Fag Rag no 11 : Boston 1974 [ Gay Witchcraft , Arthur Evans ]
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Early Issue of Boston Area Gay Underground Newspaper, Fag Rag, With Feature On Stone Age Sex From Witchcraft The Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans
Shirley, Charley, ed. Fag Rag No 11. Boston, MA. Winter 1974.
An early issue of the Boston area gay newspaper, Fag Rag, featuring part III of activist and author Arthur Evans’ series Witchcraft The Gay Counterculture focusing on the worship of sex in the stone age. (Evans’ research was later published in 1978 in a book of the same title). Includes op-eds, cartoons (many sexual in nature), as well as puzzles, ads, and an area calendar.
Fag Rag, sometimes subtitled the “gay male newspaper” ran from 1971 to 1987, and was noted for publishing authors such as William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Isherwood.
28pp. Newsprint folio. Folded. Tears to some edges worst along outermost wraps. Pages toned but clean. Fairly good with chipping. Reading copy.
If you liked this item, you might also enjoy this first edition copy of Spokes of the Wheel a collection of original pagan poetry and hymns by the witch Seleneicthon. You might also enjoy this rare early issue of the gay underground newspaper Vanguard published by the short-lived San Francisco gay youth rights organization of the same name.
