The following annotated bibliography, organized chronologically, includes the primary sources collected for this project. To view scans of the primary sources, click on the relevant highlighted (colored) words. Some items do not have linked scans because we have not secured permission to include them here.

January-June 1969

Advertisement, Greetings (dir. DePalma), Daily Gater, 9 Jan. 1969, 3. [X-rated film described as a story “about The Draft, Bronx Secretaries, Computer Dating and Life in General among the Spaced-Out Set”]

Advertisement, Playtex, Daily Gater, 9 Jan. 1969, 4.

“Where to Work It Out,” Berkeley Barb, 10 Jan. 1969, 13. [article about women’s liberation workshop, including brief reference to abortion; contact information provided for Wendy Alfsen, identified elsewhere as SFSC student]

Arthur Berger, “Rebels with a Freudian Cause?,” San Francisco Examiner (“This World”), 12 Jan. 1969, 19. [article by SFSC professor Arthur Berger, using Freudian concept of Oedipus complex to analyze student rebellion at SFSC]

Advertisement, Burlesk Follies, Daily Gater, 14 Jan. 1969, 3. [advertisement for burlesque show featuring “exotic stars” in San Francisco]

Kathy Bramwell, “’Nazarin’ Worthy of All Its Praise,” Daily Gater, 15 Jan. 1969, 3. [film review of Luis Bunuel’s Nazarin; mentions that a “priest, a pretty young girl...and an ugly, over-painted prostitute construct the backbone of the picture” and that the prostitute character “wants to be saintly”]

Advertisement, Pamprin, Daily Gater, 16 Jan. 1969, 2. [a product marketed as bringing relief to those who have “pre-menstrual puffiness”]

“‘Religieuse’: Critical Look at Catholicism,” Phoenix, 16 Jan. 1969, 4. [film reviews, including one about perversion, sadism, and lesbianism in a convent and another about four nymphs who kidnap a “stud”]

Advertisement, Greetings (dir. Brian de Palma), Phoenix, 17 Jan. 1969, 10. [advertisement for “sex-protest film”]

“Bay Women to Get It Together,” Berkeley Barb, 17 Jan. 1969, 2. [article about women’s liberation workshop, including brief reference to abortion; contact information provided for Wendy Alfsen, identified elsewhere as SFSC student]

Jeff Clark, “Act’s ‘Little Murders’ A Stirring Seasonal Beginning,” Daily Gater, 17 Jan. 1969, 6. [review of American Conservatory Theatre play, with passing reference to lesbian character]

Advertisement, Greetings (dir. Brian de Palma), Phoenix, 17 Jan. 1969, 4. [advertisement for “sex-protest film”]

“Carefully Probing the Oedipal-Activist Theory,” Daily Gater, 17 Jan. 1969, 2. [editorial critical of Arthur Berger column—see above]

Advertisement, Greetings (dir. DePalma), Daily Gater, 17 Jan. 1969, 4. [X-rated film described as delivering “keen potshots at Viet Nam, smut peddling, nymphomania, underground newspapers, pop art and sex and the single hot-blooded young man!”]

Announcement, “Six Premieres,” Daily Gater, 17 Jan. 1969, 4. [announcement of the San Francisco premieres of six films; one of the six films is Andy Warhol’s Bike Boy, “a new, mature Warhol” film described elsewhere as a story about a Hell’s Angels biker’s encounters with the female sex]

Jeff Clark, “Probing Critic Questions ‘Barefoot in the Park,’” Daily Gater, 17 Jan. 1969, 5. [film review of Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park; mentions that actor “Lyle Talbot is tiresomely miscast...as a lecherous Hungarian who sounds more like a Bronx taxi driver” and that actress “Virginia Mayo is hideously unsubtle as a prim mom badly in need of a swinging life free of New Jersey’s constricting bounds”]

Jeff Clark, “’Faces’ a Brilliant and Personal Film,’” Daily Gater, 17 Jan. 1969, 5. [film review of John Cassavetes’s Faces, a film commonly known to be about a couple’s disintegrating marriage as both partners engage in numerous extra-marital affairs with prostitutes and playboys]

John Leaning, “300 Police Surround Strikers at Illegal Rally on Commons,” San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 1969, 1, 26. [news report on SFSC demonstration, with passing reference to woman arrested for using obscene language]

Jon Jacobson, “Women in Jail: Damped But Not Downed,” Berkeley Barb, 31 Jan. 1969, 9. [article about jail experiences, including sexual abuse and harassment, of SFSC women arrested at SFSC protest]

Morgan Pinney, “State College from A Homosexual Perspective,” Vector, Jan. 1969, 5-6, 29. [article by SFSC professor Morgan Pinney about reasons for gay people to support SFS strike]

Sandra Shevey, “‘I Think It’s Just Beginning’: Gore Vidal’s Reflections on Changes and Upheavals on the American Scene,” After Dark, Jan. 1969, 53-54. [interview with gay writer Gore Vidal, with a question about black activism at SFSC]

“Strikers in Court—Big Noisy Crowd,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 1969, 1, 12. [article about court appearance of SFSC strikers, including passing reference to SJSC student arrested for using obscene language]

“Homos Back Strike,” Berkeley Barb, 7 Feb. 1969, 9. [article on gay support for SFSC strike; SFSC faculty member Morgan Pinney quoted]

Jeff Clark, “ACT’s ‘Staircase’ Too Autobiographical,” Daily Gater, 13 Feb. 1969, 5, 7. [review of American Conservatory Theatre production of gay-themed play]

Advertisement, Hai Karate, Daily Gater, 13-14 Feb. 1969, 9. [advertisement for an aftershave that claims that men who use it will need to practice “self defense” because women will run after them]

Jeff Clark, “Compact, Dazzling ‘Flea,’” Daily Gater, 21 Feb. 1969, 2. [review of the American Conservatory Theater production of the play A Flea in Her Ear; includes a description of one of the play’s main characters, a janitor at the “Pretty Pussy Inn”]

Kathy Branwell, “On A Singer, Actor, Director,” Daily Gater, 28 Feb. 1969, 6, 7. [review of film Joanna by Michael Sarne, with references to interracial romances featuring white woman and black men]

Kathy Bramwell, “Happenings in Town,” Daily Gater, 7 Mar. 1969, 3. [listing of cultural events; mentions that “the Living Theater will perform ‘Mysteries & Smaller Pieces’ tonight and ‘Paradise Now’ tomorrow night”; the play Paradise Now is identified elsewhere as a production involving nudity, which led to multiple arrests of members of the Living Theater for indecent exposure]

Advertisement, Tampax, Daily Gater, 7 Mar. 1969, 4.

Advertisement, Hai Karate, Daily Gater, 10 Mar. 1969, 3. [advertisement for an aftershave that claims that “wild-eyed coeds” will be attracted to men who use it]

Jeff Clark, “Sorry State of San Francisco Theater Scene,” Daily Gater, 10 Mar. 1969, 3. [article about the Bay Area theater scene; mentions that one man, who has a “current Graphics show...going on in Sausalito,” was “warned not to include anything too sexy because of the mundane clientele”]

Ron Moskowitz, “New State College Rules,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 1969, 2. [article about new California State College rules on lewd/obscene conduct]

John Hansen, “Song Girls, Hoosiers and Basketball,” Phoenix, 27 Mar. 1969, 9. [article about quartet of female student singers who accompanied SFSC basketball team to Indiana]

“AFT Pickets for Pinney,” Daily Gater, 27 Mar. 1969, 4. [article describing support of American Federation of Teachers Local 1352 for Morgan Pinney, who was “removed in violation of the agreement ending the AFT strike” at SF State; mentions that Pinney “sports Edwardian dress, longish hair, and a beard” and “was the only striking teacher in the business school”]

“Homo Revolt: ‘Don’t Hide It,’” Berkeley Barb, 28 Mar. 1969, 5, 23. [passing comment comparing SF gay movement to SFSC black movement]

Advertisement, Pierrot le Fou (dir. Godard), Daily Gater, 28 Mar. 1969, 3. [X-rated Godard film described as “the definitive romance of this decade” and identified elsewhere as being about a man who runs away from his boring bourgeois married life]

Advertisement, Inga (dir. Joseph W. Sarno), Daily Gater, 28 Mar. 1969, 3. [X-rated adult film described as “the classic female concept”]

“‘Support S.F. State Strike,’ Rev. Broshears Tells Gays,” The Advocate, Mar. 1969, 3. [article on gay support for SF State strike, with reference to Ad Hoc Homophile Committee for the Student Strike]

“Gay Rebel Gets Shafted by Uptight Boss,” Berkeley Barb, 4 Apr. 1969, 11. [passing comment comparing SF gay activist to SFSC black activist]

Classified advertisement, “Hear Willie Brown,” Berkeley Barb, 4 Apr. 1969, 28. [announcement about SFSC professor Sherri Cavan’s upcoming presentation on “The Black and the Gay” to SF gay rights group Society for Individual Rights]

Advertisement, Tampax, Daily Gater, 9-10 Apr. 1969, 4.

Advertisement, Meds tampons, Daily Gater, 11 Apr. 1969, 2.

Advertisement, Hai Karate, Daily Gater, 11 Apr. 1969, 4. [advertisement for Hai Karate aftershave; “I’m a masochist. I threw away my instructions on self-defense"]

Advertisement, La Prisonnière (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot), Daily Gater, 11 Apr. 1969, 7. [French film identified elsewhere as a story featuring voyeurism, bondage, sadomasochism, and pornography]

Advertisement, “Circus Interplayers,” Daily Gater, 11 Apr. 1969, 7. [advertisement for the Circus Interplayers’ productions of two plays, Tom Paine by Paul Foster and Futz! by Rochelle Owens; Futz! is described as a “glorification of pure, undiluted repressed animal instincts”]

Advertisement, “John and Yoko Poster,” Daily Gater, 11 Apr. 1969, 8. [advertisement for poster featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono, both nude with apples covering their genitalia]

Calendar listing, “Scenedrome,” Berkeley Barb, 11 Apr. 1969, 24. [announcement about SFSC professor Sherri Cavan’s upcoming presentation on “The Black and the Gay” to SF gay rights group Society for Individual Rights]

Classified advertisement, “Hear Willie Brown,” Berkeley Barb, 11 Apr. 1969, 24. [announcement about SFSC professor Sherri Cavan’s upcoming presentation on “The Black and the Gay” to SF gay rights group Society for Individual Rights]

Margot Champagne, letter to the editor, Daily Gater, 11 Apr. 1969, 3. [letter by SFSC student, representing Society for Humane Abortion, in opposition to the anti-abortion politics of SFSC radical Roberto Kaffke]

“30 Second Ceremony: Militant Moustache Marries Organizer,” Daily Gater, 15 Apr. 1969, 1. [article about the wedding of two SFSC activists]

“Obscenity Guilty,” Daily Gater, 16 Apr. 1969, 1. [article announcing that Joy Magezi and Barry Biderman,       identified as “two SF State students,” were sentenced for “their part in an anti-war skit” called Lulu Red Vanguard; the article notes that they were originally charged with obscenity and quotes Judge Leo Friedman as saying that the anti-war skit was “sheer filth”]

Advertisement, “NoDoz,” Daily Gater, 16 Apr. 1969, 4. [advertisement for stimulant, with erotic humor]

“Pollution, Population, Pesticide Problems Explained, Exposed in New Gater Series,” Daily Gater, 16 Apr. 1969, 1. [announcement of new “Science and Man” series, which will include coverage of population control]

Advertisement, Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (dir. Anthony Newley), Daily Gater, 17 Apr. 1969, 7. [X-rated film described as the “film PLAYBOY ran ten well-stacked pages on in their March issue!”; “A sort of ‘What’s New Pussycat?’ brought up to today’s level!”]

Advertisement, Teorema (dir. Paolo Pasolini), Daily Gater, 17 Apr. 1969, 8. [advertisement for film featuring profanity, sex, and perversion]

Marc Clarkson, “New Dorms Here: ‘Most Expensive’ in State System,” Phoenix, 17 Apr. 1969, 6. [article on new SFSC coed dormitory; students will set visiting hours and decide gender arrangements]

“Gays Flex Muscles,” Berkeley Barb, 18 Apr. 1969, 21. [report on SFSC professor Sherri Cavan’s presentation on gay militancy to SF gay rights group Society for Individual Rights]

Advertisement, Norelco, Daily Gater, 21-22 Apr. 1969, 3. [advertisement for the “Lady Norelco” and “Norelco Ladyshaver” shavers that includes the caption “This campus is crawling with leg men”]

“Newsletter,” Committee for Homosexual Freedom Newsletter, 22 Apr. 1969, 1. [short announcement seeking help with newsletter; references SF State faculty member Morgan Pinney]

“Fired AFTers Are Still Out,” Daily Gater, 23 Apr. 1969, 1. [article about termination of SFS faculty member Morgan Pinney]

Sarane Bowen, “Population Bomb,” Daily Gater, 23 Apr. 1969, 4. [article on population explosion by biology professor]

Alan Kornfeld, "Cal Camp and Revolution,” Daily Gater, 24 Apr. 1969, 2. [article about a “SDS-inspired controversy” over the Cal Camp of the University of California, Berkeley;  mentions the concerns of Students for a Democratic Society about Cal Camp’s "24-year-old" tradition of the “Cal Camp Daffodil Queen,” in which “all the contestants had to blonde,” reinforcing the image of the “lovely civilized blonde” at the expense of people of color]

Jeff Clark, "Photo Art at Lawson’s,” Daily Gater, 25 Apr. 1969, 3. [review of a photography show “at Don Lawson’s gallery” featuring “ten Bay Area teachers”; describes “Ruth Burnhard’s undulating depiction of a nude woman” as a “sexual statement” with “orgiastic forms”; mentions that the work of Judy Dater “displays an erotic feeling”]

Classified advertisement, Daily Gater, 29 Apr. 1969, 8. [advertisement for male models; note that this reappears as follows: 30 Apr. 1969, 2; 2 May 1969, 2; 5 May 1969, 3; 7 May 1969, 2; 8 May 1969, 2; 9 May 1969, 8; 13 May 1969, 2; 14 May 1969, 4; 15 May 1969, 2; 16 May 1969, 8; 19 May 1969, 3; 21 May 1969, 3; 23 May 1969, 8]

“Gay Strike Turns Grim,” Berkeley Barb, 25 Apr. 1969, 7. [article on Committee for Homosexual Freedom protests, with passing comment about involvement of SFSC activists and quotations by SFSC gay leader Charles Thorpe]

Classified advertisement, Daily Gater, 29 Apr. 1969, 8. [advertisement for male models; note that this reappears as follows: 30 Apr. 1969, 2; 2 May 1969, 2; 5 May 1969, 3; 7 May 1969, 2; 8 May 1969, 2; 9 May 1969, 8; 13 May 1969, 2; 14 May 1969, 4; 15 May 1969, 2; 16 May 1969, 8; 19 May 1969, 3; 21 May 1969, 3; 23 May 1969, 8]

“Why Gays?” The Advocate, Apr. 1969, 18. [critical editorial about call by Ray Broshears for gay support of SF State student strike]

Louise Eubanks, “America’s Lucrative Sex Business,” Phoenix, 1 May 1969, 2. [article on sex-oriented business, products, and advertisements]

Gary Higgins, “Wendy and the Pill’s Dangers,” Phoenix, 1 May 1969, 5. [article on SFSC student sufering from eye pain and eye damage due to the birth control pill]

“Protest to Pope on Population Pill,” Daily Gater, 2 May 1969, 4, 8. [reprint of statements by Nobel laureates about population and fertility control]

Advertisement, The First Time (dir. James Neilson), Daily Gater, 2 May 1969, 6. [advertisement for film about boy losing virginity]

Advertisement, If... (dir. Lindsay Anderson),” Daily Gater, 5-6 May 1969, 2.

“Shocking Campus Sex Expose,” Daily Gater, 7 May 1969, 1. [report on poll of student attitudes about sex—possible joke story]

Paul Kangas, letter to the editor, Daily Gater, 7 May 1969, 2. [letter from biology student about abortion methods]

Anne Stefan, “Inside Coed Dorm: New Concept in Living, ‘Primness’ Is Gone,” Phoenix, 8 May 1969, 6. [article about new coed dormitory]

John Davidson, “Pinney Fights for His Job,” Phoenix, 8 May 1969, 1, 10. [article on termination of gay faculty member Morgan Pinney for reasons related to SF State strike]

Anita Carse, letter to the editor, Daily Gater, 13 May 1969, 2. [critical response to earlier abortion letter by Kangas]

“Abortion Films Today,” Daily Gater, 15 May 1969, 3. [short announcement about screening of abortion films by Psychology Department student organization]

Advertisement, TWA, Daily Gater, 16 May 1969, 8. [advertisement for Trans-World Airlines flight hostesses that promises “good coin” and “a chance for you to fall in love”; “for love and money”]

Classified advertisements, “Super Creative Gentle Fighter Seeks Chick” and “Male Models Wanted for Legitimate Work,” Daily Gater, 16 May 1969, 8.

Paul Kangas, letter to the editor, Daily Gater, 16 May 1969, 2. [follow-up letter on abortion methods]

Bil Paul, “Gays Join Boycott,” Berkeley Barb, 16 May 1969, 9. [article about protest at a Mission District Safeway grocery store, part of a larger movement to boycott grapes; mentions inclusion of gay groups, including the Committee for Homosexual Freedom]

Jeff Clark, “Film Finals: A Few Brilliant Moments But Weaker Overall,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22 May 1969, 4.       [review of the movies shown at the SF State Film Finals; includes a review of the film Dispenser by Jun Kobashigawa, described as a film about “two lovers on a weekend of sex”]

“Benefit for Mission Rebels,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22 May 1969, 5. [announcement of a benefit concert at SF State for the Mission Rebels for Action; a musical performance called “The History of the Soldier” is about the “prostitution” of a man for the “sake of the system”]

Advertisement, “Burlesk Follies,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22 May 1969, 5. [“America’s Finest Live Burlesk Featuring the Greatest Exotic Stars in the U.S.!”]

Veda Federighi, “The Abortion Pilgrimage,” Phoenix, 22 May 1969, 4. [article on large number of Bay Area women who travel to Mexico for abortions]

“Reagan’s Sex Bar Erection,” Daily Gater, 23 May 1969, 5. [article on Governor Ronald Reagan’s proposed obscenity legislation]

Advertisement, Succubus (dir. Jess Franco), Daily Gater, 23 May 1969, 7. [advertisement for a film described as “the sensual experience” of 1969, with “succubus” defined as “a demon assuming female form to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep”]

Advertisement, I Am Curious (dir. Vilgot Sjoman), Daily Gater, 23 May 1969, 7. [advertisement for Swedish erotic film]

“Striking Teachers and Their Tenure,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 1969, 2. [article on lost tenure or credit toward tenure for SFSC faculty who participated in strike; also reference to board of trustees approval of new regulations on lewd or obscene conduct by students]

Sue Parsell, letter to the editor, Daily Gater, 29 May 1969, 2. [letter to the editor responding to A. Paul Kangas’s letter to the editor from 7 May; mentions “the dangers inherent in the methods Mr. Kangas advocates for abortions”]

George Treichel, “Geology Prof Reveals Five Best Population Environment Paperback Books,” Daily Gater, 29 May 1969, 7. [article on popular population control books by geology professor]

Map, AFT Local 1928 Newsletter, 31 May 1969, 17. [campus map with renamed buildings and spaces, including “hetero” and “homo” dorms]

Raymond Broshers, letter to the editor, The Advocate, May 1969, 24. [response to critical editorial about gay support for SF State strike]

June-December 1969

Gerald Adams, “Queen of State,” San Francisco Examiner, 8 June 1969, CL28. [report on SFSC Homecoming Queen Gloria Tyus Ross, a member of the Black Students Union, a supporter of the SFSC strike, and a new mother]

Kathy Bramwell, “Carousel Begins Six-Day Schedule,” Daily Gater, 20 June 1969, 6. [listing of cultural events that includes a performance of Hair, described as a “revolutionary tribal love-rock musical,” and a screening of Josef von Sternberg’s film Anathan, described as an “erotic fantasy of death and desire”]

Greg deGiere and Nick Wahl, “SDS Splits on Radical Purge,” Daily Gater, 27 June 1969, 1, 3, 4. [article about a split within Students for a Democratic Society; mentions a speech by an Illinois Black Panther Party spokesperson that was said to center on “Eldridge Cleaver’s slogan ‘pussy power,’” and the spokesperson was quoted as saying that “a revolutionary woman shouldn’t lay up with a counter-revolutionary man, because there are plenty of revolutionary men who you can call who will be happy to take care of you in your hour of need”]

“Wedding in Novato,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 1969, 23. [wedding announcement featuring a SFSC alum]

Merla Zellerbach, “My Fair City: The Readers Are Aware,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 1969, 43. [passing reference to SFSC course on personality and sex]

“The Movement Grows,” Committee for Homosexual Freedom Newsletter, 8 July 1969, 2. [passing reference to “Homo Dorm and “Hetero Dorm” at SFSC]

“Summer Breezes Bring Romance,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 1969, 26. [wedding announcement featuring a SFSC alum]

“Women’s Liberation Spokesman Decries Men,” Daily Gater, 11 July 1969, 5. [report on recent presentation by feminist sociologist]

“Cops Raid ‘Dirty Movie’ House Here,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 1969, 4. [news report on the arrest of SFSC student James Mitchell,  charged with exhibiting an obscene movie at the theater he owned]

William Moore, “The Swing from Bras,” San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 1969, 2. [feature story on the trend of women rejecting bras; reference to UC Berkeley and SFSC as “irreverent” places where this was happening]

Leonis, “‘The Queen’ Asks Questions,” Daily Gater (Alt), 8 Aug. 1969, 3, 4. [film review of The Queen, described as “straightforward, warm documentary of the human desire to feel individual, special, talented, and glamorous” as seen during the “1967 Drag Queens Nationals (beauty contest) in New York City”]

K. [Dr. Hiprocrisy], “Hippocrisy,” Berkeley Tribe, 8 Aug. 1969, 20. [SFSC professor commented briefly and critically on new claims about the importance of clitoral orgasms]

Charles Howe, “Erotic Movie Displayer Intends to Strike Back,” San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Aug. 1969, 2. [news story on planned litigation by SFSC student James Mitchell after his arrest and the arrests of others on obscenity charges]

Zede Avi, “What’s in Store for State,” Berkeley Barb, 15 Aug. 1969, 6. [update on SF State strike developments, with passing reference to SF State professor Morgan Pinney]

John Young, letter to the editor, Daily Gater (Alt), 15 Aug. 1969, 2. [letter from a self-described “22 year old good-looking but lonesome GI stationed in Danang, Vietnam” who asks if there are “any girls who would care to write a poor soldier”]

Advertisement, Paranoia (dir. Umberto Lenzi), Daily Gater (Alt), 15 Aug. 1969, 3. [X-rated film; “Paranoia pulls you into a whirlpool of ecstatic love!”]

Announcement, Embryonic Theater Performance of Aristophanes’ The Congresswomen, Daily Gater (Alt), 15 Aug. 1969, 3. [announcement of a performance of the ancient Greek play commonly known to feature sex comedy and identified elsewhere as being about women taking over the government of Athens from men and instituting sexual equity (while also forcing men to sleep with the uglier members of the opposite sex)]

William Cooney, “Roundup of Film Patrons Prohibited,” San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 1969, 1, 12. [more on SFSC student James Mitchell and his conflicts with police about showing obscene films at his movie theater]

Konstantin Berlandt, “Samurai Knifes Ethnic Studies,” Berkeley Tribe, 22 Aug. 1969, 11, 22. [passing comment about wanting gay liberation course in article about fight for black studies department at SFSC]

Big Boo, “Business Goes Down,” Berkeley Tribe, 22 Aug. 1969, 9. [article on SFSC student James Mitchell’s conflicts with police about showing obscene films at his movie theater]

Leonis, “Easy Rider is a First,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22 Aug. 1969, 3. [film review of Easy Rider; includes mention of the film’s plot in which the two main characters stumble “onto a New Orleans bawdy house only long enough to pick up some companions”]

“’Women’s Liberation’ Group Formed Here,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22 Aug. 1969, 4. [article about the formation of a women’s liberation group at SF State; article asks if the group is a space “where women sit in circles and talk about their sexual hang-ups"; mentions that many women’s liberation groups have “sprung up lately around” the issue of not “wearing bras”; mentions Lisa Gutierrez, Carol Tabachnick, and Terrie Barrett as members of the “women’s liberation caucus of SDS” at SF State]

Announcement, “Pregnant Girls,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22 Aug. 1969, 9. [announcement addressed to “Pregnant Girls” from “Freelance Adoptions” about an infant adoption service]

Advertisement, Justine (dir. Lawrence Durrell), Daily Gater (Alt), 22 Aug. 1969, 10. [film described as “having everything in the way of love--adultery, homosexuality, incest” and “heavily spiced with erotic adventure,” including “adolescent prostitution”]

Announcement, California Shakespeare Festival Performance of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Daily Gater (Alt), 22 Aug. 1969, 11. [announcement of a performance of the 1962 Edward Albee play commonly known to feature the tribulations of a married couple, including sex and hysterical pregnancy]

“The Week’s News in Review,” San Francisco Examiner, 24 Aug. 1969, TW5. [summary of new developments concerning SFSC student James Mitchell and his conflicts with police about showing obscene films at his movie theater]

Thorp[e], “Go to Christopher Street,” Committee for Homosexual Freedom Newsletter, 25 Aug. 1969, 3. [poem about Stonewall riots in New York by SFSC gay activist Charles Thorpe]

Hal Schaefer, “After Nightfall,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Sept. 1969, 32. [brief reference to SFSC student Jill St. Paul, “Miss Bottomless 1969,” at the Peppermint Tree]

“The Week’s News in Review,” San Francisco Examiner, 7 Sept. 1969, TW 5. [update on SFSC student James Mitchell and his conflicts with police about showing obscene films at his movie theater]

Classified advertisement, Berkeley Barb, 12 Sept. 1969, 15. [gay student looking for roommate]

Paul Avery, “The School for Sex,” San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Sept. 1969, 4. [feature story on the Modern Sex Institute, led by SFSC student activist John D. Cleveland and staffed by SFSU students Wendy Alfsen and Marily Crocker]

Norm Pressman, “Draft, Vietnam Conflicts Split National Right-Wing YAF Meeting,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22-23 Sept. 1969, 4. [article about a split in the right-wing student organization “Young Americans for Freedom” between “liberals” and “traditionals”; mentions “liberalizing abortion laws” as a major point of contention between the groups]

Advertisement, Meds tampons, Daily Gater (Alt), 22-23 Sept. 1969, 4.

Cliff Geitz, “Far-out Cowboy Flick,” Daily Gater (Alt), 29 Sept. 1969, 2. [review of film Midnight Cowboy; mentions that reviewer once thought “it would really be a groove to be a gigolo,” “a cat who sells his body for money--mostly old ladies and maybe faggots”]

Advertisement, “RAP!,” Daily Gater (Alt), 29 Sept. 1969, 2. [advertisement for the new album An Eye for An Ear by Terence, who is described as “a young revolutionary whose acid rock sound and laser tongue are aimed at sex, politics, civil rights, convention”]

Jeff Clark, “‘Geese’ Not Gritty,” Daily Gater (Alt), 1 Oct. 1969, 3. [review of “two one-act plays by Gus Weill” described as concerning themselves with “homosexuality”; mentions that plays “have a bunch of platitudes derived from the gay world”]

Advertisement, “Sexual Freedom,” Daily Gater (Alt), 1 Oct. 1969, 3. [advertisement for a “new quarterly” publication of “the Sexual Freedom League” of San Francisco]

Tom Roth, “Enoz Makes It,” Daily Gater (Alt), 3 Oct. 1969, 2. [fictional story about “a dealer of fine Mexican cannabis” named “Enoz Shlotz”; mentions that Shlotz “had to rely upon the stretchable bra of his girl friend Gladys to transport his commodity” across the border from Mexico to the United States]

Marge Piercy, “Metamorphosis into Bureaucrat,” Daily Gater (Alt), 3 Oct. 1969, 3. [poem about the transformation of a woman into a bureaucrat; includes line "My breasts are wells of mimeograph ink”]

Curtis Choy, “Peking Opera in Chinese Revolution,” Daily Gater (Alt), 3 Oct. 1969, 3. [article about a benefit film showing for the “Red Guard” featuring the “Chinese-made” film The East is Red; the film is described as highlighting the “simple passive grace of women,” which contrasts with the “fiercely gymnastic interaction of armed men”]

Advertisement, DeSade (dir. Cy Endfield), Daily Gater (Alt), 3 Oct. 1969, 5. [film about the Marquis de Sade; “He made evil an art, virtue a vice, and pain a pleasure!”]

Dale Sprouse, “Lone Fired Prof Still Wants Job,” Phoenix, 9 Oct. 1969, 1, 8. [article on Morgan Pinney, gay faculty member terminated after participating in SFSC strike]

“KGO Down on Sex,” Berkeley Tribe, 10 Oct. 1969, 9. [article about “Sex and the Single Student,” a KGO radio story by reporter Richard Gebhardt about SFSC student who wrote porn novels to pay for college; the piece was rejected by the station’s news director]

Art Bontempi, “You See, I Was Dreaming This Mission District...,” Daily Gater (Alt), 10 Oct. 1969, 2. [poem about a woman of the Mission District with mention of “young & smooth breasts cool as naked marble”]

Advertisement, I Am Curious (Yellow) (dir. Vilgot Sjoman), Daily Gater (Alt), 10 Oct. 1969, 3. [“Admission restricted to adults"]

Advertisement, Meds tampons, Daily Gater (Alt), 14 Oct. 1969, 3.

Advertisement, “Dance Contest,” Daily Gater (Alt), 14 Oct. 1969, 3. [advertisement for a “Dance Contest” with “Exotic Tiger Girls” held in the “Tiger Room”]

Advertisement, Trendar, Daily Gater (Alt), 14 Oct. 1969, 4. [advertisement for Trendar weight-loss diuretic marketed to control “temporary pre-menstrual weight gain”]

Advertisement, Trendar, Daily Gater (Alt), 21 Oct. 1969, 2. [advertisement for Trendar weight-loss diuretic marketed to control “temporary pre-menstrual weight gain”]

Advertisement, “Sexual Freedom,” Daily Gater (Alt), 21 Oct. 1969, 3. [advertisement for the “Quarterly Publication of the Sexual Freedom League Inc.”; features image of man and woman having sex]

Advertisement, “The Boys in the Band,” Daily Gater (Alt), 24 Oct. 1969, 3. [advertisement for The Boys in the Band, new play by Matt Crowley about several gay men in New York City who come together for a birthday party]

“Survival Day,” Berkeley Tribe, 24 Oct. 1969, 8. [article on “Survival Day” gathering, with references to abortion and SFSC]

“The Obscenity Trip,” Berkeley Barb, 24 Oct. 1969, 10. [article on obscenity and strip clubs, with brief references to SF State student Jill St. Paul]

“San Francisco Journal,” The Ladder, Oct. 1969, 18-23. [lengthy article about visit by New York student to San Francisco, including passing reference on p. 21 to meeting two older lesbians who had marched with Black Students Union at SFSC]

“Homosexual Power,” The Ladder, Oct. 1969, 31-32. [article about speech by SFSC sociology professor Sherri Cavan; addresses use of militant strategies to challenge antigay discrimination by Pacific Telephone Company]

“Homosexual Freedom Proclaimed,” Daily Gater (Alt), 6 Nov. 1969, 2. [article about picketing of San Francisco Examiner to “protest its policy of degrading homosexuals”; article requests "Bail and Defense Funds” from readers on behalf of fifteen persons arrested during protest]

Advertisement, Playtex, Daily Gater (Alt), 6-7 Nov. 1969, 4.

