The Advocate (Issue No. 394, May 15, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine (formerly "America's Leading") (Newsprint Magazine) (Formerly, The Los Angeles Advocate)

Los Angeles, CA: Liberation Publications, Inc.. Please note: missing one column from the "Market Space" (ads to rear pages, not affecting news, features and photos); issue is otherwise complete. Offered is Issue No. 394 of The Advocate (May 15, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine edited by Robert I. McQueen and published by Peter G. Frisch and Liberation Publications out of San Mateo, California. A large, left-stapled newsprint newsmagazine with glossy covers measuring 10-3/8" by 12-1/2" and containing 104 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, and photographs. Highlights include: Virginia Apuzzo and the National Gay Task Force by Peter Freiberg; San Francisco's Pride [Foundation] Reaches Out with Service and Support by Ray O'Loughlin; Cruising the San Remo: Such Good Friends - Artists and the Gay Life in '50s New York by Brad Gooch; James Purdy: Staying True 'On Glory's Course' by Christopher Cox (interview); centerfold portfolio by photographer Henry Lewis (with six photos); two-page comic strip "Wendel" by Howard Cruse; Diana Kurys - On Making 'Entre Nous' - An Intimate Look at a Different Way to Love by Kim Garfield (article with interview quotes); one-page The 'Peculiar' Charms of French Pianist Daniel Varsano by Pam Brandt (article with interview quotes). Condition: missing one column from the 'Market Space' ads; in lightly worn covers showing periodic tiny closed edge tears and tiny chips, particularly along the lower edge of the front cover. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1984.