Strait Guy Editor (7 results)

Magazine. 64p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, mostly b&w physique photos of young men; pen in top corner of cover, otherwise very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Though this magazine and its companion Chico were published in LA the editor Strait and Assoc. was based in San Francisco. Strait's Strait & Associates was the publisher of The Citizens News, The Cruise News and World Report etc. Only one holding located in OCLC.

16pp. A tabloid-style newspaper. Once folded. Tiny chips to edges, very nice condition. Copies were issued with a color psychedelic poster inserted, but it is not present here. Softcore cover, great ads and news about doings in the Haight.

Newspaper. 12p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, color centerspread poster of nude couple, horizontal fold crease, else very good. Scarce S.F. underground paper edited by Guy Strait, in the mold of the better-known Oracle. News about events in the Haight, including advice for tourists on absorbing the atmosphere. From all appearances, this was a pseudo-underground paper knocked out to sell to tourists during the Summer of Love. It started as "Maverick" then became "Haight Ashbury Maverick and finally Haight Ashbury Tribune. Later issues unnumbered as is this one. Dated according to a report on the August 1968 Chicago DNC "riots." Strait also published Cruise News and Citizens News, and organized a gay rights group, The League for Civil Education (LCE). He later became involved in a child pornography scandal and litigation in Illinois.

Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, political statements and reports, local ads, sex, psychedelia etc., psychedelic color cover and centerspread poster, and a psychedelic Joni Mitchell poster on rear cover, horizontal fold crease, pages evenly toned, else very good on newsprint. Scarce S.F. underground paper edited by Guy Strait, in the mold of the better-known Oracle. News about events in the Haight, including advice for tourists on absorbing the atmosphere. From all appearances, this was a pseudo-underground paper knocked out to sell to tourists during the Summer of Love. It started as "Maverick" then became "Haight Ashbury Maverick and finally Haight Ashbury Tribune. News about events in the Haight, poetry, centerspread is two split-fount posters - one a psychedelic ad for an east Indian clothing store and the other a decoratively framed Durer print of the Apocalypse. Strait also published Cruise News and Citizens News, and organized a gay rights group, The League for Civil Education (LCE). He later became involved in a child pornography scandal and litigation in Illinois.

Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, horizontal fold crease, small sticker on front page corner, centerfold psychedelic poster, lightly toned, a bit of foxing along the spine, else very good on newsprint. Scarce S.F. underground paper edited by Guy Strait, in the mold of the better-known Oracle. News about events in the Haight, including advice for tourists on absorbing the atmosphere. From all appearances, this was a pseudo-underground paper knocked out to sell to tourists during the Summer of Love. It started as "Maverick" then became "Haight Ashbury Maverick and finally Haight Ashbury Tribune. No publication information and no mention of Strait. Dated according to the Los Angeles Free Press report on the August 1968 Peace & Freedom Party presidential nomination in Ann Arbor. Cover sports a softcore porn photo of a young couple and headline "Hard Core?", a question best answered "No". News from SF and nationwide, poetry (full page by Steve Levine, looking like a reprint from the Oracle or an outtake from same), centerspread is color psychedelic art of a Buddha riding a dragon, and a full-page ad for Leon Russell and Mark Benno's Asylum Choir. Strait also published Cruise News and Citizens News, and organized a gay rights group, The League for Civil Education (LCE). He later became involved in a child pornography scandal and litigation in Illinois.

Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, horizontal fold crease, centerfold psychedelic poster, lightly toned, a bit of foxing along the spine, else very good on newsprint. Scarce S.F. underground paper edited by Guy Strait, in the mold of the better-known Oracle. News about events in the Haight, including advice for tourists on absorbing the atmosphere. From all appearances, this was a pseudo-underground paper knocked out to sell to tourists during the Summer of Love. It started as "Maverick" then became "Haight Ashbury Maverick and finally Haight Ashbury Tribune. No publication information and no mention of Strait. Dated according to the Los Angeles Free Press report on the August 1968 Peace & Freedom Party presidential nomination in Ann Arbor. Cover sports a softcore porn photo of a young couple and headline "Hard Core?", a question best answered "No". News from SF and nationwide, poetry (full page by Steve Levine, looking like a reprint from the Oracle or an outtake from same), centerspread is color psychedelic art of a Buddha riding a dragon, and a full-page ad for Leon Russell and Mark Benno's Asylum Choir. Strait also published Cruise News and Citizens News, and organized a gay rights group, The League for Civil Education (LCE). He later became involved in a child pornography scandal and litigation in Illinois.

Two successive issues of this early homophile newspaper edited and published by pioneering gay publisher and activist Guy Strait (1920-1987) in San Francisco. Citizens News began as LCE News in 1961, the organ of Strait's political group, League for Civil Education, and was the first gay newspaper in San Francisco. Although it was originally intended to circulate only in the Bay Area, it expanded to include national and international news on police repression, politics, gay history, social action, and the gay scene. In the Vol. IV, No. 13 issue (included here), Strait announced the publication of a corollary paper, Cruise News & World Report, which was less political and more focused on gay meetups and humor. The rest of Strait's life was an ignominious descent into child pornography, child prostitution, and child molestation, for which he was imprisoned for much of the 1970s. He was one of the individuals profiled in the 1980 report Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Report to the Illinois General Assembly. He was largely ostracized from the gay community following his release from prison and he died of a heart attack in 1987. Side-folding printed in black on white stock, both issues 24 pp. Fine condition.