Youth International Party [YIPPIES]. Zippie! In '72 [handbill]. Miami:Miami Conventions Office, the Party, 1972. Leaflet, all text, printed on one side only. Explains the apparent media blackout imposed on the group and requests donations to print their own materials;calls for volunteers to come to Miami and cras hthe conventions.
First issue of the short-lived publication, celebrating passage of a local ordinance banning discrimination against gays. Cover headline is "Dade leading America's 'Coming Out' party. Love conquers all (Amor Vincit Omnia)." Orange pinback button. June 7th, 1977, was the date on which the Dade County Florida Initiative was voted upon. Manufactured in New York for opponents of the initiative in Florida.
A Marxist article denouncing the current class war in El Salvador and urging its readers to create "class-wide Workers Councils", which are similar to workers unions, to represent the interests of the El Salvadorian working class.
The Boot Hook presents..the Anite Bryant sale. San Francisco: The Boot Hoot, 8x11 inch flyer, printed one side with images of fruit; very good. Benefit for Glide Church, a pioneering institution in gay tolerance. As a kick in the face of Florida's Bryant-sponsored orange industry, customers were invited to "simply bring in a California orange or any other California fruit and receive 15% off on any boot, shoe, sock, or sandal.
Poster: Call for antiwar demonstrators to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami. Features a large central caricature of Nixon, a slightly exaggerated but still memorable portrait of Nixon. The Miami Conventions Coalition was a subcommittee of the Youth International Party (Yippies)." -- Descriptions from Lorne Bair, bookseller