Gay Sunshine: A Journal of Gay Liberation, Number 24, Spring 1975

Includes “John Giorno: The Poet in New York”, a long interview with John Giorno by Winston Leyland, pp. 1-8, which includes a photograph of Giorno with William Burroughs and Jackie Curtis.  Burroughs is discussed on page 5 of the interview.

Published in San Francisco, CA. by Gay Sunshine in Spring of 1975.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19750400GSUN.0.24

Contents:

• Winston Leyland:
• "John Giorno: The Poet in New York" (interview)
• "Jack Spicer Revisted" (review of Manroot, number 10)
• Peter Hujar: photograph of John Giorno
• Gianfranco Mantegna: photograph of John Giorno at St. Mark's 1974
• Les Levine: photograph of John Giorno, Peter Orlovsky, and Allen Ginsberg outside of the 1972 Republican Convention
• Daniel Asher: photograph of Jackie Curtis, William Burroughs, and John Giorno in 1975
• Winston Leyland and Don Jackson: "Advocate: A Turn to the Right?" (essay)
• Jack Latham: "A Faggot Father Speaks Out" (essay)
• Tina Efron: photograph
• Edgar Austin:
• "Communal Sleeping Room, Tokyo" (poetry)
• "Another for that Night" (poetry)
• "Narcissus Surviving" (poetry)
• Charley Shivley:
• "The Poetry of Male Love" (essay)
• "... As an Act of Revolution" (essay)
• Rictor Norton: "Gay London in the 1720's: The Great Raid on Mother Clap's Molly House" (essay)
• Jim Eggerling: "Invocation" (poetry)
• Sandro Penna: poems
• Royal Murdoch: "Pedro Nel Mejia" (poetry)
• Ed Cox: "Waking" (poetry)
• Joseph Hagerty: "Spring Song" (poetry, from Mass Transit)
• Edward Field: "Street Instructions: At the Crotch" (poetry)
• Adrian Brooks: "Yes" (poetry)
• Kenward Elmslie: "Unshaky Pair" (poetry)
• Maurice Kenny: "Prison" (poetry)
• John Wieners: "Letter from Gerald Ford" (letter/poetry)
• Ira Cohen: 
• "Conversations in Kathmandu: Charles-Henri Ford" (interview with Ford)
• photographs of Charles-Henri Ford
• "Ephemeral Decorations" (poetry)
• "for P.V." (poetry)
• "for Dana" (poetry)
• Paul Tchelichew: painting of Charles-Henri Ford
• Charles-Henri Ford:
• "Candy Darling" (poetry)
• "Their Images I Loved I View in Thee" (poetry)
• "Pure Eternus Sprinkled with Jasmine Water" (poetry)
• "Blind Flying" (poetry)
• Mitch Walker: "Ass Fucking: Past and Present" (essay)
• Andrew Dvosin: "A Personal View of Pornography" (essay)
• Lee Atwell: "A Bigger Splash" (review of Jack Hazan's documentary of David Hockney)
• Terence Winch: review of Robert Peters' Cool Zebras of Light
• Gary Alinder: "James into Jan" (review of Jan Morris' Conundrum)
• Gus Medina: "Questioning the Male Myth" (review of Men and Masculinity, edited by Joseph H. Pleck and Jack Sawyer)
• Robert Glück: "To Sink Love" (poetry)
• Chuck Ortleb: 
• "The Hustler" (poetry)
• "Some Boys" (poetry)
• Federico Garcia Lorca: "Christmas on the Hudson" (poetry)
• Mutsuo Takahashi:
• "Sleeping Wrestler" (poetry)
• "The God Status I Love" (poetry)
• "The Rose Tree" (poetry)
• "The Rose Lover" (poetry
• Tamotsu Yato: photograph

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Winston Leyland
• Contributing Editors: Gary ALinder, Lee Atwell, Andrew Dvosin, Rictor Norton, Ian Young
• Cover: DeMetrie Kabbaz