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Age: 43
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City: SAN FRANCISCO
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 
There's this queer zine show in New York this weekend - one more day for those of you who are there to go - info at Printed Matter's website and at the New York Art Book Fair website.

I've heard reports from a couple of people, my friend Joe and my friend Tony.

There's a lot of zines in the show but of course it isn't comprehensive (you'd need to have hundreds of titles, as there have been probably about 500 total queer zines published, and even I haven't seen all of them.

There's a catalog from the show, which I haven't seen yet, but it has an essay by me in it and I think a reprint of Fag City USA.

Anyway, I hope that someday I can put together a zine exhibit with the zines at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco.

Here's a picture of issues of Holy Titclamps and Queer Zine Explosion in a vitrine along with various other zines.
chris w

 
Saw the exhibition on Friday, it's pretty amazing. But it was very hard to find in the space ... it is tucked away in a far flung corner of the 3rd floor ... anyone visiting the exhibition would be well served by consulting the floor map posted near the main entrance. The catalog looks gorgeous, it's done in blue ink and is well-designed. Just wish the show wasn't "boy heavy" (e.g. "gay") and they overlooked/forgot some key zinesters like Anonymous Boy and there was little reference to transzines (a stack of Shortandqueer zines were on a table in the center of the room, but Saturday when I stopped back those display tables were cleared, meaning what little trans representation there was vanished).
 
Posted by chris w on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 4:19 AM
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Rich

 
Damn.. I missed Chris Wilde.. anyway, I was sorely disappointed in the exhibit. Well, not by the exhibit, but by the poor planning. I went on Saturday and you had to fight your way through a live high-end art auction to even find the exhibit. Then if you did find it, the tables were cleared, no staff from Printed Matter was on hand and the catalgue was not available.. unless you knew enough to search out the Printed Matter table. I felt bad for Alex who had obviously put a huge amount of effort into the exhibit and the catalgue only to have it relegated to an inaccessible area where it could only be viewed by a handful of those in attendance.
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Posted by Rich on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 11:36 PM
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Dan

 
Next time check with me. I was zine buyer at A Different Light all through the late 80's into the mid 90's. I saved everything. Not to mention my own zine "Fagz"! Didn't everyone have a zine in 1990? Looks like a good show though- sorry I missed it. I keep pestering Les Simpson for us to do a zine gallery show at the Center or something like the queer cartoons show we did a ADL in the late 90's. He doesn't think there would be interest and thinks the work is too dated. I say dated is part of the fun. It's just a matter of time before we can all start sleeping with really young hipsters who want to know everything about the zine movement before the internet. I keep telling myself that anyway.
 
Posted by Dan on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 2:40 AM
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Larry-bob

 
That is too bad about the hidden nature of the exhibit... So did you guys meet Alex?

By the way, the photo was taken by Joe Westmoreland, I should have mentioned that.

Good to know you've got a zine collection Dan... you might want to get in touch with Chris at qzap.org (who posted above) -he's been scanning queer zines and putting them online.
 
Posted by Larry-bob on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 4:00 AM
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