The Advocate (Issue No. 396, June 12, 1984): The National Gay Newsmagazine (formerly "America's Leading") (Newsprint Magazine) (Formerly, The Los Angeles Advocate)

San Mateo, CA: Liberation Publications, Inc.. Offered is Issue No. 396 of The Advocate (June 12, 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 now with glossy covers containing 100 pages including front and rear covers and classified ads. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: one-page news item (including photo) United Methodist Church Delegates Vote Ban On Gay Ministers at Historic Conference; Gay Couple Files Last Appeal in Los Angeles Deportation Case: Legally Married in Colorado in 1975 by Joan Cort (on Richard Adams and Anthony Sullivan); Cover Story - Reaching Out: Liaisons to the Gay Community (article of the same name subtitled Public Servants or Political Window-Dressing? by Lenny Giteck [with profiles of liaisons Chuck Forester, Lee Hudson, Kit Duffy, and Peter Drago]; San Francisco Police Officer Paul Seidler Bridges an Historically Wide Gap [article with interview quotes]); The Reverend June Norris Ministers to Gays (article with interview quotes); centerspread portfolio by artist CLWRIGHT; A Visit With Allan Carr: Hollywood's Can't-Stop Mogul by Vito Russo (article with interview quotes); Men Together [Dance Company]: Looking Sharp for a New Spring Season by Barry Laine; Tobias Schneebaum: Life, Sex and Ecstasy with the Head-Hunters of New Guinea (interview). Condition: outer covers show periodic light edge wear, tiny corner chip. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1984.