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PHOTOS: This forgotten gay<\/a> mag was a New York City staple in the \u201970s<\/b>
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Michael’s Thing<\/i> was a New York City gay<\/a> bar guide and magazine that ran for over a thousand issues, although it seems few issues were ever archived and there’s hardly any mention of it on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Here’s one account, however, from the late playwright Doric Wilson<\/a>:  <\/em><\/p>\n

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“Michael Giammetta published Michael’s Thing between 1970-2000 as a guide to cultural and social happenings of the GLTB community. It was the one of the main and most reliable sources of information. It also was a handy guide to the most important institutions of the early days of liberation, the gay<\/a> bar. The covers of Michael’s Thing may have featured pretty boys<\/a> almost in their all together but inside the focus was theater, dance, cabaret. They were all there, all the early voices of what would become queer culture. Freeman Gunter was an excellent critic. There are careers in the arts still going full force that began thanks to his taking notice of them.<\/p>\n

Mandate<\/em> magazine was started as an “out” version of After Dark<\/em> in the early 1970s. It featured some of the early stars of GLBT photography, John Michael Cox, Jr., Jürgen Vollmer, and first and foremost, Roy Blakey. Under the editorship of John Devere, it contained thoughtful reviews covering all of the arts, and essential articles on the emerging gay<\/a> liberation movement. John Devere’s coverage of the protests surrounding the filming of Cruising is still a high-water mark of gay<\/a> journalism.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out some surviving covers of “Michael’s Thing” below:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

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