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From
1990 to 1994, with my partner Cris Gutierrez and a crew of friends and contributors,
I published a zine subtitled "A Document of the Sexual Revolution."
Our intention was to
publish transgressive sex writing alongside news and features about the
way women and queer people continued the sexual revolution.
- This
page's contents:
- Contents of all 13 issues | Staff notes
| FAQ | Links
To
get back issues, email me at toobeaut [at] yahoo (dot) com. Numbers
5 and 12 are sold out. But we've got so many of no. 13
that we'll give a copy away with an order of any other issue.
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no.
1,
Spring 1990
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Fiction
by Mark Pritchard, Kim Addonizio, James Bergeron and Carol Queen
Poems by Lisa Bernstein
How the aids scare hits heterosexuals, by Dave Gilden
Column by Rachel Kaplan |
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no.
2, Summer 1990
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Fiction
by Marilyn Jaye, Kim Addonizio, Julia Toth and Lance Swanson
Poetry by Philip M. Klasky and Harvey Stein
"Disconnecting Gay Phone Sex" by David Anger
"S-M is bad" by Marie Antoinette
Rachel Kaplan's column
Cover and column by Angela Bocage |
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no.
3,
Fall 1990
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Fiction
by Kim Addonizio, Kathy Anderson and Andy Dunn
Poetry by Lisa Bernstein
Feature on Annie Sprinkle
Excerpts from "Queers Read This;"
Rachel Kaplan's column |
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no.
4,
Winter 1991
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The
Madonna issue!
Fiction by Ann Henry, Artemis Golightly, Julia Toth and Sunah Cherwin
Poetry by Alex Chee
Six pages on Madonna, including excerpts from her interview on ABC's "Nightline"
Essay on overpopulation by Cris Gutierrez
Rachel Kaplan's column |
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no.
5,
Spring 1991
Sold out.
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Fiction
by Mark Pritchard, Marilyn Jaye and Tanya Dewhurst
Queer Street Patrol, by Ellen Twiname
"Basic Instinct" protests
Rachel Kaplan's column
Poetry by Pat Califia
First appearance of Tanya Dewhurst's Letter from London
Michael Manning cover |
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no.
6,
Summer 1991
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Fiction
by Brian Bouldrey
Sex comix by Michael Manning
Why dykes don't do safe sex, by Pat Califia
Jeffrey Dahmer, by Michael Botkin
Hollywood's homophobia, by Mark Freeman
New government repression of sex, by Bill Andriette
Letter from London by Tanya Dewhurst
Rachel Kaplan's column |
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no.
7,
Fall 1991
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Fiction
by Sarah Schulman, Christine Carraher, Kris Kovick, and Susan Carlton
Clarence Thomas, by Shirley Gutierrez
Features on sex comix (Angela Bocage) and
Mexican street hustlers (Mark Freeman)
Rachel Kaplan's column
Abortion rights and desire, by Sonia Ivette-Roman
Letter from London by Tanya Dewhurst
Michael Manning cover. |
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no.
8,
Winter 1992
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The
SCUM Manifesto
Fiction by Trish Thomas, Tamar Perla, and James Bergeron
Menstrual Extraction, by Orna Izakson
TV witch hunt for pedophiles, by Michael Botkin
Review of "Twisted Sisters" anthology, by Angela Bocage
Letter from London by Tanya Dewhurst |
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no.
9,
Spring 1992
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Our
2nd anniversary issue!
Fiction by Kim Addonizio, Kris Kovick, Tamar Perla, Susan Carlton, and Brian
Bouldrey
"Men are Dogs" by Cris Gutierrez
Review by Shirley Gutierrez of the book "Backlash"
Rachel Kaplan and Letter from London
Michael Manning cover |
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no.
10,
Summer 1992
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The
"macho" issue!
Fiction by Kris Kovick, Alfred Kleyhauer III, and Abraham Katzman
Across the U.S. with Tanya Dewhurst
Opinions on NAMBLA by Cris Gutierrez and Bill Andriette
Rachel Kaplan on new visions of sexuality
Dykes and their fantasies about dicks, by Trish Thomas
Photos by Mark I. Chester
Reviews of women's erotica, "Closer to Home," and female ejaculation
videos |
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no.
