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PERIODICALS
The first two issues of "Gay Flames: A Bulletin of the Homofire Movement." [4], [8] pages, 250x175 mm; 10x7 inches, on folding sheets, printed in red or purple; uneven printing and folding, minimal wear. [New York], 1 and 11 September 1970.
A radical publication which lasted for at least 11 issues through February 1971. They also issued a series of pamphlets. This first issue begins with an account of a large demonstration on 42nd Street: "No one knew how many would show, if the pigs would come down heavy, or if the straights would harass us . . . 550 people marched down forty-second and back and around again. Chanting G-A-Y P-O-W-E-R; Hey Hey What Do You Say, Try It Once The Other Way. . . . Not since the Stonewall Riots of the summer of 1969 has the New York gay community come out with such strength, anger, and pride." Another article describes activism at New York University. The second issue describes the attendance of New York gay activists at the Black Panther-sponsored Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and includes a centerfold comic strip, "The Wonder Kid & Butch."
