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Henry McClurg Publications |
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Henry
McClurg was a publishing force in Houston for decades, with quite a
few different publications over the years The first, Contact, was national,
and the rest focused on Houston. The history gets a bit confusing when
various entities were sold. "Montrose Star" began in late
Summer 1976 and by issue 70 was just called "Star." The 10/6/78
edition was billed "Last Issue," promising the return of "Montrose
Star" the next week. All issues were 5 1/2" x 8 1/2."
By 10/29/80 the "Montrose Voice" started, and included an
intro saying the "Montrose Star" had ended in December 1979
after three years, when McClurg sold the paper. |
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Contact,
1974-1975 (17 issue run)
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Montrose
Star, 1976 - 1980 |
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Montrose
Voice, 1980 - 1991
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Montrose
Voice For scanning, some pages of some issues were omitted, such as those with full-page ads, classifieds, personals, horoscopes, etc |
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Issue
178, 3/23/84, PDF |
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349, 07/03/87, PDF |
Issue 399, 6/17/88, PDF |
Issue
404, 7/22/88, PDF |
Issue 536, 2/1/91, PDF |
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The
Star - Austin/San Antonio - 11/11/83 to 5/11/84
Henry McClurg was trying to expand to other cities. A venture covering Austin and San Antonio lasted at least until May 1984. They claimed a circulation of 4000. Scans courtesy of U of H LGBT Resource Center |
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Dallas
Gay News, 1982 - 1984
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In
April 1984 Ritz and Moore, logically, decided to start a newspaper Issue 85, 4/20/84 |
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Out
in Texas, 1983
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Out in Texas Published by Jack Campbell, with Henry McClurg as Editor (apparently at the same time McClurg was heading the Montrose Voice). Campbell owned the Club Bath chain, and would therefore have some funding for this. It's good-looking, with many pages in color, 5 1/2" x 8"
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Issue 1, 3/3/83, PDF |
Issue 2*, 3/10/83, PDF |
Issue 3, 3/17/83, PDF |
Issue 4*, 3/24/83, PDF |
SeeThis Page There
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Issue 5, 3/31/83, PDF |
Issue 6, 4/7/83, PDF |
Issue
7, 4/14/83, PDF |
Issue 8**, 4/21/83, PDF |
Issue 9, 4/28/83, PDF |
Issue 10**, 5/5/83, PDF |
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Issue 11, 5/12/83, PDF |
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Issue 14*, 6/2/83, PDF |
Issue 17*, 6/23/83, PDF |
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Crescent
City Star, New Orleans, 1990-1991?
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Henry McClurg made several forays into publishing in other cities, like Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and more than once, New Orleans. His 1977 venture in NOLA lasted only nine issues. This one did a little better, beginning 9/14/90 and the last issue I have seen, #21, on 2/1/91. I do not know how many more were issued. This time it was full size, 14"x23" and it was throughout the run limited to 8 pages. By the end Diane Anderson and Tina Reedy were listed as co-editors, but that did not bring on more gay content. |
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As this paper was so large I had to make do with two passes per page, not elegant but workable, and why I only digitized the first and last issue to which I had access. Courtesy U of H LGBT Resource Center. |
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New
Voice, 1991- 1993
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The Montrose Voice changed its name to The New Voice on Feb 8 or 15, 1991, and then on 12/24/93 (#687) the name changed again to Houston Voice. Throughout the Montrose-New-Houston series the issue number sequence was maintained. New Voice was 11 1/2x17" Some pages were omitted, such as those with full-page ads, classifieds, personals, horoscopes, etc |
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560, 07/19/91, PDF |
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Houston
Voice, 1994 - 2014
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Also in 1993 the Houston Voice was sold to Tad Nelson (via Nelson's lover Dr Crad Duren). Nelson died in August 1995, and Duren sold the paper in January 1998 to Windows Media, a conglomerate that owned a number of mostly Southern papers. |
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693, 02/04/94, PDF
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Issue
763,06/09/95, PDF |
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Issue
969, 05/21/99, PDF |
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Issue 1119, 4/05/02, PDF |
Issue
1131, 6/28/02, PDF |
Issue
size now At right is the historic issue covering the Supreme Court Sodomy Law victory, with pages relevant to that scanned Issue
1183
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Pride
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8/25/05, PDF
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Pride
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9/1/06, PDF |
In 2007 the Publisher was Ed Alvarez, and it had changed to more of a bar publication, though still with "content," printed on slick paper, 6"x9" with the issues having 30-40 pages. It changed to the new format in September 2006, a monthly, under temporary editorship of Joey Guerra. See article at bottom of page. |
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January 2007, PDF |
| Windows Media closed all publications in November 2009, but there were still several incarnations of the Houston Voice, before finally ending in March 2014. More |
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Montrose
Gem, 2005 - 2011
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151 Issues, 1/21/05 through 2/11/11 |
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(New)
Montrose Star, 2010 - present
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The
Montrose Star reborn, yet again, in March 2010, with McClurg as Publisher.
In Nov 2010 sold to Laura Viillagran |
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Issue 2, 3/28/10 PDF |
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Issue 4, 4/23/10 PDF |
Issue
5, 5/14/10 PDF |
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Issue
6, 5/28/10 PDF |
Issue 7, 6/11/10 PDF |
Issue 8, 6/25/10 PDF |
Issue 9, 7/9/10 PDF |
Issue 11, 8/6/10, PDF |
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Issue 12, 8/20/10 PDF |
Issue 13, 9/3/10 PDF |
Issue 14, 9/24/10 PDF |
At this point publication was sold and Laura Villegran is new Publisher/Editor *** Special
1/23/10 Article on Aggies Gay Activism |
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Vol 2,
Issue 20, |
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Vol 3,
Issue 13,
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Vol 3,
Issue 20,
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Vol 4,
Issue 2,
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Vol 6,
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Montrose
News, 2011
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Still another publication... Montrose News Henry told me there were four print issues. He didn't waste any time after the GEM folded, and immediately started this paper, though it was short-lived Issue
#1, 2/25/11, PDF |
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Below, from McClurg's short New Orleans venrture, with some rare bio info, 1990
Below, photos of the camera-shy Henry McClurg are rare, so sharing this one from 1997
A
Houston Voice Publishing SNAFU.....
For
researchers: A few days before Henry died I requested permission
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