Donald Grabau, “Song (For Faye),” Daily Gater (Alt), 6-7 Nov. 1969, 7. [poem that mentions “breasts,” “obscene fairy tales,” a “mother aborting,” and “the hair of the scrotum”]

Advertisement, Norelco, Daily Gater (Alt), 7-10 Nov. 1969, 4. [“For girls who like to fuss without any bother”]

Donovan Bess, “The Stud Husband Phenomenon,” San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Nov. 1969, 2. [report on upcoming UC Medical Center symposium featuring SFSC marriage counselling professor Ben N. Ard Jr., who was critical of “he-man” masculinity]

Nicholas Caldararo, “OH! Calcutta! Ok - Almost,” Daily Gater (Alt), 11-12 Nov. 1969, 2. [review of the play Oh Calcutta; play is described as a “powerful graphic on American sexuality and its related hang-ups"; reviewer recommends the play “to the middle class as sex education”]

Nicholas Caldararo, “Genetics and LSD,” Daily Gater (Alt), 11-12 Nov. 1969, 3, 4. [article summarizing recent findings on the “chromosomal damage controversy” in which scientists have found no evidence that LSD usage among humans causes “chromosomal breakage”; mentions “LSD using mothers” and how it has “become a medical policy in many states to consider LSD using mothers as grounds for legal abortions”]

Announcement, “Midnight Films,” Daily Gater (Alt), 13-14 Nov. 1969, 2. [announcement of the “Midnight Films” showings of Invocation Of My Demon Brother, described as a “new occult ‘magick’” film by Kenneth Anger with music by “Mick Jagger on the moog,” and OWXHO, a “fabled doll film by fabulous New York filmmaker Burt Rashby”]

Listing for Peppermint Tree, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 1969, 35. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as an SFSC student]

Paul Cantor, “Now That the Mar. Is Over,” Berkeley Barb, 21 Nov. 1969, 5. [passing reference to SFSC in article about antiwar movement]

“Women’s Liberation,” Daily Gater (Alt), 21 Nov. 1969, 1. [article about the rise of women’s liberation on American campuses, including SF State; mentions that the SF State “campus health center is another area that contributes to the oppression of women” because it “will not provide birth control devices to unmarried women” and this turns “what should be a right – the wish to control one’s own body” into a “humiliating ordeal”]

Jeff Clark, “Gay Life: ‘The Boys in the Band,’” Daily Gater (Alt), 21 Nov. 1969, 2, 8. [review of play The Boys in the Band, described as “the best piece to be written to date about gay life”]

“We Walked This Night and Rapped Into Each Other...,” Daily Gater (Alt), 21 Nov. 1969, 6. [poem about free love]

“Their Greatest Hour,” Daily Gater (Alt), 26 Nov. 1969, 2. [story about how some males have “lost touch with the chicks” with the rise of women’s liberation; features “Jerry the Giant,” who used to have a “well-rounded diet of sxual activity” (sp.) but when he “turns on a little dominant male,” women start accusing him of treating them like sex objects]

Jeff Clark, “‘Hair’ Staid,” Daily Gater (Alt), 26 Nov. 1969, 3. [review of musical Hair; mentions scene in which character “admits he’s in love with Mick Jagger and wants to go to bed with him” but is also “quick to deny any homosexual tendencies”]

“This Is Still One Nation Under GOD...,” Daily Gater (Alt), 26 Nov. 1969, 5. [poem that contains the lines “I suppose that John Kennedy fucked his wife in the White House” and “If I could fuck in the White House I’d do it in the oval room and shoot sperm on the virgin wool carpet”]

Announcement, “Midnight Films,” Daily Gater (Alt), 26 Nov. 1969, 6. [announcement of the “Midnight Films” showings of The Leopard Woman, described as a “1920 epic of passion in the equatorial jungles” that stars a “silent screen sex symbol,” and Sepia Sizzler, described as a “1950’s bump and grind”]

Leo Laurence, “Instead of Turkey, Tender Loins,” Berkeley Tribe, 27 Nov. 1969, 9. [article on planned Thanksgiving Day gay liberation rally in Union Square and march to antigay businesses, including Delta Airlines, accused of discriminating against SFSC gay student Gary Weinberg]

Leo E. Laurence, “Gays Get Rise out of Delta,” Berkeley Tribe, 27 Nov. 1969, 11, 27. [news report on SFSC student Gary Weinberg, who was refused permission to board Delta Airlines flight, allegedly for wearing a “Homosexuals for Peace” button]

Sheilah Drummond, “Hairy Legs Freak Fishy Liberal,” Berkeley Tribe, 27 Nov. 1969, 24. [news report on firing of SFSC student Mary Alice Carlson, allegedly for refusing to shave her legs, by Acquatic Specialties]

Listing for Peppermint Tree, San Francisco Examiner, 30 Nov. 1969, 271. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SFSC student]

Charles P. Thorp[e], letter to the editor, Los Angeles Advocate, Nov. 1969, 20. [criticisms of the Advocate’s coverage of Stonewall riots by SFSC student Charles Thorp and a poem]

“Hare Arrested on Gun Charge,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 1969, 3. [article on concealed weapons arrest of former SFSC Black Studies faculty member after he allegedly was found with his head in the lap of a a woman in a parked car]

“Hare Jailed After Missing Court,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Dec. 1969, 3. [news report on court appearance of SFSC sociologist Nathan Hare, former chair of the Black Studies Department, who was charged with gun violations after he was allegedly found in a car with his head in a woman’s lap]

Sharon Presley, “’F--K The State,’” Daily Gater (Alt), 3 Dec. 1969, 4. [article about the “Alliance of Libertarian Activists” and its activities at SF State; mentions Jefferson F. Poland, described as “a fellow ALA member and a pioneer in the movement for sexual freedom and abolition of censorship”]

“Hare Trial Will Begin Monday,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 1969, 6. [update on trial of former SFSC faculty member Nathan Hare]

Dick Meister, “Sex Discrimination Charge: Women Against Ma Bell,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 1969, 4. [SFSC student and NOW activist Gail Stassinos quoted in article about women’s movement protest against Pacific Telephone Company’s hiring practices]

Don Jackson, “Gays Not Thankful,” Berkeley Barb, 5 Dec. 1969, 5. [article on Thanksgiving Day gay liberation rally in Union Square and march to antigay businesses, including Delta Airlines]

Leo E. Laurence, “Making Tracks Through San Fran,” Berkeley Tribe, 5 Dec. 1969, 24. [article on Thanksgiving Day gay liberation rally in Union Square and march to antigay businesses, including Delta Airlines]

Michael Francis Itkin, “Sexual Fascism at Delta Airlines,” Berkeley Barb, 5 Dec. 1969, 19. [more on Gary Weinberg, SF State student who experienced antigay discrimination by Delta Airlines]

Francis Itkin, “Delta Sexual Fascism,” San Francisco Free Press, 7 Dec. 1969, 2. [more on  Gary Weinberg, SF State student who experienced antigay discrimination by Delta Airlines]

Listing for Peppermint Tree, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 7 Dec. 1969, 316. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SFSC student]

“Anti-Thanksgiving March Stuns Exploiters,” San Francisco Free Press, 7 Dec. 1969, 2. [article on Thanksgiving Day gay liberation rally in Union Square and march to antigay businesses, including Delta Airlines]

Listing for Peppermint Tree, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 14 Dec. 1969, 269. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SFSC student]

“Tate Murders – Fantastic Frame-up,’” Daily Gater (Alt), 17 Dec. 1969, 2. [article about the news coverage of the murder of Sharon Tate by followers of Charles Manson; mentions that the Tate “story is a boon for the sensationalist mass media” because it involves “sexual control and dominance”; mentions “sexual freedom” as something “offensive” to the “average middle-class American”]

“Hare ‘Leaves Campus’--Scholar for Activists,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Dec. 1969, 4. [article on SFSC Black Studies faculty member Nathan Hare]

Arthur A. Berger, “The Subversive ‘He,’” San Francisco Chronicle (“This World”), 28 Dec. 1969, 17. [article on sexism, sexual oppression, and semantics by SFSC Social Science Dept. member]

January-June 1970

Advertisement, TWA, Daily Gater (Alt), 9 Jan. 1970, 8. [advertisement for Trans-World Airlines flight hostesses; “Special Offer to girls who aren’t coming back to campus next semester: The World”]

Listing for Peppermint Tree, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 11 Jan., 1970, 216. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SFSC student]

Tony Rogers, “Up Front: A Righteous Sweat…,” Phoenix, 15 Jan. 1970, 2. [article about the new bestselling, but seemingly out-of-touch, female douche called “Cupid’s Quiver,” with “floral” and “taste” scents; “more and more” young girls prefer the “natural look” instead]

Otto Bos, “Erotic Food for Thought,” Phoenix, 15 Jan. 1970, 3. [review of SF’s “erotic answer to Alice’s Restaurant,” “Magnolia Thunderpussy,” serving dishes like “Pineapple Pussy” and a sundae in the shape of a giant phallus]

Gene Rosenthal, “Who’s Got the Belly Button?,” Phoenix, 15 Jan. 1970, 3. [feature on Susan Jones (pseudonym), a belly dancer who “undulates exotically four nights a week at the Casbah”; reference to irate mother of SF State student who connects male student enthusiasm for belly dancing with sexual and political radicalism]

Len Sellers, “A ‘Beautiful, Crazy’ Teacher,” Phoenix, 15 Jan. 1970, 10. [feature on Bernard Goldstein, professor who teaches human sexuality classes]

Art Beeghly, “Sex in the Classroom,” Phoenix, 15 Jan. 1970, 11. [feature on new Health Education course called “Sex and Family Life,” taught by Martin Gershman]

Advertisement, “Richard Brautigan’s…,” Phoenix, 15 Jan. 1970, 13. [advertisement for Richard Brautigan’s three recent books, including The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and Watermelon Sugar]

Listing for Peppermint Tree, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 18 Jan., 1970, 220. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SFSC student]

"Cowboy Syndrome," It Ain't Me Babe, 29 Jan. 1970, 9. [reprint or summary of SF Chronicle article of Nov. 8, 1969, listed above, including comments by SF State faculty member Ben Ard]

“Not A Quiet Affair,” Berkeley Barb, 30 Jan. 1970, 9. [article on California Federation of Teachers gay rights resolution proposed by SFSC faculty member and gay activist Morgan Pinney]

Gale Whittington, “Gay Labor Pain,” Berkeley Tribe, 30 Jan. 1970, 11. [article on conflict at AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, where firefighters complained about gay visibility during recent picketing by SFSC’s AFT Local 1928 at KGO-ABC]

Gale Whittington, “Union Backs Gaylib,” Berkeley Barb, 30 Jan. 1970, 5. [article on conflict at AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, where firefighters complained about gay visibility during recent picketing by SFSC’s AFT Local 1928 at KGO-ABC]

Morgan Pinney, “Visit With Some ‘Liberals,’” San Francisco Free Press, Jan. 1970, 6.

“California Teachers Union Adopts Homosexual Resolution,” Gay Power (1.9), c. Jan. 1970, 16, 22. [article on California Federation of Teachers gay rights resolution proposed by SFSC faculty member and gay activist Morgan Pinney]

C.C., "Epidermis: A Woman’s Reaction to A Man’s Play...,” Daily Gater (Alt), 3-6 Feb. 1970, 3. [review of the play Epidermis by Bob Aguilar, identified as a “graduate drama student” at SF State; mention of male-female sexual attraction; “man was turning onto man onto woman onto man... and I was a woman and I wanted to turn on to that man”]

“Babies Aren’t Wanted,” Berkeley Barb, 6 Feb. 1970, 7. [article on upcoming San Jose State College panel on population explosion, with brief reference to SFSC Black Studies faculty member Randall Jimenez]

“Women’s Lib Meet,” Daily Gater (Alt), 9-10 Feb. 1970, 1. [article about the new women’s liberation group “Independent Campus Women” with elaboration of its “four point program of demands”; the first demand is that “free birth control devices and abortion information must be available to any woman who wants them regardless of her age or marital status” and the second demand is that “there should be a free child care center on the campus”]

Announcement, “Today At State,” Daily Gater (Alt), 9-10 Feb. 1970, 2. [listing of campus activities including a meeting of Independent Campus Women]

Judith Anderson, “When Married Couples Break Up,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Feb. 1970, 12. [brief comments on marriage counselling by SF State faculty member Ben Ard]

“Hare Is Fined, Given Probation on Gun Charge,” San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 1970, 3. [article on trial of SFSC Black Studies faculty member Nathan Hare, elsewhere described as having been found with his head in the lap of a woman in a parked car]

Jon Funabiki, “You Don’t Get Fat on Semen Dr. Hip Says,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 1. [Dr. Eugene Shoenfeld, aka Dr. Hip, lectured on campus as part of “Controversy ’70” series and talked about sex, “sexual devices,” and LSD]

“HELLO: Min, Maxi and Males,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 1. [article on straight male sexual desires for “girls” in miniskirts; laments the choice of “Paris fashion designers” to hype the new “maxi” look in which women’s legs are covered]

Advertisement, “SEX (Now That I Have Your Attention)…,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 3. [advertisement for Kappa Phi Delta fraternity rush week using “SEX” (in all caps) to draw attention]

Angela Errigo, “‘British Blues Only a Myth,’” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 4. [interview with young rock star Rod Stewart, described as an “effete, emaciated boy” who deems his devoted groupies, including “Girls Together Outrageously,” as “good fun,” but pushes back against stereotypes about rock star exploitation of groupies]

Advertisement, “My Own,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 5. [“hygienic deodorant spray for the outer vaginal area”]

“Look Quickly, Maxi Is In Mini Is Out,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 5. [article lamenting a shift for males engaged in “girl watching” on campus, as the miniskirt style is displaced by the maxi style, but “to the delight of campus males” SF State “females have yet to adopt the latest” Paris look; one student is quoted as saying, “I like looking at a girl’s legs”]

George Banner and Bill Fox, “Games Women Play,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 9. [article attributing shift in women’s physical education in which “physical fitness in in vogue” to women’s “ulterior motives”: “the idea is to lure men with their ‘fantastic’ bodies,” according to Dr. Eula West of Woman’s Physical Education Department; self-defense course treats both sexes the same with few “male-female courtesies”]

Otto Bos, “Let the Girls Carry the Ball,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 9. [article supporting an end to a sports world that is “symbolic of the ‘inferior woman’ role ingrained in American society” and claiming that sports “is not the exclusive domain of men” anymore]

Classified advertisement, “Join Independent Campus Women,” Phoenix, 19 Feb. 1970, 11. [advertisement asking readers to join feminist campus group]

“The Crowbar by VEDA,” Phoenix, 26 Feb. 1970, 2. [Valuable Educational Data Action section answers questions posed by students, including a query about whether birth control pills are available on campus at the Student Health Center]

Advertisement, “My Own,” Phoenix, 26 Feb. 1970, 4. [“hygienic deodorant spray for the outer vaginal area”]

Jon Breault, “Film Forum: ‘Zabriskie Point,’” Phoenix, 26 Feb. 1970, 4. [review of Antonioni’s “flawed” film; important plot point is an imaginary “all-out orgy” in the desert outside LA in which Antonioni’s “allusion of sexual deviance and perversion” is described as “disappointing and confusing”]

“Feet First: Berkeley Tribe,” The Ladder, Feb. 1970, 37. [summary of Nov. Berkeley Tribe article about SFSC student Gary Weinberg]

“Homophile News Fronts,” Vector, Feb. 1970, 6. [news item about California Federation of Teachers gay resolution, with reference to SF State faculty member Morgan Pinney]

Classified advertisement, “Gay Liberation Meets,” Phoenix, 5 Mar. 1970, 8. [classified advertisement for Gay Liberation Front meeting on campus in BSS building]

Advertisement, El Rey Theater, Phoenix, 5 Mar. 1970, 3. [film showings include Kubrick’s Lolita]

Advertisement, “My Own,” Phoenix, 5 Mar. 1970, 3. [“hygienic deodorant spray for the outer vaginal area”]

Advertisement, “Beauty Is How You Feel” Tampax advertisement, Phoenix, 5 Mar. 1970, 6. [Tampax tampons “take that mopey feeling out of your mouth"]

Advertisement, “The Rolling Stones in Jean Luc Godard’s 1+1 The Unaltered Version of Sympathy for the Devil,” Phoenix, 5 Mar. 1970, 8. [advertisement for avant-garde Godard /Rolling Stones movie playing at the Palace Theater; film known to include shots of pornographic bookstore]

Classified advertisement, “Gay Liberation Meets,” Phoenix, 5 Mar. 1970, 8. [classified advertisement for Gay Liberation Front meeting on campus in BSS building]

Marlene Dixon, “The Restless Eagles: Women’s Liberation 1970,” Daily Gater (Alt), 5-6 Mar. 1970, 4, 5. [article providing an overview of the historical context for the recent formation of women’s liberation in the United States, a movement described as “far more militant than the moderate and matronly National Organization for Women (founded by Betty Friedan)”; mentions the 1950s as a decade during which “feminism became nonexistent” and when it was believed that “a woman’s brains are between her legs”]

Announcement, “All Day Women’s Arts & Crafts & Photo Exhibits,” Daily Gater (Alt), 5-6 Mar. 1970, 4. [announcement of an all-day fair of “Women’s Arts & Crafts & Photo Exhibits” that includes discussion of “Women and Sexuality”]

Announcement, “Today At State,” Daily Gater (Alt), 10 Mar. 1970, 1. [listing of campus activities, including meeting of Gay Liberation Front on 13 Mar.]

Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of Housework,” Daily Gater (Alt), 10 Mar. 1970, 3. [article about the political need within women’s liberation to shift the responsibility of housework from women to men; mentions that the phrase “liberated women” signals “sex without marriage, sex before marriage...and the self-content of knowing you’re not the kind of man who wants a doormat instead of a woman”]

Paul Avery, “Growth of Smut in S.F.—Bitter Charges at Hearing,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 1970, 2. [James Mitchell, elsewhere described as SFSC student and porn movie theater owner, plans to film the hearings of the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography for use in a future sex movie]

“HELLO,” Phoenix, 12 Mar. 1970, 1. [asks “what does the average female female really think about those zealots in the Women’s Liberation movement?” and says that Phoenix reporter Tony Rogers now speaks for the “female female,” whom he names “Jane Bellows”]

Advertisement, The Damned (dir. Visconti), Phoenix, 12 Mar. 1970, 4. [advertisement for X-rated film featuring image of a burlesque dancer with caption “He was soon to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany"]

Tony Rogers, “Revolutionaries in Skirts: Women’s Lib,” Phoenix, 12 Mar. 1970, 6. [article mentioning new women’s liberation movement on campus and its rally to commemorate International Women’s Day; Rogers attended rally as fictitious “Jane Bellows” and mentions oppression of women and abortion rights]

Pat Mainardi, “Politics of Housework Part Two,” Daily Gater (Alt), 13 Mar. 1970, 1. [second part of the 10 Mar. article examining the role that housework plays within women’s liberation; mentions women playing “top wolf” by “bringing up the sex life of spiders. He fucks her. She bites his head off.”]

Charles P. Thorp, “An Army of Lovers,” Daily Gater (Alt), 13 Mar. 1970, 1. [article by Charles P. Thorp announcing first Gay Liberation Front meeting at SF State, scheduled for 13 Mar.; “San Francisco State can not sit on the chests of Gay students anymore unless it wants its balls bitten off”; “AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN NOT LOSE. Show your love and be there. Seize the time!”]

Announcement, “Today At State,” Daily Gater (Alt), 13 Mar. 1970, 1. [listing of campus activities, including meeting of “Gay Liberation Front” on 13 Mar.]

“Social Calendar,” San Francisco Examiner (“Women Today”), 15 Mar. 1970, 16. [short reference to karate demonstration by Gail Stassinos, referenced in another article as SFSC student and NOW activist]

Advertisement, “My Own,” Phoenix, 19 Mar. 1970, 3. [“hygienic deodorant spray for the outer vaginal area”]

Pat McDowell, “‘Zodiac Cookbook’- Recipes by the Stars,” Phoenix, 19 Mar. 1970, 8. [cookbook that gives “sex life” of all twelve Zodiac signs plus recipes written by Greg and Beverly Frazier (Greg identified as SF State graduate student in broadcasting); authors working on new book Love, Aphrodisiac Cookery, soon to be published by SF’s Troubador Press]

Advertisement, MASH (dir. Altman), Phoenix, 19 Mar. 1970, 9. [MASH is a film commonly known for its overt sex comedy, including a diagnosis of “latent homosexuality”]

“Gay Liberation Front Formed,” Phoenix, 19 Mar. 1970, 10. [new Gay Liberation Front group at SF State wants official Associated Students recognition, even though “recognition of a GLF chapter at San Jose State College was denied last semester”; Charles Thorp identified as “chief organizer”]

Ann Lefler, “Getting It Together,” Daily Gater (Alt), 19-20 Mar. 1970, 3. [article summarizing a talk about women’s liberation “delivered to the Women’s Caucus of the Radical Sociology Convention in San Francisco”; talk mentioned that men see women “as sexual objects, embodiments of cunt or castration or the cosmos”]

Nicholas Caldarro, “Yankee Ethology,” Daily Gater (Alt), 19-20 Mar. 1970, 9. [article discussing the “cultural orientation” of zoologist Desmond Morris as seen in his popular book The Naked Ape; The Naked Ape is identified elsewhere as a book that includes frank discussion of human sexuality and it would become subject to censorship efforts]

"Satanis,” Daily Gater (Alt), 19-20 Mar. 1970, 11. [review of Satanis, the Devil’s Mass, described as a film about Anton LaVey and his Church of Satan; mentions that “women, some of them pushing 30 and 40 dig to sit naked on the altar, beating time to the tempo of the hellish service” and that LaVey preaches “a complete embrace of the pleasures of the flesh”]

Cartoon of Nude Man and Woman, Daily Gater (Alt), 19-20 Mar. 1970, 11. [sketch of a bearded bespectacled man with an erect penis lying next to a headless woman who features prominent pubic hair and labia]

Maitland Zane, “Theater Men Speak Up: Seized Film Still Shown,” San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 1970, 5. [article on arrest of SFSC student James Mitchell for allegedly showing obscene films at the O’Farrell Theater]

Konstantin Berlandt, “Cheek to Cheek,” Berkeley Tribe, 27 Mar. 1970, 10. [article on arrests of gay men at Berkeley, with comments by SF State student Charles Thorp]

Arthur A. Berger, “The ‘Living Dolls’ Are Taking Over,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 Mar. 1970, TW18. [article by Arthur Berger, SFSC social science professor, about new children’s dolls]

C.F. [Carole Friedman], “California Teachers Union Adopts Homosexual Resolution,” Homophile Action League Newsletter, Mar. 1970, 4-5. [article on California Federation of Teachers gay rights resolution proposed by SFSC faculty member and gay activist Morgan Pinney]

“Firemen vs. Gays,” Gay Power (1.12), c. Mar. 1970, 21. [article about American Federation of Teachers local at SFSC and conflict about its participation in gay liberation protest]

“Teachers Favor Freedom for Gays,” The Advocate, Mar. 1970, 10. [article on California Federation of Teachers adoption of gay rights resolution, with references to SF State professor Morgan Pinney and SF State AFT Local 1352]

“SIR Picks New Chairmen,” The Advocate, Mar. 1970, 12. [article on new officers for SF-based Society for Individual Rights, including SF State faculty member Lois Flynn]

“‘Loon’ to Premiere,” The Advocate, Mar. 1970, 13. [article on film premier of Song of the Loon, based on novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

“Loon to Arrive,” The Advocate, Apr. 1970, 15. [photographs and caption about upcoming premier of Song of the Loon, based on novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, The Advocate, Apr. 1970, 20. [advertisement for world premier of Song of the Loon, film based on novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Lyn Pederson, “Books: Amory’s Latest,” The Advocate, Apr. 1970, 32. [review of new novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Ellen Willis, "Are You Listening, Dr. Marcuse?,” Daily Gater (Alt), 2 Apr. 1970, 2. [article discussing philosopher Herbert Marcuse’s “consumerism theory” and how, in the view of the writer, this “theory is fallacious” when looked at with the lens of women’s liberation; mentions the “sexual subordination of women to men” and that “most of the ‘consuming’ that women do is actually labor” accomplished to fulfill women’s “sexual obligations”]

Advertisement, The Rolling Stones in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1+1 (Sympathy for the Devil) (dir. Godard), Daily Gater (Alt), 2 Apr. 1970, 2.

Announcement, “Midnight Films,” Daily Gater (Alt), 2 Apr. 1970, 3. [announcement of the “Midnight Films” showings of the following films: Unfolding, described as an “infamous intercourse exercise” by Constance Beeson; Mate Gaem & How to Seduce a Man, described as an “erotic fantasy of the lost generation” by Jeremy Paul Kagen; Bride Stripped Bare, described as “Rape Art by Tom Palazzalo”; Apple, Knockers and Coke and What the Frenchman Saw, all three films described as “early girlies”; and Hot Voodoo, described as an “erotic dance by Marlene Dietrich”]

Advertisement, Haxan (dir. Benjamin Christensen), Daily Gater (Alt), 2 Apr. 1970, 3. [advertisement for showing of Haxan, a film “made in Scandanavia in 1922” and described as featuring “nightmarish violence and eroticism” and “filled with details of witchcraft”]

Nancy Dyer, “Oedipus Rex,” Daily Gater (Alt), 2 Apr. 1970, 4. [review of the American Conservatory Theater production of Sophocles’s play Oedipus Rex; review describes the character Jocasta as “more of a flirtatious whore” than” a “devoted, queen wife”]

Carol Orlach, “The Forgotten Feminine,” Daily Gater (Alt), 2 Apr. 1970, 4. [poem with lines “I fling myself into your grove, nakedly” and “she-naked She”]

Don Jackson, “Sieze [sic] the Cans!!” Berkeley Barb, 3 Apr. 1970, 5. [article on struggle for official recognition of SFSC’s Gay Liberation Front]

“‘Seductio Ad Absurdum’ at S.F. State,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 1970, 31. [announcement about two SFSC Drama Department plays about seduction, one by Machiavelli and one by Oscar Wilde]

Tony Rogers, “UP FRONT: Sex and the Single Girl,” Phoenix, 9 Apr. 1970, 2. [column mentioning that it is “typical” that “co-eds” are propositioned only a few times by male students during their time at SF State and that men are reluctant to proposition women because the man “does all the work” in the sex act for a mere “five second orgasm”]

Lydia Tolmacheff, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 9 Apr. 1970, 2. [letter criticizing Tony Rogers's characterization of women’s liberation as too “radical” for “good, decent” people in his 12 Mar. article]

“Perspectives,” Phoenix, 9 Apr. 1970, 6. [national news briefs includes story of how students at the College of William and Mary told a U.S. district court judge in Norfolk that the “rule against boy-girl mixing” in dorms was regularly “ignored” and two students have been suspended by their college for ignoring this rule]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 9 Apr. 1970, 10.

Arthur Kaput, “The Closet in the Classroom,” GAY, 13 Apr. 1970, 7, 20. [article with a few paragraphs on California Federation of Teachers gay rights resolution proposed by SFSC faculty member and gay activist Morgan Pinney]

W.I.T.C.H., “The Witch Manifesto,” Daily Gater (Alt), 13-17 Apr. 1970, 6. [manifesto from the “Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell” (W.I.T.C.H.) “from New York” that mentions that witches are pledged to free “our brothers... from oppression and stereotyped sexual roles”]

Tony Rogers, “UP FRONT: After the Revolution…,” Phoenix, 17 Apr. 1970, 2. [Rogers responding to what he deems the “harsh” criticism by fellow students of his 12 Mar. article on women’s liberation, which a “girl who is active” in the women’s movement was quoted as calling “simply horrible”]

Advertisement, “My Own," Phoenix, 17 Apr. 1970, 2. [“hygienic deodorant spray for the outer vaginal area”]

Katherine Higgins, “Architect Seeks Student Ideas for Union Plan,” Phoenix, 17 Apr. 1970, 3. [interview with proposed architect for the student union building, Paffard Keatinge Clay, who was quoted as saying that the new building should be a “place for lovers” where the interactions of “two people” who are “very much in love” should be “respected without any embarrassment”]

Advertisement, El Rey Theater movie showings, Phoenix, 17 Apr. 1970, 8. [screening of X-rated Academy Award-winning Midnight Cowboy, film depicting sex, rape, homosexuality, and gay prostitution]

Hal Schaefer, “After Nightfall,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 1970, 34. [brief reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere described as SFSC student, at El Cid]

Listing for El Cid, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 19 Apr. 1970, 258. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere described as SFSC student]

Advertisement for El Cid, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 1970, 44. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elslewhere described as SFSC student]

Lynn Ellen O’Connor and Nicholo Leo Caldararo, “Ecology and Population 1970: The Behavioral Sink,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22-25 Apr. 1970, 1, 2, 4. [article discussing the “origins and significance of over-population"; mentions the “sexual behavior” of chimpanzees as a model for thinking about human “over-population”]

Announcement, “V.D.,” Daily Gater (Alt), 22-25 Apr. 1970, 3. [announcement of a report from the “Northern California Pharmaceutical Assoc.” that supports the “use of soap and water and immediate urination” to “protect from gonorrhea”; mentions the symptoms of gonorrhea infection and says that “if you are in doubt, go to the Student Health Center” if you are a SF State student]

Margaret Allen, Donna Parten, Dave Halpin, Sara Pitta, N. Schabert, T. Ung, and Judy Syfus, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 23 Apr. 1970, 2. [letter about the recent 16 Apr. “rap” at SF State by Dick Gregory in which he used “overtly sexist” language, according to Independent Campus Women, repeatedly referring to women  with “sexual terms” such as “whore, bitch, broad, old lady, mama, and nookie”]

Announcement, film showing of Jules et Jim, Phoenix, 23 Apr. 1970, 5. [University of California, San Francisco, Friday Night Film Series showing of Truffaut film commonly known to feature a sexual triangle and male-female sexual interactions]

Advertisement, Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell), Phoenix, 23 Apr. 1970, 7. [film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence novel; “The relationship between sensual people is limited. They must find a new way”]

“Perspectives,” Phoenix, 23 Apr. 1970, 10. [state news briefs, reporting that Student Health Center at California State University, Fullerton, was “instructed to stop handling birth control problems”; San Francisco City Assemblyman Willie Brown gave speech in Sacramento and was quoted as saying, “outdated laws regarding sexual behavior must be changed”; women’s liberation group disrupted “shortest skirt on campus” contest at San Diego State College]

Listing for El Cid, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 26 Apr. 1970, 245. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere described as SFSC student]

“L.A. Times Gives In; ‘Homosexual’ in Ads,” The Advocate, 29 Apr. 1970, 5. [article about LA Times’sapparent abandonment of policy against printing the word “homosexual” with publication of advertisement for Song of the Loon, based on novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

“‘Loon Fails to Fly in Tame Film Version,” The Advocate, 29 Apr. 1970, 19, 20. [critical review of film version of Song of the Loon, based on novel by SF State alum]

“Mothers Threaten ‘Child-In,’” Phoenix, 30 Apr. 1970, 1. [article describing how members of Independent Campus Women threatened SF State President S.I. Hayakawa with a “child-in” if a child care center was not set up on campus; Hayakawa then pledged his support for creating one]

“VD Hurts Everyone, Speaker Explains,” Phoenix, 30 Apr. 1970, 5. [article describing a lecture about venereal disease delivered on campus by James Ash, identified as the “communicable disease investigator for the [San Francisco] public health clinic”]

Pat McDowell, “Peeping Toms Might Learn a Lesson,” Phoenix, 30 Apr. 1970, 5. [article that says that “Peeping Toms” have been “doing their thing” on campus, “not at the residence halls or Women's Gym” but with the recent window display of science posters in the Interdisciplinary Science Department]

Advertisement, Satyricon (dir. Fellini), Phoenix, 30 Apr. 1970, 10. [advertisement for Federico Fellini’s Satyricon, identified elsewhere as film based on classical Roman text by Petronius which depicts same-sex sex in ancient Rome, including a tryst involving a catamite named Giton]

Advertisement, “My Own," Phoenix, 30 Apr. 1970, 10. [“hygienic deodorant spray for the outer vaginal area”]

“California Teachers’ Union Adopts Homosexual Resolution,” The Ladder, Apr. 1970, 31-32. [article on California Federation of Teachers gay rights resolution proposed by SFSC faculty member and gay activist Morgan Pinney]

“Teachers Back Homosexual Freedom,” ONE Letter, Apr. 1970, 8. [article on California Federation of Teachers gay rights resolution proposed by SFSC faculty member and gay activist Morgan Pinney]

Don Jackson, “National Student Conference,” Gay Power (1.16), c. Apr. 1970, 8. [article about SFSC Gay Liberation Front, Charles Thorpe, and call for national gay liberation student conference]

Don Jackson, “Camp-In Progress Report,” Gay Power (1.16), c. Apr. 1970, 8. [article about SFSC Gay Liberation Front support for gay “camp-in”]

“Gays Threaten S. F. State,” Gay Power (1.19), c. Apr. 1970, 20. [article about SFSC Gay Liberation Front, Charles Thorpe, and efforts to win recognition as student group]

Judith Anderson, “Equality or Protection?” San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 1970, 27. [article on the Equal Rights Amendment, with comments by Joan Jordon of SFSC’s Independent Campus Women]

Listing for El Cid, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 10 May 1970, 230. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere described as SFSC student]

Karen Gaston and Patty Greenfield, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 11 May 1970, 2. [letter defending Dick Gregory from charges of sexism levied in 23 Apr. letter to the editor from Independent Campus Women, saying that Gregory “upgraded black women” and asserting that “there’s no separate black struggle, women’s struggle or student struggle”]

Carol Cody, “Contraceptives Create Campus Controversy,” Phoenix, 11 May 1970, 5. [article on use of contraceptives on campus, including “the Pill,” and claiming that a “recent scare surrounding the use of oral contraceptives… aroused some soul searching” among SF State males; quotes Student Health Center director Eugene Bossi and Evelyn Ballard]

“Homosexual Authors To Speak,” Phoenix, 11 May 1970, 6. [notice that “two prominent authors of fiction in the homosexual world,” Richard Amory and Dirk Vanden, will speak on campus about exploitation of homosexual authors by straight publishers]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 11 May 1970, 10.

"Correction," Phoenix, 14 May 1970, 2. [correction of 11 May announcement of campus lecture by two “authors of homosexual fiction”]

“Sexists Invade Cambodia,” Daily Gater (Alt), 13-15 May 1970, 3. [article connecting the impetus behind the recent invasion of Cambodia with the oppression of women; mentions that men have described women’s liberation activists as “castrating, un-feminine, lazy, stupid, and emotionally sick” and that “young and beautiful” women have had to “pretend that we might go to bed with the boss” to keep their jobs]

Advertisement, The Milky Way (dir. Luis Bunuel), Daily Gater (Alt), 13-15 May 1970, 7. [Bunuel film that is identified elsewhere as a story about the activities of a secret sexual sect of Catholicism called Priscillianism]

“Midnight Films,” Daily Gater (Alt), 13 May 1970, 7. [announcement of “Midnight Films” showings of Noviciat, described as “a Noel Burch peep at a women’s karate school – very lesbo,” and Voodoo, described as a documentation of “a bizarre love ritual” by Kevin Duffy]

SDS Women’s Liberation Committee, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 May 1970, 2. [letter from the Students for a Democratic Society’s Women’s Liberation Committee announcing that it will “oppose an alliance” with S.I. Hayakawa regarding the childcare center; references the “child-in” mentioned in 30 Apr. article; also mentions that the 23 Apr. letter to the editor from Independent Campus Womens was seen as racist by black women and the Committee accuses Independent Campus Women of not “taking a stand on racism”]

Advertisement, Playtex, Phoenix, 14 May 1970, 2.

Advertisement, “The New Book by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich,” Phoenix, 14 May 1970, 6. [advertisement for new book Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich; book is identified elsewhere as having chapter titles such as “Birth Control” (chapter nine) and “Family Planning” (chapter ten)]

Advertisement, “My Own," Phoenix, 14 May 1970, 8. [“hygienic deodorant spray for the outer vaginal area”]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 1970, 46. [advertisement for film based on homoerotic novel by Richard Amory, elsewhere described as SFSC alum]

Tony Rogers, “UP FRONT: Rebutting the Rebuttal,” Phoenix, 21 May 1970, 2. [column featuring a section about controversial budget request from faculty of Home Economics Department; mentions the claim of a “Home Ec teacher” that the “Randolph Street area” in San Francisco is considered a place where men encourage “young girls to become prostitutes”]

Independent Campus Women, letters to the editor, Phoenix, 21 May 1970, 2. [two letters by Independent Campus Women responding to the issues raised by the SDS Women’s Liberation Committee letter to the editor from 14 May]

Helen Sierra, “Gender Problem Stops a Broadcaster,” Phoenix, 21 May 1970, 4. [feature on Sue Blumenberg, identified as a Broadcasting Communications Arts student at SF State, who was fired from broadcaster KDFC because of an alleged violation of “a federal regulation which requires separate washrooms for men and women”]

Advertisement, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (dir. Paul Mazurksy), Phoenix, 21 May 1970, 5. [advertisement for a film commonly known to feature mate-sharing and a sexual foursome]

Advertisement, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (dir. Leonard J. Horn), Phoenix, 21 May 1970, 7. [advertisement for X-rated film commonly known to portray a young college student’s foray into an explicit whirlwind of sex and drugs]

Listing for El Cid, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 24 May 1970, 243. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere described as SFSC student]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 1970, 51. [advertisement for film based on homoerotic novel by Richard Amory, elsewhere described as SFSC alum]

Nicholas Pasquariello, “At the Ensemble...,” Daily Gater (Alt), 27 May 1970, 6. [review of “two short plays” written by Leonard Horowitz, Interrogation and The Mayor of San Diego, produced by the Ensemble Theater at Playland in San Francisco; The Mayor of San Diego is described as being about a “mayor of San Diego” who “is attempting to bribe” the man who impregnated his daughter to “plead forcible rape”]

Carol Corville, “Women in Love,” Daily Gater (Alt), 27 May 1970, 6. [review of the play Women in Love, described as an adaptation of the novel by D.H. Lawrence; mentions a scene in the play in which the characters were “wrestling naked on a bearskin rug before an amber flickering fire”]

“Midnight Films,” Daily Gater (Alt), 27 May 1970, 6. [announcement of “Midnight Films” showing of Bessie Smith, described as “Chas. Levine’s autopsy of sinner’s tragic death”]

“Books or Pygmalian Tails,” Daily Gater (Alt), 27 May 1970, 7. [review of several books, including “coffee table” book version of Fellini film Satyricon, and review of Groupie by Johnny Byrne and Jenny Fabian, described as “sex-rock odyssey of all the bed scenes Katie’s made with all the rock men” and a “teeny bopper’s horny tale”]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 1970, 44. [advertisement for film based on homoerotic novel by Richard Amory, elsewhere described as SFSC alum]

“State Prof’s Work: Anti-War Play Opens in N.Y.,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 June 1970, 39. [review of antiwar play featuring nude woman by SFSC professor Dan Gerould]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 1970, 53. [advertisement for film based on homoerotic novel by Richard Amory, elsewhere described as SFSC alum]

Arthur A. Berger, “A Study of ‘Li’l Abner—Or How to Read Comics,” San Francisco Examiner, 7 June 1970, 179. [brief reference to phallic symbol in comic strip in article by SF State faculty member]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 1970, 51. [advertisement for film based on homoerotic novel by Richard Amory, elsewhere described as SFSC alum]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 1970, 50. [advertisement for film based on homoerotic novel by Richard Amory, elsewhere described as SFSC alum]

“Mary Davis Wed,” San Francisco Chronicle, 19 June 1970, 26. [wedding announcement featuring an SFSC alum]

“Come Out!” Berkeley Tribe, 19 June 1970, 27. [announcement of gay liberation camp-in at Sequoia National Park, with reference to SF State student Charles Thorpe]

“Gay Lib Takes Hold in San Jose,” Vector, June 1970, 11. [article about gay liberation in San Jose, with reference to recent Gay Liberation Front workshop at SFSC ecology fair]

“Richard Amory Interview,” Vector, June 1970, 28-33. [article about SFSC alum and gay novelist Richard Amory, author of Song of the Loon, homoerotic novel featuring white and Native American characters]

“S.F. State Group Gets Official Approval,” Vector, June 1970, 35. [article about official recognition of Continuum, group for gay people and people of “all sexual persuasions”]

July-December 1970

Nicholas Pasquariello, “Current Cinema,” Daily Gater (Alt), 2-8 July 1970, 2. [film review of The Exotic World of Alex De Renzy, described as a “porn or film erotica” about a “black dude” and “his Lawrensian white chick whose whole being revolves around balling” and “becomes herself one of the phallic symbols”]

Advertisement, Two or Three Things I Know About Her (dir. Godard), Daily Gater (Alt), 2-8 July 1970, 2. [Godard film that is identified elsewhere as a story about a married mother of two children who works as a prostitute]

Classified advertisement, “Counseling,” Daily Gater (Alt), 2-8 July 1970, 3. [“Uptight? Learn to Relax with Behavior Modification Techniques - - Help with Communication & Sexual Problems”]

Listing for El Cid, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 5 July 1970, 195. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere described as SFSC student]

Charles P. Thorp, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 8 July 1970, 19. [response to previous Advocate editorial by chairman of Gay Liberation Front at SF State]

“Midnight Films,” Daily Gater (Alt), 23 July 1970, 4. [announcement of “Midnight Films” showings of Hot Voodooand Tropical Heatwave, described as productions “by the Cockettes on stage”]

Dirk Vanden, “Now Is the Time, the Walrus Said, to Speak of Many Things,” Vector, July 1970, 10-11, 40. [reponse to interview with SFSC alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

Richard Amory, “Song of the Loon Becomes a ‘Looney Tune,’” Vector, July 1970, 29, 26. [article by SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory, featuring criticisms of film based on his novel]

“July Calendar,” Vector, July 1970, 44. [short calendar listing about public forum on “The Gay Novel” with SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

Advertisement, “Hollywood Babylon,” Daily Gater (Alt), 12 Aug. 1970, 2. [advertisement for Hollywood Babylon,described as “stage and screen extravaganza at the Palace Theater” starring the Cockettes]

Melinda, “The Foibles of Men or A Scary Tale,” Daily Gater (Alt), 12-14 Aug. 1970, 2. [story about a woman’s reaction to a man who cheats on her (“nymphomania”) with a “moral” at its conclusion: “a cunt in the hand will squish, but a bitch with a mind will really sock it to you. Wham!”]

