Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

110 c Come Out!! Is Dead. “Gay” Male Liberation is Dead. 12, [2] pages, 11x8 1 / 2 inches, 28x21.6 cm., on 4 folding unbound sheets; minimal wear, printed in purple and indigo. [New York, circa early 1972]. [500/750] This pamphlet was issued in reaction to the controversial Winter 1972 issue of Come Out magazine, which proved to be its last (see previous lot). Two articles in that issue, “S and M and the Revolution” and “A Cocksucking Seminar,” were regarded as deeply offensive by many of the magazine’s lesbians and their allies, contributing to its collapse. This tabloid-style pamphlet is a direct response penned by several Come Out mainstays including Debra Moldovan, Morgan Murielchild, Steven Brooks, and Perry Brass—the latter two apologizing for their decision to run the offending articles. See Terence Kissack, “Freaking Fag Revolutionaries: New York’s Gay Liberation Front, 1969-1971,” in Radical History Review 62 (1995), page 128. No other copies traced in OCLC or at auction. 110 111 111 c FRED W. MCDARRAH (1926-2007) Gay is Good. Silver print, the image measuring 6 1 / 4 x9 inches, 15.9x22.9 cm., the sheet slightly larger, with McDarrah’s title, date, inventory number, and notation “Craig Rodwell of Oscar Wilde Bookshop,” in ink, and his copyright label, on verso. 1969; printed 1990s. [2,000/3,000 McDarrah, Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today, p. II].