Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 263

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

COME OUT!


1st issue of the famed "Newspaper By and For the Gay Community," plus a magazine printing of the related Peter Hujar poster.
"Come Out! A Newspaper By and For the Gay Community," Volume 1, no. 1. 16 pages, 420x290 mm; 16½x11¼ inches, on 4 folding sheets; toning, minimal wear. New York: Gay Liberation Front, 14 November 1969.

This short-lived but influential newspaper "dedicates itself to the joy, the humor, and the dignity of the homosexual male and female." Includes a long critique of media coverage of the recent Stonewall uprising.

With--an issue of the Liberation News Service (dedicated to radical causes in general). 18 pages plus 7 illustrated leaves, 355x255 mm; 14x10 inches, binding staple removed. New York, 22 July 1970. Notable for the full-page reproduction of the famous Peter Hujar photograph as a poster captioned "Come Out!! Join the Sisters and Brothers of the Gay Liberation Front," with Hujar's credit line and contact information for the GLF on verso.