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HAROLD "HAL" CALL, editor (1917-2000)
The Mattachine Review [and] Newsletter, an Archive of Approximately Eighty Issues, 1955-1965. Small format softcover saddle-stitched illustrated pamphlets printed in San Francisco by Pan-Graphic press, each illustrated, 5 1/4x8 1/4 inches.
"Each issue [of Mattachine Review] contained a mix of original essays on the homosexual experience; reprints of scientific studies related to homosexuality; poetry with a homosexual theme; reviews of books related to homosexuality; and letters to the editor to give readers 'the true facts of the Mattachine Society and the place of the sex variant in the life of the community.' [...] "In 1957 Mattachine Review became the first gay publication to draw attention to the Wolfenden Report, in which the British government recommended the limited decriminalization of homosexual acts by consenting homosexual males in private. Its ongoing coverage was particularly significant since the report was virtually ignored by other newspapers and magazines in the United States." (Quoted from the article on Mattachine Review> published in the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America, ed. Marc Stein, New York: Scribner & Sons, 2003).
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