Gay Flames #10
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“My Soul Vanished from Sight - A California Saga of Gay Liberation”
FALL 1970
This issue includes a 16-page, first-person piece by gay liberation activist and journalist Konstantin Berlandt. Konstantin shares his life experiences from childhood and adolescence into young adulthood as a student at UC Berkeley. He describes the tensions between the closet and the gay bar, with vivid sexual experiences, romantic connections, heartbreak, protests, confrontations of all kinds, and monumental thoughts.
Courtesy of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.