Advertising, “Interesting Women’s Liberation Mag,” Daily Gater (Alt), 12-14 Aug. 1970, 4. [advertisement for the magazine Notes from the Second Year: Major Writings of the Radical Feminists; magazine features writings such as “’Politics of Housework,’ ‘Consumerism,’ and ‘The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm’”]

“Gay Student Confab Called,” Los Angeles Advocate, 19 Aug. 1970, 12. [article on upcoming National Student Gay Liberation Front conference, organized by SFSC GLF and its founder Charles P. Thorpe]

Larry Townsend, “Plight of Gay Novelists: Who Gauges Market Correctly, Publishers or Writers?” Los Angeles Advocate, 19 Aug. 1970, 19. [article on Society for Individual Rights symposium on gay novels, with SF State alum Richard Amory as panelist]

Cecile, “Since I Am One of the Many White Women in Berkeley with ‘Brown’ Children…,” It Ain’t Me Babe, 21 Aug. 1970, 14. [article on former SFSC white student who had a child with a black man]

“Homosexual Call for Militancy,” San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Aug. 1970, 5. [article on National Student Gay Liberation Front conference and speech by SFSC student Charles P. Thorpe]

Leo Laurence, “Strait Gays Badrap Blacks,” Berkeley Barb, 28 Aug. 1970, 9. [passing reference to SFSC Gay Liberation Front chairman Charles Thorp/Thorpe and his effort to organize gay students nationally]

Advertisement, Performance (dir. Nicholas Roeg), Daily Gater (Alt), 30 Aug. 1970, 3. [X-rated film starring Mick Jagger]

“National News Shorts,” Gay Liberator, Aug. 1970, 3. [brief reference to GLF at SFSC]

“Around the Movement,” New York Mattachine Times, Aug. 1970, 11. [brief reference to SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

“Gay Lib.: Proposed Conference Schedule,” Vector, Aug. 1970, 41. [schedule for and article on SFSC and National Students Gay Liberation Front conference]

Charles P. Thorp, letter to the editor, Vector, Aug. 1970, 9. [letter by SFSC activist Charles Thorp about coverage of Continuum v. GLF at SFSC]

Drawing of a Car on a Woman’s Right Breast, Golden Gater (Alt), 1 Sept. 1970, 8. [sketch of a car on the nipple of a woman’s right breast]

Advertisement, “Women’s History Research Center, Inc.,” Golden Gater (Alt), 1 Sept. 1970, 9. [advertisement for a “research, lending, corresponding, and selling library of women’s literature” located in Berkeley, California]

Announcement, “Student Government: What's It Good For?,” Golden Gater (Alt), 1 Sept. 1970, 9. [listing of various functions of student government at SF State, including “Birth Control Counseling” and “Abortion Counseling”]

“No Support for Thorpe ‘Violence’ Speech, Kight Says,” Los Angeles Advocate, 16 Sept. 1970, 2. [article on responses to speech by SFSC student Charles Thorpe at National Student Gay Liberation Conference]

“Larry Schramm Wins!” Los Angeles Advocate, 16 Sept. 1970, 1, 2, 3. [article on Groovy Guy competition, with brief references to gay novelist Richard Amory]

Rob Cole, “Radicals’ Dilemma: The Leftists They Woo Call Them ‘Faggots,’” Los Angeles Advocate, 16 Sept. 1970, 12. [article on anti-gay comments by leftists, with references to Charles Thorpe, founder of Gay Liberation Front at SF State]

Tony Rogers, “UP FRONT: The Seduction of SF State,” Phoenix, 24 Sept. 1970, 2. [column describing SF State as a “tired old whore” pining for the 1960s when she was “younger and full of life”; Rogers describes himself as he “mounted her for the last time,” with not even a “good ending” for him as she belches out that there are now courses designated “for women only”]

“Child Care Needed,” Phoenix, 24 Sept. 1970, 2. [editorial announcing newspaper support for the proposed childcare center on campus, something that is “much overdue” and “revolutionary in concept” as “no other college has such a program”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 24 Sept. 1970, 2. [question about whether SF State has created a “special program” dealing with contraceptives and “VD treatment,” to which Eugene Bossi answers in the affirmative]

“Operation Nude,” Phoenix, 24 Sept. 1970, 2. [national news briefs includes story about a vigilante group of “housewives” in Houston, Texas, called “Operation Nude,” which tried to catch a male “unclothed bellringer” and demanded of the police a “nude lineup”]

“Religious Rap,” Phoenix, 24 Sept. 1970, 3. [article announcing that Jerry Pedersen of the SF State Ecumenical House plans to host discussions about contemporary issues, including a “put-down” session on St. Paul due to his “chauvinistic attitudes towards women”]

Advertisement, Orpheum Theater advertisement for Hair, Phoenix, 24 Sept. 1970, 4. [advertisement for Orpheum Theater’s new production of Hair, the “American Tribal Love Rock Musical”]

Advertisement, “Bratskellar Fall Fest,” Phoenix, 24 Sept. 1970, 7. [mentions that readers should “get some young maidens and hit the fest” at Ghirardelli Square]

Richard Amory, “Poems,” Vector, Sept. 1970, 34. [poems by SFSC alum Richard Amory]

Tom Kaufman, letter to the editor, Vector, Sept. 1970, 9, 45. [letter about SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

“Around the Movement,” Gay Scene, Sept. 1970, 19. [brief reference to SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

Charles P. Thorp, “I. D., Leadership and Violence,” San Francisco Gay Free Press (2.11), c. Sept. 1970, 4, 5, 12. [speech by Thorp at national gay student liberation conference]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Vasectomy- Does It Hurt?,” Phoenix, 1 Oct. 1970, 2. [question about the cost of a vasectomy as well as the pain vasectomy surgery may involve]

Tanya Key, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 1 Oct. 1970, 2. [letter criticizing Tony Rogers's “contemptible” use of the analogy of SF State as a sex worker in his 24 Sept. column, accusing Rogers of “impotency” and inability to achieve “educational orgasm"]

“Photo of the Week,” Phoenix, 1 Oct. 1970, 2. [photograph of a couple engaged in intimate acts at SF State, kissing on top of tree located in one of the campus quads]

Advertisement, The Baby Maker (dir. James Bridges), Phoenix, 1 Oct. 1970, 3. [film identified elsewhere as a story about a young “flower child” woman who is hired by a more sexually conservative couple to carry their baby to term]

Announcement, film showing of Thank You Masked Man, Phoenix, 1 Oct. 1970, 3. [announcement of a showing of an animated short film that has a soundtrack by Lenny Bruce; film is commonly known to involve male prison sexuality and criticism of homophobia]

Advertisement, Norforms vaginal deodorant, Phoenix, 1 Oct. 1970, 3.

“People on Campus,” Phoenix, 1 Oct. 1970, 8. [article about students on campus, including a profile of Debbie Chlosta, identified as leader of Campus Child Care Coalition, and a profile of Debbie Bleiweiss, identified as performer who will star as a “lady of the night” in the upcoming production of Cabaret at SF State]

“5^th Suspect Seized Here in Coed Rape Case,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 1970, 25. [news report on capture of Clemet G. Kamelemela, one of five men accused of raping a SFSC student]

“HELLO…,” Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 1. [lists an article about “Women’s Liberation” and mentions the possibility of “Male and Female fighting one another in the streets”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Did My Friend Poison Me?,” Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 2. [one question mentions a person being “playfully bitten” by “my girl friend” and another question asks about the safety of the “suction abortion” method]

Sylvia Courtney, letter to the editor “Childcare,” Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 2. [letter responding to 1 Oct. article “People on Campus” that corrects the article’s wording of the intentions of Independent Campus Women regarding the recent proposal of a child care center on campus]

Selzer, “Hardhat Haikus,” Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 3. [satirical poem written from point of view of conservative parent of son whose “hair is long”; references “queer commie hippies”]

Advertisement, Abortion Information advertisement, Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 3. [pro-abortion rights advertisement from National Abortion Council for Therapeutic Abortions and Family Planning that lists California state laws regarding parental consent and abortions]

Advertisement, Jade East advertisement, Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 3. [advertisement for Jade East aftershave that implies an increase in one’s sexual attraction as an effect of use of this product]

Loretta Manill, “Women’s Liberation: Human Image Wanted,” Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 3,8. [article about women’s liberation at SF State, including interview with Debbie Chlosta, Nina Hamburg, and Maria von Bolschwing; mentions straight male pushback, with one man quoted as saying that women’s liberationists are all “repressed females…, dykes who can’t make it with a MAN”]

Advertisement, Diary of a Mad Housewife (dir. Frank Perry), Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 4. [Frank and Eleanor Perry film that one critic says “holds up the unsparing mirror to the New York marriage”]

Announcement, film showing of Knife in the Water, Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 4. [showing of Polanski film that is commonly known to feature the building of sexual tension among three characters]

Classified advertisement, Population Services contraceptive advertisement, Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 6.

Advertisement, “Colt 45 Liquor,” Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 7. [advertisement features photograph of man with scantily-clad female with caption “Colt 45 Malt liquor introduces the adult game for game adults, the new Bottoms Up game”]

Advertisement, Playtex, Phoenix, 8 Oct. 1970, 8.

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Ouch! It Still Hurts,” Phoenix, 15 Oct. 1970, 2. [question from person concerned about whether constant sexual activity causes “tiredness”]

Benedict Lush, “Film Students Are Festival Winners,” Phoenix, 15 Oct. 1970, 4. [article mentioning a student film created by Dick Kortz called A Quickie, described as a “social-sexual satire"; another student film from Steve Howe called Anima. is described as a “visual exploration of the male sexual alter ego”]

Advertisement, “Diamond Sutra Restaurant,” Phoenix, 15 Oct. 1970, 5. [advertisement mentions that this restaurant serves “Tantric cuisine”]

“Activities Fair Brightens Campus for Three Days,” Phoenix, 22 Oct. 1970, 1. [article mentions SF State Gay Liberation Front at Activities Fair alongside Students for a Democratic Society and Progressive Labor Party]

“HELLO…,” Phoenix, 22 Oct. 1970, 1. [listing of article about SF State Gay Liberation Front titled “Members of SF State’s Gay Liberation have announced their new get-tough attitude, See Page 8”]

Keith Shein, “The Virgin,” Phoenix, 22 Oct. 1970, 2. [poem mentions losing one’s virginity]

Advertisement, “Nude Psychotherapy,” Phoenix, 22 Oct. 1970, 3. [advertisement of an upcoming Esalen Institute lecture by a “principal innovator in the field of nude sensitivity training,” Paul Bindrim]

Sharon Asselin, “Fraternity with Girls,” Phoenix, 22 Oct. 1970, 6. [article about Alpha Delta Sigma, described as a “club” rather than a fraternity and the only “campus frat that allows… girls to join"; there is “no time for panty raids for this busy club”]

“Gay Liberation Front State," Phoenix, 22 Oct. 1970, 7. [Charles Thorp is identified as chairman]

Loretta Manill, “Gays to Grow Muscles,” Phoenix, 22 Oct. 1970, 8. [article on Charles Thorp and Betty Kaplowitz, cochairs of the Gay Liberation Front at SFSC]

Dirk Vanden, “Richard Amory Talks to GAY,” GAY, 26 Oct. 1970, 4-5. [article on gay novelist and SFSC alum Richard Amory]

“Court to Test State Sex Laws,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 1970, 9. [reference to Modern Sex Institute, elsewhere identified as staffed by SFSC students, in article about challenge to state sex laws]

“SMC Halloween Anti-War March,” Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 1. [article announcing 31 Oct. protest march that will rally in downtown San Francisco, involve “Gay, labor, and women’s groups”]

Tony Rogers, “UP FRONT: Drop Outs,” Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 2. [column mentions a former “sociology graduate student” who used to be Rogers's “acid dealer” and how this person’s sister now “gets her kicks masturbating on an okie armchair” instead of using “drugs"]

Rod Stewart, “Photo of the Week," Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 2. [photograph of a nude mixed-sex roller derby at SF State]

Sandy Lee, “Chinatown Squeeze: Too Many Kids,” Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 3. [article alleging a lack of knowledge of both birth control and sex education in the Chinatown community; one Chinatown resident quoted as saying, “if my sister hadn’t been so ignorant about sex, she wouldn’t be stuck with a kid”]

Classified advertisement, “Have You Ever Been Propositioned, an ‘A’ for…?…,” Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 5. [advertisement posted by “Richard E. Draper” requesting interviews with students who have been subjected to “arbitrary grading standards," meaning those propositioned by professors who requested sexual favors in return for good grades]

Ted Ferenc, “People on Campus,” Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 6. [profile of student Carol Currie, identified as an actress who will be “playing the part of a loose woman” in the upcoming SF State theatrical production of Cabaret]

Advertisement, Rabbit, Run, Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 6. [advertisement of film adaption of John Updike novel that is commonly known to be about a man running away from the restrictions represented by his marriage]

Advertisement, Diary of a Mad Housewife (dir. Frank Perry), Phoenix, 29 Oct. 1970, 6. [“I, Tina Balser, did not do the laundry today. Did not walk the dog. Did not polish the silver. Today, I, Tina Balser, did…. Something Else!”]

Dennis Altman, “A Young Australian Speaks His Mind about Gay Liberation,” Vector, Oct. 1970, 38-39. [article about National Student Gay Liberation Conference, SFSC, and Charles Thorp]

Letter to the editor “A Tragic Hitch,” Phoenix, 5 Nov. 1970, 2. [letter detailing the pitfalls and dangers of hitchhiking as a woman, including the risk of rape, and mentions that the “highways are littered with chicks”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: How I Got ‘Hot Rocks,’” Phoenix, 5 Nov. 1970, 2. [question about whether continuous sexual intercourse can cause stomach aches]

Advertisement, Trash (dir. Paul Morrissey), Phoenix, 5 Nov. 1970, 4. [Andy Warhol film production commonly known to be about a male prostitute, portrayed by Joe Dallessandro, and his sexual adventures during one day; advertisement includes a reproduction of the film poster, a portrait of half-naked Joe Dallessandro wearing a bandana, that is known as famous gay art; identified elsewhere as starring Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, a trans actress, as Dallessandro’s character’s girlfriend]

Advertisement, Orpheum Theater advertisement for Hair, Phoenix, 5 Nov. 1970, 4.

Advertisement, Esalen Institute lecture “Bio-Energetics,” Phoenix, 5 Nov. 1970, 5. [advertisement for lectures by Alexander Lowen on “Bio-Energetics"; Lowen is mentioned as the author of the books Love and Orgasm and Pleasure]

Advertisement, Playtex, Phoenix, 5 Nov. 1970, 6.

Advertisement, “Topps and Trowsers,” Phoenix, 5 Nov. 1970, 7. [clothing store advertisement that says to “get yourself a piece of the greatest put-on since skin, like liberate your old lady, let her help put it on”]

Charles P. Thorp, “Gay Community House,” Berkeley Tribe, 6 Nov. 1970, 9. [article on efforts to create gay community center, with references to SF State students Charles Thorp and Betty Kaplowitz]

Tony Rogers, “UP FRONT: The Sensuous Woman,” Phoenix, 12 Nov. 1970, 2. [column in which Rogers reviews The Sensuous Woman by “J.," described as “how-to book for female who yearns to be all woman"; book is said to discuss masturbation, orgasm, and use of vibrators but Rogers points out that there is “no mention of lesbian love”]

Advertisement, “Appearing Productions Presents A Headvertisement Job ‘A Mind Healing Event,’” Phoenix, 12 Nov. 1970, 4. [announcement of show at Berkeley Community Theater featuring Captain Beefheart and the Cockettes]

“Personal Counseling Available,” Phoenix, 12 Nov. 1970, 7. [article announcing newly available personal counseling on campus with mention that the “Health Center wants to expand the birth control counseling”]

Advertisement, Bratskellar advertisement, Phoenix, 12 Nov. 1970, 9. [advertisement of Bratskellar as a place for young student couples with an image of a couple with caption  “Don’t fool around too long! Bring this ad… and your date…”]

Advertisement, Trash (dir. Paul Morrissey), Phoenix, 12 Nov. 1970, 9.

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 2. [question about dealing with “an unwanted pregnancy” and asking how to get an abortion]

SDS, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 2. [letter from SDS directed to Tony Rogers regarding what SDS alleges is Rogers's male chauvinism, with Rogers’s columns consistently depicting women as “stupid, unimaginative, dependent on men and motivated primarily by things related to sex”]

Loretta Manill, “Opinion: Staffer Looks at SDS,’” Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 2. [editorial addressing the content in a letter from SDS about Tony Rogers's alleged male chauvinism; Manill asserts that SDS infringed on “freedom of the press” with its recent protest at the  Phoenix newspaper office]

Advertisement, Orpheum Theater musical advertisement Hair, Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 4.

Advertisement, “A Special Course in Tantric Yoga,” Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 5. [advertisement of a course taught by “Yogi Bhajan Master of Kundalini Yoga”]

Advertisement, book advertisement of Up Against the Law: The Legal Rights of People Under 21, Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 5. [advertisement of book by Jean Strouse concerning “school, parents, drugs, sex, the draft” with statement “know your rights"; advertisement mentions that this book is recommended by Melvin L. Wulf of the American Civil Liberties Union]

“PL’s Invade Phoenix Office,” Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 6. [article claiming that the Phoenix newspaper office was “invaded” when a “journalism workshop activity” was “disrupted” by members of the Progressive Labor faction of SDS alongside Women's Liberation; protest was mentioned as being in response to columns by Otto Bos and Tony Rogers that consistently reduced women to sex objects]

Classified advertisement, Population Services contraceptive advertisement, Phoenix, 19 Nov. 1970, 8.

Maitland Zane, “Debate on Pornography,” San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 1970, 40. [article on public forum about pornography, with brief reference to SFSC student and porn movie theater owner James Mitchell]

“Gay Groups Come Together, Sort Of…,” Sisters, Nov. 1970, 7. [article referencing meeting of Bay Area LGBT groups, including GLF at SFSC]

Tom Baldwin, “Separating,” Vector, Nov. 1970, 4, 50. [article by SFSC graduate psychology student about relationship breakups]

“A Teenager Talks about Being Young and Gay,” Vector, Nov. 1970, 39, 43-44. [article on SF State gay student leader Charles Thorp]

Betty Kaplowitz, “Poem for Dorothy,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 2. [poem by Betty Kaplowitz]

Betty Kaplowitz, “Gay Women’s Liberation: The Problem of Priorities,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 3. [Betty Kaplowitz discusses the importance of gay women coming together for the purpose of action, equating gayness with revolution]

“Gay Rap Expanding to Become Gay Community House,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 13. [article announcing founding of Gay Community House]

Charles P. Thorp, “A Faggot’s Semantic Impressions of: Chick, Female, Woman,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 13. [Charles Thorp discusses his "semantic impressions"] 

Charles P. Thorp, “Capt. Cruch(s) Cockettes, or Beefheart Needs a Head Job and Blow Job,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 3. [Charles Thorp reviews a Cockettes and Captain Beefheart concert]

Charles P. Thorp, “I.D., Leadership and Violence,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 4-5, 12. [Charles Thorp discusses gay people as a sexual minority and his thoughts about the necessity of a militant gay liberation]

Charles P. Thorp, “The Night I Heard,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 8-9. [poetry by Charles Thorp]

Beth, “Letter from a Trans-sexual??” and “Our Response,” It Ain’t Me Babe, 1 Dec. 1970, 14. [letter by trans woman Beth Elliot and response by It Ain’t Me Babe; article describes Beth as SFSC student, but Elliot elsewhere indicates that she went to University of San Francisco, not SFSC]

Maitland Zane, “Two Dirty Movie Trials—How the Times Change,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Dec. 1970, 7. [article on obscenity trial of SFSC student James Mitchell]

Maitland Zane, “Two Experts Find Value in Sex Movies,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Dec. 1970, 9. [report on obscenity trial of SFSC student James Mitchell for showing sex films at SF movie theater]

Advertisement, Kama Sutra (dir. Raj Devi), Phoenix, 3 Dec. 1970, 8. [advertisement says that this X-rated film “establishes a new definition of sexual normalcy”]

Tony Rogers, “Sensual Cooking: Satisfy Your Appetite,” Phoenix, 3 Dec. 1970, 4. [review of Greg and Beverly Frazier’s new cookbook Aphrodisiac Cookery; book is mentioned as including recipes for “Phallic Cookies, Asparagus Erectus, and Stud Spuds” as well as “Lingam Sausage in Apple Yoni”]

“‘Cabaret’ Opens Here,” Phoenix, 3 Dec. 1970, 4. [article announcing the new theatrical production at SF State of Cabaret, a musical that is mentioned as providing “an accurate insight into the debauched, head-spinning gaiety of Berlin at the beginning of Hitler’s Nazism”]

Classified advertisements, Berkeley Barb, 4 Dec. 1970, 16. [multiple references to homosexuality, bisexuality, and heterosexuality in roommate ads]

Jerry Belcher, “Smut Escapes ‘Vague’ Law—Foreman,” San Francisco Examiner, 6 Dec. 1970, 9. [report on obscenity trial of SFSC student James Mitchell for showing sex films at SF movie theater]

Maitland Zane, “Three Costly Deadlocks: Skinflicks Perplex Jurors,” San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 1970, 4. [jury deadlocked in obscenity case involving SFSC student James Mitchell]

“San Francisco GLF Affirms Alpine Support,” The Advocate, 9 Dec. 1970, 3. [article on Alpine County Project, with comments by SF State gay liberationist Charles Thorpe]

Annie Wong, “I Run My Naked Toes Over the Soft Fur,” Phoenix, 10 Dec. 1970, 2. [poem about the intimate interactions between a woman and her pussy cat that ends with the line “we come together”]

Announcement, “Movies,” Phoenix, 10 Dec. 1970, 5. [announcement of two upcoming film showings at SF State, one of Godard’s My Life to Live, a film described as “about the life of a prostitute”]

Advertisement, Kama Sutra, Phoenix, 10 Dec. 1970, 8. [advertisement for X-rated adult film Kama Sutra]

“Students and Sex,” Phoenix, 10 Dec. 1970, 12. [announcement from Student Health Center of four upcoming “rap sessions a week dealing with human sexuality”]

Classified advertisements, Berkeley Barb, 11 Dec. 1970, 19. [multiple references to homosexuality, bisexuality, and heterosexuality in roommate ads]

“Funeral Notices,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Dec. 1970, 47. [obituary for SFSC student Jane Semel, elsewhere described as having been found nude and dead with former teacher in sauna]

“Teacher, Coed Die in Sauna,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Dec. 1970, 4. [news report on accidental death by carbon monoxide poisoning of female SFSC student and a married/separated male teacher at the high school she had attended; the victims were found nude in a sauna]

Arthur Berger, “American Pop Culture—Lurid but Innocent,” San Francisco Examiner, 13 Dec. 1970, 185. [review of book on pulp fiction by SF State faculty member]

“Around the West,” San Francisco Examiner, 13 Dec. 1970, TW6. [jury deadlocked in obscenity case involving SFSC student James Mitchell]

“Gay Bar Ruckus, Suspect Is Shot,” San Francisco Examiner, 13 Dec. 1970, B11. [SFSC student Charles Christman shot by police outside the Stud, SF gay bar]

“Pigs Shoot Gay Brother,” Berkeley Tribe, 18 Dec. 1970, 7. [Bay Area gays meeting to discuss responses to police shooting of SFSC student Charles Christman outside the Stud, SF gay bar.]

Nick Benton, “Gay Shooting War Council,” Berkeley Barb, 18 Dec. 1970, 3. [Bay Area gays meeting to discuss responses to police shooting of SFSC student Charles Christman outside the Stud, SF gay bar.]

Nick Benton, “SF Gays Rally Round Wounded Leader,” Berkeley Barb, 25 Dec. 1970, 5. [report on SFS Gay Liberation leader Charles Christman, shot by police and facing multiple counts of assault on police officer for incident outside Folsom Street gay bar]

Michael Grieg, “The Irresistible Water Bed,” San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 1970, 9. [feature story on the waterbed, invented by SFSC alum and waterbed entrepreneur Charles Hall]

Beverly Koch, “The Boom in Women’s Studies,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1970, 16. [article on rise of women’s studies, with brief references to SF State course in which Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics is taught]

“Resolution on Homosexuals by Teachers,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1970, 4. [reference to SFSC accounting professor Morgan Pinney in article reporting on State Teachers’ Union convention debate about producing a booklet on counselling homosexuals]

Alan Jacobs, “Calif. Sex Law Test—Three Judges to Rule,” Vector, Dec. 1970, 28. [article on challenge to California sex laws, with brief reference to Modern Sex Institute, staffed by SFSC students]

Sally Gearhart, “Lesbianism as a Political Statement,” Sisters, Dec. 1970, 2-5. [article by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart on radical lesbian politics]

“Brief Report on the Glide Symposium on the Homosexual,” Sisters, Dec. 1970, 22-23. [report on SF symposium organized by Council on Religion and the Homosexual, with brief reference to SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Dennis Altman, “One Man’s Gay Liberation,” Come Out, Dec. 1970, 20. [article on National Student Gay Liberation Conference, including references to SFSC and SFSC student Charles Thorpe]

Don Collins, “Vector Visits Alpine County,” Vector, Dec. 1970, 18-19. [article on proposal for gay takeover of California’s Alpine County; SF State student Charles Thorp mentioned as an organizer]

Betty Kaplowitz, “Silent Words: A Song,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Dec. 1970. [song by Betty Kaplowitz]

“Exclusive Eyewitness Interviews,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Dec. 1970, 2. [interviews with eyewitnesses to the shooting of Charles Christman at the Stud]

“Pigs Sty-Me Stud,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Dec. 1970, 2. [article about shooting of Charles Christman at the Stud]

“Stud Horse Dead or How We Lost Disneyland,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Dec. 1970, 2.

Don Jackson, “Alpine News Roundup,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Dec. 1970, 3. [article about Alpine Liberation Front project]

Charles P. Thorp, “Editor-Vendor Attacked by Closet,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Dec. 1970, 5. [Charles Thorp discusses his experiences of being attacked while selling the San Francisco Gay Free Press]

Charles P. Thorp, “Power Hot Sex,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Nov. 1970, 15. [stream-of-conciousness verse by Charles Thorp]

Charles P. Thorp, “Trilogy for Brian,” San Francisco Gay Free Press, Dec. 1970, 3. [poetry by Charles Thorp]

January-June 1971

“SF Gays Protest Shooting by Cops,” The Advocate, 6 Jan. 1971, 1. [article on police shooting of SF State student Charles Christman at SF gay bar, with brief reference to SF State student Charles Thorp]

“Family Service Agency to Name Gays to Board,” The Advocate, 6 Jan. 1971, 1, 7. [article on plans to add a lesbian and a gay man to the SF Family Service Agency, with comments by Gay Women’s Liberation leader Sally Gearhart, elsewhere identified as SF State faculty member]

“Mental Health Group Appoints Two Gays,” The Advocate, 6 Jan. 1971, 6. [article on San Francisco Mental Health Association’s plans to name gay people to committee posts, with comments by SF State alum David Kleinberg and SF State faculty member John Newmeyer]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: A Strange Sort of Rash,” The Phoenix, 14 Jan. 1971, 2 [advice column by Eugene Bossi, director of the Student Health Center, with questions and answers about genital rash, masturbation, pelvic exams, and Student Health Service rap sessions on human sexuality]

Romero Cuadra, “Students Study Sexology,” Phoenix, 14 Jan. 1971, 8. [article about “Human Sexology” biology class taught by Bernard Goldstein]

Judith Anderson, “A Bed That Keeps You Going All Night,” San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 1971, 16. [feature on the waterbed, with passing reference to its invention in 1967 by SF State student Charles Prior Hall]

“Shooting Protests Apparently Getting No Response in S.F.,” The Advocate, 20 Jan. 1971, 1, 9. [update on SF State student Charles Christman, accused of assaulting police outside SF gay bar]

Jim Kepner, “Angles on the News: From Hot-Shots to Self-Knowledge,” The Advocate, 20 Jan. 1971, 2, 13. [brief reference to police shooting of SF State student Charles Christman]

“‘Radio Rodeo’—Cockettes Crusade,” Berkeley Barb, 22 Jan. 1971, 11. [article on upcoming dance featuring gay drag performance troupe, fundraiser for SF State student Charles Christman]

“Homosexuals Elected by S.F. Family Service,” San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 1971, 23. [Sally Gearhart, elsewhere identified as SF State faculty member, elected to board of directors of SF Family Service Agency]

Don Collins, “Police Shooting—A Folsom Uproar,” Vector, Jan. 1971, 18-19. [article on police shooting of SF State student Charles Christman outside the Stud, SF gay bar]

“Gays Go Radical,” Sisters, Jan. 1971, 5, reprinted from Christianity Today, Dec. 1970. [article on SF symposium organized by Council on Religion and the Homosexual, with brief reference to Sally Gearhart, elsewhere referenced as SF State faculty member]

“Dean’s Latest Is Incisive Novel of Conflicts,” The Advocate, 3 Feb. 1971, 26. [book review, with passing reference to Richard Amory, elsewhere identified as SF State alum]

Advertisement for the Abortion Information Agency, The Phoenix, 11 Feb. 1971, 3. [advertisement for New York-based abortion agency]

Advertisement for Population Services, Inc., Phoenix, 11 Feb. 1971, 4. [advertisement for North Carolina-based family planning agency, with references to sex, birth control, privacy, and condoms]

Advertisement, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (dir. Elio Petri), Phoenix, 11 Feb. 1971, 6. [film described as “a bizarre and engrossing fantasy saturated with kinky sexuality”]

“Christman's Trial Slated; Funds Raised,” The Advocate, 17 Feb. 1971, 2. [update on trial of SFSC student Charles Christman, accused of assaulting police outside the Stud, SF gay bar]

“Teachers OK Aid to Gays,” The Advocate, 17 Feb. 1971, 6. [reference to former SF State faculty member Morgan Pinney and SF State]

Art Beeghly, “Asia: On a Shoestring,” Phoenix, 18 Feb. 1971, 1,8. [article about a widely publicized tour of Asia intended for an “Adventurous Female," a tour listing that is mentioned as containing “traces of male chauvinism"; article includes cartoon image of a buxom blond young woman following a man decked in safari garb and wielding a machete]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Waterbed—Good for Sex?” Phoenix, 18 Feb. 1971, 2. [advice column with question and answer about waterbeds and sex]

Ben Lush, “Folk Festival Tops Planned Events,” Phoenix, 18 Feb. 1971, 4. [article about upcoming Folk Festival; Ken Malley, student director of Performing Arts and Activities, quoted as saying, “We are hoping to get the Cockettes for Gay Information Day.”]

