The Advocate (Issue No. 416, March 19, 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. 416 of The Advocate (March 19, 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 108 pages including front and rear covers, classified ads, and Advocate West entertainment guide. Packed with articles, news items, columns, editorials, letters, vintage ads, photographs and illustrations. Highlights include: 1-1/2-page news item Police Raid Atlanta Baths (The Club Atlanta and The Locker Room Health Club); news item Gay Leaders Pressure Bathhouse Owners to Urge Safe Sex; The Houston Defeat: Why? by Stephen Kulieke (with table of Houston Poll Results); Faces (short profiles, with portrait photos, of Nancy Wilson, Robert Hegyi, Sarah Craig, and Larry Gross); Cover Story - The Gay Changing Face of New York (James Saslow on Manhattan and The Gay Exodus to the Boroughs; Dennis Cooper on The East Village and Its New Gay Ways; Brad Gooch on Times Square and Its Raw Romantics); Arabian Nights: Gay Sex in the Heart of Islam [Saudi Arabia] by Vincent Traughber; An 'Unsung Genius' is Reclaimed: Dance Artist Jack Cole. Condition: front cover shows a few light spots, a few tiny edge chips and short closed edge tears; corner chip to rear cover. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1985.