BREWSTER, Lee G., ed.

NY: Lee's Mardi Gras, 1974. 47pp; b&w illus. 4to. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. Better than very good, with repricing stickers to front cover. Single issue of this seminal transvestite magazine, noted for its visual brio, substantive, original content, and inclusion of diverse queer and transfeminine perspectives; published and edited by New York activist, impresario, and drag queen Lee Brewster (1943-2000), founder also of the Queens Liberation Front; with cover and art direction by Vicky West (d. 2005). Contents here include the usual roundup of news headlines; a photo-feature on West Coast drag vis-a-vis Lane West's National Cotillion and San Francisco's Coitillion balls; memorian notices for Jae Stevens and Candy Darling; an article about the closing of long-running New York nightclub 82 Club; etc. Profusely photo-illustrated throuhout in black-and-white