LAS VEGAS—Hot Desert Knights’ parent company, CWC Corporation, launched a new website and business venture, GayVM.com, which offers rare vintage gay magazines and paperbacks for purchase.
“All of us at CWC Corporation and Hot Desert Knights are excited to be launching this new enhanced one-stop-shop gay vintage magazine store,” said Lee Watson, President of CWC. “We could not be happier or more pleased to be providing the very best library of gay literature for our customers to experience and collect. We are always working tirelessly at ways to enhance the services and products we offer our valued customers.”
This new website features a state-of-the-art, user-friendly interface, with one of the largest collections of rare gay vintage magazines and paperbacks that are hard to find anywhere.
GayVM is all about making accessible the searchable archives of major gay periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests, dating from the 1950s through to recent years.
Through a vast archival online catalog that is constantly being added to, fans can trace the history and evolution of a myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, including gay historical stories through the decades, legal contexts, health, lifestyle, politics, social attitudes, activism, gay rights, and arts/literature and of course gay nude art.
“We aim to provide access to books not typically been offered by libraries or bookstores, to ensure that this valuable history stays both available and accessible to today's generation,” the company said in a release.
These rare gay vintage magazine archives and previously hard-to-find magazines are available from GayVM, including many of the longest-running, most influential publications of this type. These periodical pictorial magazine publications are of historical importance to the LGBT community; they have charted the key developments in LGBT history and culture for more than 50 years. Some of these LGBT titles pre-date the 1969 Stonewall riots, and span the history of the gay rights movement.
In the aftermath of the partial decriminalization of sex between men in 1967, Gay News became the primary vehicle for news of the growing liberation movement. It also played a key campaigning role, arguing for legal reform in response to matters such as the disparity between the age of consent for homosexuals and for heterosexuals, the hostility of the church, and the medical profession’s pathologization of homosexuality, while also leading pioneering campaigns for equal employment rights. Hence these magazines are not only valuable in terms of being rare and no longer published, but also for their historical place in history for the LGBTQ community.
GayVM prides itself on making these historical publications available and accessible for everyone to enjoy.
For more, visit GayVM.com.
