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Cruising Guides (International)

Play Map Illustrated (Japan)
1986, 100pp, good, £15.00


Detailed guide (in Japanese), with maps, to bars, saunas and other cruising areas across Japan, with sexually explicit line drawings. Includes five pages on USA, Europe and South-East Asia and one page on International Gay Association news. Fascinating glimpse into the past.

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Greek Gay Guide
June 89 - June 90
64pp, good, £10.00


Comprehensive small (13 cm * 9.5 cm) guide, with descriptions, addresses and phone numbers (Greek only) and grainy black and white photographs

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Przewodnik Geja / Gay Guide Poland
1991, 32pp, good, £6.00


List of bars, restaurants, saunas etc, with maps and black and white photographs, sexually explicit line drawings; plus gay organisations, correspondence clubs and gay organisations abroad. Symbol legend in Polish, English, French, German.

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Pamphlets etc

International Gay Rights Congress 1974
1974, 92pp, good, Edinburgh, £75.00


[cover slightly soiled; name written on inside title; pages otherwise clean] Session Papers etc of this historic first international gay meeting; includes advertisements for Edinburgh and gay organisations / magazines.

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Is homosexuality a problem....?
no date (mid 1970s), 4pp, slightly soiled, £3.00


Scottish Minorities Group (Dundee). Discusses whether Homosexuals molest young children / Homosexual men are effeminate and Homosexual women are masculine / Homosexuals are promiscuous / Homosexuals are sick and can be cured. [SMG later became the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group]

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growing up homosexual
1975?, 14pp, slightly soiled, ink inscription, £3.50


Publisher uncertain, printed in Nottingham. Topics include: emotions and sex, physical aspects of sex, puberty, masturbation, forms of sex, health, gay oppression, religion etc. Includes photographs of male and female sexual organs.

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Gays on the job / We have the right to an education that meets our needs / The right to live as we choose / How do you find the gay scene - or are you looking for something better
1978, 4 leaflets (out of a series of 6)
4pp - 12pp, slightly soiled, £5.00


Scottish Homosexual Rights Group, Edinburgh.

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I'll Have Another Drink But I Won't Shut Up
1977, 24pp, slightly soiled, ink inscription, £4.00


From Aberdeen [UK] University Gay Society: includes articles on gay oppression, the Society, gay life in Aberdeen, the Scottish Minorities Group, Gay Sweatshop theatre company, gay books, Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man and events in October ande December.

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The Politics of Homosexuality
by Don Milligan
1978, 20pp, good, £8.00


The classic socialist analysis of homosexuality. More details here.

Stonewall 69 / Gay Pride 79 Souvenir Programme
40pp, cover slightly stained but pages clean
£15.00

Brochure detailing all events in London Gay Pride from 22 June to 1 July 1979. Contents: Welcome to Gay Pride Week / Up against the Stonewall - Richard Krupp / Weareblackwhite / Gay Pride Week Programme / Map of gay venues / Stonewall Ten Years On - Roger Baker / Why do you stuff it down our throat? - Lesbian Line / Into the Eighties, a personal view - Anna Goldie / plus adverts, community information and black and white photographs.

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Theatre Programmes
In order of production. For playscripts, click here.

The Eagle Has Two Heads (L'Aigle à deux têtes)
by Jean Cocteau adapted by Ronald Duncan
Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1947, 4pp, very good, £6.00


This production (directed by Murray MacDonald, cast Cicely Paget-Bowman, Raymond Jaquarello, Eileen Herlie, James Donald, Webber Alexander, David Read) is described in detail on this website dedicated to James Donald.

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Present Laughter
by Noel Coward directed by the author
Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1948, 4pp, stained, £5.00


Cast: Avis Scott, Daphne Newton, Billy Thatcher, Joan Swinstead, Hugh Sinclair, Joyce Carey, David Evans, Gerald Case, Peter Gray, Moira Lister, Gwen Floyd.

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Intimate Relations (Les parents terribles)
by Jean Cocteau
Streatham Hill Theatre, 1951, 12pp, slightly rumpled, £6.00


This production (translation Charles Frank, presented by Jack Waller, produced by Judith Furse, cast Ballard Berkeley, Cicely Paget-Bowman, Fay Compton, Robin Lloyd, Sarah Lawson) appeared at the Strand in 1951. The play was probably performed in Streatham before its West End opening. An advertisement on p9 announces the July 2 opening of What a Man, a farcical comedy starring Brian Reece and Roma Beaumont.

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Act One: A Festival of One Act Plays (Matrimonium / Italian Shoes / Closer Encounters)
Backroom Productions
1981, 16 pp, soiled, £4.50


Cast, authors and production team include: Matthew Adams, Tom Fuller, Michael Harth, Marcus Kirby, Robert Lowe, Donald Martin, Susan Piper, Chris Young. Includes adverts (Mr Subway 1981, El Sombrero, The Ship and Whale etc)

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