Research Catalog

Title

Gay marxist.

Publication

Manchester [England] : Manchester GLF.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fernbach, David.
• Tatchell, Peter, 1952-

Description

v. : ill.; 30 cm.

Subjects

• Gays > Periodicals
• Communism and sex > Periodicals
• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 > Portraits
• Gay liberation movement > Periodicals
• Socialism > Periodicals
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation
• Homosexuality > Periodicals

Note

• Description based on: 5 (June 1974); title from cover.
• Earlier issues have different publication information: No. 1 and 3 produced by the Lancaster Gay Liberation Front; no. 2 produced by the London Gay Marxist Study Group.
• Issued in wrappers illustrated with facsimile line-drawn caricatures; issue no. 2 side-stapled and mimeographed on white paper, issue no. 3 corner-stapled on salmon paper, with yellow front and back wrappers, front wrapper bearing gay liberation device in black.
• No. 2 includes "Towards a Marxist Theory of Gay Liberation," "Class Struggle and the Gay Question," and a list of gay and women's movement political writings.
• The lead article of no. 3 is an account by gay activist Peter Tatchell of being physically attacked at the 10th German Democratic Republic Youth Festival for distributing gay political leaflets. Tatchell would become famous as an "outer" of homosexual men concealing their sexual identities. Other contributions include Don Milligan's "Oscar Wilde," Mary Scarlett's "Coming Out -- The Old and the New," John Lloyd's "Sexism in Children's Reading Books," David Fernbach's "Gay Liberation: Capitalist Style," F. Morison's poems "Rebellion" and "Oh, Mr. Universe," And Quentin Charatan's poem "To Princess Anne on the Occasion of Her Marriage to Lieutenant Mark Phillips."
• "Gay Marxist was set up at a conference at Warwick in March 1973 of Marxists active in the gay liberation movement. It was decided there to produce a bulletin for discussion among people who were both gay liberationist and Marxist, and who were attempting to combine the two in their political work. Gay Marxist is thus deliberately not a journal with a defined political line. [...] The first issue [...] was produced by Lancaster GLF, and the present issue has been put together by the London Gay Marxist Study Group."--From statement on t.p. of no. 2 (July '73).
• Issue no. 3 with two humorous caricatures of Karl Marx as contemporary bohemian.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Gay M37 1973

LCCN

sn 93023289

OCLC

27858586

Title

Gay marxist.

Imprint

Manchester [England] : Manchester GLF.

Access

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Indexed In:

Not in Miller & Price.

Local Note

Berg Collections holds no. 2 (July 1973) and no. 3 (October 1973).

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Added Author

Fernbach, David. Contributor

Tatchell, Peter, 1952- Contributor

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Gay M37 1973