THE

ADVOCATE

Issue 242

p. 17 p. 27

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May 31, 1978

"WE'RE ALL

YOU

NEED

IN REAL ESTATE"

7 Gay at Bay: The British Backlash

A major anti-gay crusade is underway in Britain, Will British blue laws outlaw John Rechy's Outlaw? Rechy answers his critics home and abroad.

Dispatch

St. Paul voters kill gay rights; Elaine Noble announces for Senate; Police ambush public sex; a star party for ERA; what's notable and quotable; and more...

13 Right Watch: Direct Mail Three Faces of Devious

Mail order malice digs the Panama Canal Treaties, as right-wing I conservatives find yet another new scheme to channel funds and unearth non-existent conspiracies.

17

NGTF: Flak-Catching the Critical Fire

The ADVOCATE takes a closer look at the highest-profile homophile group ever.

24

Portfolio: Gordon Pollack

The paintings of Gordon Pollack, with tattoos and flourishes, "embody" variations on the role of the different drummer.

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The Ticket

p. 31

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The Second Flowering of Dusty Springfield

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It begins again. Dusty Springfield's recording career languished four years as she took time out for resettling, recovery and self-searching.

The Feminine Film Noir of Barbara Linkevitch America's answer to Lina Wertmuller explores film as "the art of suggestion."

Koldewyn & Worman: Working "Night Shift"

A bright new musical team grows out of an old acquaintanceship into a promising theatrical partnership.

The Winters of Our Discontent

Shirley's short Schrift. Why trying to interview her proved to be a Poseidon adventure, a slowly sinking disaster.

A Glimpse of the Glines

New York's gay culture center is often the hottest ticket in town. Crusty, bright, cheeky, irreverent productions at the Glines are drawing straight crowds and the straight press.

Robin Tichane: Master of Masters, Old and New San Francisco art conservator Robin Tichane is one of the few practitioners of a most demanding and arcane profession.

The Boys in the Back Rooms

Some interesting speculations on a phenomenon that prefers honesty to respectability.

Cover: Dusty Springfield/Courtesy United Artists Records

'Illustration/Gordon Pollack

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Remember when gay meant you liked to laugh? It still does.

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Opening Space

35 Directory

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Letter/Lifestyle

42

Books

20

Opinions

45

Shape Up

29

Entertainment

46

In-Fun-Items

30 Records

47

Coming Up

35 Theatre

Second Section

24 Byrly I

26 Advisor

27 Insight

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Here is gay life reflected in cartoons from Christopher Street-frank, topical, witty. "AND GOD BLESS UNCLE HARRY AND

HIS ROOMMATE JACK

WHO WE'RE NOT

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