“ACT Revives Thirties,” Phoenix, 18 Feb. 1971, 4. [review of American Conservatory Theater production of a play from the 1930s in which one character is identified in the review as an “unhappy prostitute”]

“Newsbrief: Sex Mail,” Phoenix, 18 Feb. 1971, 5. [report on new federal law on sexually-oriented mail]

Advertisement for Emko Contraceptive Foam, Phoenix, 18 Feb. 1971, 6. [advertisement for applicator for applying foam contraceptive]

Advertisement, Okay Bill (dir. John G. Avilsen), Phoenix, 18 Feb. 1971, 8. [advertisement that contains many sexual double entendres]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 2. [question about vasectomies]

Robert Hollis, “‘Lil Big Man’ Comes Up Short,” Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 5. [review of Arthur Penn film Lil Big Man with a quip about the MPAA and its rating system, “since there is little sex or salty language, no nudity, and only violence and murder, the film is rated GP”]

“Film Novice Goes Solo on a Shoestring Budget,” Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 5. [article about Lucille Ruda, identified as a student filmmaker at SF State, who created a film about a “heroine” with a “tremendous sex drive”]

“Looking at Students: ‘Sex Does Not Matter,’” Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 6. [profile of Gerald Jacks, president of SF State Gay Liberation Front (and graduate history student), with comments about bisexuality, sexual revolution, organizational recognition, discussions with health center about setting up counseling service]

Shirley Couick, “Married Student Hassle,” Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 6. [article on challenges facing married students]

Sandy Lee, “Bedtime Can Be Fun,” Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 7. [article on waterbeds, with references to sex and comments by SF State students who sell waterbeds]

Advertisement, TWA advertisement, Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 8. [advertisement includes a photograph of an intimate vacationing couple]

“AS Birth Control Clinic Is Headed Off Campus,” Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 8. [after State College Board of Trustees decision against establishing a birth control and abortion center on campus, student government was working on setting up an off-campus center]

Advertisement, Norforms, Phoenix, 25 Feb. 1971, 8. [advertisement for “feminine odor” product]

“Gay Liberation Headlines,” Sisters, Feb. 1971, 15. [brief note about election of SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart to Board of Directors of SF Family Service]

Cheri Abot, "Poetry," The Ladder, Feb. 1971, p. 34-35. [poems by SF State alum Cheri Abot]

Elroy Messner, letter to the editor, Vector, Feb. 1971, 9. [query about SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

Richard A. Turner, letter to the editor, Vector, Feb. 1971, 9. [critical response to article by SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

“Gays Named to Board of S.F. Family Agency,” The Advocate, 3 Mar. 1971, 1, 14. [article on election of SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart to Board of Directors of Family Service of San Francisco]

“Christman Trial Delayed in S.F.,” The Advocate, 3 Mar. 1971, 19. [update on trial of SF State student Charles Christman, accused of assaulting police outside the Stud, SF gay bar]

Sandy Witch, “Students Rally Round Gay Hayward Prof,” Berkeley Barb, 5 Mar. 1971, 6. [SF State faculty member Morgan Pinney appeared at Cal State Hayward campus rally to protest firing of gay professor]

Advertisement for Tampax, Phoenix, 4 Mar. 1971, 4. [advertisement for tampons]

Advertisement, Okay Bill (dir. John G. Avilsen), Phoenix, 4 Mar. 1971, 5. [advertisement describing film as a “powerfully sensual celebration of married love” and a “sensual and stoned movie about the state of the union"]

“No Final Answers Given in ‘OK Bill,’” Phoenix, 4 Mar. 1971, 5. [review of OK Bill, a film identified elsewhere as involving a sexually liberated woman, Greenwich Village bohemianism, and an orgy on Fire Island]

“Album Turnips Bad,” Phoenix, 4 Mar. 1971, 5. [music review of album Nashville Zodiac by Billy Edd Wheeler in which the lyrics for one song are described as a “maudlin excursion in sex-education set to music”]

Nancy Keebler, “Cons Eased Into ‘Outside,’” Phoenix, 4 Mar. 1971, 6. [article about “Connections,” a support service for prisoners and their families; volunteer Steve Lerner, identified as a graduate of SF State, was quoted as saying that “the most ignored realities in the field are families of inmates and women prisoners”]

Advertisement for Modess, Phoenix, 4 Mar. 1971, 6. [advertisement for tampons]

“Students Rally Round Gay Hayward Prof,” Berkeley Barb, 5 Mar. 1971, 6. [SF State faculty member Morgan Pinney appeared at Cal State Hayward campus rally to protest firing of gay professor]

“New Trial Planned in Car vs. Police Case,” San Francisco Examiner, 7 Mar. 1971, 15. [hung jury for trial of SFSC student Charles Christman, arrested after conflict with police at SF gay bar]

Curran Jensen, “Women’s Lib Has Arrived,” Phoenix, 11 Mar. 1971, 1, 6. [article on Women’s Day rally at SF State, with comments by student Betty Kaplowitz of Gay Women’s Lib]

Jack Tipple, “The Human Mushroom Presents Nick and Betty Jo in ‘Friday After School!’," Phoenix, 11 Mar. 1971, 2.[comic strip in which character says one could “play gay” to avoid being drafted]

Jim Harris, “MGM Blows $14 Million on ‘Ryan’s Daughter,’” Phoenix, 11 Mar. 1971, 5. [review of film Ryan's Daughterthat mentions the reviewer’s disappointment with scenes of “token conjugal sex”]

Mike Kesckes, “Faire Promises a Good Show,” Phoenix, 11 Mar. 1971, 5. [article about Student Activities Faire at SF State; mentions a table dedicated to venereal disease awareness at the Faire, a “Health Education Society table set up by Bill Prange, who was wearing a bright orange ‘Protect Your Love’ button”]

Jack Tipple cartoon, Phoenix, 17 Mar. 1971, 2. [cartoon displaying shift from man shooting “frustrated lesbian communistic women’s lib freak” to woman bashing man over head with feminist sign]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 18 Mar. 1971, 2. [advice column by Eugene Bossi, director of student health center, with questions and answers about not wearing bras and frequency of sex]

T.D. Nurg (pseudonym), letter to the editor, Phoenix, 18 Mar. 1971, 2. [letter describing recent trend of women not wearing bras on campus and alleges that men are distracted in class by the jiggling breasts of their female peers]

Annie Pong, “Encounter Class Lets It All Hang Out,” Phoenix, 18 Mar. 1971, 3. [article about an encounter class that focuses on relationship issues; the class aims to have a “sexually balanced group” for every encounter because “half a person’s problem is with his own sex and half is with the other sex”]

Advertisement, THX 1138 (dir. Lucas), Phoenix, 18 Mar. 1971, 3. [sci-fi film that is identified elsewhere as a story about the blossoming of both sexual awareness and awareness of sexual pleasure, both repressed in a future dystopia; advertisement includes film still of couple in intimate embrace with caption “Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime”]

John Cherry, “Newsbrief,” Phoenix, 18 Mar. 1971, 8. [listing of international news briefs that includes story about “Lord Fisher, former Archbishop of Canterbury,” who was quoted as suggesting a revival of “old-style betrothals” that would “allow unmarried couples to sleep together with the church’s blessing”]

Nick Benton, “‘Be Kind to the Homo’ Shuck,” Berkeley Barb, 19 Mar. 1971, 4. [critical article on Council on Religion and the Homosexual, with favorable comments on SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 25 Mar. 1971, 2. [advice column by Eugene Bossi, director of student health center, with questions and answers about pregnancy, condoms, and yeast infections]

“Crime Wave Hits the Dorms,” Phoenix, 25 Mar. 1971, 1,10. [article about rape and other crimes said to occur in SF State dorms; Jack Nissen, identified as an assistant hall director at Verducci Hall, was quoted as saying that “the evidence suggests some of the ‘rapes’ were not entirely unsolicited” because girls were opening doors to “horny guys”]

“A Man’s Home: An Unsafe Castle,” Phoenix, 25 Mar. 1971, 2. [editorial about a “high incidence of crime,” including rape, in SF State dorms, “especially in Verducci Hall”]

Chidelaw (pseudonym), letter to the editor “Open letter to T.D. Nurg,” Phoenix, 25 Mar. 1971, 2. [response to T.D. Nurg’s letter from 18 Mar. about male students at SF State gawking at the jiggling breasts of newly bra-less female peers instead of paying attention in class]

“Ride Service for Easter’s Travelers,” Phoenix, 25 Mar. 1971, 6. [article warning about the dangers of hitchhiking; mention of many “scary experiences” for female hitchhikers]

“Retrial for Bluequeers’ Gay Target,” Berkeley Barb, 26 Mar. 1971, 6. [article on retrial of SF State student Charles Christman, accusing of assaulting police outside SF gay bar]

Don Collins, “Christman Assault Trial Winds Up with Hung Jury,” The Advocate, 31 Mar. 1971, 2, 13. [hung jury for trial of SFSC student Charles Christman, arrested after conflict with police at SF gay bar]

“Two Papers,” Homosexuals Intransigent!, Mar. 1971, 6. [critical article about Charles Thorp and his editorship of San Francisco Gay Free Press]

Enrico Di Telm, letter to the editor, Vector, Mar. 1971, 9. [critical response to gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory]

Robert Hollis, “Conservative Group Blasts AS,” Phoenix, 1 Apr. 1971, 1. [article about the accusations of several conservative SF State students, who allege that Associated Students was providing “extremist groups and political factions with money"; conservatives identified feminist groups like Independent Campus Women as “extremist” student groups]

Advertisement, THX 1138 (dir. Lucas), Phoenix, 1 Apr. 1971, 6. [advertisement comparing Lucas’s THX 1138 to Visconti’s The Damned and Fellini’s Satyricon, both films commonly known for graphic portrayals of sexual activity]

Advertisement, Satyricon (dir. Fellini), Phoenix, 1 Apr. 1971, 10.  

“Erotic Film Will Be Shown After All,” Phoenix, 1 Apr. 1971, 10. [after conflict between student government and university administration, the film Lovemaking, by SF State alums Scott and Freude Bartlett, will be shown on campus]

Anthony St. Basil, “Poetry,” Bay Area Reporter, 1 Apr. 1971, 15. [poem by SF State creative writing student and Vietnam veteran]

“Porn Movie Exhibitors Sentenced,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 1971, 2. [SF State student James Mitchell sentenced after convictions on obscenity charges for showing sex films at the O’Farrell Theater]

“Symposium Schedule Given,” The Advocate, 14 Apr. 1971, 2. [schedule for “The Gay Scene” symposium at Sacramento State, with references to SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart and SF State alum David Kleinberg]

“Gay Liberation Dance Time,” Berkeley Barb, 15 Apr. 1971, 12. [SF State gay dance to celebrate official recognition of Gay Lib as campus organization]

Calendar listing for Gay Liberation Dance at SF State, Berkeley Tribe, 17 Apr. 1971, 16.

Bill Arnopole, “Opinion Poll’s Results Are In,” Phoenix, 22 Apr. 1971, 1,8. [article describing the results of a student opinion poll; mentions one student who was against funding the proposed child care center, quoting her as saying, “I don’t support other’s breeding habits"; article also mentions “sex discrimination”]

Maureen McGinnis, “1-Month AS Birth Clinic OK,” Phoenix, 22 Apr. 1971, 1. [article announcing that Associated Students has “received permission to establish” a birth control clinic at the Ecumenical House on campus; mentions Eugene Bossi, Evelyn Ballard, and Judy Bloomberg]

Advertisement, “Get A Groovy Thing Going With Computer Dating,” Phoenix, 22 Apr. 1971, 3A. [advertisement of a “Special Student Offer” for dating by computer, “Free for gals” but “membership for guys, $5.00”]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 22 Apr. 1971, 3A.  

Advertisement, Zachariah (dir. George Englund), Phoenix, 22 Apr. 1971, 5A. [film with relatively positive depictions of same-sex love]

Advertisement for Richard Brautigan’s The Abortion: An Historical Romance of 1966, Phoenix, 22 Apr. 1971, 7A. [advertisement for Simon and Schuster novel about “the romantic possibilities of a public library in California]

“Christman Retrial May Be Apr. 26,” The Advocate, 28 Apr. 1971, 23. [update on trial of SFSC student Charles Christman, accused of assaulting police outside SF gay bar]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 29 Apr. 1971, 2. [Eugene Bossi compares the apparent self-cleaning abilities of the ear to those of the vagina when he says that “the ear, like the vagina, does its own housekeeping”]

Advertisement, “Low Cost Legal Abortions,” Phoenix, 29 Apr. 1971, 3. [abortion advertisement from Magmas Associate Inc. in New York City]

Ramiro Manuel Cuadra, caption for photograph, Phoenix, 29 Apr. 1971, 6. [Cuadra quoted as saying that “the two things I liked most about the march were the music and all those beautiful girls in their scanty dresses”]

“New Campus ‘Sexuality Center,’” Phoenix, 29 Apr. 1971, 8. [SF State Health Service is establishing a Human Sexuality Center, after student survey revealed dissatisfaction with current services related to birth control, pregnancy, venereal disease, and other topics]

Ruth Denburg, “Women Learn of Themselves and ‘Oppression,’” Phoenix, 29 Apr. 1971, 9. [article on women’s liberation and nine SF State women’s studies courses during spring term]

Advertisement, “Great Gams It’s A College Contest, Gals!,” Phoenix, 29 Apr. 1971, 9. [advertisement for contest sponsored by Scholl Sandals; “Could your great-looking legs be worth $2,500 cash, for your education or whatever else you please?"; “Limber up those legs, gals.”]

Classified advertisement, “Single Girls 18-30 to Escort Gentlemen on Dates,” Phoenix, 29 Apr. 1971, 9.  

Advertisement, “??Pregnant??,” Golden Gater (Alt), 29 Apr. 1971, 6. [advertisement for at-home pregnancy testing kits by “Be Sure Products, Inc.”]

Darby Slick, “Masturbation March,” Golden Gater (Alt), 29 Apr. 1971, 7. [article describing an “April 24^th peace rally” held at the “Polo Fields” in San Francisco; mentions that a “black Teamster stole the show with such witty sexual sayings as ‘Military masturbation madness,’ and ‘like a passionate reptile climbing on its mates back’”]

Nick Benton, “His-Story of the Gay Lib Movement,” Berkeley Barb, 30 Apr. 1971, 8. [review of The Gay Militants by Donn Teal, with paragraph on SF State student Charles Thorp]

Lawrence Spears, “The Charles Christman Trial,” Vector, Apr. 1971, 30-31. [lengthy article on Charles Christman trial, with reference to Christman as SF State ecology student]

Craig Rodwell, “Hanging in Together,” Queen's Quarterly, Apr. 1971, 5, 45. [editorial on diversity within gay liberation movement, covering radical, militant, and social service organizations. Gay Liberation at SF State included in discussion of radical groups]

Alan Jacobs, “Family Agency includes Gays,” Vector, Apr. 1971, 45. [article on appointment of SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart to Board of Directors of SF Family Service]

“San Francisco,” Vector, Apr. 1971, 32. [brief reference to fundraising campaign for SF State student Charles Christman]

Richard Amory, letter to the editor, Vector, Apr. 1971, 9. [response to critical letter by gay novelist and SF State alum]

Heuwell Tircuit, “S.F. Dance Theater: The Program Went On and On,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 1971, 29. [review of San Francisco Dance Theater performance featuring nude dancers at SF State]

Melba Beals, “Problems of A Coed Call Girl,” San Francisco Examiner, 2 May 1971, CL9, 11. [feature story on SF State student who works as a call girl]

“Rep. Waldie Fears More L.A. Growth,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 1971, 6. [SF State President Hayakawa testified at Commission on Population Growth hearings; criticized elitism of population control advocates and their focus on low income and ethnic minorities]

Linda Yee, “Teach-In Recalls War Horrors,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 1,14. [article on SF State teach-in about Vietnam War; mentions incident in which “two GI’s” were “caught together in bed”]

Jack Tipple, “The Human Mushroom- Nostalgia, Remember When a Banana was a High?,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 2. [comic strip represents the “Hashbury” of yesteryear with a cartoon of a couple about to complete a kiss]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 2. [question asking if watching erotic films can lead to an increase in adrenaline]

Duncan E. Gordon, “Now That It’s Over,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 2. [article reflecting on 24 Apr. mass antiwar demonstrations; announcement of “Socialist Educational Weekend in the SF State Commons” featuring discussion on “nature of and strategies for the major radicalizing movements of today—Women’s Liberation, National Liberation, the Anti-war Movement, Gay Liberation”]

Robert Hollis, “Whatever’s Write: Birdie in the Sky,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 2. [“Quote of the Week” joke about the “second disappointment” of the “newly-married bride,” with the first disappointment being “Niagara Falls”]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 4.  

“Personal Prisons is Plot of Play,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 4. [announcement of a new play Person to Person written by Robert Gordon, identified as a graduate of SF State; mentions that the play originated from Gordon’s feelings about self-evasion as seen in using “sex to run from our feelings” and sleeping with the “sex partner we really don’t want”]

Advertisement, Wild Campus: A Cram Course in Eroticism, Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 4. [advertisement for film by Mitchell Brothers, appearing at the O’Farrell Adult Theatre; James Mitchell elsewhere identified as SF State student]

Annie Pong, “Polk Gala: Something for Everyone,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 7. [article about Polk Street Spring Festival, which featured “tiny stage jammed with drag queens, half-naked girls, and men mimicking Broadway productions” where “bright-eyed gay lovers openly caressed and kissed”]

Advertisement, O’Neil Theater Center production of Person to Person, Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 8. [advertisement for new play by Robert Gordon, a play mentioned in an article on p. 4]

“S.I. on Student Morals,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 9. [SF State President Hayakawa concerned about immorality, including sexual immorality, on campus]

Bill Grote, “It Was Quite a Show,” Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 10. [review of Spring Faire show inside video trailer featuring Cockettes and “she-hes”]

Advertisement, Norforms, Phoenix, 6 May 1971, 10. [advertisement for “feminine odor” product]

Berkeley Women’s Health Collective, “Mind, Body and Soul Healing,” Golden Gater (Alt), 6 May 1971, 5, 6. [article discussing the American healthcare system and its “shoddy” treatment of patients, especially women; discusses the efforts of the Berkeley Women’s Health Collective to remedy these deficits, mentioning “one pharmacology class” in which “women were rapping about birth control methods” and were trying to understand their “own bodies and feelings”]

“Announcements,” Golden Gater (Alt), 6 May 1971, 8. [listing of events occurring at SF State during the “Northern California Socialist Educational Weekend,” including a “Women in Revolt” event with Nina Hamburg that will feature a slide show called “The Contemporary Image of Women” and a lecture “People or Profits: Are There Too Many People?” delivered by Richard Harriman, described as an “Executive Assistant to Paul Ehrlich”]

Elizabeth Readle, “To Own One’s Body,” San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 1971, 10. [socialist feminist activist Cindy Jaquith spoke at SF State about feminism, socialism, and abortion]

Nick Blonder, photograph of movie theater marquee “Best Stag film Yet,” Phoenix, 13 May 1971, 1.  [photograph of a downtown San Francisco movie theater marquee that announces a showing of two “stag films,” Mona and Love, Denmark Style]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 13 May 1971, 2. [question about the recent “fuss” over venereal disease]

Advertisement, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Phoenix, 13 May 1971, 3. [advertisement for Melvin van Peebles’ X-rated film]

“Newsbrief,” Phoenix, 13 May 1971, 4. [announcement that a Human Sexuality Center has been established at the SF State Student Health Center]

Advertisement, “Encounter Films in Action,” Phoenix, 13 May 1971, 8. [advertisement for “Encounter Films,” including a “Nude Marathon” film with “Dr. Paul Brindrum—A New Parameter of Intimacy in Psychotherapy”]

“What Is the CRH?” Bay Area Reporter, 15 May 1971, 16, 17. [article on Council on Religion and the Homosexual, with concluding paragraph about election of SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart as president]

Eloise Dungan, “New Chance for Love,” San Francisco Examiner, 16 May 1971, WT3. [article on SF State faculty member Benjamin Ard and his wife Constance Ard, formerly a student assistant in his department, about counselling people divorced or widowed]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 20 May 1971, 2. [advice column by SF State Student Health Service director Eugene Bossi; questions from student with bent penis and student who dislikes kissing]

Albert Duro, “A Forgettable Year,” Phoenix, 20 May 1971, 5. [review of campus developments, including establishment of birth control clinic]

“Travel and Sex,” San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 1971, 19. [short item about book on travel and sex, authored by wife of former SF State President Summerskill]

“Christman Accepts Lesser Assault-on-Officer Charge,” The Advocate, 26 May 1971, 2. [update on trial of SF State student Charles Christman, accused of assaulting police outside SF gay bar]

“Christman New Trial Date,” Vector, May 1971, 25. [update on trial of SF State student Charles Christman, accused of assaulting police outside SF gay bar]

“Urbi Et Orbi,” Vector, May 1971, 7. [short report on conflicts between Gay Defense Committee and SF State student Charles Christman]

Maitland Zane, “S.F. Police Drive: Crackdown on Adult Movies,” San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 1971, 2. [article on police crackdown on porn movie theaters, with comments by SF State student Arthur Mitchell]

“SF Pig Victim ‘Free,’” Berkeley Barb, 18 June 1971, 8. [update on trial of SF State student Charles Christman, accused of assaulting police outside SF gay bar]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 21 June 1971, 2. [advice column by SF State Student Health Service director with question and answer about birth control]

The Owl, “After Nightfall in San Francisco,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 1971, 37. [short reference to Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SF State student and nude dancer at the Galaxie]

“Jill St. Paul,” San Francisco Examiner, 27 June 1971, DB28. [short reference to Jill St. Paul, els-ewhere identified as SF State student and nude dancer at the Galaxie]

Beverly Koch, “She’s of the People, For the People,” San Francisco Chronicle, 28 June 1971, 17. [article about Mexican American Nora Brusuelas Hickman, student government vice president at UC Berkeley, who was accepted to SF State years earlier but instead went to beauty school because of prejudice/discrimination]

Michael Grieg, “Gorilla Warfare over a Birth,” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 1971, 3. [SF State student researcher Larry Bingham criticized for video-recording pregnant gorilla at SF Zoo]

“A Class for Teachers,” Mother, June 1971, 1, 3. [article on “Coming Out—the Gay Teenager,” panel connected to “Homosexuality and Gayness” course offered by SF State Sociology Department, coordinated by sociology professor John Irwin]

Karen [Wells], “Some Observations Upon Co-operating with Men,” Sisters, June 1971, 17. [article about sexism and anti-lesbianism at SF State panel on “The Liberation Movement,” which included Sally Gearhart]

“Christman Guilty—Misdemeanors,” Vector, June 1971, 28. [article on resolution of Christman trial, with reference to Christman as studying for B.A. in outdoor recreation at SF State]

“San Francisco,” Vector, June 1971, 22. [short reference to gay dance sponsored by Gay Lib at SF State]

“Urbi et Orbi,” Vector, June 1971, 7. [short reference to resolution of Christman case]

July-December 1971

Advertisement, Drive, He Said (dir. Jack Nicholson), Phoenix, 1 July 1971, 5. [mentions that “some Critics Can’t Tell Sodomy from a Hole in the Ground"; film sets “new standard of sexual frankness," with “explicit orgasm scene”]

Douglas Dean, “San Francisco Rap-Up: Hate-Trip at S.F. State,” The Advocate, 7 July 1971, 9. [critical report on SF State symposium panel on homosexuality, accused of excessive militancy and hostility toward straights]

Advertisement, “S.F.’s Movement Bookstore,” Phoenix, 8 July 1971, 3. [advertisement for a bookstore that offers “books on Women’s Liberation”]

“The Rejection Is Mutual,” San Francisco Examiner, 11 July 1971, CL24-31. [lengthy article about independent filmmakers, including SF State faculty member James Broughton, with passing references to sexual themes]

Ben Lush, “Newhall Runs for Mayor,” Phoenix, 29 July 1971, 1,8. [article about upcoming election for SF mayor, with statement from mayoral candidate Scott Newhall on gay rights: “Newhall said, ‘The only power I have over law-enforcement regarding homosexuals is persuasive. The laws must be changed.”]

Advertisement, photograph from American Conservatory Theater production of Hair, Phoenix, 15 July 1971, 6.  

Freada Klein, “Klute Earns an ‘R’ Rating,” Phoenix, 15 July 1971, 6. [film review of Klute, a film that the reviewer mentions as exploring “current topics” such as “prostitution, drug usage, and sexual perversion”]

Ann Fleischer, “Dean of Students Offers Changes,” Phoenix, 22 July 1971, 1. [article about “controversial” new dean of students, Helen Bedesem, who was quoted as saying that “an effort is being made to align the Health Center to deal with sexual problems of students in greater depth"; according to Bedesem, the Student Health Center can “prescribe a diaphragm or birth control pills,” but, under present rules, only for a short period of time]

Brian McKinney, “‘Carnal Knowledge,’” Phoenix, 22 July 1971, 4. [review of Jules Feiffer/Mike Nichols film about two men’s heterosexual experiences over several decades; Gustavo]

Ben Lush, “Newhall Runs for Mayor,” Phoenix, 29 July 1971, 1,8. [article about upcoming election for SF mayor; contains a statement from mayoral candidate Scott Newhall on gay rights: “Regarding the other non-victim crimes, Newhall said, ‘The only power I have over law-enforcement regarding homosexuals is persuasive. The laws must be changed”]

Advertisement, McCabe & Mrs. Miller (dir. Altman), Phoenix, 29 July 1971, 7. [“The story of a gambling man and a hustling lady”]

Jim Kepner, “Angles on the News: Tired But Proud,” The Advocate, 4 Aug. 1971, 8. [article on gay rights rally in Sacramento, with brief reference to reading by SF State student Charles Thorpe]

William E. Beardemphl, “William Edward Beardemphl Comments,” Bay Area Reporter, 15 Aug. 1971, 18, 19. [survey of San Francisco voters conducted by SF State faculty member Lois Flynne, showing that most voters would not support openly gay candidates]

Jim Kepner, “Richard Amory’s ‘Frost’ Is A Search on Many Levels—Plus Sex,” The Advocate, 18 Aug. 1971, 25, 26.[review of new novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Maitland Zane, “Anti-Sex Bias Law Is Urged,” San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 1971, 2. [comment by lesbian Sally Gearhart, elsewhere identified as SF State faculty member, at Board of Supervisors Social Service Committee]

“The Supervisors,” Vector, Aug. 1971, 18. [photograph caption referencing SF State student Charles Christman and voter registration drive by Society for Individual Rights]

 David Kleinberg, “‘Secret Cinema’ Where Comfort Viewing Is a Real Trip,” San Francisco Examiner, 5 Sept. 1971, 162. [article by SF State alum about unconventional movie theater, including references to Nocturnal Dream Show, Cockettes (in drag), and Sylvester]

“Gay, Straight Leaders Push S.F. Hiring Law,” The Advocate, 15 Sept. 1971, 14. [article on proposed anti-discrimination law, with brief reference to SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Beverly Stephen, “Sex Education: Just Call it a “Family Life’ Course,” San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sept. 1971, 24.[comments by SF State professor Bernard Goldstein on sex education and his course “Human Sexuality”]

Beverly Stephen, “Sex Education: A Framework of Responsibility,” San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Sept. 1971, 38.[article on sex education, including brief comments by SF State Professor Bernard Goldstein, described as teaching Human Sexuality to 700 students]

“Birth Control Plan for S.F. State Is Stalled,” San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sept. 1971, 2. [article on dispute about providing birth control and VD services at the SF State student health center]

Mike Brock, “Violence Plagues the Dorms,” Phoenix, 23 Sept. 1971, 2. [article on rape in college dorm]

Donna Horowitz, “Former Students: Rape Suspects Jailed,” Phoenix, 23 Sept. 1971, 3. [former SF State students Artix Thomas and Lynwood Bell charged with raping SF State student in campus dorm]

Barbara Egbert, “Dorm Safety Problems Receive More Attention,” Phoenix, 23 Sept. 1971, 3. [article on rape in college dorm]

Advertisement, Population Planning Associates contraceptive advertisement, Phoenix, 23 Sept. 1971, 4.  

Advertisement, adult film casting advertisement for Mitchell Brothers film group, Phoenix, 23 Sept. 1971, 9.  

Beverly Stephen, “How About a Partnership Instead of Marriage?” San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sept. 1971, 18. [article on presentation about “partnership agreements” (as opposed to marriage contracts) by UC Davis Professor Lenore Weitzman at SF State conference titled “The Feminine Imperative”]

Douglas Dean, “San Francisco Rap-Up: Sex Has Nothing to Do With It,” The Advocate, 29 Sept. 1971, 26. [AFL-CIO convention in SF declined to support gay rights resolution proposed by United Professors of California at SF State, Local 1352]

Joe Konte, “Goldstein on Sex—A Crowd Pleaser,” Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 1, 8. [article on popular 700-student course on Human Sexuality, taught by biology professor Bernie Goldstein]

Cathy Ramirez, “Sex Health Care Not Yet Legal,” Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 1, 8 [Student Health Center not providing birth control and VD services because of State College Trustees policy, with comments by President Hayakawa and Student Health Center director Eugene Bossi]

Dorine Gapcynskui, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 2. [letter from the self-identified Lutheran campus minister at San Francisco State College criticizing the newspaper for not publishing an advertisement for a “human sexuality seminar being sponsored by the campus ministries”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director Eugene Bossi with questions/answers about aphrodisiacs and penis enlargement]

Advertisement, Barbarella (dir. Roger Vadim), Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 3. [advertisement for a film featuring sex symbol Jane Fonda]

Advertisement, Norforms vaginal deodorant, Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 4.  

Theresa Koenig, “Passions in Poetry,” Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 5. [article about poet Steven Vincent, identified as a SF State graduate, who mentions love and sex as the “flaming passions of the 60’s” and how the “sixties catapulted these things” into public awareness]

Ira Kamin, “Student Awarded $5,000,” Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 6. [article about Del Lane, identified as a journalism student at SF State, who researched a “scholarship competition, ‘Obscenity: Censorship or Free Choice’” and found out that the competition was sponsored by Greenleaf Classics publishing group headed by William Hamling, who brought the Henry Miller novel The Rosy Crucifixion “into public awareness"; Hamling was identified by Lane as a “guest speaker to the Lyndon Johnson-appointed Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography”]

Advertisement, adult film casting advertisement for Mitchell Brothers film group, Phoenix, 30 Sept. 1971, 6.  

John Cherry, “800 at SFSC Hear City Hall’s Hard-Sell," Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 1,8. [article about political candidates coming to SF State to speak; quoted candidate Tony Serra as saying that he intended to “disband…the vice squad” while candidate Scott Newhall was quoted as promising to “legalize prostitution” in San Francisco]

Dennis Meehan, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 2. [letter calling a campus woman's group “sexist” because writer was told to leave the space because he was “a male”]

Olson, Senior, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 2. [letter criticizing the news coverage of Phoenix with mention that the “one thing of vital student concern that has not been dealt with in sufficient depth is that of birth control"; letter mentions support of abortion rights]

Advertisement, film showing of Gimme Shelter at the San Francisco Cinema Guild, Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 3. [showing of Rolling Stones film that is commonly known to highlight sex symbol Mick Jagger’s characteristic swagger and dancing]

Advertisement, “Mate-Check,” Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 5. [“Grooving with the right person? Find out from MATE-CHECK!”]

Advertisement, Some of My Best Friends Are… (dir. Mervyn Nelson), Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 5. [film identified on gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village, starring Candy Darling, trans actress and Warhol superstar]

Classified advertisement, “Man and Woman: An Intimacy Pairing Workshop,” Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 5. [advertisement for workshop geared towards both “singles and couples”]

Advertisement, Emko foam contraceptive, Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 8.  

Advertisement, Adrift (dir. Jan Kadar), Phoenix, 7 Oct. 1971, 9. [advertisement describes film as “a sublimely erotic work of art!”]

“Students Bare the Skin Films,” Phoenix, 13 Oct. 1971, 1, 10. [two reporters—one male and one female--applied for jobs in adult films, answering advertisement in The Phoenix]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 13 Oct. 1971, 2. [advice column by SF State Student Health Center director Eugene Bossi, with questions/answers about breast size and menstrual cramps]

Carol Jessen, “Ideas on Abortion,” Phoenix, 13 Oct. 1971, 9. [plans for abortion rights conference at UC Berkeley, with participation by SF State’s Independent Campus Women and Women’s Abortion Coalition; comments on conflicts about Student Health Center policies on birth control and VD]

“‘Night of the Sadist’ Is Excellent Mystery,” The Advocate, 13 Oct. 1971, 33. [review of new novel by Paul Laurie, with passing reference to gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory]

Bill Grote, “Esoteric Adventures,” Phoenix, 14 Oct. 1971, 2. [comic strip includes dialogue with one character warning another that “people all over the world will be filled with perverted ideas” with the other character replying that “perverted ideas are better than no ideas at all”]

Listing for Galaxie, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 17 Oct. 1971, 252. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SF State student]

Donovan Bess, “Sex Education Grows Up: Joys of Zoology 101,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Oct. 1971, 6. [article on popular SF State zoology course on human sexuality, taught by biology professor Bernie/Bernard Goldstein, with comments by several students, including Judy Hollywood, Doriet Papelbaum, and Dina Steinberg]

Joe Konte, “Aspiring Supes Speak,” Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 1,8. [article about a “three hour panel discussion” on campus “featuring ten candidates for supervisor” of the city of San Francisco; the issues discussed included “abortion, women’s rights”]

Janice Gangel, Robin Ciabatari, Roberta Howort, and Pamela Swing, letter to the editor “Women’s Group Responds to Criticism,” Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 2. [letter written by members of Independent Campus Women responding to 7 Oct. letter by Dennis Meehan about men being excluded from women’s groups meetings on campus; this letter attempts to justify Independent Campus Women’s “exclusivist” policy]

Marilyn Christensen, letter to the editor “Mr. Meehan Gets Support,” Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 2. [letter responding to 7 Oct. letter by Dennis Meehan about men being excluded from the meetings of women’s groups on campus; letter supports Meehan and rejects the “exclusivist” policy of Independent Campus Women]

Mike O’Connor, “Secluded Sun Spas,” Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 3. [article about a nudist beach called “The People’s Beach” located “just north of Half Moon Bay"; mention of how nudist beachgoers assert “nudism as a medicine for all social and sexual problems”]

Jim Golfos, “Women Unsafe in Dorms,” Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 4. [concerns about safety of women in SF State dorms after recent rape]

Advertisement, Cry Uncle! [dir. John G. Avildsen], Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 5. [advertisement for X-rated adult film comedy]

Advertisement, Population Planning Associates contraception advertisement, Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 5.  

Ben Lush, “Bestselling Black Author Reads Her Poetry,” Phoenix, 21 Oct. 1971, 5. [article describing poetry reading at SF State by Maya Angelou, the “first black woman author in history to have her name appear on the nation’s best-seller list” with her autobiographical novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a work commonly known for its frank descriptions of rape and sexuality]

Ray Broshears, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 27 Oct. 1971, 25. [letter about recent Society for Individual Rights conflict, with passing reference to Advocate’s coverage of SF State strike]

Joye Ogrodowski, “Sex Health Care: New Try,” Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 1, 10. [State College Board of Trustees rejected plans to establish birth control center on SF State campus; new effort underway]

Donna Horowitz, “W-O-M-A-N Just a Body?,” Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 2. [article criticizing how male photographers shoot female subjects that claims that male photographers view their female subjects as “mindless faceless flesh” and that “women’s bodies are indeed ‘male-occupied territory’”]

Advertisement, Population Planning Associates contraception advertisement, Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 3.  

Joye Ogrodowski, “How to Get A Man Pregnant,” Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 7. [review of play by Myrna Lamb, staged by Independent Campus Women, about pregnant man facing challenges in obtaining an abortion]

David Perlman, “Faire Booths: From Balls to Souls,” Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 8. [article describing recent campus fair; mentions woman at fair named “Sue” and her desire for “one foxy guy down at the Gay Lib booth” who she “wishes…wasn’t gay”]

Advertisement, Murmur of the Heart (dir. Louis Malle), Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 8. [film described as “the film that shocked Paris and delighted London"; “God must have loved love. He made so many different kinds of it”]

Classified advertisement, “Man and Woman, Special Workshop For Couples,” Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 8.  

Advertisement, Sunday, Bloody Sunday (dir. John Schlesinger), Phoenix, 28 Oct. 1971, 10.  [film with positive depiction of homosexuality and plot that involves bisexual man having affair with gay Jewish doctor in London]

“Gays to March,” Berkeley Barb, 29 Oct. 1971, 4. [SF State Gay Liberation Front sponsoring gay dance in advance of National Peace Action Coalition March on 6 Nov.]

Listing for Galaxie, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 31 Oct. 1971, 231. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SF State student]

“Jeanne Barney,” Homosexuals Intransigent!, Oct. 1971, 24-25. [critical article about straight advice columnist in The Advocate, with brief mention of asking for support from Charles Thorp and SF State GLF]

“Quickie," Homosexuals Intransigent!, Oct. 1971, 24-25

“Cross Currents,” The Ladder, Oct. 1971, 48. [article on Gay Women’s West Coast Conference in Los Angeles in June, including panel featuring Sally Gearhart of GLF San Francisco  and debate about whether lesbians should work with gay men and participate in pride march]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 4 Nov. 1971, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director with questions/answers about aphrodisiacs and penis enlargement]

Chuck Hardy, “Gay Dance Turns Sour; New Actions Planned,” Phoenix, 4 Nov. 1971, 3. [SF State Gay Liberation Front dance, with conflicts between performance group Angels of Light and gay women; comments by GLF leaders Frank Melleno and Jim Williford; comments about creating gay studies program]

Advertisement, Population Planning Associates contraceptive advertisement, Phoenix, 4 Nov. 1971, 5.  

Advertisement, Masculin-Feminin (dir. Godard), Phoenix, 4 Nov. 1971, 5. [1966 Godard film that is commonly known for featuring a menage a quatre]

“Some Gays Going, Others Hang Tuff,” Berkeley Barb, 5 Nov. 1971, 2. [SF State Gay Liberation Front sponsoring gay dance in advance of SF peace march on 6 Nov.]

