ONE Magazine: The Homosexual Viewpoint (104 early issues)
Los Angeles: ONE Incorporated, 1954-1966.
The first widely-circulated national homosexual periodical in the United States. 104 issues sold as a lot. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs and drawings. Bound in publisher's stapled wrappers. Generally Very Good with minor toning, wear, and soiling to wraps. Vol. 4 No. 2 with front wrapper glued to first pages and chipping along edges; one issue with wrappers detached. Library stamp to front wrap of Vol. 6 No. 6. Most issues from Volumes 2-4 include a slip noting ONE, Inc.'s new address of 2256 Venice Boulevard, a move that happened in 1962, indicating these issues are either publisher's copies or early 1960s reprints.
Comprises Volume 2 Nos. 4,5,7-10; Vol. 3 Nos. 1, 3-12 (duplicate of #7); Vol. 4 Nos. 1-8; Vol. 5 Nos. 2-4, 6-9; Vol. 6 Nos. 2-4, 6, 8, 10, 12; Vol. 7 Nos. 1, 5, 6, 9, 11; Vol. 8 Nos. 2, 9, 12; Vol. 9 Nos 1-4, 6, 8-11; Vol. 10 Nos 1-12; Vol. 11 Nos 1-3, 5-12; Vol. 12 Nos 1-9, 11, 12; Vol. 13 Nos. 1-3, 5-7, alternate 7, 8, 9, 11, 12; Vol. 14 Nos 3, 4.
ONE Magazine emerged from the Mattachine Society in the early 1950s. Founders included Dale Jennings, W. Dorr Legg, and Harry Hay, among others, who sought to unify homosexuals into social action. The magazine operated from 1953-1967, and was subject to a major obscenity lawsuit against the U.S. Post Office, which would make its way to the Supreme Court and uphold constitutional protection for pro-homosexual writing. A comprehensive archive of gay writing before Stonewall providing news, essays, fiction, and politics to a growing gay and lesbian readership.
Price: $4,500