RARE Pulp Tabloid GAY SCENE V3 #9 Leather Scene

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This week, I'm posting several RARE and quite fragile EARLY GAY LIBERATION tabloid newspapers. This auction is for a rare issue of V.3, #9 of GAY SCENE , published circa 1973 in New York City. Concurrent with (and shortly after) the Stonewall uprising of June 1969, a number of homophile publications began appearing in larger cities across the United States. GAY SCENE was just one of a number of these publications launched in New York City. This issue measures appx. 11x17 inches and has never been folded in half, and therefore its cover is uncreased, as shown in my first photo. It has appx. 20 pages printed on newsprint, which has browned and chipped slightly around the edges (and which may show in my photographs). Nonetheless, it is in remarkable condition for its age, and is all the more desirable because of its rarity in this unfolded condition. Edited by BRUCE KING (a/k/a the physique and theatrical photographer AVERY WILLARD ), this issue contains a lengthy feature entitled "Murder Fright in Greenwich Village Grips Gay Community," as well as the publication's regular centerspread, "PLAYTHING OF THE MONTH" featured photos of BILL RUDD (as shown in my second photo). The content is interesting (and militant for its time), and this periodical is likely among the lesser known (and perhaps lesser collected) of all the pulp periodicals read more

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