NY: Gay Power Inc., 1969. 19pp; b&w illus. Unbound newsprint tabloid. Toning to leaves, flattened crease from having once been folded horizontally; about near fine.
Single issue of this seminal gay periodical, first published in the immediate aftermath of the Stonewall uprising, and billing itself as "New York's First Homosexual Newspaper." Contents include "David Gaard talking with Clayton Cole"; "Gay Liberation Front News" by Ralph Hall; a column by writer and Warhol-associate Taylor Mead; "The Week There Were No Queers," by Andrew McCord; "Bar Beat," a list of New York gay bars; Student Homophile League news; a drawing by Claes Oldenburg; poems by Sappho; an astrology column by Walter Breen; "The Gay Films of Yesterday" by Marion Z. Bradley, etc. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, with several nudes, including centerfold. Edited by now Berlin-based filmmaker and actor John Heys (b. 1954), a close friend and frequent subject of photographer Peter Hujar. Publisher Joel Fabricant also notable as publisher of the East Village Other and Kiss.
