RINGS, SUBCULTURES AND THE UNDERGROUND BY PARKER ROSSMAN

Eccepuer, 14 January 2022

Thanks for posting the Bobby Pell cover of TRIM Feb. 1962. That issue was, indeed, my own introduction to gay digest purchases. I was 16 years old, on one of my many truancy days spent in NYC, when I spotted it hanging on the inside wall of a sidewalk newsstand. I think my heart stopped. I badly wanted to buy it, but it took 15-20 minutes of walking fretfully about until I worked up the courage to hand over my money. Many such purchases followed over the years, including other issues featuring Bobby Pell, but none have remained as memorable to this day.

P. Hill, 15 January 2022

If I saw that Bobby Pell cover on a newsstand today, it's not my heart I'd be concerned about but my sanity.