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Diana
Diana Frederics
[Paris]: Editions des Deux-Rives, 1959.French translation by Jean Gompel with an illustrated jacket by Leon Bonnotte, of the autobiographical novel of a lesbian, Diana: The Story of a Strange Love, first published in English in 1939. Grier in The Lesbian in Literature gives it the highest grade of importance, designating it a must have for any collection of lesbian literature. Diana “marks an advance in psychological perspective since Radclyffe Hall’s wholly emotional plea for tolerance a decade earlier.” (Jeannette H. Foster: Sex Variant Women in Literature).
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The Centennial Story: The History of Freemasonry in Queensland Australia over the first One Hundred Years, 1859-1959
Arthur Richards
Brisbane: United Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Queensland, 1959.A detailed history of Freemasonry and prominent members in Queensland over a hundred year period.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 9 Number 2, Summer 1959
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1959.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 8 Number 4, Winter 1958
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1959.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic. The Winter 1958 issue was released in March 1959.