Credit: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Key members of ONE Inc., (from left to right) Don Slater, Dorr Legg, and Jim Kepner, Los Angeles, 1957 or 1958. Supreme Court case-their equally passionate recollections of the magazine and its founding didn’t line up. They couldn’t have been more different: Dorr Legg, the patrician landscape architect from Michigan Martin Block, the self-described Jewish anarchist New Yorker and Jim Kepner, the one-time communist who was found as an infant under an oleander bush in Galveston, Texas, wrapped in newspaper.Īnd while all three were passionate about their pioneering work on ONE magazine-a monthly publication that attracted the attention of the FBI and was at the heart of a landmark U.S. Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus : Over the course of one week in August 1989, I interviewed three of the men who played key roles in the publication of ONE magazine, the first national pro-gay magazine, which first hit the newsstands in January 1953. Credit: Courtesy ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
