The Advocate (Issue No. 413, February 5, 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. 413 of The Advocate (February 5, 1985): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen (as Editor-in-Chief) and Lenny Giteck (as Editor) and published by David B. Goodstein and Liberation Publications out of Malibu, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine now with glossy covers containing 88 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: full-page news items (Tough AIDS-Funding Fight Predicted [Congress]; [Virginia] Apuzzo Blasts New York City on Lack of Money for AIDS Services; Hepatitis B Threat Increases - Yet Few at Risk Are Vaccinated); one-column news item Dan White Free; Cover Story - Gays on the Tube: Television Images Past and Present (The Televised Gay: How We're Pictured on the Tube by Richard Laermer; Marlo Thomas: "Consenting Adult" Up Close [article with interview quotes]); centerspread portfolio of correspondence-art postcards by Sabato Fiorello; Mt. Athos: The All-Male Holy Mountain of Greece by Ron Ottley; Patrice Chereau: Defending a Difficult, Tragic 'Wounded Man' (short article with interview quotes); Jan Clausen: Radical Images From the 'Big Chill' Generation (short article with interview quotes); Stephen Dickson: 'A Nice Guy' With a Barracuda Bite (short article with interview quotes). Condition: covers show periodic wear along outer narrow spine fold. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1985.