Aug 18, 2022 - Sale 2613

Sale 2613 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

Special Identity Women's Periodicals, 1970s-1980s.


A period archive of small press second wave feminist, lesbian, and women's liberation magazines, newspapers, and ephemera containing women's liberation tracts, pro-lesbian political and artistic works, anti-Vietnam War, pro-Black women, and other materials compiled by and for a variety of marginalized women's populations with a strong emphasis on queer women, compiled by a lesbian activist from the midwest active in the 1970s and 1980s.

Including: five lesbian bumperstickers; several issues of the Scarlet Letter, Madison, WI, 1971-1972; and Lavender Papers, New York Women's School, 1975; pamphlets published by Gay Flames; self-published lesbian poetry; grass-roots produced handbills promoting gay pride and international women's day events; publications of the New England Free Press in Boston; works on birth control;

Newsprint publications including copies of the following titles: The Red Papers; Lavender Woman; Liberated Guardian; New York City Star; Big Mama Rag; Berkeley Tribe; her-self; kaleidoscope; Rat; Whole Woman; and others.