Author: Pitchford, Kenneth; Knoebel, John et al.
Title: Double-F: A Magazine of Effeminism. No. 5, Spring 1976
Description: New York, Templar Press, 1976. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. 48 pp. including covers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Single issue of this sporadically published journal, with this reprinting earlier articles and manifestos in an effort to help those forming their own groups, or looking for information. This includes "The Flaming Faggots Manifesto," "We're Not Gay, We're Angry," "Suicide is our Major Cause of Death," etc. Double-F was a journal associated with the Effeminists, an activist group of gay men who wanted to ally the gay liberation movement with women and feminist movements at the time. Conceding that the gay movement as led by men still had pervasive misogyny within it, and that a patriarchial hierarchy existed in its structured organizations. As such, the Effeminists sought to raise awareness of this and counter sexism within the gay liberation movement. The effeminist movement held an anti-camp and anti-transgender stance, a stance that its leaders concede was wrong, concluding that transgender people have expanded the concept of gender. GOOD+ condition. Minor toning and edgewear. Good .

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