After Dark. The National Magazine of Entertainment
New York: Danad Publishing Company, 1974. Quarto, publisher's photo-illustrated stapled paper wraps.
May 1974 issue of After Dark magazine, with Joe Dallesandro and Monique Van Vooren in Andy Warhol's Frankenstein on the cover. After Dark published monthly from May 1968 to January 1983, and covered everything cultural, high and low: dance, art, theater, film, celebrity, fashion, and city life. For its entire decade and a half run, After Dark existed on the edge of stealth, revealing its identity through its homoerotic aesthetic and cultural alignment while never coming out explicitly as a gay publication. “I wrote for After Dark which was a gay magazine that never said it was a gay magazine,” says Michael Musto, a legacy journalist who has covered all things queer since the 1980s. Uniquely, the magazine left a vivid legacy, one that documented and depicted gay life during a cultural boom between the major historical bellwethers of Stonewall and AIDS. Volume 7, No. 1. Some rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Very good. Item #13284
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