Description

William M. Gaines Tribute
The Media and the Gay Community
Serial Killer Trading Cards
The Canning of Popeye's Bobby London
Fiction by Robert Bloch and Poppy Z. Brite

COMPLETE CONTENTS:

Editorial
OPENERS
Assorted Short Takes
MEDIA MANIPULATION
Floyd Brown's Dirty Tricks and the Bush Campaign - Ed Cafasso
Media Pandering to Black Revolutionaries - Mark Di Ionno
Maybe It's Time, After All These Years - Clark DeLeon
The Eclipse True Crime Trading Cards Controversy - Mike Baker
Another View: Shame On Serial Killer Trading Cards - John Sutherland
Fun With Numbers - Russ Miller
A Right To Know Or An Invasion Of Privacy - Deborah Wilker
Rodney King: No Isolated Incident - Richard G. Carter
The Art of Media Manipulation - Ed Cafasso
Tabloid Journalism and Manipulation of the Press - Mark DiIonno
Censorship and the Community Press - Caitlin Barry
How Not to Begin a Career In Radio - Duane Swierczynski
Tale in "Twin Cities" - Kate Worley and Read Waller
Candidates With No Balls - Greg Hotchkiss

THE MEDIA AND THE GAY COMMUNITY
Hate and the Art of Queer Media Spins - Andy Mangels
No Message Here - Andy Mangels and Carl Vaughn Frick
Still Lurking In the Shadows, After All These Years - Michael C. Botkin
Unhealthy Morality - David Gilden
Basic Instinct: The Myth of the Level Playing Field - Angela Bocage
World Games - Roberta Gregory

ARTISTS UNDER FIRE
Black Plastic And White Sheets: Censorship of Dayton Claudio - Mike Baker
Born To Raise Hell: The Lowbrow Labors of Robert Williams - S.C. Ringgenerg
Abortion Wars: The Canning of Popeye Comic Strip Writer Bobby London - Steve Ringgenberg

ANYTHING GOES
Tyson Didn't Get A Fair Shake - Pete Hamill
Nemesio - Michael Taylor
Death of A Mad-Man - Steve Ringgenberg
P.C. Kills - Angela Bocage
Cherry, Me & Censorship; Or No Flies On Me - Larry Welz
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Revisited - Trisha Sherrick
Another View: Tempest in a Teapot - John Rosenman
From Seasrs and J.C. Penney...With Lust - John Rosenman

FICTION
Enoch - Robert Bloch
How To Get Ahead in New York - Poppy Z. Brite
The Cause - S.K. Epperson

REVIEWS
Behind the Mask - Matthew J. Costello
House of Fiction - Tom McDonald