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In Touch for Men · No. 32 / 1977

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In Touch from the end of 1977, firing back at Anita Bryant with a vampire story and closing with a full-page RUSH ad.

Condition
CoverLight wear
SpineTight
PublicationIn Touch
PublisherIN TOUCH, Inc., Los Angeles

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Condition report

Good. Tight and glossy with one rubbed spot on the cover chest and light edge wear. Every mark is in the photos.

Flaws notedCover wear

PagesNot fully verified

Front: a pale scuff where the print has rubbed on the model's chest at lower center, light rubbing through the blue cover lines at left, minor edge wear. Back: light edge wear and a few small marks around the RUSH ad. Inside: the contents page is clean and glossy.
The story

Late 1977 was the year Anita Bryant's campaign in Dade County turned gay rights into a national fight, and this issue of In Touch answers her the way the magazine answered most things, with a wink. The contents list fiction titled How I Became a Vampire, Anita Bryant, a report on a night when the stars stood up for gay rights, and Oscar Wilde as a legacy for gays, alongside San Francisco cowboys, Austin and San Diego, where it ain't just the sailors.

John Holmes gets a piece of his own, and the back cover is a full-page RUSH ad, the poppers brand selling itself as liquid incense to men who knew exactly what it was for. Politics, travel, a ballet star and a bottle of RUSH, all in one bi-monthly out of Los Angeles.

Catalog facts
FormatSaddle-stitched bi-monthly magazine, color covers
DateIssue 32, Nov./Dec. 1977
PublisherIN TOUCH, Inc., 1316 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90027
Cover priceU.S.A. $2.00, Canada $2.25
Cover linesThe magazine for a different point of view; Austin; Vampire; San Diego; Oscar Wilde; Emerald City; New Zealand; John Holmes; Jacques d'Amboise; Now: 25% more color
ModelsAaron Taylor, John Thomas, Michael Viren (introduced on contents page)
NoticeCopyright IN TOUCH 1977; second class postage paid at Los Angeles
Back coverRUSH Liquid Incense ad, "It's the RUSH hour!", copyright 1977 Pacific Western Distributing Corp., Pac West Mail Order, San Francisco
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Why it matters

A late-1977 issue that talks back to Anita Bryant in print, catching the moment the gay press turned its cheek into a fight.

The copy in hand

What we checked before listing it.

GradeGood

Good. Tight and glossy with one rubbed spot on the cover chest and light edge wear. Every mark is in the photos.

CoverLight wear

Visible in the photos.

SpineTight

Noted in the listing.

PagesNot fully verified

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