VECTOR MAGAZINE—EIGHT VINTAGE ISSUES FROM 1971 & 1972—GAY HISTORY—SAN FRANCISCO

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VECTOR MAGAZINE—EIGHT VINTAGE ISSUES FROM 1971 & 1972—GAY HISTORY—SAN FRANCISCO:
$43.00

Up for sale are 8 issues of Vector Magazinefrom 1971 and 1972:
1. February 1971, Volume 7, Number 22. April 1971, Volume 7, Number 43. October 1971, Volume 7, Number 104. March 1972, Volume 8, Number 35. April 1972, Volume 8, Number 46. May 1972, Volume 8, Number 57. August 1972, Volume 8, Number 78. September 1972, Volume 8, Number 8
The issues have no loose staples and are intact (no pages missing). The issues come from a smoke-free Environment.
Vectorwas a publication of the Society for Individual Rights, an extremely important homophile organization in the Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, and in the late 1960s it concentrated more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years of the publication saw the magazine become more of a standard gay men\'s magazine with photos of nude men from around the Bay Area. The magazine is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the early days of gay liberation in the Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Also, anyone who collects vintage gay publications and erotica will find these issues to be valuable. The issues include articles, photos, advertisement for bars, clubs, and bathhouses, and classified ads.
Following information on selected issues is from \"Tyler and Brad\'s Index to Early Gay Publications & Periodicals\" (online):

April 1971 issue of \"Vector: A Voice for the Homosexual Community\" (Volume 7 #4), the official publication of the Society for Individual Rights 48 pages including front and rear covers.Containing editorials, news items, articles, columns, reviews, SIR updates and events, letters to the editor, calendar of events, classified ads, photographs and fabulous period advertisements. Highlights include:

*article on, and interview of, Tullah Hanley (with five photos);

*article on \"The Vector Reader\" by Dr. John Gigl, a summary of his long-awaited doctoral study of SIR membership and Vector readers (\"A college graduate who loves his mother and has a higher socio-economic status\");

*article \"Mental Health\" by Martin Stow (with map and listing of all Community Mental Health Centers in San Francisco);

*Part 2 article on \"Pornography - The Written Word: Are Erotic Words and Stories Harmful to Society?\" by Don Collins;

*male nude photos of Vector\'s Man of the Month - DARRYL, then working at San Francisco\'s Orpheum Circus (in nine photos, including front cover and centerfold);

*article \"The Charles Christmas Trial: Wounded and Accused of Assault\" by Lawrence Spears (with two photos: \"Charges of police brutality and secreting a witness marked the trial of Charles Christman, which ended in a hung jury shortly before midnight, March 5. Christman is charged with five counts of assault on five separate police officers with a deadly weapon - his automobile. The young man allegedly tried to run down the five officers with his auto during a fracas between police and patrons of the Stud, a gay bar in San Francisco at 1535 Folsom...\");

*article \"The Biblical Put Down on Homosexuality\" by Dr. Paul Roberts (\"Does Moses condemn the homosexual in Leviticus 18?\");

*article \"Family Agency Includes Gays\" by Alan Jacobs (on the Board of Family Service, a United Crusade, San Francisco agency);

October 1971 issue of \"Vector: A Voice for the Homosexual Community\" (Volume 7 #10), the official publication of the Society for Individual Rights 56 pages including front and rear covers.

Containing editorials, news items, articles, columns, reviews, SIR updates and events, letters to the editor, calendar of events, classified ads, photographs and fabulous period advertisements. Highlights include:

*article \"Dolores Park - Public Cruising\" by Charles McCabe (with photo);

*personal story of entrapment in Dolores Park entitled \"Victim Bacigalupi\" by Roberto Bacigalupi (with one photo);

*article on the upcoming San Francisco Halloween Beaux Art Ball delightfully entitled \"The Bitch\'s Christmas\" (with two photos, one of First Empress Jose Sarria);

*article \"Morality Arrest Stirs L.A. Activists\" by Donald Warman;

*magnificent two-page political advertisement: \"vote for: FEINSTEIN mayor, MENDELSOHN supervisor, HONGISTO sheriff\" (with portrait photo of each);

*article \"San Francisco Election Could Mean Gay Victory\" (with five photos);

*Vector\'s Men of the Month - VAL and JACK (with nine shots, including front cover and centerfold);

*splendid full-page ad for SIR\'s 7th Annual SIRLEBRITY CAPADES;

*article by Frank Kameny of the Washington, D.C. Mattachine Society entitled \"A Victory for [Richard L. \"Dick\"] Gayer: Security Clearance Granted by Government\" (with two photos);

*full-page political advertisement for Bob Mendelsohn (with portrait photo);

*full-page political advertisement for black candidate Terry A. Francois (\"Reelect Supervisor Terry A. Francois - A seasoned champion for individual rights\" with photo);

*article by Larry Townsend entitled \"Larry Townsend Talks about his life as a gay novelist\" (with photo);

