Published by N.G.T.F., New York, 1981
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newsletter. Fifty-five issue broken run, various pagination & format, articles, resources, services, news, opinion, photos, some fold creases, toning, and some mild wear and ink else very good in tabloid format. Issue #1 has stain from dried out rubber band and rust from paper clip. Bruce Voeller was president of The Gay Activist Alliance until he decided that the group was ineffective and so formed NGTF in October of 1973. This is a run of the newsletter which began publishing in May of 1974. With vol. 8, #4 in September 1981 the banner title read Task Force Report. In the early 1980s NGTF and Voeller in particular became very active in the fight against AIDS. Voeller coined the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Issues include: vol. 1:1-5; 2:1-3, 5-9; 3:5; 4:1; 5:3, 5, 7; 6:2-7; 7:1, 2, 4-8; 8:1-5; 9:1-5; 10:1-3; and Sept. 1985; Summer 1986; Summer/Fall 1989; Winter/Spring & Summer 1990; Summer 1998; Summer, Fall & Winter 1999; Fall 2000 and two undated bonus issues from 1976 and one from 1985.