In Touch · No. 24 / 1976
Isherwood, Wakefield Poole and The Front Runner’s Patricia Nell Warren in one summer 1976 issue, with a Trade!Mark soldier on the back to keep things honest.
1 in stock
Ships in plain outer packaging. $6 U.S. shipping, free over $100.
Vintage is final sale. Every mark we mention is in the photos.
Condition report
Good. Solid, honest copy with light rubbing and a small scuff on the back ad. Every mark is in the photos.
Flaws notedCover wear, Creases
PagesNot fully verified
The story
The summer of 1976 issue of In Touch has a cover line that reads like a gay syllabus: Christopher Isherwood in a candid exchange, Wakefield Poole, the director who took gay porn into mainstream theaters with Boys in the Sand, and Patricia Nell Warren on The Front Runner, the novel a generation of men passed hand to hand. It also gave you four big nude features and a Bob Buck centerfold, because In Touch never thought you had to choose.
The international cover prices show how far a Los Angeles gay magazine was travelling by the mid-seventies, and the back cover is a full-color Trade!Mark ad for Gallagher P.F.C., with dog tags, fatigues and an 8mm film by mail order from Hyde Street. Literature, politics and dirty movies, all under one staple.
Catalog facts
Cataloged under · Keep digging
Why it matters
Isherwood, Wakefield Poole and Patricia Nell Warren in one 1976 issue makes this a real document of gay culture finding its own voice in print.
The copy in hand
What we checked before listing it.
Good. Solid, honest copy with light rubbing and a small scuff on the back ad. Every mark is in the photos.
Visible in the photos.
Noted in the listing.
More from the Backroom
Other original copies in stock now.
RESTRICTED PRODUCT