Friendship and Freedom

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Friendship and Freedom, published from 1924 to 1925,

rights organization in the United States. Henry Gerber, founder of the Society for Human Rights, started publishing the newsletter using his personal typewriter.[4] The purpose of the newsletter was to act as a forum of discussion among gay men.[3] The first issue of the newsletter was published in 1924,[2][5] and a total of only two issues were published.[6][7][8] Friendship and Freedom was the first known gay-interest periodical in the United States.[9][5][8] This periodical, along with Jim Kepner's Gay Fan and Lisa Ben's Vice Versa, is described by author of LGBT-issues James Thomas Sears as "amateurish".[10] The title of the magazine, Friendship and Freedom, was directly translated from a 1920s German gay magazine, Freundschaft und Freiheit.[11]

In the 1920s, the United States was less accepting of LGBT people compared to contemporaneous

contemporary press with the headlines, "Strange Sex Cult Exposed."[4] All copies of Friendship and Freedom that were not in circulation were seized by the police and destroyed.[12]

No known copy of Friendship and Freedom survives today.[7][13] Despite lack of any existing copy, the existence of this publication was verified by American LGBT historian Jonathan Ned Katz through a photograph published by sexologist and LGBT-rights advocate Magnus Hirschfeld in 1927 depicting homosexual publications, among them Friendship and Freedom.[14]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-56023-175-2
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    ISBN 978-0-7864-0363-9
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  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-59884-306-4
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    ISBN 978-0-7613-5768-1
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    ISBN 978-0-226-56843-0
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  6. ISBN 978-0-932323-03-3
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
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    ISBN 978-1-57284-100-0
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8108-6811-3
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  9. ISBN 978-1-59884-366-8
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  10. ISBN 978-1-56023-187-5
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  11. ISBN 978-0-8122-3544-9
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  12. ISBN 978-0-7890-0140-5
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  13. ISBN 978-0-472-08645-0
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  14. ISBN 978-0-226-32243-8
    . Retrieved 15 February 2012.


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