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In 1972, The Advocate in a burst of pop-culture camp—before its sec-
ond publisher David Goodstein made it uptight about outlaw leather
culture—so liked Larry Townsend’s The Scorpius Equation, it turned
his novel into the gay cartoon strip, Alpha and the Scorpions. Vanilla
subscribers complained it was “a most filthy piece of trash”—which
was a wonderful review.

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