sale 2578 - lot 122
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(GAY RIGHTS)
Group of early gay rights fliers, most from New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
46 items, most on letter-sized paper; condition generally strong. New York and various places, circa 1971-94.
Highlights include: an early mimeograph printing of "A Gay Manifesto" by Carl Wittman in 10 pages (lacking page 6); a flier denouncing City Council leader Tom Cuite for scuttling the Intro 475 bill, circa 1971; another "Donation Dance" for "Justice" to culminate in a march on the home of Councilman Saul Sharison for blocking the same bill; colorful flier for the Gay Anarchist Alliance Project, 1972; and a protest against the "male-supremacist" Stonewall commemoration march, signed in type by "Faggot Effeminists."
Provenance: From the collection of author Owen Levy.
