This limited edition box celebrates Pansy Beat’s silver anniversary with a complete set of all five zines reproduced. Read interviews with Leigh Bowery and Quentin Crisp in their original format. A special surprise snapshot from the Pansy Beat archives is also included in the box alongside a poster and illustrated full-color print signed by Michael Economy. Design by Jan Wandrag. Edition limited to one hundred.
Pansy Beat was a short-lived fanzine published by Michael Economy in New York from 1989–1990, totaling five quarterly issues. Each issue’s 50-some black-and-white pages documented the exuberant downtown gay and drag club scene of that era and included one free condom. The zine offered a glimpse into an exhilarating alternative universe during the darkest years of the AIDS crisis.
