Oz Magazine No.23 Homosexual Oz issue, August/September 1969

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves…” Wilde quote on cover. 

Full-page IOW ad – Bob Dylan & The Band, Richie Havens. 

Max Ernst illustrations with captions and centerfold. 

Martin Sharp single frames throughout. 

A run of critical/cryptic statements which feature at the top & sides of some pages.

 Gay lovers photo - ‘Man Maketh Man’. ‘

Suck for Peace’ – extracts from 'The Homosexual Handbook'  by Angelo d’Arcangelo.

 ‘Take it Like a Man’ – a young West London drug addiction clinic doctor on homosexuality.

 Michael J.W. Storey – the last supper.

Did You Feel the Earth Move Little Rabbit?’ - Bob Hughes on the moon landing.

 Miles on ‘Mother Earth’. 

Ad for The Julian Press. 

’Return of the Media Pirates’: Caroline News – Alan Reid on pirate radio. 

Form/graphic declaration and article on leaving the Air Force.

 Dr Hip Ocrates.

 Poverty Cooking. 

Review of 'Some of IT' , 'Turning on'  and Nik Cohn’s 'Pop from the Beginning' . 

Harvest Records ad. Mozic:  Blind Faith LP cover (nude 11 year-old girl) with a condemnation of it by Don Short of the Daily Mirror . 

Phil Ochs/Deviants/Pink Fairies music culture commentary.

LP reviews: Blind Faith, Martha Vellez, Dr Strangely Strange and Tim Buckley. 

Spoof film ad. Trouble in Molopolis – Martin Sharp photo. 

Leonard Cohen ‘The Beautiful Loser’ by Raymond Durgnat. 

Time Out ad.

 2 pages of back issues + Middle Earth ad. 

‘Biography of the Simeon Synthesizer’ by Simeon of Silver Apples. 

Back cover ‘Free chickens’ Gilbert Shelton cartoon.

A little wear/minor creasing to front & back covers + small tear at top edge of back cover. Small crease at bottom right corner throughout, otherwise in very good/excellent condition.