goddess Films, the distribution company of …

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# 42515

[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)

Gay vote. News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club

San Francisco : the Club, 1978 – 79. A collection of 13 issues of a highly significant periodical in the gay civil rights movement, commencing with vol. 1 no. 2. Each issue pp. 4, illustrated, in fine condition, unfolded and unposted. The first issues are subtitled News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, and …

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# 42496

HOGAN, Lou Rand; COSTAIN, David (illustrator)

The Gay Cookbook (first edition)

/ by Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. Los Angeles : Sherbourne Press, 1965. First edition, first impression. Large octavo, lettered paper boards (bumped at corners, spine sunned, lightly marked, stain to fore edge), pp. viii; 280, line illustrations; internally clean. A good copy of the true first edition, issued in much larger format …

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# 43014

MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); LEYLAND, Winston

Physique. A pictorial history of the Athletic Model Guild

San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [96], illustrated with erotic photography of male nudes. Physique Pictorial, published by Bob Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild (AMG) was the first all-male and all-nude magazine in the United States. It is an example of a ‘beefcake’ magazine which published images of athletic and attractive …

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# 43009

MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992); TOM OF FINLAND

Physique pictorial. 16 issues featuring covers by Tom of Finland

Los Angeles : AMG, 1961 – 1976. 16 issues of Physique Pictorial all featuring covers designed by legendary gay artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (known by the pseudonym ‘Tom of Finland’, each issue octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white photographs of male nudes. The breakthrough publication which saw Touko Laaksonen’s ‘dirty little …

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# 42514

San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.

[GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982

San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …

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# 42513

[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)

If you could see us now … the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club celebrates Harvey’s 50th birthday.

[San Francisco] : [Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club], [1980]. Newspaper, 380 x 290 mm, pp. [20], central crease, illustrated in black and white. Includes a contribution from Jane Fonda. Celebration souvenir newspaper of the life of gay politician Harvey Milk who was assassinated eighteen months prior, with articles about gay political activism in San Francisco, …

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# 43040

WILLARD, Avery

Leather

Compiled under the direction of Avery Willard. Washington : Guild Press Ltd., 1965. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly creased), pp. [72], central pages neatly detached, a couple of pages marked, illustrated with full page black and white photographs of fantasy scenes of men in various dress and undress of leather. Does not include full frontal nudity. …

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# 43036

LAAKSONEN, Touko Valio (1920 - 1991), a.k.a. TOM OF FINLAND

Tom of Finland Album 2

[New York?] : NPC, circa 1970. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated in black and white with Tom of Finland’s homoerotic imagery. Includes the introductory essay Physique art expounds upon the inevitable b M. Erick Evans, and an order form for male nude magazines from Media Arts in New York. Probably a pirated publication of Tom …

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# 42855

TOWNSEND, Larry (1930 - 2008, pseudonym of Bud Bernhardt)

The Leatherman’s Handbook

New York : Olympia Press, 1972. Octavo, paperback, original wrappers, light rubbing to corners, crease to spine with crack in text block, pp. [viii]; 319; [7 – advertisements], internally clean, a very good to fine copy. ‘The only definitive exploration of the gay S & M leather scene over written by a qualified writer who …

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# 42888

BARTON, Crawford (1943 - 1993)

Beautiful men

San Mateo, CA : Liberation Publications, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a little rubbed and creased), pp. [96], internally fine. Iconic and seminal photobook, the first publication from Crawford Barton, who is noted for his documentation of the emergent gay subculture in San Francisco from the 1960s to 1980s. Rare.

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# 42724

NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)

[SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, owner’s name to upper panel, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing …

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