*group photo from the Groovy Guy of 1971 Contest showing Dakota, Jimmy Hughes (Mr. Groovy Guy 1971), and Dell Brooks;

*short article on Mr. Groovy Guy 1971 Jimmy Hughes entitled \"Mr. Groovy Guy\" (with six photos);

August 1972 issue of \"Vector: A Voice for the Homosexual Community\" (Volume 8 #7), the official publication of the Society for Individual Rights 48 pages including front and rear covers.Containing editorials, news items, articles, columns, reviews, SIR updates and events, letters to the editor, calendar of events, classified ads, photographs and fabulous period advertisements. Highlights include:

*ground-breaking and historical article \"SIR\'s Gay Delegate: Political Chairman [James - Jim] Foster Becomes First Up-Front Gay at [Democratic] National Convention\" by Lawrence Spears (with photo);

*complete text of Jim Foster\'s address before the Democratic National Convention (with photo of him on the podium);

*article \"Gay Porno Movie Houses\" by Noel Hernandez (with photos of the San Francisco Nob Hill, Tom Cat, and O\'Farrell Adult Theatres);

*SIR\'s \"Homosexual Bill of Rights\";

*Part One of two-part analysis of \"Lesbian/Woman\" by DOB founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon by Frank Howell (with photo);

*article \"FIRE! SIR Rebuilds\" by George Mendenhall (with five photos: \"Fire swept through the auditorium and some adjoining areas of The Society for Individual Rights downtown SIR Community Center in San Francisco in July. The Sunday morning blaze was set by an arsonist who confessed to setting the fire with duplicating fluid because he was angry at the way he was treated by someone at the previous night\'s SIR dance\");

*splendid photographic ad from John David Hough;

*article \"Yosemite National Park - Warning: Beware of the Bares\" by \"Hannibal\" (with four photos);

*article \"Sodomy: It\'s Fun When Done Safely\" by Dr. Inderhaus, M.D.;

*tasteful male nude photospread of Vector\'s Man of the Month - TOM - by John David Hough (in eight photos, including front cover and centerfold);

*article by Don Slater, Director of the Homosexual Information Center in Los Angeles entitled \"No politically radical group or country has shown the slightest inclination to be more tolerant of homosexual behavior than middle class America\" (accompanied by Don Slater\'s portrait photo);

*article \"Cruising Polk Street: Something for Everyone\" by Barry Ralston (with five photos, including one of a vendor selling the \"Berkeley Barb\");

*short article and full-page photospread of the 1972 Gay Pride parades (with eight photos);

September 1972 issue of \"Vector: A Voice for the Homosexual Community\" (Volume 8 #8), the official publication of the Society for Individual Rights 48 pages including front and rear covers.Containing editorials, news items, articles, columns, reviews, SIR updates and events, letters to the editor, calendar of events, classified ads, photographs and fabulous period advertisements. Highlights include:

*article \"Gay Married Men\" by Raul Notavo;

*splendid full-page ad for the Ritch Street Health Club;

*news update \"SIR Continues After Center Fire\";

*complete address given by San Francisco Sheriff Richard Hongisto before the Resolutions Committee of the American Bar Association at its national convention in San Francisco (with portrait photo);

*complete address given by Professor Donald T. Lunde from Stanford University at the above convention (on sex laws);

*two-page facsimile of Christian fundamentalist cartoon strip \"THE GAY BLADE\" (\"Vector has presented on these two pages some of the cartoons appearing in a pocket-size comic book, distributed by Chick Publications\"; one cartoon shows the terrified men of Sodom trapped in a building and is captioned \"THE HOMOSEXUALS WEARIED THEMSELVES OF TRYING TO FIND THE DOOR. LOT AND HIS FAMILY WERE SAFELY REMOVED FROM SODOM SO GOD COULD RAIN DOWN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE AND DESTROY SODOM\");

*article \"Personal Liberation and The New Consciousness\" by new Vector writer Mark Freedman (with photo);

*article \"\'Sickness Theory\' Wrong - Psychologist George Weinberg\" by Frank Howell;

*tasteful male nude photospread of Vector\'s Man of the Month - KEN - by John David Hough (in four photos, including front cover and centerfold);

*a very interesting report that compiles the results from a readership survey given by Vector (including Sex, Age, Education, Degrees, Position, Annual Income, Full Time Students, Civil Service Employees, Marriage/Companionship, Gay Affiliations, along with several questions, i.e., \"My sex is primarily: Homosexual 89%, Heterosexual 7%\"; \"Do you think that Vector should discontinue frontal nudes? Yes 2%, No 98%\"; much more);

*splendid full-page photograph of Jim Cassidy (\"NEXT MONTH: Jim Cassidy\");

*article \"A Husband Divorces After Discovering Male Lover\" by Steve Robinson (\"I am married 8 years and, for the moment, still living with my wife and child. Soon, I will be leaving them to join my male lover in a distant city\");

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