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Packed with literally thousands and thousands of news items (Canada and the United States), articles, interviews, profiles, history, photographs and photospreads, art and illustrations, book, film, music, and stage reviews, fiction, radical social analysis, gay liberation politics, pride news and events, community forums, resources, vintage advertisements, and classified ads.
Printed on newsprint paper and issued in tabloid (fold-over) format through issue #45 (with each issue typically 24-32 pages), and then in large stapled newsprint magazine format thereafter (with each issue typically 48 pages in length). Ultimately, the defendants were found not guilty, although the legal costs of defense and continuing harassment constantly challenged the survival of this publication.
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Early on, mainstream newspapers, particularly The Toronto Star and The Globe, refused to carry any advertisements for The Body Politic in 1977, the police raided the offices of The Body Politic (as they would do again) in 1979, the non-profit publisher of The Body Politic, the Pink Triangle Press, and its three directors went on trial in Toronto charged with using the mail to distribute "obscene, indecent, immoral, or scurrilous" material (specificially, issue #39 offered in this collection which contained an article on intergenerational relationships entitled "Men loving boys loving men" by Gerald Hannon the lengthy pre-trial report in issue #49, also offered in this collection, is entitled "Her Majesty the Queen vs. "The Body Politic" (1972-1987) published by The Body Politic Editorial Collective (later the non-profit Pink Triangle Press) out of Toronto, Canada during the heady and activist days of the early gay liberation movement.Ĭonceived in a basement in a downtown Victorian flat in 1971 by members of Toronto Gay Action and others, the emerging Body Politic Editorial Collective, and later the non-profit Pink Triangle Press, were faced with relentless persecution by Canadian postal and law authorities. Tyler and Brad's Index to Early Gay Publications & Periodicals