Listing for Galaxie, “Night Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 7 Nov. 1971, 247. [reference to stripper Jill St. Paul, elsewhere identified as SF State student]

“Shrinks & Hookers,” Golden Gater (Alt), 8 Nov. 1971, 4. [article discussing how “revolutionaries have moved to abolish... prostitution”]

Marshall Windmiller, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 11 Nov. 1971, 2. [letter by education professor on male roles in society]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 11 Nov. 1971, 2. [question that describes mononucleosis as the “kissing disease”]

Paul Thiele, “Male Myths and Realities Exposed by Panel,” Phoenix, 11 Nov. 1971, 7. [report on “Maleness in America” panel, with comments about male sexual norms and expectations]

David Perlman, “‘Peace March Syndrome’ … ‘Like a Rock Concert,’” Phoenix, 11 Nov. 1971, 8. [article reviewing recent SF antiwar march sponsored by Student Mobilization Committee; mentions that many marchers were delighted by “joyous manner of the gays"]

“Phoenix Supports the Right of Legal Abortion. Join the March. See Page 3,” Phoenix, 18 Nov. 1971, 2. [announcement of the newspaper’s support of abortion rights, accompanied by a cartoon of a masked executioner named “Illegal Abortion” trying to steal a bride from the hands of the “Law”]

“Legal Abortion: March Planned,” Phoenix, 18 Nov. 1971, 3. [article about upcoming SF march and rally for legalized abortion]

“Women Want Equal Time,” Phoenix, 18 Nov. 1971, 4. [report on Women in Broadcasting at SF State, a new group challenging sexism in broadcasting; comments on “dirty pictures”]

Eugene Gibson, “Zappa’s ‘200 Motels’ Attacks American Way,” Phoenix, 18 Nov. 1971, 5. [review of new Frank Zappa movie that stars Ringo Starr, who is described as wearing “Zappa hair resembling a head of pubic tangle” in the film; mention that one song is titled “Penis"; reviewer says that the film is an “attack on religion, virginity, … and the American Way”]

Advertisement, “The Olympia Press,” The Advocate, 24 Nov. 1971, 15. [advertisement for book publisher, with reference to novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

"Nov. Events," Sisters, November 1971, 10. [brief note about disruption at SF State gay dance by drag troupe and conflict with lesbian folk singers]

“Women Join Men to Lead Discussion on Homosexuality,” Mother, Nov. 1971, 5. [SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart will speak on panel on homosexuality sponsored by San Francisco Association for Mental Health]

“Lesbian Mothers Win Support from F.S.A.,” Sisters, Nov. 1971, 27. [SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart mentioned in article about Lesbian Mothers Union effort to reform SF Family Service Agency]

Advertisement, advertisement of film showing of Women in Love, Phoenix, 2 Dec. 1971, 5.

Advertisement, “Modern Times Bookstore,” Phoenix, 2 Dec. 1971, 10. [advertisement of “a new socialist bookstore in San Francisco” that offers “Left and Women’s periodicals, back issues, ratings tables, Free Coffee”]

Donovan Bess, “The S.F. Gay Bar Route—Looking for the Leathers,” San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 1971, 4. [article on SF gay bars, with brief comment on leather bars by SF State psychology instructor John Newmeyer]

Carl Driver, “Started with ‘Loon’: Gay Fiction May Be Growing Up,” The Advocate, 8 Dec. 1971, 33. [article on rise of gay literature, with attention to influence of novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Advertisement, “Le Salon,” The Advocate, 8 Dec. 1971, 36. [advertisement for San Francisco bookstore, with reference to novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Joye Ogrodowski, “Health Center Delays,” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 1, 14. [State College Board of Trustees approved new policy on student health centers, but new family planning and VD services will take time to implement]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director with questions/answers about contraception and Student Health Center]

“Old Man’s Sadism Gets Foamy Demise,” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 2. [creative story in the style of a fairy tale that heralds foam birth control as the “demise” of sadistic old men with how this new form of contraceptive has brought about the end of the old men’s longtime torture of the “common” people]

“Looking at the Past Twelve Months,” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 2. [article summarizing events of the past year and highlights “a Woman’s Day rally” and the rise of “Women’s Liberation” on campus and nationally]

Advertisement, Norforms vaginal deodorant, Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 4.  

Advertisement, Clockwork Orange (dir. Kubrick), Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 6. [Kubrick film commonly known for sexually explicit content, among other things: “Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven"; advertisement image shows the drug-dispensing bare breasts of the Korova Milk Bar setting of opening scene]

Marta Gasoi, “John Wasserman Lets It Hang Out,” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 7. [interview with San Francisco Chronicle“cinema-stage-pop music critic and pornography aficionado” John Wasserman]

Ben Lush, “El Topo: Mystic Bloodbath,” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 7. [review of Alejandro Jodorowsky film El Topo; mentions scene of “sado-masochistic homosexual ecstasy” provoked by mysterious “woman with a masculine voice”]

Michael Lucas, “‘Gypsy is Good,’” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 7. [review of the SF State theatrical production of the musical Gypsy, mentioned as involving “strippers” and “cheesecake”]

“What’s Happening," Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 7. [announcement of poetry reading by Dianne DePrima, commonly known as a women’s rights advocate and beat poet; also, announcement of SF State production of the musical Gypsy, described as “the story of a famous stripper”]

Donna Horowitz, “Soviet Women’s Life No Paradise, Professor Finds Out,” Phoenix, 9 Dec. 1971, 11. [article describing a study by SF State Professor Bernice Madison about the status of women in the Soviet Union; Madison examined how “Soviet youth” learn about sex and found that “65.5 per cent of the Soviet youth learn about sex ‘on the street’” versus “16.8 per cent from school instruction,” and “7 to 8 per cent at home”]

“Outside S.F. Clinic: Loud Row on Abortions,” San Francisco Examiner, 12 Dec. 1971, 14. [conflict about abortion at Cathedral Hill Medical Center, with comments by Marie De Pizzol, former SF State nursing instructor]

Ruth Teiser, “A Display from Local Publishers,” San Francisco Examiner, 12 Dec. 1971, 179. [brief reference to SF State students Del Lane, winner of $5000 grand prize, and Steven John Bagby, winner of $1000 prize, for contributions to Obscenity: Censorship or Free Choice, a collection of essays submitted in National College Competition sponsored by Greenleaf Classics]

Joann S. Lublin, “Student Homosexual Movement Gains, But Groups Fragmented by Dissension,” Wall Street Journal, 16 Dec. 1971, 22. [overview of LGBT student organizing, with focus on SF State, Charles Thorpe, and conflict at campus dance]

E. Murray, “Scheville’s Tarzan, Hitler and Tin Foil Astronauts,” San Francisco Examiner, 19 Dec. 1971, 153. [article on James Scheville, former director of the SF State Poetry Center and author of play with “sex pot” character]

“Gays, Psychiatrists Rap at VA Hospital Meeting,” The Advocate, 22 Dec. 1971, 5. [article on discussion on homosexuality at Fort Miley Veterans Administration Hospital, with comments by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart, co-chair of Council on Religion and the Homosexual]

Douglas Dean, “San Francisco Rap-Up,” The Advocate, 22 Dec. 1971, 15. [brief reference to upcoming SF State course on erotic literature]

David Kleinberg, “Pix Theater: After 25 Years Corn Has Become Porn,” San Francisco Examiner, 26 Dec. 1971, 192. [article by SF State alum on SF porn theater]

"San Francisco," Vector, Dec. 1971, 39. [brief note about SF State GLF member proposing to creating gay studies department]

January-June 1972

Gerald Jacks and Dorothy Dillon, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 5 Jan. 1972, 32. [letter coauthored by SF State GLF President Jerald Jacks contesting The Advocate’s coverage of antiwar march, at which GLF member Jim Willeford was one of two LGBT speakers]

Advertisement for Emko, Phoenix, 6 Jan. 1972, 2. [advertisement for Emko contraceptive foam]

Mike Lucas, “‘Clockwork Orange,’” Phoenix, 6 Jan. 1972, 3. [film review of Clockwork Orange that describes the film as “spiced with sex” and summarizes its plot in which a “new Pavlovian treatment” conditions the film’s main character “against sex and violence"; review highlights reputation of this film’s shocking explicitness with mention of a story of how a girl who went to see the film “ran out during the opening sequence with her hand clamped over her mouth"]

Listing for “Galaxie,” San Francisco Examiner, 9 Jan. 1972, 222. [brief reference to nude dancer Jill St. Paul,elsewhere described as an SF State student, performing at the Galaxie]

“She Saves Bullet-Holed Shirt,” Phoenix, 10 Jan. 1972, 5,6. [article about the reaction of a mother to the death of her son, who was shot by rival gang; mentions that this person “credits her son’s problems to hanging out with the wrong girls”]

Donna Horowitz, “Women Brutalized After Court,” Phoenix, 10 Jan. 1972, 8. [article describing travails of women inmates; includes an interview with Pat Wood, identified as a convict, who went to court and had “her vagina and rectum probed for drugs"; Wood relates that many female inmates were in prison for prostitution and that “women learn from an early age that their body means money”]

Donna Horowitz, “She Won’t Return, Will She?,” Phoenix, 10 Jan. 1972, 8. [article featuring interview with Susan Rucker, ex-convict just released from jail; Rucker “walked the streets” as prostitute and claims that “matrons are fair” inside women’s jail, with some being “dykes”]

“‘Connections’ Turns Nothing to Something,” Phoenix, 10 Jan. 1972, 15. [article about the organization “Connections,” started by “two prison wives” in “Glide’s basement” to “help families endure the mental and social hardships of having a loved one in prison"; mention of the hardships resulting from the “no sex” rule enforced during visits of organization members to their loved ones in jail]

Marta Gasoi, “‘Diamonds Are Forever,’” Phoenix, 14 Jan. 1972, 5. [review of James Bond film that is mentioned as featuring a “bevy of beautiful women” on screen and responding to “trends” such as the “feminist movement”]

Allester Gray, “Satanic Society Savors Some Seven Sins,” Phoenix, 14 Jan. 1972, 6. [article about San Francisco’s “Satan Church,” whose leader was worried about Glide Memorial Church, which “exhibits girls in miniskirts and uses members of the Gay community”]

Advertisement, “It’s About Time! A Calendar of Men for Women," Phoenix, 14 Jan. 1972, 6. [advertisement for a calendar featuring a “photographic, not pornographic study of 12 unique men"; “Isn’t it about time that men became objects for hanging?”]

Bill Arnopole, photograph of SF State men’s wrestling team, Phoenix, 14 Jan. 1972, 7. [photograph has caption “What’s this, a sex orgy?”]

Sharon Crase, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 19 Jan. 1972, 24, 25. [critical letter from Daughters of Bilitis leader about SF State GLF dance, which featured gay/lesbian conflicts and accusations of sexism against Angels of Light; references also to Oct. symposium at SF State]

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, 10 Feb. 1972, 3. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms; Niko]

Advertisement, Norforms vaginal deodorant, Phoenix, 10 Feb. 1972, 8.  

Beth Elliott, letter to the editor, Bay Area Reporter, 15 Feb. 1972, 7. [critical letter about gay activist, with brief reference to efforts underway to support gay studies at SF State]

Don Jackson, “Gay Consortium Zaps United Crusade,” Bay Area Reporter, 15 Feb. 1972, 9, 10. [report on recent demonstration at United Bay Area Crusade annual meeting by Gay Consortium, collection of LGBT groups that included SF State Gay Liberation Front]

“S.F. State Schedules Gay Course,” Bay Area Reporter, 15 Feb. 1972, 10. [SF State Social Science Department offering first full-credit gay studies course, “Homosexuality as a Social Issue,” taught by Lois Flynne, with comments on importance of not neglecting lesbians]

Rainbow, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 16 Feb. 1972, 26. [response by Angel of Light to letter about conflict at SF State dance]

David Perlman, “Confessions of a Mad Hitchhiker,” Phoenix, 17 Feb. 1972, 1,4. [article about hitchhiking; mention of “common knowledge among hitchers that a woman will get a ride faster than a man"; “many innocent girls have become quite familiar with male anatomy since they started hitching” with one girl reported as seeing “a man obviously masturbating behind the wheel"]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 17 Feb. 1972, 2. [query about whether “underwire” bras can be “dangerous and cause breast cancer” with questioner commenting about his girlfriend’s breasts, “I’d hate to see such a lovely pair disappear”]

Advertisement, Cabaret (dir. Fosse), Phoenix, 17 Feb. 1972, 4.  

Advertisement, El Topo (dir. Jodorowsky), Phoenix, 17 Feb. 1972, 4.  

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, 17 Feb. 1972, 7. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms]

Beverly Stephen, “Look at the Private Lives of S.F.’s Models,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 1972, 22. [article on SF models, including SF State student Anita Stone]

Bruno Forner, “Politics Class Chases Votes,” Phoenix, 24 Feb. 1972, 4. [article about “Politics for Credit” course taught by SF State professor Kay Lawson that allows students to work for major political campaigns for academic credit; one organization where students can work for credit is “The Women’s Abortion Coalition”]

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, 24 Feb. 1972, 4. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms]

Advertisement, Such Good Friends (dir. Otto Preminger), Phoenix, 24 Feb. 1972, 5. [advertisement with film poster caption “Richard included all he needed to hold his marriage together. Miranda, Audrey, Jessica, Marcy, Doria…”]

Eric Berg, “Campus Film Fad: A Reel Thrill,” Phoenix, 24 Feb. 1972, 6. [article about new campus film screenings; “most expensive film shown” was Women in Love, to which “340 people showed up"; also, upcoming showing of Midnight Cowboy]

Advertisement for Changing Homosexuality in the Male, Phoenix, 24 Feb. 1972, 6. [advertisement for Delta book by Lawrence Hatterer on “treatment for men troubled by homosexuality”]

Susan Berman, “Nurses Who Won’t Assist in Abortions,” San Francisco Examiner, 27 Feb. 1972, 93. [article on anti-abortion nurses, including former SF State nursing faculty member and registered nurse Marie De Pizzol]

“Purged Profs,” Golden Gater (Alt), 28 Feb. 1972, 3. [article listing professors fired by SF State president S.I. Hayakawa in “purge” of faculty following end of Third World Liberation strike; mentions Morgan Pinney as one of many professors who “are continuing to appeal their firings through... grievance procedures”]

“Hayakawa’s Shit List: Are You On It?,” Golden Gater (Alt), 28 Feb. 1972, 4. [photograph of typed list of names of faculty fired by SF State president S.I. Hayakawa; includes Morgan Pinney]

“Personalities,” Vector, Feb. 1972, 51. [article on Lois Flynn teaching course on “Homosexuality” and building library’s LGBT periodical collection at SF State]

“The Editor Comments,” Vector, Feb. 1972, 4. [brief reference to SF State’s Lois Flynn in paragraph about professionals working to support homosexuals]

“San Francisco State,” Sisters, Feb. 1972, 18. [short announcement that SF State will offer course titled “Homosexuality as a Social Issue”]

Lawrence Spears, “War Chest, Local Ballot Measures Urged in Statewide Meet,” Vector, Feb. 1972, 18-19. [brief reference to gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory in article about state sex law reform]

Classified advertisement, Bay Area Reporter, 1 Mar. 1972, 39. [advertisement by SF State student looking for room or apartment to rent]

“18 Year Olds Now Adults,” Phoenix, 2 Mar. 1972, 1,9. [article about recent change in laws out of which 18 year olds “no longer need their parents’ consent to marry"; article describes how the San Francisco Police Department is confused with enforcement of the new laws, especially its approach to “18 year old voyeurs” but officers assert that “horny young people were never legally denied access to pornography” in San Francisco]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 2 Mar. 1972, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director, with question aboutmale roommate who masturbates while dressed as a woman]

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, 2 Mar. 1972, 4. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms]

Donna Horowitz, “Encounter Theatre Plays On Issues,” Phoenix, 2 Mar. 1972, 5. [review of Encounter Theatre production that inverts typical marriage roles, featuring a “homemaker husband,” and openly discussing gay sexual attraction of man towards roommate]

Mike Lucas, “‘Cabaret’ Liza Stars in Great Show,” Phoenix, 2 Mar. 1972, 5. [review of Bob Fosse’s film Cabaret; mentions that the main character, Sally, played by Liza Minnelli, has an identity “built around sexual exploits”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 9 Mar. 1972, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director, with question about boxers v. briefs]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 9 Mar. 1972, 3.  

Cathy Ramirez, “Sheriff Opens Up On Prisons,” Phoenix, 9 Mar. 1972, 3. [interview with Sheriff Richard Hongisto, SF State alum, who discusses prison reform, including “venereal disease treatment” and attending to needs of “blacks and homosexual inmates”]

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, 9 Mar. 1972, 5. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms]

Paul Thiele, “Legend of Dick and Jane Exposed,” Phoenix, 9 Mar. 1972, 6. [article about popular humor magazine National Lampoon and its editor Doug Kenney; mention that Kenney has created a spoof “dating manual” that includes a “pornography issue” with “tips from Nancy Reagan”]

“College Offers Two Courses,” The Advocate, 15 Mar. 1972, 11. [short report on two SF State courses, “The Rhetoric of Gay Liberation” (taught by Sally Gearhart) and “Homosexuality as a Social Issue” (taught by Lois Flynne)]

“Bay Gays Move Toward Unity Along Two Fronts,” The Advocate, 15 Mar. 1972, 6. [article on new local coalition, Gay Consortium, which included SF State Gay Liberation Front]

“A Gay President? Why Not!” The Advocate, 15 Mar. 1972, 29, 30. [article on research study conducted by former SF State faculty member John Newmeyer about SF State student attitudes on homosexuality]

“Finding a Roommate—A Universal Problem,” Phoenix, 16 Mar. 1972, 1, 6. [first page is cut off, but continuation includes story of lesbian sadomasochism and story of gay relationship]

Eric Berg, “Joplin Blues Alive in ‘Janis,’” Phoenix, 16 Mar. 1972, 2. [review of book about Janis Joplin, who is described as expressing “sexual satisfaction” in the “raunch of rock"; Berg describes Janis as “needing a man to love” but “her gutsy character frightened off even a one-nighter," leading to her finding “friendship in Southern Comfort bottles, bars, and the blues”]

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, 16 Mar. 1972, 3. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms; Marc]

Advertisement, Norforms vaginal deodorant, Phoenix, 16 Mar. 1972, 5.  

Calendar, Encounter Theater production at SF State, Phoenix, 16 Mar. 1972, 8. [listing of Encounter Theater production mentioned in Donna Horowitz’s 2 Mar. article]

“Foreign Students’ Profile,” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 1,6. [profile of Ipek Ural, identified as a female student from Turkey, who was quoted as saying that she is “looking for professional success not marriage” because, as she was quoted as saying, “marriage and professional success do not go together” for women]

Classified advertisement, “Apartment to Share with Straight Male,” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 5.

Rick Lee, “It’s Tough to Adjust,” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 6. [profile of Chava Nir, identified as a female student from Israel, who discusses “women’s equality” and differences between American and Israeli women, with the latter described by Nir as “one step ahead” of the former regarding equality and self-respect]

David Okubo, “Students ‘Come & Go,’” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 6. [profile of Aziz Hanif, identified as a male student from West Pakistan, who was quoted as being “opposed to women’s liberation” but agreed about women receiving “equal pay” to men]

Steve Nardini, “‘Tuition Raise Absurd,’” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 7. [profile of Anita Makarji, identified as a female student from India, who was quoted as saying that “very few Indian women are allowed to leave the home”]

Ray Brutti, “Double Standard,” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 7. [profile of Cecilia Maza, identified as a female student from El Salvador, who describes a “strict sexual regulation” in El Salvador and that men must “constantly strut their manhood,” with their “sons …brought to the city’s brothels” at a young age; Maza describes a “double standard” with how men and women are treated in El Salvador]

Cip Ayalin, “Student Here Misses Iran,” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 7. [profile of Amam Foutohi, identified as a male student from Iran, who was quoted as saying that he “dates American women,” who he sees as more “independent” than Iranian women]

John Cherry, “Godfather Gory Thriller,” Phoenix, 23 Mar. 1972, 9. [review of film The Godfather in which the multiple death scenes in this film are compared to “variations of the sex act in a porno”]

David Kleinberg, “Tina Turner and Her Sex Waves on Stage,” San Francisco Examiner, 26 Mar. 1972, 235. [article by SFS alum about Tina Turner and sexualized performances]

“San Francisco Rites Honor Gays Killed by Vice Cops,” The Advocate, 29 Mar. 1972, 3. [article on demonstration and memorial service for gays killed by police, with comments by DOB leader and SF State faculty member Karen Wells]

Dan Allen, “Notes from a Gay Ghetto: S.F. Groups Work in a Variety of Ways,” The Advocate, 29 Mar. 1972, 19.[article on SF gay groups, with brief reference to SF State course on “sociological problems of homosexuals”]

"News Caps," San Francisco Gay Times, Mar. 1972, 2. [article on gay studies courses and gay studies week at SF State, initiated by Gay Liberation Front at SF State]

“Political Committee Report,” The Insider: The Monthly Newsletter of the Society for Individual Rights, Mar. 1972.[article on voter registration drive by several organizations, including Gay Lib, SF State]

Richard Amory, “Vanden’s Best Book,” Vector, Mar. 1972, 23. [book review by SF State alum and gay novelist Richard Amory]

David Kleinberg, “When Sex Ends at Midnight, the Freaks Roll In,” San Francisco Examiner, 9 Apr. 1972, 235, 243. [article on and photograph of the Nickelettes and Denise Larson, elsewhere identified as an SF State student, at the O’Farrell Adult Theater]

Douglas Dean, “Gay College Course Popular,” The Advocate, 12 Apr. 1972, 32. [article on SF State course on “Homosexuality as a Social Issue,” taught by Lois Flynne, with references to drag queens, gay liberation on campus, leather, and sadomasochism]

Jerry Custard, “SDS Convention Attacks Evil Doers,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 3. [article about recent SDS National Convention with mention of “workshops” inside the Convention on how to respond to the “sexism and racism in the anti-abortion movement”]

“Peace Troops Plan Blitz,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 3. [article about plans of National Peace Coalition for the spring with quote from activist, “and women realize… billions are spent killing in the war while many women can’t get a decent abortion”]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 4.  

Calendar, “An Abortion Action Workshop,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 5. [advertisement for a workshop “sponsored by the Women’s Abortion Coalition”]

T.O. Salisbury, “Emptying the AS Moneybasket,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 7B. [article describing Associated Students budget; includes mention of “controversial” Gay Liberation Front dance, “Gay Liberation Front billed students $60.22 for ‘decor lights’ for its controversial dance"]

Rick Lee, “EROS, Tutors, Child Care Offered,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 8. [article on Associated Students projects, including center for women’s services, which focuses on referrals related to human sexuality, and Educational and Referral Organization for Sexuality]

Ben Lush, “New Woman Image In Film,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 10. [review of film Georgia, Georgia, with screenplay by Maya Angelou, that writer claims indicates the rise of a new woman image in film beyond stereotypes; the film’s main character, Georgia, “is svelt and sexy but she has to suffer the woes of blackness, womanhood, and the longing for love that real people confront everyday”]

Advertisement, Fritz the Cat (dir. Ralph Bakshi), Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 10. [“He’s X-rated and animated!”]

Chuck Sackett, “‘Robin’ Barely Takes Off—Nude Scene Dull, Act Dry,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 11. [critical review of play, with brief mention of nude scene]

“Student Vote Power Tallied,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 12. [article about upcoming poll on student vote choices called “Choice ’72"; includes quote from the “Socialist campaign” to “go out and do what you have to do. If you are a woman, repeal anti-abortion laws”]

Advertisement, “Friend? Lover? Roommate?,” Phoenix, 13 Apr. 1972, 12. [Venice Deli advertisement; “Send ‘em a token of your regard”]

William E. Beardemphl, “Commentary,” Bay Area Reporter, 15 Apr. 1972, 8. [critical article by longtime gay activist about attending SF State class on “Homosexuality as a Social Issue”]

David Kleinberg, “Hot Pants Party—It’s a Game of Eyes, a Feeling,” San Francisco Examiner, 16 Apr. 1972, 260. [article by SF State alum about SF “hot pants” parties]

Advertisement for EROS, Education and Referral Organization for Sexuality, Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 3. [advertisement for new campus-based referral and service organization for birth control, pregnancy tests, abortions, raps, films, etc.]

Cip Ayalin, “Birth Control Clinic to Open,” Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 3. [article on opening of birth control clinic, financed by Student Health Service]

Calendar, “The Contact Series Presents: Bernard Goldstein on ‘The New Eroticism,’” Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 5.[mention of upcoming lecture by Bernard Goldstein]

Announcement, “Youth in a One-Dimensional Society,” Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 6. [announcement of an upcoming lecture by Herbert Marcuse, commonly known as a philosopher who offers a critique of consumerist culture and its restrictive effects on sexuality]

Clifford Souza, “They Study Hang-Ups,” Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 7. [article describing new “technique probing public opinion" and its use to determine support for “homosexual rights” by analyzing hang-up rate for question asked over the phone: “Is this the Committee for Homosexual Rights?”]

Eric Berg, “Fritz the Cat, It’s Kinda Crummy,” Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 9. [review of X-rated animated feature Fritz the Cat in which the film is described as “definitely X-rated,” containing “lots of dirty words, mild balling scenes, drugs, and good old violence”]

Advertisement, “Fritz the Cat,” Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 9. [advertisement for X-rated animated film at Cinema 21]

Advertisement, Spirits of the Dead (dir. Vadim, Malle and Fellini), Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 9. [“Edgar Allan Poe’s ultimate orgy…”]

Advertisement, Clockwork Orange (dir. Kubrick), Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 9.  

Mark Barker, “Tennis, Women’s Style,” Phoenix, 20 Apr. 1972, 10. [article about SF State women’s tennis team with mention that they are planning a “battle of the sexes” tournament for 15 May]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 27 Apr. 1972, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director, with question about male equivalent of menopause]

Chuck Sackett, “Turner Wins,” Phoenix, 27 Apr. 1972, 3. [article about Associated Students president-elect, identified as Bob Turner, and his plans for SF State with mention of Turner’s “promises,” including “a free birth control clinic, offering free contraceptives”]

Advertisement, “Cordless Massager,” Phoenix, 27 Apr. 1972, 5. [advertisement for phallic “cordless massager” that may or may not be a dildo; “deep pulsating vibrations”]

Advertisement, Spirits of the Dead (dir. Vadim, Malle and Fellini), Phoenix, 27 Apr. 1972, 9. [“Edgar Allan Poe’s ultimate orgy"]

Eric Berg, “Humble Pie, Osibisa,” Phoenix, 27 Apr. 1972, 9. [review of a rock concert by the band Humble Pie; includes mention of how the front man, Marriott, “thrusts his crotch” at spectators and “assaults” the audience “with sexist lyrics”]

“May Fair Starts Monday,” Phoenix, 27 Apr. 1972, 9. [announcement of annual campus May Fair; mentions that contest for “most outrageous Fair Queen” will be “open to both men and women”]

Joe Konte, “The All-American Girl from SF State,” Phoenix, 27 Apr. 1972, 11. [article profiling SF State cheerleader Joyce Chan, the recent winner of an “All-American Cheerleader” award, written from the point of view of a self-identified “girl watcher"; “Since female cheerleaders might be thought of as sex objects… the women’s lib movement could take affront at girls like Joyce"; “Even All-American cheerleaders have to put up with the risque comments from male Casanovas”]

John Maiscott, “Parker Tyler Meets Casey Donovan,” Gay Activist, Apr. 1972, 15, 18. [brief comments by gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory in article about homosexuality in film]

Richard Amory, “Richard Amory Discovers a 29cent Jackson Novel,” Vector, Apr. 1972, 31, 32. [book review by gay novelist SF State alum Richard Amory]

Robert Strand, “SRO at Classes in Human Sexuality,” Los Angeles Times, 3 May 1972, J11.

Chuck Sackett, “Book Review: Insight to Life of Transsexual,” Phoenix, 4 May 1972, 2. [review of Felicity Cochrane’s trans-themed book Behold I am A Woman]

Maitland Zane, “Gay Battle of the Sexes,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 1972, 6. [Gay liberation symposium at SF State, attended by 250 people; speakers included graduate student David Kleinberg, Gay Liberation Front secretary Jim Willeford, Karen Wells, psychologist Ron Lee, and faculty member Sally Gearhart; focus on conflicts between men and women]

Calendar, Phoenix, 4 May 1972, 4. [announcement of gay dance, featuring Lash LaRue, at Gallery Lounge--fundraiser for Daughters of Bilitis]

Cap Ayelin, “Disabled Start Union,” Phoenix, 4 May 1972, 6. [report on study by two psychology majors about attitudes toward people with disabilities, including sexual attitudes, with references to plans for creating a Disabled Students’ Union]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 4 May. 1972, 7.  

Classified advertisement, “Weights for Sale,” Phoenix, 4 May. 1972, 7. [“Build a beautiful new body. Girls will swarm around you”]

Advertisement, Clockwork Orange (dir. Kubrick), Phoenix, 4 May. 1972, 7.  

Classified advertisement for Pregnancy Control Center in Cathedral Hill Medical Center, Phoenix, 4 May 1972, 7. [advertisement for “pregnancy control” center in SF]

Roger Barr, “Control vs Murder,” Phoenix, 4 May 1972, 8. [report on Abortion Information Panel, which featured representatives of Women’s Abortion Coalition (Sara Ullman), Voice of the Unborn (Marie de Pizzol), SF Department of Social Services (Dorthy Murphy), and SF State Health Service (Evelyn Ballard)]

Advertisment for Cock’s Inn Saloon, Phoenix, 4 May 1972, 9. [advertisement for bar with sexual name]

“Fanny Feenix’s Hot Flashes,” Phoenix, 4 May 1972, 9. [listings for “happenings around campus”]

 David Kleinberg, “Woman of Your Dreams,” San Francisco Examiner, 7 May 1972, 173. [article by SF State alum about Roberta Teitel and Life Style Experiment Program, with discussion of sexual fantasies, including orgies]

Advertisement for Cabaret at the Northpoint Theatre, Phoenix, 11 May 1972, 10. [advertisement with sexual image of cabaret performer]

“Fanny Feenix’s Hot Flashes,” Phoenix, 11 May 1972, 11. [listings for “happenings around campus”]

Classified advertisement for barbells bench, Phoenix, 11 May 1972, 12 [advertisement with the tagline “Live a longer happier sex life!”]

“They Go to Class Beneath the Waves,” Phoenix, 11 May. 1972, 13. [article about women who take swimming classes at SF State; includes discussion of oppression of women and mention of feminine body expectations; quoted one woman as saying that “most women can’t get out of the rut of thinking they can’t do things”]

Advertisement, Norforms vaginal deodorant, Phoenix, 18 May. 1972, 3.  

“Fanny Feenix’s Hot Flashes,” Phoenix, 18 May 1972, 11. [listings for “happenings around campus,” with cartoon of sexualized woman]

Eric Berg, “Two Original Stones Fans,” Phoenix, 18 May. 1972, 12. [article profiling two female “original” Rolling Stones fans, identified as Sue Lucey and Ruby Dick, with mention of how “both girls giggled at the mention of the Stones as sex symbols”]

Classified advertisement for Pregnancy Control Center in Cathedral Hill Medical Center, Phoenix, 18 May 1972, 14. [advertisement for “pregnancy control” center in SF]

Jerry Custard, “Plebeians: She Was a Truant, He Was a Cook,” Phoenix, 18 May. 1972, 17. [article profiling a couple who had children out of wedlock with mention of how their parents do not approve of the way they live because they are living together but are not married]

Advertisement for Municipal Court Judge candidate Ollie Marie-Victoire, Bay Area Reporter, 31 May 1972, 17.[political advertisement with list of supporters, including SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

“May 1972 Events,” Sisters, May 1972, 20. [calendar listing about campus fundraising dance sponsored by Daughters of Bilitis and SF State GLF]

Advertisement, “Shirley Chisholm for President,” Vector, May 1972, 18. [paid advertisement signed by eleven LGBT community leaders, including SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Richard Amory, “Richard Amory Enjoys a Wit of ‘Sunday,’” Vector, May 1972, 37. [book review by gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory]

Beverley Stephen, “Business Seeks Women MBAs—But Why?” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 1972, 26. [article about hiring female MBAs, with brief section on SF State graduate Karen Francisco, who commented on whether prospective employers asked her about marriage plans or implied that she would be a “cute” addition]

Tom Usher, “Dance and Drama,” San Francisco Examiner, 4 June 1972, 235. [notice of upcoming performance of “White Blackbird” by dancers including Denise Larson of the Nickelettes, elsewhere identified as an SF State alum]

 Advertisement, “Stokes for College Board,” San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 1972, 16. [political advertisement for gay man, Earl Rick Stokes; lesbian Sally Gearhart, elsewhere identified as SF State faculty member, among signers]

“S.F. Candidate Stokes Having Woman Trouble: Lesbian Mothers Say He Let Them Down,” The Advocate, 7 June 1972, 10. [article about gay political candidate Rick Stokes, with brief reference to Sally Gearhart resigning from Family Service Agency in Feb.]

“S.F. Candidate Stokes Having Woman Trouble: DOB President Says He’s Good Man, Anyway,” The Advocate, 7 June 1972, 10. [article about gay political candidate Rick Stokes, with brief reference to Sally Gearhart resigning from Family Service Agency in Feb.]

Douglas Dean, “San Francisco Rap-Up: All-Male ‘Dolly’ Fresh and Lively,” The Advocate, 7 June 1972, 16. [brief reference to SF State course, “Homosexuality As A Social Issue,” taught by Lois Flynn]

David Kleinberg, “Sex Movies—A Regular Stop for Japanese Tourists,” San Francisco Examiner, 25 June 1972, 238. [article by SF State alum about interest of Japanese tourists in SF porn theaters]

Jay, “Gay Symposium,” Gay Scene, June 1972, 11. [article about recent gay symposium at SF State, with conflicts between male and female speakers]

July-December 1972

“Gay Businesswoman Named to Family Board,” The Advocate, 5 July 1972, 14. [SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart replaced on Family Service Agency]

John P. LeRoy, “New Hope for Gay Writers,” GAY, 10 July 1972, 15. [article on gay books, with brief reference to SF State alum Richard Amory selling three millions copies but only receiving $750]

David Kleinberg, “Fully Clothed: Raiders’ Davidson in Sex Movie,” San Francisco Chronicle, 27 July 1972, 50. [article by SF State alum on new porn movie starting Oakland football player, with references to Mitchell Brothers and O’Farrell Theater]

David Kleinberg, “Union of Prisoners: ‘Confinement Is Enough,’” San Francisco Examiner, 27 Aug. 1972, 156. [article by SF State alum about SF State student and ex-cocktail waitress Stephanie/Stevie Riegel and SF State sociology professor John Irwin, both members of the Prisoners Union]

“Aid to Gay Moms Passed,” The Advocate, 30 Aug. 1972, 12. [article on Family Service Agency plan to assist lesbian mothers, with passing reference to SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Douglas Dean, “Sex Has Nothing to Do With It,” The Advocate, reprinted in Arena Three, Aug. 1972, 13. [article about resolution on rights of gay teachers submitted by United Professors of California at SFSC, Local 1352, at AFT convention in San Francisco]

Richard Amory, “I Am Dying, Egypt,” Vector, Aug. 1972, 41. [book review by gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory]

David Kleinberg, “The Man Who Made Millions from Games People Watch,” San Francisco Examiner, 3 Sept. 1972, 147. [article by SF State alum on Chuck Barris, including references to television shows such as “The Newlywed Game” and “The Dating Game”]

 “Something Else,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sept. 1972, 49. [brief item about SF State course titled “Erotica, Pornography and the Woman”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Much Ado About Acne,” Phoenix, 21 Sept. 1972, 2. [question asking why a sister kissing her brother is perceived by some as “strange” or incestuous]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 21 Sept. 1972, 4.  

“Drama, Mime and Museum Exhibits Around the Town,” Phoenix, 21 Sept. 1972, 4. [article listing various Bay Area events of interest; “Women’s liberation advocates can travel to the East Bay for a display of women’s dress in relation to women’s rights in 19th and 20th century America” at the “Dress for Greater Freedom” exhibit at the Oakland Museum]

Advertisement for Emko, Phoenix, 21 Sept. 1972, 5. [advertisement for Emko contraceptive foam]

Donna Horowitz, “Dorm Women Still Afraid,” Phoenix, 21 Sept. 1972, 8. [ongoing concerns about dorm safety after dorm rape]

“Coming Events,” Phoenix, 21 Sept. 1972, 8. [listing for gay counseling service with 24-hour crisis line in San Francisco]

Carlene Canton, “Students Who Choose Death,” Phoenix, 28 Sept. 1972, 1,8. [article about suicide rates and causes among college age population; mention by Roger Corneut, representative of SF Suicide Prevention Center, of “sexual identity” as “reason” that suicidal young people call for help]

“Dorm Freedom – A Good Policy,” Phoenix, 28 Sept. 1972, 2. [ongoing concerns about dorm safety and student freedom after dorm rape]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 28 Sept. 1972, 2. [advice column by Student Health Director, with questions about lack of pubic hair and itchy breasts]

Advertisement for English Leather, Phoenix, 28 Sept. 1972, 3. [advertisement for men’s cologne and related products, with tagline “a little carnal knowledge is a dangerous thing”]

Advertisement, Kotex, Phoenix, 28 Sept. 1972, 5.  

