The magazine was founded in 1954 with the first issue appearing in January, 1955. The name derives from a French medieval and renaissance masque group. Hay was expelled from the CP (at his own insistence) as a "security risk" to the party because of his involvement in the Society. The quality and depth of this gay novel is seldom seen in comtempory gay literature.The characters themselves are profound and intellectual which makes them very real and admirable.The story reflects the trials and difficulties gay people in the 40s had to endure. A member of the CPUSA, Hay structured the small group like a Communist Party cell. A Complex Quality Story of Comming Out in the 40s. and Homosexual Information Center etc., founded in 1950 in Los Angeles by Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich. The Mattachine Society, forerunner of Daughters of Bilitis, One, Inc. James Barr is a visiting fellow at Kings College London and the author of A Line in the Sand and Setting the Desert on Fire.
"Her Son, Her Son" by James Barr Fugaté, "Actor Replies to Criticism" by Kirk Douglas in which he replies to a critic who questioned the virility of his Van Gogh character and states that he was attempting to imply the artist's homosexuality by toning down his (the actor's) overt masculinity in other roles.
Mostly reprints from various sources including Der Kreis. In January 1956 the bimonthly began an experiment with an issue with fewer pages and mostly reprints in between regular issues. The year is 1946, and he’s traveling to Seattle where he will face a court martial for acting insubordinate to a lazy officer in the closing days of World War II.
28p., including covers, 5.5x8.25 inches, Balfour centerfold drawing, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel by James Barr ( 29 ) 4.99 A MILESTONE IN GAY FICTION Phillip Froelich is in trouble.
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