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  • Collection: Gay Community News Photograph Collection

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Abe Rybeck smiling with his arm around a man wearing a sweater dress and hat that reads "Like a Virgin."

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Four men, including Abe Rybeck (second from the right), wearing dresses pose dramatically in front of a banner that reads: "United Fruit."

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Stephen Harrington, Abe Rybeck, and Scottie Madden of the Theater Offensive standing in a row with five puppets. Each man is speaking into a microphone.

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Pure Polyesther is a hilarious and subversive retelling of the Old Testament story of Esther. The Theater Offensive's purimspiel mixes slapstick, klezmer, cross-dressing, outrageous scenery-chewing, and queer coupling with an earnest message about…

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Two men standing at a bar with a dish rack.

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ACT UP Boston members wearing t-shirts printed "Use Condoms, Fight AIDS", march down a crowded street with banners: "Silence=Death" and "Thanks ASTRA, June 15, Be There."

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An ACT UP protester wearing a sign “John Hancock: Full AIDS Coverage Now”, is escorted by a policeman.

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Paul Parks Retrospective, March 1-April 24, Reception: Sunday March 6 5-7PM, All proceeds donated to: AIDS Action Committee, Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Avenue Boston, MA (617)536-0966

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Larry Kessler and an unidentified AIDS Action Committee member.

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AIDS Action Committee with banner and many balloons in Copley Square.

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David Scondras, Larry Kessler and another unidentified men speak at desk with microphones.

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Large reception of AIDS Action Committee with cookies and coffee.

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Larry Kessler and an unidentified man chatting at AIDS Action Committee reception.

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Two unidentified men from the AIDS Action Committee clasp hands in front of a stone wall with a poster showing a needle and warning against the danger of AIDS.
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Large crowd with signs and balloons marches in AIDS Walk in Boston Common.

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Crowd of Boston AIDS Walk participants stretches down Beacon Street in Boston with the giant Citgo sign in the distance.

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Sam Steward (Phil Andros), author of $TUD, which was reissued in November 1982 by Alyson Publications

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Promotional photograph for the book Hot Living.

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Vincent Lardo, author of The Prince and the Pretender (Alyson Publications)

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Sasha Alyson, of Alyson Publications

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Sasha Alyson seated at a desk with mock ups of book cover for Coming Out in the Seventies.

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Sasha Alyson standing in book stacks.

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Sasha Alyson working on book cover for Coming Out in the Seventies by Dennis Altman

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Sasha Alyson working on book cover for Coming Out in the Seventies by Dennis Altman

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Close up of Sasha Alyson's creating a book design for Coming Out in the Seventies.

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Sasha Alyson seated at a desk looking through the book Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberations, edited by Pam Mitchell.

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Sasha Alyson and a person identified only as Peter look through a large file box.

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An unidentified typist working at Alyson Publications.

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A portrait of Alyson Publications Public Relations person Elizabeth Simpson.

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Promotional portrait of a young man for the book Mediterraneo.

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Photo from Eugene O'Neill's 1929 Broadway success, Strange Interlude, featuring Lynn Fontanne, with Tom Powers playing the first gay character in English dramatic literature with "any sympathy or real insight." Photo used in the Alyson Publications…

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Photo used in the Alyson Publications book We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians: The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage, by Kaier Curtin.

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Photo used in the Alyson Publications book We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians: The Emergence of Lesbians and Gay Men on the American Stage, by Kaier Curtin.

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Photos used in connection with the book Mediterraneo published by Alyson Publications.

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Photos used in connection with the book Mediterraneo published by Alyson Publications.

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Photos used in connection with the book Mediterraneo published by Alyson Publications.

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Promotional photograph for Alyson Publications book KAIROS: Confessions of a Gay Priest.

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Am Tikva members seated at tables for Passover Seder at the Brookline Jewish Community Center.

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De Anna Battle dancing with percussionists in background.

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Adrienne Hawkins and other women of Impulse Dance Co.
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