Lance, Issue 1, 1980, Pantheon, Near Fine staplebound, gay interest magazine

Mild, Adam V [photo]. San Francisco: Pantheon, 1980.

English, Near Fine, SC, 8vo, 11" x 8 1/2", Unpaginated. 

Staple-bound in pictorial wraps. minor creasing around staples, clean glossy pages, unpaginated. Includes black-and-white homoerotic photographs, with 16 full-color pages. First issue of rare gay magazine, an intimate series shot by photographer Adam V. Mild featuring twink models Ty Windsor and Jae Vitale, distributed by Le Salon, San Francisco. Often collected in queer archives, Lance is a notable example of gay narrative storytelling through photographs depicting a chance encounter between straight-performing men that unfolds in an intimate interlude. An exceptionally nice copy of an important piece of gay history.