“‘Human Sex Class’ Gay Film Causes Complaints to Reagan,” Phoenix, 28 Sept. 1972, 5. [article on complaints about and defenses of sex education class taught by SF State faculty member Bernard Goldstein]

Advertisement, Thumb Tripping (dir. Quentin Masters), Phoenix, 28 Sept. 1972, 6. [film commonly known to have a story about a young, unmarried couple in love and living a lifestyle on the road; “Gary and Chay. Young and in Love for Today”]

Richard Amory, “Light from a Second Story Window,” Vector, Sept. 1972, 11. [book review by gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory]

Ann Adair, “Safety In Numbers Just Isn’t So,” Phoenix, 5 Oct. 1972, 2. [article describing sexual harassment of young women by some men during recent crowd engagements such as the “Walk with McGovern rally”]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 5 Oct. 1972, 4.  

Gary Brown, “New Health Center Planned Here,” Phoenix, 5 Oct. 1972, 4. [article announcing plans to construct a new health services building on campus at SF State; Eugene Bossi was quoted as saying that there will be “more broad purpose in helping students” at the new center, including more preventative treatment of “venereal disease”]

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, 5 Oct. 1972, 8. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms]

Advertisement, Population Planning Associates contraceptive advertisement, Phoenix, 5 Oct. 1972, 9.  

Classified advertisement, “Band for Hire,” Phoenix, 5 Oct. 1972, 10. [“‘Stagecoach’ for dances, parties, orgies, clambakes, etc.”]

Ann Adair, “Jenness Doubts Peace Stands,” Phoenix, 12 Oct. 1972, 1. [interview with Linda Jenness, identified as the Socialist Workers’ Party candidate for president, in which Jenness mentions “illegal abortions” as one of many “ignored issues"; Jenness’ party “supports women’s rights and legal abortion”]

“Eros Offers Sex Advice,” Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 3. [article on Associated Students counseling and referral service for sexuality, birth control, venereal disease, homosexuality, and abortion]

Barbara Ellett, “Switchboard Voices Ease Troubled Souls,” Phoenix, 12 Oct. 1972, 4. [article about SF State’s Community Switchboard; “most common calls are from girls who fear being pregnant,” with one call mentioned as involving reassuring a 17-year-old girl that she could get a “free abortion without her parents’ knowledge or consent”]

Advertisement for English Leather,” Phoenix, 12 Oct. 1972, 10. [advertisement for men’s aftershave and related products, with tagline “especially if your roommate wears lipstick”]

Arthur Berger, “‘Motelization’ of America,” San Francisco Examiner, “This World,” 15 Oct. 1972, 22. [article by SFSC professor on motelization, with brief references to sex lives of young people]

“Nude Flicks a Hot Item after Fire,” Phoenix, 19 Oct. 1972, 1, 10. [article about projection of nude woman that appeared on the wall of a campus dorm after dorm fire]

Carlene Canton, “Prop. 18—An Obscene Proposal,” Phoenix, 19 Oct. 1972, 2. [column critical of proposed state proposition on obscenity]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Mucus Method No Good,” Phoenix,19 Oct. 1972, 2. [advice column with questions and answers about birth control method]

Nadine Lihach, “Dorm Manager Resigns,” Phoenix,19 Oct. 1972, 3. [article about resignation of SF State dorm manager, with comments about recent liberalization of dorm rules on male and female visitors]

Jan Nakao, “Campus Women Study Candidates,” Phoenix, 19 Oct. 1972, 5. [article announcing upcoming session to be held by Independent Campus Women to “examine what the candidates are doing about women’s issues"; “key issues” include “abortion, equal pay for employment and child care assistance"; also “abortion, contraception and forced sterilization will be discussed” according to Margaret Stephens, identified as a coordinator for Independent Campus Women]

Alison Strobel, “Anthro Film Fest,” Phoenix, 19 Oct. 1972, 6. [article announcing a new film series sponsored by the Anthropology Student Union, which will include a showing of Jane Goodall’s footage of “the banana orgies of chimpanzees”]

Advertisement, San Francisco Film Festival at the Palace of Fine Arts, Phoenix, 19 Oct. 1972, 7. [advertisement mentions that the “new Andy Warhol movie Heat will be shown,” identified elsewhere as featuring Joe Dallesandro as a Los Angeles prostitute]

Classified advertisement, “Student for Computer Dating Form Distribution Business,” Phoenix, 19 Oct. 1972, 9.  

Advertisement for WR – Mysteries of the Organism and La Femme Infidele, Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 9. [advertisement for two films, one based on the life and teachings of sexual theorist William Reich and one about an unfaithful women, with sexually-suggestive photographs]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag,” Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director, with question from woman about not wearing a bra]

“Eros Offers Sex Advice,” Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 3. [article on Associated Students counselling and referral service for sexuality, birth control, venereal disease, homosexuality, and abortion]

“Ex-President and Sex Prof to Lecture,” Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 6. [announcement of lecture by Bernard Goldstein, popular sex education faculty member at SF State]

Advertisement, Savage Messiah (dir. Ken Russell), Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 8. [film described as the “true story of a haunting relationship between a young French sculptor and a woman twice his age”]

Advertisement, WR: Mysteries of the Organism and La Femme Infidele, Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 9. [advertisement for a “film based on the life and teachings of Wilhelm Reich” and advertisement for a Claude Chabrol film represented by an image of a young woman in a nightgown]

Advertisement, Akadama Plum wine, Phoenix, 26 Oct. 1972, 10. [image of young woman with caption, “I was the flop of every hop until I discovered Akadama Plum!"; “…all the College Men started turning on to me”]

R. MacDonald, “Brown Buffalo’s Trip Back to Himself,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 Oct. 1972, 182 [review of Mexican American Oscar Acosta’s autobiography, with multiple references to sex and passing mention of his studies at SF State]

Michael Harris, “S.F. State Debate: Rough Rhetoric by Marks, Pelosi,” San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Oct. 1972, 7.[debate at SF State featuring state senate candidates, with brief reference to allegations about shifting positions on legislation related to sexual conduct]

David Perlman, “Jerry Rubin’s New November Line,” Phoenix, 2 Nov. 1972, 1. [interview with Jerry Rubin in which Rubin became aware of how he seemed to sound like a sexist by reducing women to sex objects: “As an afterthought he said, ‘Don’t make me sound like a sexist’”]

“Proposition Recommendations,” Phoenix, 2 Nov. 1972, 3. [article listing state and local propositions for upcoming election alongside Phoenix voting recommendations; Phoenix rejects Prop. 18: “Prop. 18—No: Obscenity—Would eliminate ‘redeeming social importance’ test from obscenity cases in the state. The ‘morality’ of the loudest citizens would rule over the rest."; also, “Yes” on “alternative No. 3” in which the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would then be “all elected by district," meaning “many more neighborhoods and groups will be heard”]

Nadine Lihach, “Sexists Snub Women Canvassers,” Phoenix, 2 Nov. 1972, 5,14. [article about public reactions to women campaign workers; mention of typical “male reaction to a female campaigner"; discussion of negative female reaction to women canvassers, which one canvasser says shows “the depth of the oppression of women, which makes women hate themselves and each other”]

Advertisement for Akadama Red, Phoenix, 2 Nov. 1972, 7. [advertisement for alcohol, directed to “big man on campus”]

Barbara Ellett , “Libertarian Runs to Voice Philosophy,” Phoenix, 2 Nov. 1972, 5,13. [article about Libertarian Party presidential candidate John Hospers, describing “Libertarians’ beliefs” including opposition to both “invasion of privacy” and the “legislation of sexual misconduct”]

Mary Peterson, “Reining the Advertisement Men,” Phoenix, 2 Nov. 1972, 11. [article describing Arthur Berger’s upcoming book about the “evils of advertising”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: An Incurable Pile-Up,” Phoenix, 9 Nov. 1972, 2. [question concerning menstruation and the use of tampons]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 9 Nov. 1972, 5.  

Classified advertisement, “COEDS! Next Week is Take-Your-Favorite-Professor-Out-To-Lunch-Week,” Phoenix, 9 Nov. 1972, 10.  

“Shy Prof ‘Spills Kishkas,’” Phoenix, 9 Nov. 1972, 10. [article about Bernard Goldstein, popular teacher of human sexuality course at SF State]

“An ‘A-Plus’ for the Teacher,” The Advocate, 22 Nov. 1972, 7. [positive assessment of Lois Flynne’s SF State course, “Homosexuality as a Social Issue,” by gay activist and graduate student John Platania]

“Earthy, Clever ‘Canterbury Tales,’” San Francisco Examiner, 26 Nov. 1972, 198. [review of performance at SF State, featuring stories by Chaucer on themes of love and marriage]

“Beautiful Obscenery,” San Francisco Examiner, 26 Nov. 1972, 110. [brief and humorous article on recent report on dirty phone calls in SF State newspaper]

2. Arthur Gorham III, letter to the editor,” Phoenix,30 Nov. 1972, 2. [letter from uncle of SF State student, with expressions of concern about student licentiousness, lust, birth control, cohabitation, etc.]

Paul Thiele, “Universitems: Put ‘Em Up,” Phoenix, 30 Nov. 1972, 2. [column includes mention of “an ad hoc committee of women in the BCA department” who developed a “bulletin board devoted to ‘chauvinist and undignified remarks’ made to them by BCA males”]

Barbara Egbert, “Dorms: Marooned on Campus,” Phoenix, 30 Nov. 1972, 6. [article about changes in SF State dorms, with comments about recent rape and sexual dynamics]

Barbara Ellett, “Noe Place Like Home,” Phoenix, 30 Nov. 1972, 7. [article about Noe Valley’s “unconventional people,” including many “homosexuals"; mentions that “gay population is moving towards Noe Valley from Eureka Valley,” with one man saying that it is “nice place” but “there are a lot of fags”]

Advertisement for Au Naturel: Nude Male Calendar for 1973, Phoenix, 30 Nov. 1972, 8. [advertisement for nude male calendar]

"Dyke Power," Purple Rage, Nov. 1972, 14. [article on recent gay dance at SF State, sponsored by SF State GLF, and lesbian walk-out because of sexism and anti-lesbian language.]

Sally Gearhart, “Lesbian as a Political Statement,” Sisters, Nov. 1972, 1-5. [reprint of 1970 essay by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Del Martin, “The Politics of Mental Illness,” Sisters, Nov. 1972, 16-23. [article by DOB founder on LGBT mental health activism, with brief mention of Sally Gearhart’s appointment to Board of Directors of SF Family Service Agency]

“Calif. Teachers Endorse AB-470,” Vector, Nov. 1972, 33. [California Federation of Teachers endorsed state sex law reform, with brief reference to activism by gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory]

Paul Thiele, “Universitems: Knock on Wood,” Phoenix, 7 Dec. 1972, 2. [column includes mention of “KNEW’s California Girls sex talk show” at SF State with its story about a student witnessing a half-naked male professor having sex with his secretary in “an adjoining room”]

Advertisement, advertisement for My Love is Black by Mike Williams, Phoenix, 7 Dec. 1972, 3. [advertisement for book described as “a tender inter-racial love story with a Negro and woman equality background. Inquire at your bookstore”]

Donna Horowitz, “Edwards Compares U.S. and British Universities,” Phoenix, 7 Dec. 1972, 3. [interview with John Edwards, identified as the executive vice president of SF State from Sept. 1970 to Sept. 1972, regarding his recent visit to the United Kingdom; Edwards was quoted as asserting that the “relations of male and female (students) are imagined to be of a careless promiscuity” there due to the pressure to complete a degree in only three years]

James Taylor, “Low Rents and Dirt,” Phoenix, 7 Dec. 1972, 6. [article about life in the Mission District, with comments about cohabiting, courting, infidelity, etc.]

Announcement, Stan Brakhage Film Showing and Lecture, Phoenix, 7 Dec. 1972, 8. [“Experimental film-maker Stan Brakhage will give a lecture and a showing…"; Brakhage, “one of the foremost leaders of the modern cinema,” is commonly known for his explicit experimental 8mm films, one which famously shows his wife giving birth via her vaginal canal]

Classified advertisement, Lost Notebook, Phoenix, 7 Dec. 1972, 8. [“Lost: Gold, CSUSF-embossed notebook. Contains all astronomy and human sexuality notes needed for tests”]

Eric Berg, “The Story of an Actor Actress,” Phoenix, 7 Dec. 1972, 8. [article about Cuban American female impersonator (and gay man) scheduled to perform at SF State]

“Cultural Events at S.F. State U.,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 1972, 64. [article on upcoming cultural events at SF State, including performance by Judy Garland impersonator David DeAlba]

Helen Lopez, letter to the editor,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1972, 2. [letter critical of recent coverage of the Mission, with comment denying that Latinx people are “wife-swappers or swingers”]

“Women’s Studies Block,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1972, 3. [article about new “block program” in women’s studies that will be offered next semester and will include “Women and Words” taught by Sally Gearhart]

Carol Burnett, “Canterbury – Five Merry Tales,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1972, 7. [review of recent rock musical-comedy performed at SF State, with references to adultery, bawdyness, cocks, etc.]

James Taylor, “Humor Magazine’s Debut,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1972, 7. [article about new SF State humor mag, Good Humoroid, published by English Department; mentions that first issue will contain interview with Bernard Goldstein that is “full of the many gems of wit and wisdom that make his sex class a success”]

Advertisement, “Natural Men for the Natural Woman in 73!,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1972, 8. [advertisement for “Man’s of Time” nude male calendar marketed towards women: “It ‘will’ turn you on - - Break a Leg”]

“Pitschel Playsers Holiday Show,” San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 1972, 60. [Nickelettes, founded by SF State alums and known for performing “a chorus line with virginal variations,” will perform at Intersection]

John L. Wasserman, “On the Town: A Few Ways to See the Old Year Out,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 1972, 31. [Nickelettes, founded by SF State alums, will perform at Intersection]

Listing for Intersection, “Resident Stage,” San Francisco Examiner, 31 Dec. 1972, 111. [reference to the Nickelettes, elsewhere identified as a group founded by SF State alums]

Bob Fletcher, “Paper Covered Thrills,” Gay News, Dec. 1972, 14. [brief review of new novel by gay author and SF State alum Richard Amory]

January-June 1973

“Sisters Staff Quits: Transsexual Ban Splits DOB Unit,” The Advocate, 3 Jan. 1973, 14. [article on DOB conflict about transsexuals, with comments by SF State faculty member Karen Wells]

Antonius J. Rivera, Jr., letter to the editor, Phoenix, 11 Jan. 1973, 2. [letter written by self-identified “Gay Chicano” responding to “racist letter” about the Mission published in 13 Dec. issue]

Announcement, “Eroticism in Western Literature,” Phoenix, 11 Jan. 1973, 3. [announcement of SF State Extension Program course that “will explore the Greek philosophy of Eros, courtly love, hedonism, extreme sexuality, sin and rational thinking”]

James Taylor, “Around the World to Find a Girl,” Phoenix, 11 Jan. 1973, 6. [article about Joe Fecko, identified as “a 21-year-old pre-med student at SF State,” who traveled “halfway around the world and back four times in order to find a wife and bring her to his home in Daly City"; Fecko was quoted as liking his “foreign bride” for being “much more feminine than most American women”]

Classified advertisement, “Interesting Male Wants to Meet Interesting Female,” Phoenix, 11 Jan. 1973, 8.  

Classified advertisement, "Interesting Female Wants to Meet Interesting Male,” Phoenix, 11 Jan. 1973, 8.  

Ruth Steine, “Diary of an Older Student,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 1973, 25. [article about new novel by SF State alum Dorothy Bryant, Ella Price’s Journal, with reference to main character having an affair with her English professor]

Conti, “Question Man: Do You Think You’d Marry A Virgin,” San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 1973, 16. [responses to question about marrying a virgin by multiple SF State male and female students]

 “Ordained As Gay: Reverend Johnson Takes CRH Post,” The Advocate, 14 Feb. 1973, 7. [article on Rev. Bill Johnson, with passing reference to Council on Religion and the Homosexual’s Sally Gearhart, SF State faculty member]

Douglas Dean, “San Francisco Rap-Up: Setting ‘Straights’ Straight,” The Advocate, 14 Feb. 1973, 33. [article on KQED program “Male Homosexuality and the Law,” produced by SF State television center]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: ‘It’s How You Use It That Counts’,” Phoenix, 15 Feb. 1973, ? [advice column by Student Health Center director, with questions about penis size]

Advertisement for Kotex tampons, Phoenix, 15 Feb. 1973, 3.

Mildred Hamilton, “A Feminist Breakthrough in TV,” San Francisco Examiner, 18 Feb. 1973, 11. [article on SF State political science alum and faculty member Lani Silver, producer of a 15-part television series on women’s issues, with references to dating and sexuality]

Herb Caen, “The Rambling Wreck,” San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 1973, 30. [passing reference to the new International Museum of Erotic Art, which will be located in former SF State Extension building]

“Anti-Sexism Teach-In Scheduled,” Phoenix, 1 Mar. 1973, 1. [Independent Campus Women at SF State sponsoring teach-in with Kate Millet, author of Sexual Politics]

Pat Sobel, “‘Men Wanted Me To Be A Whore…,’” Phoenix, 1 or 8 Mar. 1973, 1, 10. [former prostitute Margo St. James spoke to SF State political science class]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Vaseline, Hormones and Hair,” Phoenix, 1 Mar. 1973, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director, with questions about male body hair, penis sensitivity, foreskin, and circumcision]

Paul Weaver, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 1 Mar. 1973, 2. [critical letter from student about Student Health Service not providing condoms to men]

“Announcements,” Phoenix, 1 Mar. 1973, 5. [Rabbi Benjamin Segal holding seminars about sexuality in Judaism at Hillel; topics include masturbation, contraception, nonmarital sex, abortion, marriage, and sexual identity]

Arts and culture listing, “Intersection,” San Francisco Examiner, 4 Mar. 1973, 4. [performances by The Nickelettes, elsewhere identified as a group founded by SF State alums]

Advertisement for Emko Contraceptive Foam, Phoenix, 8 Mar. 1973, 8. [advertisement for contraceptive foam]

Advertisement for 1922 Hygiene Posters, Phoenix, 8 Mar. 1973, 4. [advertisement for vintage posters addressing venereal disease, sexual intercourse, and nocturnal emissions]

Mary Ann Durney, “Here He Comes…Mr. Liberated America,” Phoenix, 8 Mar. 1973, 3. [Committee to Liberate America is organizing a “Mr. Liberated America Contest” at SF State; idea came from “Sex Roles in Communication” class]

Suzanne Satriano, “What To Do If You Have VD,” Phoenix, 8 Mar. 1973, 4. [article on handling of venereal disease cases by SF State Student Health Service and Human Sexuality Center]

John Burks, “A Museum Devoted to the Erotic Arts,” San Franciso Examiner, 11 Mar. 1973, 9. [article on new International Museum of Erotic Art, located in former SF State Extension building]

John Burks, “How to Talk Back to Your Doctor,” San Francisco Examiner, 11 Mar. 1973, 4. [article on “The Medical Mystique” symposium at Pacific Medical Center, with references to presentations by SF State sociologist Rachel Kahn-Hut, SF State sociologist Arlene Kaplan Daniels, and SF State faculty member Dean Barnlund]

“Morning-After Birth Pill—Woman Blasts FDA,” San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 1973, 6. [article on “The Medical Mystique” symposium at Pacific Medical Center, with two paragraphs on SF State psychology professor Frank Hovell, who spoke critically about the exalted status of doctors in society]

Advertisement for Akadama Plum, Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 6. [advertisement for wine with testimonial by woman claiming that “all the College Men started turning on to me”]

Pat Sobel, “Something More Than Sex,” Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 8. [article about SF State political science class featuring comments about feminism and lesbianism by two guest speakers: SF State speech communications lecturer Sally Gearhart and lesbian activist Rita Mae Brown]

Advertisement for Princeton Counseling Center, Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 6. [advertisement for business selling questionaires and individualized reports on “your Sex Quotient”]

“‘I Can’t Reach Orgasm,’” Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 10. [reporter posing as student went to EROS, the campus sexuality referral center sponsored by Associated Students, for counseling about not having orgasms]

Classified advertisements for EROS, Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 8, 10. [advertisements for EROS, campus sexuality referral center, referencing pregnancy and abortion]

Bruno R. Forner, “Lusty Applause for Belly Dancer,” Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 3. [performance by local belly dancer at SF State]

Rockie Montenegro, “‘Morning After’ Pill: For Emergency Only,” Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 10. [article on “morning after” pills available at Student Health Service, with references to faculty member Bernard Goldstein, Student Health Service director Eugene Bossi, and deputy director Evelyn Ballard, and comments about recent warnings about the safety of the pill (DES)]

“Announcements,” Phoenix, 15 Mar. 1973, 5. [brief reference to three-part seminar series on sexuality in Judaism at Hillel]

Maitland Zane, “A Museuem Full of Sex,” San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 1973, 2. [article on new International Museum of Erotic Art, located in former SF State Extension building]

Herb Caen, “Running Around in Circles,” San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 1973, 23. [column on the new International Museum of Erotic Art, located in former SF State Extension building]

“’69 Cop Shooter—Guilty and Insane,” San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 1973, 5. [article on Grant Powell, former SF State student found guilty but insane in 1969 shooting of policeman, with references to Powell’s critical views on lenient sentences given to black rapists]

Advertisement for Kotex tampons, Phoenix, 22 Mar. 1973, 3.  

Letters to the editor, Phoenix, 22 Mar. 1973, 2. [multiple letters responding to recent controversy about a “name the bridge” contest, with critical comments about male sexism and male faculty member’s “Beaver Bridge” proposal]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: The Ins and Outs of Hair Issue,” Phoenix, 22 Mar. 1973, 2. [advice column by Student Health Center director, with questions about female body hair and recent books about sex]

Advertisement for Kodak instant camera, Phoenix, 22 Mar. 1973, 6. [advertisement for instant camera, with text saying “before you take the girl home to mother, send the girl home to mother”]

Jan Nakao, “Fake Sex Used to Communicate,” Phoenix, 22 Mar. 1973, 4. [article about controversial class featuring simulation of interracial sex in Interpersonal Communication course]

Herb Caen, “One Thing After Another,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 1973, 17. [column with brief reference to SF State faculty member Marshall Windmiller’s film “Deep Rote,” with joking reference to porn film “Deep Throat”]

Keith Power, “Nob Hill Rapist’s 4-Knife Attack,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 1973, 1, 28. [article on SF State Japanese student who survived a rape]

Paul Thiele, “Universitems: News Travels Slowly,” Phoenix, 29 Mar. 1973, 2. [brief reference to SF State student Zahra Anise, who performs as the “belly-buttonless belly dancer” at the Casbah]

“‘Miss Jan.’ to Emcee Contest,” Phoenix, 29 Mar. 1973, 1. [Playboy’s Miss Jan. 1973 will serve as mistress of ceremonies for the upcoming “Mr. Liberated America” contest, sponsored by the Committee for Sexual Equality]

Alison Strobel, “Like Pirates; Pierced Ears for Men,” Phoenix, 29 Mar. 1973, 4. [article on ear and nose piercings for men, with comments on sadomasochism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality]

Advertisement for Our Bodies, Ourselves, Phoenix, 29 Mar. 1973, 7. [advertisement for book by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, with references to sexuality, birth control, abortion, and more]

“Knife Victim Close to Death,” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 1973, 3. [article on SF State Japanese student who was raped]

William Hogan, “World of Books: Webster’s on the American Language,” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 1973, 44. [article with brief reference to former SF State creative writing instructor Mark Harris, whose new novel Killing Everybody addresses “a mysterious massage parlor”]

March calendar listing, “The Daringly Different (I): Lesbianism Now,” Sisters, Mar. 1973. [calendar listing for event at UC Berkeley featuring SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Jack Rosenbaum, “Our Man on the Town,” San Francisco Examiner, 1 Apr. 1973, B1. [column with references to SF State President Hayakawa, whose recent installation as Liberian chief entitles him to have five wives]

George W. Gentes, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 5 Apr. 1973, 2. [letter responding to 8 Mar. article about the upcoming “Mr. Liberated America” contest at SF State, with mention of a document that announces women’s “demand” that men sexualize their bodies: “We, the liberated women of America, ask you to show how liberated you are by volunteering to be exploited as sex objects!"; Gentes “destroyed the document” lest it “fall into the wrong hands”]

Paul Thiele, “Universitems,” Phoenix, 5 Apr. 1973, 2. [column includes announcement of the upcoming “Mr. Liberated America contest,” with mention that “Playboy’s Miss January will be the emcee”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Two Sexes Better Than One?,” Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 2. [question asking about “frequency of hermaphroditism” and whether “hermaphrodite” is “capable of having sex with men and/or women”]

Mary Ann Durney, “Self-Defense: Scream Scram,” Phoenix, 5 Apr. 1973, 3. [article recommending what a woman who is being “followed by a man” and in danger of sexual assault should do to defend herself; includes mention of Yoshiko Tanaka, identified as a Japanese foreign exchange student at SF State, who “resisted a sexual assault”]

Mary Ann Durney, “Stabbed Student Off Critical List,” Phoenix, 5 Apr. 1973, 3. [article giving an update on the medical condition of Japanese foreign exchange student Yoshiko Tanaka, who was attacked by a rapist]

Advertisement, “Levi’s for Chicks,” Phoenix, 5 Apr. 1973, 3. [Levi’s jeans advertisement; “Take a peep. At the Bay Area’s greatest selection of Levi’s for Gals.”]

Eugene Grundt, “The Ballad of Beaver Bridge,” Phoenix, 5 Apr. 1973, 3. [poem by Eugene Grundt, identified as an Associate Professor of English at SF State, about how Grundt loves to go to “Beaver Bridge to watch the girls walk by” in “hotpants, hose and miniskirts—And jiggling derrieres"; description of “Sue the well-stacked braless wonder with much still unexplored,” whose breasts are deemed “mightier than the sword” of “Women’s Lib"; mention of “alien porn”]

Advertisement, Four Nights of a Dreamer (dir. Robert Bresson), Phoenix, 5 Apr. 1973, 8. [advertisement for Robert Bresson film “about the condition of being in love” that is described as “ravishing”]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Two Sexes Better Than One?,” Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 2. [question asking for the “frequency of hermaphroditism” and whether a “hermaphrodite” is “capable of having sex with men and/or women”]

Advertisement, “Pass the Butter, Please!,” Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 9. [Coppertone sunscreen advertisement]

Announcements, “VD Awareness Week,” Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 9. [announcement of Venereal Disease Awareness Week; “there will be films, speakers, rap sessions and slides concerning VD”]

William Gallagher, “Player’s Club Presenting Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabler,’” Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 11. [review of production of Ibsen play; reviewer asserts that the “oppression of women is not new” and provides summary of plot, which is described as featuring a “woman in a man’s world” who is “forced into a marriage of convenience” when her father dies]

Rockie Montenegro, “Making Faces at Theatre Arts,” Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 11. [article about SF State Theatre Arts class that teaches “advanced techniques in stage make-up,” including “changing sex with make-up”]

Announcement, film showings of Street of Shame and The Lower Depths, Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 11. [“two Japanese films will be shown” by the SF State Film Department Cinematheque” and both films are identified elsewhere as being about female prostitution in Japan]

Advertisement, advertisement for Color Photos of the Atrocities, Poems by Kenneth Pitchford, Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 13. [advertisement for book by Kenneth Pitchford, described as “activist in the revolution against sexism” who “has defied anti-faggot (his word) campus administrators and panels of effemiphobic psychiatrists"]

Gloria Choi, “Sex Attitudes Discussed,” Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 14. [article about “lecture on sexuality of the 70s” at SF State delivered by Harvey Kaplan, identified as a “sex counselor” for Planned Parenthood; the lecture concerned the “sexual awareness of today and the myths of sex many of us were taught to believe” with mention of Alfred Kinsey and how “more and more legitimate research is being done on sex”]

Advertisement, EROS, Phoenix, 12 Apr. 1973, 14. [“Pregnant? EROS offers complete information and referrals for pregnancy and abortion”]

Baron Muller, “Nob Hill Rapist Pictured By His Victims, Artist,” San Francisco Examiner, 15 Apr. 1973, 11. [article on search for rapist of SF State Japanese exchange student]

“Woman Stabbed to Death—Nob Hill Rapist Feared,” San Francisco Examiner, 16 Apr. 1973, 1. [article on killing of Chinese American woman, with comments about the Nob Hill rapist and the SF State student he raped]

“Police Chase Nob Hill-Tahoe Rape Suspect,” San Francisco Examiner, 22 Apr. 1973, A1, A2. [article on suspected rapist of SF State Japanese exchange student]

“Suspect Called Very Nice Person,” San Francisco Examiner, 22 Apr. 1973, 2. [article on John Phillip Bunyard, suspected of being the Nob Hill rapist]

Robert Hollis and Malcolm Glover, “Bizarre Police Hunt for Rape Suspect,” San Francisco Examiner, 22 Apr. 1973, 1, 2. [missing second page; article on search for Nob Hill Rapist, accused of attacking SF State exchange student from Japan]

Judy Klein, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 26 Apr. 1973, 2. [letter to the editor from a “student at CSUSF who is interested in prison change” who discusses how incarcerated men “would prefer women correspondents as they are denied the privilege of free association with women” in prison]

Paul Thiele, “Universitems: A Pyramid, Here?,” Phoenix, 26 Apr. 1973, 2. [column in which Thiele identifies himself as the winner of the Mr. Liberated America contest recently held on campus]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: ‘Silent’ Gonorrhea, A Sleeper,” Phoenix, 26 Apr. 1973, 2. [question asking for descriptions of the symptoms of “the clap” and Eugene Bossi answers with an elaboration of the symptoms of gonorrhea and other venereal diseases]

William Gallagher, “Talent (?) Makes Mr. Liberated America,” Phoenix, 26 Apr. 1973, 4. [article about Mr. Liberated America contest recently held on campus; contestants were described as having displayed their “talent, bathing suits, weightlifting prowess and sexual consciousness before some 300 curious students,” with Phoenix columnist Paul Thiele identified as the winner]

“SF State Celebrates VD Awareness Week,” Phoenix, 26 Apr. 1973, 8. [article about Venereal Disease Week; program was sponsored by “four Health Education seniors and the City VD Clinic”]

Thomas Tyrrell, “‘Camino Real’: Harsh, Brutal and Realistic,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 Apr. 1973, 241. [review of gay playwright Tennessee Williams play by drama professor at SF State]

Paul Thiele, “Universitems: Nixon Was Here,” Phoenix, 3 May 1973, 2. [column includes mention of a story involving a “Clearasil radio commercial featuring teen tipster Ellen Peck,” who replies to a girl complaining of “living a boring life” that she ought to “meet some boys”]

Katie Choy, “A Push for Women’s Studies,” Phoenix, 3 May 1973, 3. [SF State feminist movement pushing for Women’s Studies Department]

Announcement, “Free Friday Flicks Presents Rachel, Rachel and Titticut Follies,” Phoenix, 3 May 1973, 12. [announcement of SF State film showing; Rachel, Rachel is commonly known as a film about a woman’s sexual awakening]

Nadine Lihach, “Unsettling Symbolism: Knives, Bows, Skulls,” Phoenix, 3 May 1973, 13. [review of an exhibition of the paintings of Judith Linhares, identified as a painting instructor at SF State; Linhares’ paintings are described as expressing the artist’s “own private imagery,” including “womanhood” and “popular romantic tastes,” especially “super-feminine things"; Linhares was quoted as saying that her painting plays on “stereotypes about Mexico” and uses knives as “macho symbols”]

Classified advertisement, “Want Straight Female,” Phoenix, 3 May 1973, 16.

“Nob Hill Knife Victim Testifies Before Jury,” San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 1973, 1, 24. [article on grand jury testimony of Japanese exchange student at SF State who had survived an attempted assault by the Nob Hill rapist]

“Endorsements, Resignations for S.F. Parade Board,” The Advocate, 9 May 1973, 17. [article on pride parade planning, with reference to Lois Flynn, described as “head of the gay studies program” at SF State and mentioned as speaker]

Paul Thiele, “Universitems: Greatest Hits,” Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 2. [column includes mention that “there is no truth to the rumor that the EROS sex advice center is planning to expand with a gay hotline called ‘The Swishboard’”]

“Feminists’ Defeat: Women’s Studies Cut,” Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 3. [only nine of forty-five requested women’s studies courses were funded; one will be course on lesbianism]

Advertisement, “SDS Comment, A Reply to Racism,” Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 5. [Students for a Democratic Society full-page “paid political advertisement” highlighting “racist advertisement published in the July ’72 issue of ‘American Psychologist’”; SDS response discredits “theories of race inferiority/race superiority” based on supposed “genetic differences between the races”; signed by SF State faculty, including Sally Gearhart]

Nadine Lihach, “Culture Vulture,” Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 9. [humorous article on linguistic sexism, with reference to menstruation as example]

Rockie Montenegro, “Cheesecake: ‘Flower Drug Song Revue,’” Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 9. [upcoming performance of “Flower Drum Song Review,” with references to caricatures of Chinese men and women, cheesecake, strippers, and “skimpily-dressed girls”]  

Advertisement, Vasque Boots, Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 9.  

“‘No Place to Do It’ in China,” Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 10. [presentation in anthropology course by couple that visited China, with comments on birth control, sexual freedom, sexual privacy, and premarital sex]

Advertisement, Emko foam contraceptive, Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 12.  

Classified advertisement, “Free Living Accommodations for Responsible Straight Male,” Phoenix, 10 May 1973, 12.

