Aug 18, 2022 - Sale 2613

Sale 2613 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

GAY FLAMES


Group of 12 Gay Flames pamphlets.
Includes Gay Flames Pamphlets #1-9 and 11-13 from a series of 15, each 4 to 8 pages on folded unbound sheets, plus a cover sheet titled "Gay Liberation," and the Winter and Fall 1970 publication catalogs; minor wear and soiling, cover sheet defective. New York: Gay Flames, circa 1970.

Contents include "Gay is Good" by Martha Shelley; "The Woman-Identified Woman: What is a Lesbian?" by Radicalesbians; "An Open Letter to Jerry Rubin Which May Fix His Bad Mouth" by Step May; "Gay Consciousness" by Stevens McClave and Gary Alinder; "A Letter from Mary"; "Gay Liberation Meets the Shrinks"; "3rd World Gay Revolution" featuring Black Panther leader Huey Newton's "A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters about the Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements"; "Hey Man" by Steve Dansky; "A Gay Manifesto" by Carl Wittman (with a centerfold poster "Come Out! Join the Sisters & Brothers of the Gay Liberation Front"); "Revolutionary Love: An Introduction to Gay Liberation" by Guy Nassberg; "The Flaming Faggots and Two Other Poems of Gay Rage and Beauty"; and "Working Paper for the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention by Chicago Gay Liberation."