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The Gay Issue. In 1969, just two years after homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK, Jim Anderson, himself gay, decreed it was time for the “Gay Issue” of Oz.He commissioned one of the magazine’s most striking covers depicting two of his friends, one black, the other white, clasped in a nude embrace, to represent the publication’s attitude towards racial and sexual liberation.
Oz. (magazine) OZ London, No.33, February 1971. Cover image by Norman Lindsay. Oz was an independently published, alternative / underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. While it was first published in Sydney in 1963, a parallel version of Oz was published in London from 1967.
Oz magazine archive. Oz magazine is one of the most important records of 20th century counter-culture and revolution. During the run of 48 issues between 1967 and 1973, Oz tackled subjects ranging from gay rights to racism, the environment, feminism, sex, the pill, acid, rock music and the Vietnam War. Produced in a basement flat in London's ...
Feb 16, 2018 · All of this led to the most infamous issue of OZ: number 28, the Schoolkids issue. Dozens of teenagers had seen the advertisement in the back pages of OZ 26. In early 1970, a little over 20 chosen ...
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In The Guardian, Chitra Ramaswamy describes the London magazine as “the icon – and the enfant terrible – of the underground press. Produced in a basement flat off Notting Hill Gate, Oz was soon renowned for psychedelic covers by pop artist Martin Sharp, cartoons by Robert Crumb, radical feminist manifestos by Germaine Greer, and ...
Aug 18, 2022 · British-Australian counterculture magazine Oz (1963–1973) was a subversive imagetext platform for anti-establishment issues, prominent among which were free love and sex. Particularly controversial was the “Schoolkids” issue (May 1970), which led to the editors’ indictment for obscenity. Oz presented progressive ideas on sex, but also conventionally sexist contents. For example ...
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The three editors of the controversial Oz magazine (from left) James Anderson, Felix Dennis, and Australian Richard Neville. Credit: UPI Judge Argyle sentenced Australian Richard Neville, 29, to ...