11,
Winter 1993
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Fiction
by Deran Ludd and Katherine Israel
Poem by Donimo
Kathy Acker's books, by Holly Willis
"Aileen Wuornos, Hothead Paisan and Me," by Cris Gutierrez
Louise Sloan on the New Christian Right
Tanya Dewhurst on homophobic legislation in Colorado, Oregon and England |
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no.
12,
Spring 1993
Sold out.
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Fiction
by Mark Pritchard, Sigfried Gold, Shelly Jackson, Lyn Gaza and Julia Trahan
2000 Years of Witch Hunts (Part I) by John Earl
The Satanic Conspiracy Hoax, by Cris Gutierrez
Lou Ann Thomas on queers getting together
Nancy Irwin with lots of needles stuck in her backside
Neal Goldsmith on electronic privacy
Comix by Angela Bocage and Terry Laban |
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no.
13, Winter 1994
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Fiction
by Jennifer Teig von Hoffman, Rebecca Rosenskjold, and Alfred Deitrich Kleyhauer
III
Salem and other witch hunts, by John Earl
Men Are Pigs, by Michael Botkin
Pleasure in extremis, by Mark Pritchard and Cris Gutierrez
Mini-comic by Angela Bocage and Mark Freeman |
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notes |
Mark
Pritchard and (beginning with issue no. 2) Cris Gutierrez were co-editors
and co-publishers of FTH
- Art
directors:
Orna
Izakson, issues 6-9
Anders
Ahlen, issues 10 and 11
Sophie
Constantinou, issues 12 and 13
Sunah Cherwin was our distribution manager for the first three-plus years,
helping us immensely with the business end of things
Jym Dyer, Nancy
Gold, Nishanga Bliss, Jamie Lawrence, Stephanie Kulick and other friends
helped out on all kinds of stuff.
- Authors who contributed more than once included
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| F.A.Q. |
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- Q. What were you trying to achieve with FTH?
- A. A place to publish transgressive fiction, including my own,
and to inform the fiction with news and reviews of things actually happening.
- Q. How did you start the magazine?
- A. It was late 1989. I had just taken the
SFSI training and
we had just gotten our first Mac Plus. Like hundreds of other frustrated
journalists, I started my own zine using the Mac and PageMaker.
- Q. What made the zine initially successful?
- A. We got some really good material, including Marilyn
Jaye's first published story and some early stuff from
Michael Manning.
And a friend, Sunah Cherwin, exerted a
huge amount of energy selling ads
and, especially, getting the zine distributed. Also, we got reviewed in
Factsheet Five, the Whole Earth Review, and other places.
- Q. Was it expensive? Who paid for it all?
- A. Initially it was not too expensive. The first issue was produced
and printed for less than a thousand dollars. Gradually, as we started
spending more money on better paper and, eventually, a little color, the
cost of producing each issue increased. By the time of the last issue,
it was costing more than $5000 to produce an issue.
- Q. Where did the money come from?
- A. Mostly out of our own pockets, although subscriptions and
newsstand sales really helped. We also sold substantial numbers of back
issues.
- Q. What was the circulation?
- A. We printed 500 of no. 1, and worked out way up to a print
run of 4000-5000 of the last several issues. Of each print run, about 70%
were sold and 25% were given away. Most readers got it on newsstands; we
had only about 150 subscribers at the peak. Our circulation was never audited,
but we always suspected most copies were read by at least two people.
- Q. How did people react to FTH?
- A. We heard from dozens of readers who liked the magazine and
really got what we were doing. We heard from very few people who hated
us.
- Q. Why did you stop doing FTH?
- A. The increasing deficits coming out of our own pockets --
almost all production costs -- the amount of time and energy it took to
produce an issue, and the inability to replace Sunah as distribution manager.
We had started working inthe high tech industry and it was really tough
to keep doing, despite a great deal of volunteer labor from friends and
interested people.
- Q. Are you going to put the contents of all the FTH issues up
on the web?
- A. No. Not only do I not have the time and energy for that,
but we did not negotiate electronic rights to our contributors' content,
and thus do not have the right to post the contents.
- Q. What do you feel when you look back on FTH?
- A. I'm really proud of it. It's one of the most substantial
things I've ever done. And I'm always going to be grateful to those who
helped us put it out.
- Got a question? Want a back issue? Email
Mark.
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