Arthur Berger, “What Is The Meaning of Pop Culture?” San Francisco Examiner, 20 May 1973, 174. [column by SF State faculty member about Popular Culture Association conference, with passing comments on sex in advertising and sex role stereotyping]

“Namedrops Keep Falling,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 1973, 25. [brief reference to Ingrid Mendelsohn, wife of SF Supervisor Bob Mendelsohn, who dropped out of UC Berkeley to have a baby and now is graduating from SF State]

Jess Ritter, “Music: Texas Resiliency Carried Miller Through A Bad Year,” San Francisco Examiner, 3 June 1973, 197. [review of rock musician Steve Miller by SF State faculty member, with comments about sex and prostitution]

Norman Dorn, “The Low Budget Films of Hollywood Ended an Era,” San Francisco Examiner, 4 June 1973, 189. [brief reference to the Nickelettes]

“The Astroturf-Like Substance…,” San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 1973, 27. [brief reference to SF State course on “sexual factors in consulting”]

“Gay Course Offered This Summer at San Francisco State College,” Bay Area Reporter, 13 June 1973, 5.[announcement of summer course, “Homosexuality As A Social Issue,” taught by Lois Flynne at SF State]

Event listing, “Adolescent Sexuality,” San Francisco Examiner, 17 June 1973, 184. [announcement of lecture by Harvey Kaplan at SF State]

Event listing, “Sex Novels,” San Francisco Examiner, 24 June 1973, 180. [announcement of lecture by Norman Singer at SF State]

Elizabeth Fishel, “Games Liberated People Play,” San Francisco Examiner, 24 June 1973, 243-248. [article on responses to women’s liberation, with section on SF State “communiversity” project that addressed sexual alternatives, including gay, straight, bi, celibate, monogamous, and non-monogamous relationships]

July-December 1973

Event listing, “San Francisco,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 1973, 46. [Nickelettes performing at Great American Music Hall]

Club listing, “Intersection,” San Francisco Examiner, 8 July 1973, 172. [Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

Event listing, “Erotic Art,” San Francisco Examiner, 15 July 1973, 184. [announcement of cross-cultural discussion of erotic art by Freddi Faloona from the Museum of Erotic Art at SF State]

Maitland Zane, “Gay Job Hunting—Hairy,” San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 1973, 6. [article on former SF State drama student Charles Schneider, leader of employment service of Society for Individual Rights, with comments on employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender presentation]

“‘Bezerkus’—A ‘Liberated’ Vaudeville Show,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 July 1973, 51. [Nickelettes will perform “Queen for A Day” at the Firehouse Theater]

Club listing, “Intersection,” San Francisco Examiner, 22 July 1973, 171. [Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

Herbert Gold, “Summer of ’67: The Class Reunion,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 July 1973, CL7-8. [article on counterculture reunion, including brief reference to SF State French professor Ani Mander]

Event listing, “The Ethics of Abortion: A Medical-Social Perspective,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 July 1973, 181. [announcement of lecture at SF State by Evelyn Ballard, deputy medical director of the Student Health Center]

Richard Amory, “Song of the Gay Teacher,” Vector, July 1973, 14-16. [reflections on challenges of being a gay or lesbian teacher by gay novelist and SF State alum]

Julie Smith, “Personal Effects: A Woman Takes Judge to Court,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 1973, 3. [article on SF State student Elaine Carlson, who sued a local judge after she was arrested for solicitation and the judge refused to order the return of her appointment book and contraceptive foam]

Richard Amory, “Richard Amory Reads Tom Sawyer,” Vector, Aug. 1973, 42-44. [gay interpretations of Mark Twain’s novel by gay novelist and SF State alum]

Barbara Egbert, “The Very Latest Thing, A Co-ed Bathroom?,” Phoenix, 13 Sept. 1973, 2. [article about a new “co-education bathroom” in the “experimental wing” of the sixth floor of Mary Ward Hall; includes photograph of students in “bathroom shared by both sexes” with caption “these dorm residents share more than smiles into the photographers’ lens"; article references a Playboy “photo feature”]

Tom DeVries, “Bunyard Jury Search Is Slated to Begin Tomorrow,” San Francisco Examiner, 16 Sept. 1973, 3. [article on trial of the Nob Hill Rapist, accused of assaulting SF State exchange student from Japan]

Advertisement, Playboy, Phoenix, 20 Sept. 1973, 7.  

Ray Ratto, “Playing Around: Money and Other Pastimes,” Phoenix, 20 Sept. 1973, 9. [article includes mention of an upcoming sports event in which “Billy Jean King will face Bobby Riggs in a simple tennis match that has been billed as the final word in the women’s rights controversy”]

Classified advertisement, “Free Living Accommodations for Responsible Straight Male Student,” Phoenix, 20 Sept. 1973, 10.

Norman K. Dorn, “‘Lucia’: Destiny of Three Women,” San Francisco Examiner, 22 Sept. 1974, 164. [review of Cuban film, previously shown at SF State, about three Cuban women, with comments about their sexual relationships]

Herb Caen, “Ticky-Tacky Tripewriter,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sept. 1973, 37. [joking comment about human sexuality course taught by SF State biology professor Bernard Goldstein]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: She’d Like Worry Off Her Chest,” Phoenix, 27 Sept. 1973, 4. [question about breast asymmetry and Eugene Bossi replies with mention of how he grew up incorrectly “believing that like the left testis of the male, the left breast of the female was likely to hang somewhat lower than the right”]

Barbara Egbert, “Universitems: King-mania,” Phoenix, 27 Sept. 1973, 4. [column mentions the popularity of Billie Jean King among SF State women as “women in the dorms would rather watch the end” of the King-Riggs tennis match “than answers a rising telephone” and Egbert claims that she has seen girls “tear out of the shower room half-naked just to answer the phone”]

Advertisement, Emko foam contraceptive, Phoenix, 27 Sept. 1973, 6.  

Dwight Newton, “At Least Our Crimes Get a High Rating,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 Sept. 1974, 102. [article about television series The Streets of San Francisco, with reference to recent filming at SF State of episode about a sniper murdering “a philandering college professor and his paramour”]

Mikyl Kayhal, letter to the editor, Vector, Sept. 1973, 6. [response to Amory’s article on gay and lesbian teachers]

John Newmeyer, “Quaaludes: Super Downers,” Gay Sunshine, Sept. 1973, 5. [article about quaaludes by former SF State faculty member]

Don Miesen, “The Pride Directors: An In-Depth Report,” Bay Area Reporter, 3 Oct. 1973, 1, 2. [article on new members of SF Pride Board of Directors, including SF State alum Zane Tamas]

Pola del Vecchio, “Tripping at the Theatre,” Bay Area Reporter, 3 Oct. 1973, 36. [review of performance by the Nickelettes,, “a group of hip chicks who perform 20 minute skits for your entertainment on unusual themes”]

Bill Gallagher, “The Beard: Seven Years Older,” Phoenix, 4 Oct. 1973, ?. [review of Michael McClure’s play “The Beard,” with references to obscenity litigation, course language, seduction, and sexual pleasure]

Advertisement, Kotex, Phoenix, 4 Oct. 1973, 3.  

Paul B. Snodgrass, “Dogmatism Runs Rampant,” Phoenix, 4 Oct. 1973, 4. [article about a women’s liberation protest held in reaction to a “promotional stunt” pulled by Penthouse magazine on campus; Snodgrass disagrees with the women activists who protested the Penthouse stunt, claiming that these women have “dogmatic minds” and that “if someone wants to buy autographed nude pictures or find out about the military, that should be fine” as “one person’s sexist is another’s eroticism”]

David Tobenkin, “Bi-sexuals Hot Over Air, Stove Needs Ventilation,” Phoenix, 4 Oct. 1973, 5. [article about a stove ventilation issue in the kitchen of the “experimental, bisexual wing on the sixth floor of Mary Ward Hall"; mentions that a notice of the new “electric stove’s cold spell” was posted outside “the co-educational bathroom”]

Advertisement, “The Kama Sutra of Wines,” Phoenix, 4 Oct. 1973, 10. [advertisement for Akadama Plum wine]

Armin Jones, “Drama: ‘Goin’ A Buffalo’ Deals with Black Lifestyles and Dreams,” San Francisco Examiner, 7 Oct. 1973, 205. [review of play directed by SF State student Don McAlister, with references to “pimps,” “whores,” relationships between black men and black women, and interracial relationships]

“New Gay Role Felt as Psychologists Convene,” The Advocate, 10 Oct. 1973, 5. [article on American Psychological Association convention in Montreal, with brief reference to former SF State faculty member John Newmeyer]

“Couple Picks Family Name,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Oct. 1973, 20. [article on two SF State students, engaged to be married, who applied for new family name to avoid connotations of ownership or inequality; they also will not “demand sexual fidelity to each other”]

Advertisement, Emko foam contraceptive, Phoenix, 18 Oct. 1973, 2.  

Judith Nielsen, “Bare Breasts in Advertisement Building,” Phoenix, 18 Oct. 1973, 8. [article about “improvisational performance” in Women’s Center during which “one of the performers stripped to the waist to display her two breasts complete with a third nipple"; Sally Gearhart, instructor of Women and Administration class, mentioned as having invited performers on campus in “hopes of encouraging women’s creativity”]

Advertisement, Population Planning Associates contraceptive advertisement, Phoenix, 18 Oct. 1973, 12.  

Judith Nielsen, “Student-Professor Affairs at SF State,” Phoenix, 25 Oct. 1973, 3. [article about faculty-student sex at SF State, featuring first-person accounts of straight, lesbian, and gay faculty-student sex]

Barbara Egbert, “Universitems: Capsule Filling,” Phoenix, 25 Oct. 1973, 4. [column includes joke, “From Zengers--'Wanted m/f student for research on.’ Did I read this right?? Or does someone really want a hermaphrodite for purposes of vivisection?”]

Advertisement, Kotex, Phoenix, 25 Oct. 1973, 8.  

Steve Nash, “Women’s Studies Attracts Students, No Room in Classes,” Phoenix, 25 Oct. 1973, 10. [article on high demand for women’s studies classes, with references to “power-structured relationships”]

Advertisement, Jade contraceptive, Phoenix, 25 Oct. 1973, 10. [advertisement for condom brand; “At last… condoms for men who hate condoms"; “Jade is specially lubricated with AE66 silicone ‘love oil’ which is odorless and won’t evaporate”]

“2 Sexual Incidents Reported at State,” Phoenix, 25 Oct. 1973, 10. [article on two criminal sexual incidents at SF State—in one, a “black” man attempted to assault a woman in a bathroom; in the other, a white man “exposed himself” to a woman on campus]

Ron Moskowitz, “Faculty-Student Sex at S.F. State,” San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 1973, 3. [article on SF State student newspaper report on faculty-student sex]

“Bunyard to be Tried in S.F. Next,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 1973, 3. [article on murder trial of John Philip Bunyard, accused of raping SF State student and raping and killing several others]

Advertisement for Population Planning Associates, Phoenix, ? Nov. 1973, 3. [advertisement for North Carolina-based business selling condoms]

Donovan Bess, “S.F. State Administration: Faculty Sex Story Killed,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 1973, 4. [article on SF State controversy about student newspaper report on faculty-student sex]

Julian Solmonson, photograph of “Witches Day,” Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 2. [photograph taken at “Witches Day” celebration of two women embracing at the Women’s Center; includes caption that mentions that the party was a “witches-only party" and identifies the women in the photograph as Judi Reiss and Corky Sullivan, members of the Women’s Center Committee]

3. H. Liebes, “Regrets,”Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 3. [response by Bernard Liebes, chairman of the SF State journalism department, to the controversy surrounding the article about student-faculty sexual relations published in the Phoenix; justifies administrative censoring of article]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Coughing Up a Chest Cold,” Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 4. [question asking about the availability of “cosmetic surgery” for a veteran who was “sexually damaged by mortar fragments in Vietnam"; he says that he is “not castrated” but gets “funny stares in the locker room” and wants to “look normal”]

SF State Associated Students Election Candidate Statements, Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 10. [listing of candidates’ statements for the upcoming Associated Students election; includes a statement from “Jesus Christ Satan,” who “would repeal prohibition on drugs and sex, eliminate prisons and jails, and ban the use of internal combustion engines in automobiles”]

Donovan Bess, “S.F. State Administration: Faculty Sex Story Killed,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 1973, 4. [article about Phoenix investigation into student-faculty sexual relations at SF State and the controversial administrative response to it]

“TV Cameras Focus On Human Sexuality Class,” Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 11. [article about videotaping of Bernard Goldstein’s Human Sexuality class as “joint effort between Goldstein and Educational Television"; Goldstein quoted as asserting that he will not be “cleaning up” his language and “no effort will be made to edit” the videos]

Advertisement, “The Fallen Woman,” Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 11. [advertisement for Akadama Plum wine]

Advertisement, “What Makes ‘The Grande Bouffe’ Different From a Porno Movie?,” Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 12. [full-page advertisement of pornographic film that includes a review by New York Times film critic Foster Hirsch about how The Grande Bouffe rises above the rest of the genre]

Announcement, “Breast Self-Examination Clinic,” Phoenix, 1 Nov. 1973, 16. [announcement of a breast self-exam clinic for women held on campus by the Student Health Service]

“New Try on S.F. State Sex Article,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 1973, 21. [article provides updates about the Phoenix student-faculty sex article controversy] 

“ACLU Threat to Sue Over Sex Article,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 1973, 10. [article provides updates about the Phoenix student-faculty sex article controversy] 

“SF State Faculty-Student Sex,” San Francisco Examiner, 4 Nov. 1973, 142. [article about Phoenix investigation into student-faculty sexual relations at SF State] 

Herb Caen, “Monday-Go-Round,” San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 1973, 31. [column mentions Phoenix article about student-faculty sex, including the censoring of a "sex survey"]

“Strip Tease Trick, A Halloween Treat,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 2. [article on woman who danced topless at Creative Arts Department’s Halloween dance]

Advertisement, “Mama’s Love Potions,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 2. [advertisement for Akadama Plum wine]

Advertisement, “Outrage,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 3. [advertisement by Phoenix staffers defending Judith Nielsen's article about student-faculty sex and decrying its suppression by campus administration]

Judith Nielsen, “Student-Faculty Sex, A Pleasure, A Curse,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 3. [revised version of censored article about faculty-student sex, featuring first-person accounts of straight, lesbian, and gay faculty-student sex]

 “‘Sex Is the Price for High Grades,’” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 3. [article about Sacramento State University professors offering high grades in exchange for sex with female students]

 “No Response to Phoenix Flap,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 3. [article about campus and media responses to suppression of Phoenix story about student-faculty sex]

Joseph Illick, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 4. [letter from SF State history professor Joseph Illick criticizing Phoenix article about student-faculty sex]

Martin Hickel, “ACLU: No Case for Phoenix Suit,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 2, 16. [article provides updates to the Phoenix student-faculty sex story controversy, adding that the ACLU found "no apparent grounds" for a student lawsuit against the administration]

Advertisement for College Sex Life, Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 3. [advertisement calling for submissions for future book about college sex life]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Hormones Come in Handy,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 4. [question about a disease that “can only be cured with female hormones, which results in men developing the bosom and other female physical attributes” and whether hormones are useful for other “problems"; Eugene Bossi replies with a brief discussion of the endocrinological utility of the male and female gonads]

Cheryl James, “Nuns, Priests-To-Be Learn ‘What Life’s All About’ Here,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 5. [article about future priests and nuns who are SF State students; mentions how “changing moral and sexual standards have not affected” their points of view; article claims that “professors and students expect them to react intensely when the subjects of religion, God, birth control and abortions are mentioned in the classroom”]

Advertisement, Kotex, Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 6.  

Linda Nielson, “Sweet Charity: The Tart Who Tried,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 13. [review of Theater Arts Department production of Sweet Charity, with references to prostitution]

Classified advertisement, “Room-mate Wanted, Female or Gay Male,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 16.

Classified advertisement, “Contraceptives for Men,” Phoenix, 8 Nov. 1973, 16.  

Event listing, “Health Symposium,” San Francisco Examiner, 11 Nov. 1973, 193. [health symposium at SF State will include a presentation by Sadia Goldsmith on birth control, abortion, and sterilization]

Advertisement, “The Kama Sutra of Wines,” Phoenix, 15 Nov. 1973, 3. [advertisement for Akadama Plum wine]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Cooper’s Droop: S-t-r-e-t-c-h,” Phoenix, 15 Nov. 1973, 4. [question about “Cooper’s Droop” with an answer that treats “sagging breasts” as an “anatomical phenomenon”]

Announcement, “Bellydance Practice Sessions,” Phoenix, 15 Nov. 1973, 6.  

Advertisement, advertisement for Becoming Partners: Marriage and Its Alternatives, Phoenix, 15 Nov. 1973, 7. [advertisement for book by Carl R. Rogers that includes phrase “To love, honor … and experiment” and includes critic’s claim that “there have been many books about the so-called marriage revolution, but Becoming Partners is far and away the best”]

Linda Nelson, “Sweet Charity Suffers from its Own Script,” Phoenix, 15 Nov. 1973, 8. [review of SF State Theater Arts production of the musical Sweet Charity; mentions that the lead actress Brenda Nickerson “brings a lot to the part but never steps out of the happy but bubble-brained hooker role”]

Advertisement for Emko Contraceptive Foam, Phoenix, 15 Nov. 1973, 9.

Herb Caen, “These Fuelish Things,” San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 1973, 29. [column references "published reports of sexual relationships between SF State professors and their students]

Donna Horowitz, “Fired Lecturer Defeated in Sex Discrimination Suit,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 1, ?. [federal court ruling against foreign language lecturer Marie de Carli, who had been terminated at SFSU, with comments about traditional roles of women]

Judith Nielsen and Ron Patrick, “Damned Few Good Samaritans,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 1,2. [article describing an experiment conceived by Nielsen and Patrick to judge people’s willingness to help others in danger, presenting a “young rape-victim, naked from the waist down and gagged and bound to a light pole”]

Barbara Egbert, “Not Our Affair,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 4. [column mentions Phoenix article about student-faculty sex]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag: Puzzled Man Itches for Answer,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 4. [question about origin of a man’s itchiness around his “scrotum and public hairs"; Eugene Bossi replies with mention of “the possibility of an acquired skin disease related to intimate body contact such as sexual intercourse”]

Announcement, “Women as Sex Objects,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 5. [announcement of a lecture; “‘Women as Sex Objects’ will be discussed by Jeanne Pale-Green of the San Francisco Erotic Art Museum”]

Florence McGee, “How to Discover Lumps,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 6. [article about the breast self-exam sessions mentioned in 1 Nov. Announcement; includes interview with Peggy Funston, identified as a nurse at the Student Health Center, who was quoted as advising that “if birth control pills are being taken, breasts should be examined the day before the beginning the next course of treatment"; Funston continued, “Not any of the young ladies attending these sessions includes ever examined their breast before. They said they did not know what to look for”]

SF State Survey, “Check One,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 10. [survey meant to be cut out of the newspaper and filled out by the reader; “Check one theme you would like New School to deal with in the Fall of 1974 and return the ballot to the center of the Library"; one of the fifteen options is “Evolution of sex role in society”]

Classified advertisement, “Help Wanted,” Phoenix, 29 Nov. 1973, 10. [advertisement for “TOPLESS dancers, full time or part time”]

“They Were Bound, Gagged and Ignored,” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 1973, 3. [article about two SF State journalist students who posed on city streets as kidnapping and rape victims, with limited responses by passersby]

“Local Lesbian News by a Local Lesbian,” Sisters, Nov. 1973, 31. [brief reference to SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart working on book on gay liberation and religion]

Event listing, “Women As Sex Subjects,” San Francisco Examiner, 2 Dec. 1973, 201. [lecture, presentation, or performance by Jeanne Pasle-Green at SFSU]

Club listing, “Intersection,” San Francisco Examiner, 2 Dec. 1973, 197. [Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

Donna Horowitz, “Flirts Ruin Marriage,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 1, 14. [article on a recently divorced SF State psychology student, formerly married to a community college professor, who says female students regularly made sexual advances to her husband, with comments about “male menopause”]

Charles Cain, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 4. [letter mentions "scandal" over Phoenix article about student-faculty sex, noting that "this semester has been a traumatic one for the Phoenix"]

Dave Tobenkin, “Women’s P.E. Dept First Annual Baby Beauty Contest,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 5. [baby picture contest featuring photographs of 33 female physical education majors; passing joking reference to Playboy’s Hugh Hefner]

“‘Sniffer’ Suspected,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 6. [brief report on someone breaking into the women’s locker room and cutting the crotches out of women’s bathing suits]

“Man Lets it All Hang Out in Library,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 7. [article on man exposing himself to a woman in the library; brief mention of another episode involving a naked man on campus]

Advertisement, “Birdwoman of S.F. State,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 13. [PSA advertisement that includes a photograph of young blond women with caption “Give your campus rep a little bird call”]

Alison Strobel, “Computer, Make Me a Match,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1973, 1,10. [article about boom in computer dating services; mentions that “if you are poor, easily cajoled, if you are not into male-asks-out-and-pays-for-female type dates and you are not hot to get married soon, dating services are not for you"; includes interview with Gurnell Williams, identified as the founder of the “Gurnac” dating service, who says that “his customers… prove his internal marriage-drive theory”]

Classified advertisement, “Room-mate Wanted, Female or Gay Male,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 13.

Classified advertisement, “Contraceptives for Men,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 14. [advertisement for contraceptives for men, available by mail]

Classified advertisement, “Romantic Nude Couples in Beautiful Settings,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 14. [advertisement for 1974 calendar featuring nude couples]

Classified advertisement, “Male Nude 1974 Calendars,” Phoenix, 6 Dec. 1973, 14. [advertisement for 1974 featuring nude “natural men in beautiful settings”]

Advertisement for Emko Contraceptive Foam, Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1973, 3.

Cheryl James, “Coed Floor Works,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1973, 6. [article on coed floor of Mary Ward Hall, described as a “successful experiment in alternative campus living”; passing comment about “the two sexes mingling naturally” but “not necessarily sexually”]

Steve Peckler, “Teacher Quits Over Censorship,” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1973, 2. [article about journalism department instructor Terry Link, who quit due to censorship of Judith Nielsen's Phoenix article about student-faculty sex]

Barbara Ellett, “Sex for Children at SF State?” Phoenix, 13 Dec. 1973, 6. [article on new Theatre Arts  course titled “Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults,” with references to sex education, genitals, sperm, circumcision, and sexual anatomy]

Event listing, “New Year’s Eve Gala of Sorts,” San Francisco Examiner, 30 Dec. 1973, 107. [Nickelettes, elsewhere identified as founded by SF State students, performing at Intersection in SF]

John L. Wasserman, “On the Town: What’s Doing New Year’s Eve,” San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Dec. 1973, 30. [brief reference to the Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

January-June 1974

Stephen Cook, “Sex and the Rich Kids,” San Francisco Examiner, 20 Jan. 1974, 1, 18. [survey on sexual experiences of Marin County high school students, with some comparisons to SF State students, including comments about abortion, birth control, intercourse, oral sex, and venereal disease]

Michael Krasny, “A Wacky Tale of Infidelity,” San Francisco Examiner, 3 Feb. 1974, 191. [review of Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying by SF State faculty member Michael Krasny]

“Purses Nixed by Bookstore,” Phoenix, 7 Feb. 1974, 1. [article about male student’s complaint about bookstore not allowing him to shop with purse]

Judith Nielsen, “A Fight for Definition,” Phoenix, 7 Feb. 1974, 3. [article about struggles of women’s studies at SF State, with comments about course on rhetoric of sexual liberation]

Daniel Saks, “Nudity Ban Considered,” Phoenix, 7 Feb. 1974, 4. [article on proposed SF ban on public displays of newspapers with images of nude men or women]

Classified advertisement, “Contraceptives for Men,” Phoenix, 7 Feb. 1974, 5.  

Classified advertisement, “Oriental Female Needed,” Phoenix, 7 Feb. 1974, 5. [advertisement for an “Oriental female needed for the starring role in a dramatic acting student film project"; “Some scenes of sex and nudity are involved but are not pornographic in intent"; this advertisement is identified elsewhere as posted by Eugene Choy for his proposed adult film project Night Angel]

Rockie Montenegro, “Film Maker’s Search for a Naked Lady,” Phoenix, 7 Feb. 1974, 6. [SF State film student Eugene Choy having difficulty finding actress willing to play Chinese prostitute and perform in nude and sex scenes for film project]

Ruthe Stein, “Plain Talk: Breaking Down Doctor Mystique,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 1974, 22. [article on two doctors who provided in-service training to nurses at SF State’s student health center, with topics including venereal disease and birth control]

Herb Caen, “Pocketful of Notes,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 1974, 26. [brief reference to SF State course on “Human Sexuality,” taught by Bernard Goldstein, with 760 students]

Toni Robinson, “Coed Rationalizes Her Abortion,” San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 1974, 12. [article on SF State student’s plans to have an abortion]

“Drama: Menage a Trois,” San Francisco Examiner, 17 Feb. 1974, 153. [review of Harold Pinter play at SF State, with comments about a sexual triangle and menage a trois]

Sally Yock, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 21 Feb. 1974, 2. [letter expressing the “unfavorable sentiments” in Yock’s “Asian circle” stirred by Feb. 7 article “Film Maker’s Search for a Naked Lady"; Yock says that her “primary objection” to Eugene Choy’s project “is the misuse of women”]

Advertisement, Population Planning Associates contraceptive advertisement, Phoenix, 21 Feb. 1974, 5.  

Janet Wallace, “Mono—The Student Disease,” Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 5. [article on high student rates of mononucleosis, “the kissing disease,” with comments by Dr. Evelyn Ballard and photograph of kissing couple]

Bruce Fessier, “Pinter’s ‘Old Times’ to Premiere Tonight,” Phoenix, 21 Feb. 1974, 6. [Harold Printer play about a sexual triangle having Bay Area premier at SF State]

Leonardo Limjoco, “AS Legal Service,” Phoenix, 21 Feb. 1974, 8. [article about a new program, “Pre-Paid Legal Services, approved and sponsored by the Associated Students"; mentions that the program was started by James Dannenberg, identified as a professor in sociology at SF State “who is also a lawyer” and that the program handles “divorce, misdemeanor and felony offenses”]

Classified advertisement, “Girls of Exceptional Strength Wanted for Paid Interviews.,” Phoenix, 21 Feb. 1974, 8.  

Classified advertisement, “Ex-Con Needs Three Ladies,” Phoenix, 21 Feb. 1974, 8.  

Announcement, “A Series of Twelve Belly Dance Classes,” Phoenix, 21 Feb. 1974, 8. [announcement of belly dance classes that “will be sponsored by Beladi, a campus organization” at SF State]

Jack Loo, letter to the editor “Eugene Choy,” Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 2. [letter responding to the 7 Feb. article about Eugene Choy; letter derides Choy as a “new young porno film maker” who spreads “more misinformation about the minority people” with his proposed film Night Angel and he is “another exploiter to this class of people” by portraying “the Asian female as a victim of circumstances”]

Bob Klingner, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 2. [letter dismissing the language used in the 7 Feb. article about Eugene Choy and his film project, saying that “there is something repulsive about being faced with the same sort of ‘childish’ humor exhibited (as in the article on Choy) throughout the semester”]

Judy Poon, Judy Woo, Ruth Yee, Diana Hong, Kathy Fong and Mae Louie, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 2. [letter criticizing Eugene Choy’s film project; mentions that the letter writers are “disgusted with how Eugene Choy views the other gender of the population” and “fail to see why Choy does not want a real prostitute to play the role”]

Henry Der, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 2. [letter criticizing Eugene Choy’s sincerity in making his film, saying that “even though he offers a sense of social awareness for being involved in film making, he is really just striving to a make a pornographic film”]

Advertisement, The Gap clothing store advertisement, Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 3. [“The Gap is girl-crazy.”]

Jan Merrill, “Local Literati’s Lilting Lyrics Land Laurels,” Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 6. [article announcing that a “national publication of student writing” will “publish the work of four SF State students,” including the poetry of Tamara O’Brien, whose poem “The Incarnation” is printed within the article; the poem concerns the oppression of women by men via forcing pregnancy (“a belly distended”) and sex (“all the fathers require her consummation”)]

Announcement, “Women’s Arts Magazine Formed,” Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 6. [announcement that “a journal of artwork by women on the SF State campus is being compiled for a class project in the Women’s Studies program”]

“Friend ‘Turns Other Cheek’ at Verducci Hall,” Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 8. [article about an altercation in Verducci Hall in which a “male intruder... slapped the face of a 20-year-old Verducci Hall student after he refused to leave her room"; the man, identified as “a student in his 20s,” has “battery charges awaiting him” according to campus police]

Carole Rahn, “IUD—Alternative to the Pill,” Phoenix, 28 Feb. 1974, 8. [article on birth control and intrauterine device]

Richard Amory, “The Conspiracy of Silence: Hopalong Cassidy & A Few Others,” Vector, Feb. 1974, 24-29. [article about early gay-coded literature, including Hopalong Cassidy, by gay novelist and SF State alum]

Erin VanBronkhorst, “Lesbian Feminists Speak: ‘My Lesbianism Is My Love of Myself,’” Pandora, 5 Mar. 1974, 3. [report on presentation by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart for Women’s Studies series at University of Washington]

Judith Anderson, “‘I’d Feel Naked’: Do They Like to Wear Glasses,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 1974, 16. [article about attitudes about wearing glasses, with comments by two SF State male students about attractiveness of women with glasses]

“Have Women Come So Far?,” Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 2. [article listing the events planned for “International Women’s Day” on 8 Mar.; events include “a slide show on Women as Objects” and a “self-defense demonstration”]

Susan Figueiredo, letter to the editor “Kissing is Not a Disease,” Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 2. [letter criticizing the decision to publish a “picture of a couple kissing on the lawns of San Francisco State” next to a story on mononucleosis, the “kissing disease"; writer claims such a publishing decision is “reminiscent of the dark ages (not so very long ago) when mono was equated with venereal disease and is hardly responsible photo-journalism”]

An SF State Journalism Student, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 2. [letter addressed to Bernard Liebes of the SF State Journalism Department that discusses Liebes’s “recent censorship” of the “story about relationships between SF State professors and students”]

Pamela Hobbs, “Today’s Women’s Clothes: Quantity is There, But the Quality is Not,” Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 4. [article about a recent trend of women “paying high prices for frayed seams, faded colors, and poor fit” with some women responding by “buying men’s clothing” instead]

Carole Rahn, “Human Sexuality: Re-examining the Pink-or-Blue Blanket Coverup,” Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 5. [article on Human Sexuality course taught by biology professor Bernard Goldstein, with comments about masturbation, sex education, abortion, homosexuality, and eugenics]

Advertisement, “The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival,” Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 6. [advertisement for erotic film festival in San Francisco]

Announcement, film screening of The Lenny Bruce Film at Surf Theater and film screening of Johnny Minotaur at San Francisco Art Institute, Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 6. [announcement of screening of “erotic and very personal” film, Johnny Minotaur, described as “study in sensuality and sexual mores and manners” written and directed by gay artist Charles Henri Ford]

Shirley Polich, “Battle of Sexes Developing Among Bowlers,” Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 7. [article about “restless women bowlers” who “want to compete against the men,” as “the top women want it, but the men feel they’ll be degraded if beaten by a woman”]

Classified advertisement, “Female Screen Writer Wanted,” Phoenix, 7 Mar. 1974, 8. [advertisement posted by the campus Health Service; “Female screen writer wanted to collaborate on animated film for Health Service. Contact Dr. Slex Lewis”]

“English Program Future in Doubt,” Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 3. [article about results of English Department vote on new curriculum; mentions that “the main reasons students take the courses is the subject matter,” with “Incest: Implications of an Archetype” and “The Homosexual and Bisexual in Contemporary Literature” provided as “examples of subjects taught last semester”]

Advertisement, Kotex, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 5.  

“Streaking Right into the Slammer,” Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [article on streaking at Ball State University in Indiana; Dan]

Jeffrey Liss, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [letter addressed to SF State President Romberg that asks “who knows for sure how many actual rapes have taken place on the SFSU campus since the number of victims reporting such crimes is extremely low”]

Corrine Wick Sullivan, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [letter addressed to SF State President Romberg mentioning that “within the last month” the letter writer has “learned of one rape and one attempted rape of two different women on this campus at night” and that this is “intolerable” to her “and every woman” she knows]

Lani Silver, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [letter addressed to SF State President Romberg expressing how the letter writer is “very concerned with the seeming increase of attacks on women on this campus” with writer stating that she has “heard of three such incidents this semester alone”]

Richard Poidomani, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [letter from an incarcerated man, a “25 year old male seeking correspondence with females of any age with wide range of interests”]

Robert Cisco, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [letter from a 24-year-old man “currently incarcerated in at Connecticut State Prison” who is seeking “some young ladies who would like to share interests and thoughts” via written correspondence]

Louis Roque, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [letter from a “prisoner incarcerated in Connecticut’s penal system” who “would like to correspond with people in the free world”]

Robert Morgan-Wilde, “Opinion: In Defense of an Educator,” Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 6. [opinion piece defending both the Journalism Department and Bernard Liebes, who is identified elsewhere as embroiled in controversy over the censuring of a story about teacher-student sex at SF State]

Advertisement, Emko contraceptive foam, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 7.  

John M. Hillman, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 7. [letter defending the decision of Bernard Liebes to end the series looking at teacher-student sex; mentions that “the reason why publication was suspended was because the article was simply lacking in merit”]

Advertisement, “ChingNin Clinic Health Care for Young Women,” Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 9.  

Judith Nielsen, “Women in Rock: Evolution of the Blue-Jeaned Baby Queen,” Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 10. [article discussing the role of women in male-dominated rock music; mentions that rock music often reduces women to sex objects but adds that the “Seventies is beginning to clear itself of sexism”]

Classified advertisement, “Try Again,” Phoenix, 14 Mar. 1974, 12. [“Ladies with social conscience still needed to write two good men behind the walls.”]

“Rubbers Soup and Nixon,” Phoenix, 21 Mar. 1974, 1. [article on SF State Activities Fair, with joking comment about Bernard Goldstein’s human sexuality course]

Cheryl James, “Bare Things Bring Sighs,” Phoenix, 21 Mar. 1974, 1. [article on recent wave of streaking at SF State, featuring reactions by multiple students]

Cynthia Lewis, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 21 Mar. 1974, 2. [letter about 28 Feb. article “IUD: Alternative to The Pill"; mentions that the article “neglected to list the Student Health Service as a source for referral and information about the IUD along with the San Francisco Women’s Health Collective and the Berkeley Women’s Health Collective”]

Marshall Krause, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 21 Mar. 1974, 2. [letter criticizing Bernard Liebes’ censorship of series on teacher-student sex at SF State; mentions that the teacher-student sex article challenges “narrow sexual prejudices"; adds that “Kinsey’s books on human sexuality performed extremely valuable services” even though “it has now been recognized that his sampling was faulty”]

Robert Manor, “Transfer: A Genuine Departure,” Phoenix, 21 Mar. 1974, 6. [article about the most recent issue of Transfer, identified as a magazine produced by students at SF State; includes a review of the play The Return by Rick Foster that says that “despite incestual rape via an inflated dildo” the play “never tumesces” and that “Michael McClure did it all years ago”]

John P. De Cecco, “Lavender U A Gay First,” The Advocate, 27 Mar. 1974, 17. [article by SF State psychology professor about founding gay university]

Letter to the editor, Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 2. [letter written in response to Marshall Krause’s 21 Mar. letter to the editor; criticizes Krause’s description of the topic of “student-professor relations” as a “sensitive subject”]

“Where To Get Help,” Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 6. [article includes a list of on-campus and off-campus health resources published for the benefit of readers; organizes listings using categories that include “Vasectomies” and “Women’s Problems: Birth control, pregnancy testing, abortion counseling”]

Advertisement for Emko Contraceptive Foam, Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 7. [advertisement for foam contraceptive]

Robert Morgan-Wilde, “Women’s Books: Library Scatters Them While Bookstores Section Them,” Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 7. [article about new movement among “bookstores across the City” to “group books dealing with women”; includes mention of authors: Simone de Beauvoir, Caroline Bird, Ellen Frankfort, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, Kate Millet, and Robert Morgan; includes mention of books: Our Bodies, Our Selves, Sisterhood is Powerful, Born Female, and Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings]

Advertisement, Lovin’ Molly, Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 10. [advertisement for film starring Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, and Blythe Danner described as a “Texas menage a trois” that “looks at the complexities of love…Blythe Danner is…folksy and sexy, the very embodiment of a truly liberated female character”]

John Moore, “Tennis: The Sport of the Elite is Now the People’s Game,” Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 10. [article about popularity of tennis, sport that used to be “game for girls or ‘sissy’ boys"; mentions role of Billie Jean King in expanding popularity of tennis]

Classified advertisement, “Couples Living Together Other Than Married,” Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 12. [“Sociology Graduate would like to talk with you about your relationship.”]

