Queen's Quarterly: The Magazine for Gay Guys Who Have No Hangups
Vol. 1 No. 3, Summer 1969.
New York: Queen's Quarterly Publishing Co., Inc., 1969.
Staple-bound softcover.
56 pages including covers.
Profusely illustrated.
Good.
Covers have minor soiling, edge wear and chipping.
First page has mini soiling and publishers' stamp.
Few pages have folded corners bottom right.
Otherwise, inside clean and unmarked.
Scarce vintage gay culture mag.
Wonderful cover story on German photographer Baron Wilhelm Von Gloeden with photographs of young Sicilian men from Taormina, Sicily, circa 1900s.
Leather by Bruce King.
etc...
Queen's Quarterly was a pioneering 1960s gay magazine that started out as a general interest paper and gradually incorporated more and more erotic content into its mix -- primarily beefcake photos from the very best studios. QQ, as it came to be called, was in many ways the journalistic successor to the digest magazine Drum, running the same kind of articles on gay life, gay culture and gay sex. It even picked up the cartoonist A. Jay's popular comic strip from Drum, The Adventures of Harry Chess. QQ eventually petered out in the late 1970s, but in its heyday it was a fixture in the gay world, and seen from today's vantage point, it is both quaint and avant-garde.
