The Advocate, Issue 230, December 14, 1977

Dean Gengle contributes "Billy B. & The Great Synchronicity Machines", a transcription from multiple taped interviews and letters, pp. 24-25, 36.  This is accompanied by illustrations by Robert F. Gale from The Book of Breeething, and a caricature of Burroughs by Dennis Forbes.

Published in San Mateo, CA. by The Advocate in December 1977.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender v4, v5
• Raven 19771214TADV.0.230

Selected Contents: 

• David B. Goodstein: "Opening Space" (editorial)
• Dennis Forbes: 
• "San Francisco vs. New York: A Gay World Series" (essay)
• "Move Over Man of Steel, Make Room for Arnold the Barbarian" (essay)
• illustrations
• Elenore G. Pred: "Dispatch" (news)
• Randy Shilts: "Life Among the Homosexuals: Child Sexual Abuse: The Unheard Cries, the Unseen Scars" (essay)
• Maureen Oddone: 
• "Of All, the Most Vulnerable: Homophobia in the Classroom" (essay)
• photographs
• James M. Saalow: "Portfolio: Marion Pinto: Nudes, Virility and Vulnerability" (essay)
• Marion Pinto: paintings
• Brian McNaught: review of Counseling the Homosexual Person by Lester A. Kirkendall
• Dean Gengle and William S. Burroughs: "Billy B. & The Great Synchronicity Machines" (interview)
• Arthur Allan Seidelman: "Silent Censorship" (essay)
• John Schauer: "Sutherland Slums in Chinatown" (review)
• David Cawley and Jason Serinus: "Jason Serinus: Whistling His Way Across Europe" (interview)
• Mark Thompson and Julie Wilson: "Julie Wilson Says Goodbye" (interview)
• Steve Warren: "Fonda's 'Julia' a Gem; Brook Blurs 'Goodbar'" (review)
• Robert F. Gale: illustrations
• Christopher Stone: "Spada Lets Gay Men Speak For Themselves" (review)
• Richard Natale: "In-Fun-Items: A Gift Giver's Guide" (list)
• "J": "It Happened in Broad Daylight" (essay)
• Clive Jackson: "Ducks! What Would Anita Say?" (essay)
• Joseph Torchia: "Perverted Fauna" (review of Sex Link by Hy Freedman)
• Jack Kyne: "Bikescene" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Publisher: David B. Goodstein
• Editor: Robert I. McQueen
• Senior Editor: Sasha Gregory-Lewis
• Associate Editor: Dean Gengle
• Editorial Assistant: Charles Rosenblum
• Copy Chief: John Schauer
• Staff Writers: Randy Shilts, Elenore Pred
• Contributing Editors: Gilbert Cameron, Richard Hall, Ann K. Justice, George Mendenhall, Maureen Oddone, Bill Pge, James M. Saslow, John Schauer, William Sievert, Lee Solomon, Donnel Stoneman, Mark Thompson
• Art Director: Ray Larson
• Assistant Art Directors: Mark Thompson, Nan Golub
• et al