“Health Service,” Phoenix, 28 Mar. 1974, 12. [advertisement for Student Health Service; “Venereal disease, homosexuality, genetics, pregnancy, and feminine hygiene are just a few of the areas in which advising is given by the Human Sexuality Center of the Student Health Service”]

“She Felt Chased,” San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 1974, 3. [article on legal complaint by former SF State clerk Susan Andrew, who said she was fired after resisting the sexual advances of her supervisor, Elfido Salazar]

Richard Amory, “Mark Twain, Too?” Vector, Mar. 1974, 16-17. [article about Mark Twain’s possible homosexuality by gay novelist and SF State alum]

“Local Lesbian News by a Local Lesbian,” Sisters, Mar. 1974, 29. [announcement that SF State alum and lesbian singer Betty Kaplowitz will perform at Full Moon, women’s bookstore and coffeehouse in Castro]

Advertisement, Philosophy & Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya, Phoenix, 4 Apr. 1974, 3. [book advertisement; “The woman who has lived it all now writes about Philosophy & Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao"; Raya Dunayevskaya is identified elsewhere as a Marxist Humanist who was active in efforts to legalize birth control and abortion with fellow Trotskyist Antoinette Bucholz before World War II]

Lenny Limjocco, “Okay, Class, Eyes Front,” Phoenix, 4 Apr. 1974, 5. [article about “sexual paraphernalia” displayed in “Miguel Gadda’s ‘La Raza and the Law’ class” from Fernando Gonzales’ and Cathy Strandberg's (“a.k.a Kit of the Playgirl Nude Encounter Club”) new “sex shop"; also, an 8mm “porn flick,” Hollywood Pick-Up, starring “Johnny Holmes,” was shown in class and drew an “especially enthusiastic reaction from those in the 75 percent male audience who remembered [Holmes] as Eddie Haskell” from the 1960s TV show, “Leave It To Beaver”]

Judith Nielsen, “Meditation by a Mystical Lady in White,” Phoenix, 4 Apr. 1974, 7. [article profiling Betty Bethards, identified as a “40-year-old psychic,” that mentions her recently published book Sex and the Psychic Energy and describes her views on sexual positions, abortion, and sex; article includes cartoon figure of man and woman having sex]

Advertisement, “Birthright Emergency Pregnancy Service,” Phoenix, 4 Apr. 1974, 7. [“Pregnant and distressed? Help is as near as your telephone”]

Advertisement, “Full-Color Streaker T-Shirt,” Phoenix, 18 Apr. 1974, 7. [advertisement for streaker t-shirt]

Advertisement, “Streak into a Van Heusen!,” Phoenix, 18 Apr. 1974, 7. [Van Heusen clothing advertisement; “For revealing your true colors in a most original way, streaking can hardly be overlooked!”]

Announcement, “VD,” Phoenix, 18 Apr. 1974, 13. [announcement of “a VD film festival” on campus at SF State “which will include short films, slides, and open discussion on the facts and fallacies of VD”]

Announcement, “S,S, & C,” Phoenix, 18 Apr. 1974, 13. [advertisement for a lecture by Bernard Goldstein, identified in the advertisement as a biology professor; Goldstein is mentioned as discussing ‘Sex, Syph and Clap’”]

“Ginsberg, Blues and Feminist Art,” Phoenix, 18 Apr. 1974, 11. [announcement of campus poetry reading by gay poet Allen Ginsberg and off-campus poetry reading by lesbian poet Adrienne Rich]

“Taxman Took His Truck for $2.44,” San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 1974, 4. [article on Morgan Pinney, elsewhere described as former SF State faculty member, whose truck was claimed by IRS after he refused to pay excise tax on telephone bill to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam War]

Calendar listing, “First Anniversary Party,” Plexus, 15 Apr. 1974, 10. [SF State lesbian alum Betty Kaplowitz scheduled to perform at first anniversary party for Full Moon, women’s bookstore and coffeehouse in Castro]

“S, S, & C,” Phoenix, 18 Apr. 1974, 13. [advertisement for lecture by biology professor Bernard Goldstein]

Donna Horowitz, “Contraception’s Impotence—No Research Funds,” Phoenix, 25 Apr. 1974, 6. [article on national legislative developments on birth control]

Advertisement, English Leather, Phoenix, 25 Apr. 1974, 8. [advertisement for English Leather includes photograph of woman speaking to a nude man with caption “All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all”]

Mark Thompson, “Unisexual Angels Bringing the Light of Divide Decadence,” Phoenix, 25 Apr. 1974, 11. [article on gay/trans/drag/pansexual performance groups Cockettes and Angels of Light]

Cheryl James, “The Five ‘Voices’ of Susan Griffin To Be Heard,” Phoenix, 25 Apr. 1974, 11. [article about the new Susan Griffin play Voices; article includes interview with Griffin in which she “made it clear that she is not opposed to having relationships with men- just no marriage contracts"; Griffin, identified as a teacher of “writing and women’s studies at UC Berkeley Extension,” was also mentioned as the author of the book The Politics of Rape, described as “an analysis of rape as a political act”]

Classified advertisement, “Couples Living Together or Living Together, Then Married,” Phoenix, 25 Apr. 1974, 14. [“Sociology grad. stud. would like to discuss your relationship for MA thesis. Call Gary”]

“The Women’s Music Festival,” Sisters, Apr. 1974, cover, 23-26. [cover photograph of SF State lesbian alum Betty Kaplowitz and article on recent Women’s Music Festival in SF]

Patricia Pedersen and Mark Young, “Debating Abortion: The Issue That Won’t Go Away,” Phoenix, 2 May 1974, 6. [debate about abortion at another university]

Valeria Mayne, “Bringing Self-Awareness Through Psycho-drama,” Phoenix, 2 May 1974, 11. [article about SF State’s Creative Expression Ensemble’s new “psycho-drama” that is described as intended to bring attention to “sex roles and sex imagery”]

Sabra Perreten, “Shakespeare Was Like This… Or Was It?,” Phoenix, 2 May 1974, 13. [article about new SF State Theater Arts production of the Shakespeare play Measure for Measure; the work is described as “a play about sex” and as a cautionary tale on “how repressive laws cause fanaticism and bigotry”]

Donna Horowitz, “Men’s and Women’s PE Programs: Should They Be Equally Funded?” Phoenix, 2 May 1974, 15. [article about Title IX and funding for male v. female athletics, with cartoon featuring nude woman]

Advertisement, Olympia Brewing advertisement, Phoenix, 9 May 1974, 3. [“The quarter after you moved out of the dorm, it went co-ed. You owe yourself an Oly”]

Announcement, “Women and Childcare in the People’s Republic of China,” Phoenix, 9 May 1974, 3. [“Women and Childcare in the People’s Republic of China will be the subjects of a lecture by Doreen Croft” at SF State]

“Dr. Bossi’s Bag--VD—It’ll Drive You Crazy,” Phoenix, 9 May 1974, 7. [advice column by Student Health Director Eugene Bossi, with question about venereal disease signs and treatments]

Sabra Perreten, “Hula Hoop Shakespeare Measures Up,” Phoenix, 9 May 1974, 9. [review of SF State Theater Arts production of Shakespeare play Measure for Measure; includes mention that the “theme of sexual repression” was present throughout the play, with “the exuberant low life classes representing sexual freedom and licentiousness” contrasting with the “repressed ‘holy and ruling’ classes”]

Janet Wallace, “Black Community: Three Looks In One Play,” Phoenix, 9 May 1974, 9. [article about how “three divergent lifestyles in the Black community are examined” in a Black Studies Department production of the Sonia Sanchez play Uh-Huh, But How Do It Help Free Us?; play is described as including a character who is an “advocate of Pan-Africanism” and lives with “two wives"; also, play is mentioned as involving interracial sex]

Robert Manor, “ARCADE: ‘Non-Cutesy’ Literary Mag,” Phoenix, 9 May 1974, 9. [review of most recent issue of English Department’s literary magazine, ARCADE; includes mention of a story about “a woman’s marriage ennui” and a story titled “The Love Police”]

Daniel Saks, “A New Majority in AS Politics,” Phoenix, 9 May 1974, 12. [article about Associated Students and Students for Organized Change, with reference to resolution against sex discrimination in faculty/staff hiring and comments about Sally Gearhart in Speech Communications Department]

Paine Knickerbocker, “On and Off Stage: Mississippi to Berkeley,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 1974, 42. [profile of African American director/actor R. Stribling Griffin, currently directing a play for the Grassroots Experience, founded by SF State student John H. Doyle, with comments about black actors in sexual exploitation films]

Carole Rahn, “‘Unorthodox’ Philosophy Teacher Fired,” Phoenix, 16 May 1974, 1,14. [article about the firing of philosophy professor Gretchen Milne, identified as a founder of the Women’s Studies program at SF State; Milne was quoted as saying, “I just want one course where women can create their own style of philosophy”]

Carole Rahn, “Childbirth: It’s a Natural High,” Phoenix, 16 May 1974, 11. [article about childbirth and its effects on the bodies of women; quoted one woman as saying, “in childbirth, a woman in labor is stripped of her personality and becomes a basic woman, more animal than woman"; includes mention that “the struggle to get fathers into the delivery room and allow the mother to remain a conscious and dignified participant... began six years ago in [the United States]"; mention of the cervix as “the baby’s gateway to the outer world”]

Cartoon Hall of Fame for Spring 1974 Semester, “SF State Sports Garden,” Phoenix, 16 May 1974, 13. [cartoon titled “SF State Sports Garden” about the funding disparity between men’s and women’s physical education departments at SF State; cartoon has a naked woman saying “Somebody up there is an omnipotent chauvinist” to a fully-clothed male football player replying “You can keep the apple!”]

Harold Fairbanks, “Harold’s Corner: Tra Law! The Singing Cowboy Is Back,” The Advocate, 22 May 1974, 33. [brief reference to SF station KPIX winning broadcast media award for “Gay Power” television documentary; award presented at Broadcast Industry Conference at SF State]

“S.F. Drama: 6 Hours on the Edge of Suicide,” San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 1974, 17. [article about suicidal SF State student, despondent about relationship troubles with his girlfriend and “an unsatisfactory love life”]

“Bunyard Guilty in Nob Hill Case,” San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 1974, 3. [guilty verdicts for Nob Hill rapist, with references to video testimony by SF State student who survived his attack]

John L. Wasserman, “Lively Arts: In Pursuit of Erotica & Woman,” San Francisco Examiner, 26 May 1974, 103.[reference to “Erotica, Pornography, and the Woman?,” presentation by Betty Peskin, formerly teaching assistant for Wasserman’s SF State course on “Pornography and the Arts”]

Pat Kelly, “Sisters from the Pulpit,” Sisters, May 1974, 3-6. [brief reference to lesbian activist and novelist Rita Mae Brown speaking at SF State]

Club listing, “Intersection,” San Francisco Examiner, 2 June 1974, 144. [Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

“Awareness Workshop in East Bay,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 1974, 45. [article on workshop “for men and women to explore their psychological relationships with each other,” conducted by SF State psychology professor Janet Bleckner]

Charles Lee, “San Francisco Rap Up: Dianne, Beefcake, and Hondas,” The Advocate, 5 June 1974, 37. [reference to new book, Loving Women, Loving Men, coauthored by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Peter Knickerbocker, “Director of Unusual ‘King Lear’” San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 1974, 36. [article on new local production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by SF State alum Jose Carrillo, with references to “almost naked” performer]

Event listing, “Intersection Series,” San Francisco Examiner, 16 June 1974, 155. [Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

Event listing, “‘Poetry in the Body/The Body in Poetry,” San Francisco Examiner, 16 June 1974, 159. [workshop at SF State on “how to use the resources of the body to release the imagination”]

Event listing, “The State of Erotic Film,” San Francisco Examiner, 23 June 1974, 114. [SF State alums Scott and Freude Bartlett featured on panel at UC Berkeley]

Maitland Zane, “Beauty Meets the Press: She’s Not Ms. California,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 1974, 4. [article on new Miss California, who hopes to study music at SF State]

Lynell Ewald, “The Confidential Epidemic,” San Francisco Examiner, 30 June 1974, 208. [article on venereal disease in San Francisco, with focus on female SF State student]

”Local Lesbian News By Your Local Lesbian,” Sisters, June 1974, 31. [reference to Daughters of Bilitis sending letter of support for Women’s Studies Program at SF State]

Sally Gearhart, “Lesbian Debutante: A Plea for Information,” Lesbian Tide, Mar. 1974, 22-24, reprinted in Sisters, June 1974, 3-8. [reprint of article by SF State faculty member, published previously in The Lesbian Tide, about coming out for lesbians]

Calendar listing, Plexus, June 1974, 9. [SF State lesbian alum Betty Kaplowitz scheduled to perform at Full Moon, women’s bookstore and coffeehouse in Castro]

July-December 1974

Susan Berman, “The Cosmetic Giggle,” San Francisco Examiner, 28 July 1974, 22-24. [article on changing attitudes about cosmetics, with discussion of men wearing makeup and gay influences]

Sally Gearhart, “Lesbianism As A Political Statement,” Sisters, July 1974, 26-31. [reprint of essay published previously by SF State faculty member]

“A Weekend Ride with a Corpse,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Aug. 1974, 5. [article on SF State male student who killed his girlfriend]

Judith Nielsen, “The Case for Lesbianism?” Sisters, Aug. 1974, 3-9. [brief reference to SF State lesbian professor saying that husbands should consult with lesbians to better fulfill sexual needs of wives]

John Callahan, “S.I.R.’s Speakers Bureau,” Vector, Aug. 1974, 27, 29. [brief reference to SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart, who several years earlier had led popular Society for Individual Rights workshop at National Convention of High School Counselors at SF Hilton]

Calendar listing, Plexus, Aug. 1974, 9. [SF State lesbian alum Betty Kaplowitz scheduled to perform at benefit for Women’s Skill Center in SF]

Albert Morch, “Sellers’ Big Switch in Careers,” San Francisco Examiner, 1 Sept. 1974, 43. [brief reference to son of Playboy co-founder Eldon Sellers, now studying math at SF State]

Club listing, “Intersection,” San Francisco Examiner, 1 Sept. 1974, 114. [Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

“Budget Cuts Raise Birth Control Fees,” Phoenix, 5 Sept. 1974, 2 or 5. [article about $2 increase in birth control counseling and lab test fees at Student Health Service; Student Health Director Eugene Bossi quoted; fees increasing from $7.50 to $9.50; references to contraceptives, birth control pills, condoms, human sexuality center, venereal disease advice, birth control clinic, and human sexuality films]

Valerie Mayne, “A Plea for Abortion Help,” Phoenix, 5 Sept. 1974, 1. [SF State student Sally Yock hoping to start a campus extension of Keep Abortions Legal, a SF abortion rights group]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 12 Sept. 1974, 3.  

David Cawley, “All Not Well in Beautiful San Francisco; Gays Being Harassed by Police Again,” Phoenix, 12 Sept. 1974, 5. [article by member of Gay Students’ Coalition about police harassment of gay people in Castro and SF]

Event announcement, Bay Area Reporter, 18 Sept. 1974, 23. [announcement of upcoming performances by the Nickelettes at Intersection]

Kim Baldwin, “Women’s Center: A Place for Caring,” Phoenix, 19 Sept. 1974, 4. [article about SF State Women’s Center’s, which “has a referral system for the San Francisco Area on employment for women, birth control problems, gay organizations, and other women’s groups"]

Nancy Ziomek, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 19 Sept. 1974, 5. [response to Mayne article above from anti-abortion activist]

Advertisement, Bimbo’s 365 Club, Phoenix, 19 Sept. 1974, 6. [“MALDEC presents Cutie Pies & Goodtimes with Live Entertainment"; “There will be Cutie Pies You’ll Remember During the Good Times in September! An Evening of African Violets at Bimbo’s on September 28"; “No Minors”]

Bob Carlsen, “Chronicle Critic Offers Media and Arts Class,” Phoenix, 19 Sept. 1974, 6. [brief reference to earlier SF State extension class, “Pornography and the Arts,” taught by SF State alum John Wasserman]

Michael Olson, “Garcia Rape/Murder Trial Is A Tangled Story of Violence,” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 1, 12. [article on Monterey murder trial of Inez Garcia, accused of killing her rapist]

Michael Monko, “How Business Firms Can Pry Into All Your Habits,” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 2. [article on consumer reporting agencies, with references to their interest in “sex habits,” “moral reputation,” and “sexual activity”]

Jim Sanders, “A Way to Hang Loose—By Getting All Wired Up,” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 2. [article on Biofeedback Relaxation Workshop, coordinated by biology faculty member; reference to sexual potency]

Paul Snodgrass, “Glide Memorial Isn’t A Church, It’s A Movement,” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 2. [article about Glide Memorial Church; attracts “blacks, whites, gays, straights, young, old, hookers, hippies and hoboes”]

Sharon Cohen, “Redwood City Schools Grant Paternity Leave,” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 4. [article about Redwood City elementary schools giving “its male employees paternity leave during the first year of their child’s life"; includes interview with Sandra Bem, identified as a “social psychologist studying the psychology of sex roles at Stanford,” who says paternity leave is an “excellent idea"; Bem was quoted as saying, “by having both parents play active and equal roles in child raising, the child won’t grow up stereotyping men and women”]

Jan Teller, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 6. [letter correcting mistake in the 19 Sept. article on services provided by the Women’s Center; Teller is not “leading consciousness-raising sessions”]

Denise Brakefield, “Rape: Savage Carnal Knowledge,” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 7. [article on proposed state law that would protect rape survivors’ right to privacy, including extensive comments by SF State rape survivor]

Bruce Fessier, “Police Violating Law?” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 7. [article on new Robbins Rape Evidence Law and ongoing problems with police questions about rape survivors’ sexual history]

Lenny Limjoco and Ben Finnegan, “Shorts Mandatory: Female Trainer Adds New Rules,” Phoenix, 26 Sept. 1974, 10. [article about the “jock” reaction to a new female assistant trainer in Physical Education, identified as Fran Higgins; article claims that because there is a female trainer, nudity is now “banned,” shorts “are now required to be worn when Higgins is around,” and there are “no more dirty jokes"; “You occasionally get a few pranksters who want Fran to tape their groins”]

Karl Maves, “Relevant Reading,” Vector, Sept. 1974, 12. [review of new novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Sally Gearhart, “The Lesbian and God-the-Father,” Gay Alternative, Summer 1974, 10-13. [article by SF State faculty member based on presentation at 1972 religion conference in Berkeley]

David Cawley, “Former Inmate’s Report on Sex in San Quentin,” Phoenix, 3 Oct. 1974, 1, 16. [article on SF State student and former San Quentin prisoner Gus Colgain, who conducted in-depth research on prison homosexuality]

Advertisement, Cabaret (dir. Fosse), Phoenix, 3 Oct. 1974, 10.  

Alan Whiteside, “Satanic Majesty and Maniac Guitar,” Phoenix, 3 Oct. 1974, 12. [article about audience reaction to Mick Jagger at a Rolling Stones concert film showing at the Northpoint Theater; mention of the reactions of “three, young baby-fat teenage girls"; audience is mentioned as enjoying Mick Jagger’s “ass wiggling” and “crotch thrusts” during the performance of the song “Brown Sugar”]

“A Grave Warning on Sex Therapists,” San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 1974, 3. [article about recent warnings about unlicensed and unqualified sex therapists by SF State faculty member Ben N. Ard, president of the California Association of Marriage and Family Counselors]

Janet Lowpensky, “Plight of Viet Women in War’s Aftermath,” Phoenix, 10 Oct. 1974, 2. [article on “Women in the World” class, featuring Vietnamese women talking about wartime experiences, including hospitals with Playboypinups and “growing numbers of prostitutes”]

Jim Sanders, “Welby Show Stirs Gay Protest,” Phoenix, 10 Oct. 1974, 4. [article on gay protest at KGO-TV against antigay “Marcus Welby” episode, with comments by SF State student activist Henry Wilson and reference to “Gay Student Coalition,” which included SF State students]

Robert Neale, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 10 Oct. 1974, 5. [letter responding to previous letter about abortion; this one distinguished between contraception and abortion, with the latter likened to infanticide]

“Gay Lifestyle: Cage Without Bars,” Phoenix, 10 Oct. 1974, 8. [article about upcoming one-woman Lavender Troubadour show, addressing “homosexuality and gay lifestyles,” by Rebecca Valrejean at SF State; sponsors included Gay Students Coalition]

Club listing, “Intersection,” San Francisco Examiner, 13 Oct. 1974, 171. [Nickelettes performing at Intersection in SF]

“A Fixating Dichotomy in Dance,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 1974, 41. [review of dance performance at SF State, with reference to “lust and raw savagery”]

“Dr. John P. De Cecco,” Gapoo, 16 Oct. 1974, 5. [brief reference to study conducted by SF State psychology professor John De Cecco and others about interpersonal, group, and institutional conflicts involving homosexual men and women]

Sandra Hansen, “Birth Control: The Cost of Controversy,” Phoenix, 17 Oct. 1974, 1, 12. [article about ongoing conflicts about access to and charges for birth control at SF State, with references to Student Health Center, EROS, Associated Students, Board of Trustees, Eugene Bossi, Evelyn Ballard, and Suzanne Bushnell]

Barry Aug, “New Health Center is Planned,” Phoenix, 17 Oct. 1974, 6. [article about planned new campus Health Center building; includes an interview with Eugene Bossi, who was quoted as saying, “we are interested in doing health education and health maintenance” and “special clinics will be grouped together” in new building, for the benefit of students]

Jan Merrill, “‘Lavender Troubador’ Delivers Message of Gay Oppression,” Phoenix, 17 Oct. 1974, 10. [interview with Rebecca Valrajean about new play Lavender Troubadour at SF State, “presented by Associated Students Performing Arts, Women’s Center, and Gay Student’s Coalition"; Valrajean quoted as claiming that play describes her “own experiences within the gay political movement”]

“Guests Highlight SF Film Festival,” Phoenix, 17 Oct. 1974, 10. [article about “18th Annual San Francisco International film Festival"; films include Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage and Luis Bunuel’s The Phantom of Liberty]

“Lavender Troubadour,” Phoenix, 17 Oct. 1974, 10. [announcement of performance at McKenna Theatre of Rebecca Valrajean play Lavender Troubadour]

“Golf Course Victim Identified,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Oct. 1974, 2. [nude and battered body of married female SF State student found on golf course in Pleasanton]

Art Rosenbaum, “A Ms. in the Clubhouse,” San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 1974, 52. [new assistant trainer for football team at SF State is female physical education student; males now must wear shorts in clubhouse]

Martin McKenna, “Sex Hangups: In Search of Effective Therapy,” Phoenix, 24 Oct. 1974, 3. [article on sex therapy, with comments by SF State counseling instructor and marriage therapist Ben Ard and EROS director Marcy Levine]

Classified advertisement, “Gay Ski Cabin,” Phoenix, 24 Oct. 1974, 4. [advertisement for coed gay ski cabin on Donner Lake]

Evelyn Ballard and Karen Montie, letter to the editor, and response by Sandra Hansen, Phoenix, 24 Oct. 1974, 5. [critical response to Hansen’s earlier article about birth control and Hansen’s response]

Announcement, “Rape and Inez Garcia Teach-in,” Phoenix, 24 Oct. 1974, 8. [“Speakers and discussion sponsored by the Woman’s Center”]

Pauline Scholten, “One-Woman Show,” Phoenix, 24 Oct. 1974, 9. [review of Rebecca Valrejean’s “The Lavender Troubador,” one-act improvisational play about lesbian love, performed at SF State]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 24 Oct. 1974, 10.  

Advertisement, ChingNin Clinic, Phoenix, 24 Oct. 1974, 11. [“Health Care for Young Women. Free.”]

Harvey Milk, “The Lavender Troubador,” Bay Area Reporter, 30 Oct. 1974, 28-29. [positive review of Rebecca Valrejean in The Lavender Troubador, performed at SF State]

Fred Hollister, “The Hookers’ First Ball,” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 1, 12. [article on recent Hookers’ Masquerade Ball, organized by Margo St. James, founder of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), with references to prostitutes, drag queens, and transvestites]

Alvaro Delgado, “Citation System for ‘Victimless Crimes,’” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 3. [article about new resolution from SF Board of Supervisors that implements “a citation system for those caught committing certain victimless crimes” such as “consenting adults engaging in illegal sex acts”]

“Candidates Ignoring Issues,” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 6. [article about upcoming California election that includes a quote from Republican gubernatorial candidate Flournoy, “I’m 44 years old and I have a wife and two kids. My opponent is 36 years old and unmarried!”]

Alan Whiteside, “Brown Agrees With Students,” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 7. [article discussing views of California gubernatorial candidate Edmund G. Brown; claims that Brown “agrees with many of the issues that have found support with students,” including “doing away with laws that would regulate private sexual activity between consenting adults"; mention of the position of Brown’s opponent, Flournoy, on gay rights: “the chances are remote that he will sign a bill for homosexual rights”]

David Cawley, “Dymally Qualified for Lt. Governor,” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 7. [article expressing support for candidate for Lt. Governor Mervyn Dymally; Dymally is described as “the state’s leader in women’s rights” and the author of California’s guiding text for ratification of the ERA along with two bills “which give married women equal rights with their husbands in buying and selling community property, and use of family funds and inheritance”]

Bob Carlsen, “‘Flesh,’ Not ‘Flash,’” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 8. [review of porn parody film]

David Cawley, “Too Much Candy,” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 9. [review of Civic Light Opera’s adaptation of film Some Like It Hot; mentions that male actors are in drag; features photograph of male actors in drag, with caption that deems them “lovelies”]

Advertisement, “Montezuma Tequila,” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 10. [“When a horny bull feels dull, he becomes a crashing bore”]

Tim Porter, “Law Versus Lady,” Phoenix, 31 Oct. 1974, 12. [article on campus debate on prostitution featuring Margo St. James, founder of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics)]

Richard Amory, “Relevant Reading,” Vector, Oct. 1974, 13. [book review by gay novelist and SF State alum Richard Amory]

Calendar listing, Plexus, Oct. 1974, 9. [SF State lesbian alum Betty Kaplowitz scheduled to perform at benefit for Women’s Prison Collective at Full Moon in Castro]

Advertisement, Song of the Loon, The Advocate, 6 Nov. 1974, 7. [advertisement for film based on novel by SF State alum Richard Amory]

Classified advertisement, “Men and Women Needed for Research on ‘Being Gay in San Francisco in the 60’s,’” Phoenix, 7 Nov. 1974, 4. [“Contact David Cawley,” identified elsewhere as Phoenix writer]

George Schroeder, letter to the editor, Phoenix, 7 Nov. 1974, 7. [letter written by self-identified prison inmate in response to 3 Oct. article about sex in San Quentin; writer expresses desire to “clarify” and correct article, saying that “Colgain was inaccurate” in asserting that “95 per cent of the men incarcerated here were homosexuals”]

Bob Carlsen, “Purple Prose & Mindless Absurdities,” Phoenix, 7 Nov. 1974, 8. [review of Alan Bennet’s play Habeas Corpus, described as a “farce” that “centers on sex and the body” in which “everyone in the play is sexually frustrated”]

Jan Merrill, “Sex Kittens and Prostitutes,” Phoenix, 7 Nov. 1974, 8. [article discussing the influence of a rising feminism movement on the kinds of female roles available in Hollywood films; the article claims that there is a decline in “strong women’s roles” in favor of “non-intellectual sex-object roles” as “sex kittens, prostitutes and rape victims head available casting roles in the ‘70s films”]

Alan Whiteside, “Lunch With Mr. Mouth,” Phoenix, 7 Nov. 1974, 10. [article about a KGO cocktail party that the writer attended with “Mr. Mouth,” the “controversial” Howard Cosell; Whiteside compares the low excitement level of the party with “snack shop” voyeurism (“snack shop voyeurs”) and speaks of “crude” jokes told by the partygoers, such as “only football players and hookers come from Texas”]

Announcement, “Student Health Center Will Be Offering Counseling for Men,” Phoenix, 7 Nov. 1974, 12. [counseling subjects include “vasectomy, birth control, pregnancy, abortion and venereal disease"; “See Rick Kornowitz at the Health Center”]

Arthur A. Berger, “Britons and Feer: The Pub Life Is Changing,” San Francisco Examiner, 10 Nov. 1974, 157. [article by SF State social science professor on changes in British pub culture, with references to virility, manhood, and strength] 

Advertisement, “Montezuma Tequila,” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 2.  

Kay Regar, “Legislated Morality: Who’s Victim in ‘Victimless Crime?,’” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 5,14. [article about sex work and whether it should be “de-criminalized” or “legalized,” driven by “prodding from vociferous hookers, liberal politicians, and changing public morality"; mention that “streetwalkers” of the Tenderloin are treated poorly by police and that police often “entice the working girl or gay into speaking to them” and then make arrest]

Mac Miller, “Gay Males Face ‘Selective’ Standards,” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 5. [article mentioning risk of higher legal penalties, including “arrest and conviction for a felony,” for gay men busted by police while having sex]

“Vice Squad, Hookers, ‘Me and My Shadow,’” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 5. [article profiling the “vice officers” of the San Francisco Police Department, also known as the “vice squad” or “Bureau of Special Services,” who “work on prostitution, gambling, drugs, and sometimes pornography (depending on where the Supreme Court stands at any given moment)”]

Advertisement, Tampax, Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 7.  

Advertisement, Cliff’s Notes, Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 7. [advertisement playing on promiscuous “dumb blonde” female stereotype who would seemingly benefit from Cliff’s Notes; “Penny the campus sweetheart”]

Bruce Fessier, “Life’s a Ball in the Porno Film Business,” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 8,9. [interview with self-described “exhibitionist” and “prostitute,” Jim, who “makes his living by balling women and showing movies of people balling” and is identified as the assistant manager of the Mitchell Brothers’ O’Farrell Theater in downtown San Francisco]

Sandra Hansen, “Tony’s Adult Books: From Dad With Love,” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 9. [article about San Francisco adult bookstore and proprietor Tony, who has been “selling pornography for the past four years"; store does “a lot of business in the gay community"]

Jan Merrill, “Compatibility & The Single Pachinko,” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 10. [article with section describing a new dating game called “Compatibility” marketed by Reiss Games; the game is mentioned as involving the question “Is it all right for a woman to have an abortion if she does not want the child. Do you agree? Does your partner agree?”]

Announcement, “Eroticism,” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 10. [“A four-day erotic film festival will be held at the International Museum of Erotic Art” and “the festival is sponsored by the Museum and the National Sex Forum”]

Alan Whiteside, “A Sadistic Slaughter,” Phoenix, 14 Nov. 1974, 11. [film review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that dismisses the film as “gruesome violent pornography”]

Sammy Staggs, “Books: Authors Offer Church Struggle History,” The Advocate, 20 Nov. 1974, 34. [review of book coauthored by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Sandra Hansen, “Topless ‘Mayor’ Visits SF State,” Phoenix, 21 Nov. 1974, 3. [article about visit from Davey Rosenberg, the “Mayor of Broadway” who is identified as the press agent for “such clubs as the El Cid, the Condor, the Roaring Twenties, the Hungry I, and the Off-Broadway"; Rosenberg was quoted as saying that the word “burlesque” has “been around too long” and that his bars should be referred to using the word “topless”]

Advertisement, Playboy, Phoenix, 21 Nov. 1974, 3.  

Jan Merrill, “Exploitation of the Non-Erotic Banana,” Phoenix, 21 Nov. 1974, 8. [review of San Francisco Erotic Film Festival; mentions that “contrary to its theme of being a celebration of human sexuality, the festival is a funeral"; says that even though “the potential value of erotic art is indeed on the brink of discovery and its recognition is long overdue,” there is “a big difference between pornography and cheap sex” as “one is potential art form, the other exploitation”]

Advertisement, Birds Do It, Bees Do It: An Intimate View of Mating (dir. Nicolas Noxon and Irwin Rosten), Phoenix, 21 Nov. 1974, 9. [“Did you know Rhinos only rendezvous once every two years!”]

Carole Stewart, “The VD Fear of Teens in Suburbia,” San Francisco Examiner, 24 Nov. 1974, 35. [article by registered nurse and SF State public health major about VD and suburban youth]

Event announcement, Bay Area Reporter, 27 Nov. 1974, 16. [announcement of upcoming performances by the Nickelettes at Intersection]

Richard Amory, letter to the editor, Vector, Nov. 1974, 6. [response by gay novelist and SF State alum to book review by Karl Maves in earlier issue]

Richard Amory, “Bisexuality: Octoroonism,” Vector, Nov. 1974, 18-19. [reflections on bisexuality by gay novelist and SF State alum]

Frank Howell, “Relevant Reading,” Vector, Nov. 1974, 8, 48. [review of book co-authored by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Ed Jackson, Loving Women Loving Men, Body Politic, Nov. 1974, 20-21. [review of book co-authored by SF State faculty member Sally Gearhart]

Sally Gearhart, “The Lesbian and God-the-Father,” Gay Alternative, Summer 1974, 10-13, reprinted in Body Politic, Nov. 1974, 12-13, 23. [reprint of previously published article from Gay Alternative]

Martin McKenna, “It’s Not Nice to Fool Around with Mother Nature,” Phoenix, 5 Dec. 1974, 6. [film review of Birds Do It, Bees Do It: An Intimate View of Mating, a film about “sex in nature,” described as a “serious documentary” but “the theme which attracts the viewer and markets the film is sex"; chimpanzees are so similar to humans that “their swinging frolic borders on indecency”]

Anatole Burkin, “Poems Save ‘Transfer,’” Phoenix, 5 Dec. 1974, 7. [review of latest issue of Transfer, one of SF State’s literary magazines, and mentions that a high point of the issue is one of the published poems, titled “What Ever Happened To…” by John Selzer, which is “about a masturbating Quaker with political overtones”]

Jan Merrill, “It’s All in the Hips,” Phoenix, 5 Dec. 1974, 9. [article on challenges faced by female skiers, with references to “a blond ski bunny,” “a handsome ski instructor,” “anatomical differences,” and “pelvic girth”]

Arts and culture listing, “Intersection Theater,” San Francisco Examiner, 8 Dec. 1974, 189. [performances by Les Nickelettes, elsewhere identified as a group founded by SF State alums]

Jerry Bell and Jim Sanders, “Day of Hope Crusade: Protesters Denounce Evangelist Moon,” Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 1, 11. [article about demonstration against leader of Unification Church at SF Opera House, with references to gay protesters]

Bob Carlsen, “Underground Comics, Or the Pigs and the Myth,’” Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 3. [article about underground comics movement, with mention of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton; article points out that these comics are often deemed “obscene” since they involve “sex and drugs"; article mentions that SF State professor Arthur Berger writes about these comics in his new book The Comic Stripped American]

Sandra Fortin, “Dr. Hip: The Rise and Fall of Counter-Culture,” Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 4. [article on Dr. Eugene Schonefield, author of “Dr. Hip” column, which focused on “sex and drugs among youth”]

“Announcement,” Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 6. [brief reference to Experimental Theater Production Association production of “adult play about a human relationship”]

Bob Carlsen, “‘Verona’ Turns Shakespeare in his Grave,” Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 12. [review of SF State’s “rock musical” adaptation of Shakespeare’s play Two Gentlemen of Verona, which features “direction bordering on the pornographic”]

Jan Merrill, “Dancing M&M’s?,” Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 12. [review of Beach Blanket Babylon, musical revue at “bi-sex showplace” that features “lots of glitter and sexy women” and Nancy Bleiweiss as “fetchingly camp singer"; directed by Steve Silver]

David M. Cole, “Bruce Lionized?,” Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 13. [review of Bob Fosse film Lenny, starring Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce; article mentions Bruce’s use of the word “cocksuckers,” which led to his 1962 arrest on obscenity charges in San Francisco]

Advertisement, Playboy, Phoenix, 12 Dec. 1974, 13. [advertisement for current issue of Playboy magazine]

Don McLean, “Rising Star: Nancy Bleiweiss,” Bay Area Reporter, 26 Dec. 1974, 10-12. [article on former SF State student Nancy Bleiweiss, who portrays Carmen Miranda in Beach Blanket Babylon]

Arts and culture listing, “Intersection Theater,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 Dec. 1974, 97. [performances by Les Nickelettes, elsewhere identified as a group founded by SF State alums]

Event listing, “New Year’s Eve Gala,” San Francisco Examiner, 29 Dec. 1974, 101. [performance by Les Nickelettes, elsewhere identified as a group founded by SF State alums, at Intersection]

Calendar listing, SF Women’s Centers and SF Women’s Switchboard Newsletter, Dec. 1974, 4. [SF State lesbian alum Betty Kaplowitz scheduled to perform at benefits for Lesbian Mother’s Union at Wild Side West in SF]

Calendar listing, Plexus, Dec. 1974, 10. [SF State lesbian alum Betty Kaplowitz scheduled to perform at benefits for Lesbian Mother’s Union at Wild Side West in SF]