Le Fleau Social No 1 & 2

A. Fleig, R. Pelletier

Paris

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Le Fleau Social

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1972

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First Edition.

43cm x 31.5cm. 12; 12 pages, 2 volumes, purple illustrations. Illustrated self-wrappers. Text is in French.

First two issues of the short lived French gay newspaper Le Fleau Social [The Social Plague] published by Groupe 5 of the Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire (FHAR), the radical gay and lesbian rights movement in early 1970s Paris, with art direction by Alain Fleig. Only six issues were published between 1972 and 1974, these first two issues being the only two issues published in 1972 under the direction of the unknown R. Pelletier and are representative of the FHAR and Mouvement de liberation des femmes (MLF) origins of the newspaper before its dramatic shift away from homosexuality in issue 3 as the mysterious Pelletier splits and Fleig assumes full editorship.

Old horizontal fold, less pronounced on No 2. Minor tanning, more so to top half of lower panel of No 1. Very Good Condition.