History of Gay and Lesbian Life in Wisconsin - Print Media - Wisconsin's Escape magazine

Wisconsin's Escape magazine- Cover Gallery: Volumes 4 and 5

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(Escape started life in February 1978 as a "bar rag" type format magazine, named The Milwaukee Calendar. That early publication was bought by the publishers of Gay Chicago magazine in 1980 and became Gay Milwaukee for about one year before being morphed into Wisconsin's Escape magazine. This page shows the issues only of the one year that Wisconsin's Escape existed as a small "bar rag" type format magazine. Then, early in October 1982, Escape became affiliated with Chicago's GayLife newspaper: numbering was restarted as "Volume 1", and it was converted into first a magazine size (8.5"x11"); and later a newspaper format, which was inserted as "Part B" in Wisconsin area distributions of GayLife newspaper. All new "Volume 1" issues we have been able to locate are shown at this link.)

PLEASE NOTE that page numbers within PDF's are not always intuitive. See This Guide to page numbers for PDF scans of some issues.

Volume 4
-- November to December 1981
No issues were published between the last issue of "Gay Milwaukee" (dated May 29, 1981) and the first issue of the successor 'bar rag', "Escape" (dated November 20, 1981), shown next:

 
vol.4-no.11
Nov. 20, 1981
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vol.4-no.12
Dec. 4, 1981
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Volume 5
-- January to December 1982
vol.5-no.01
Jan. 15, 1982
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vol.5-no.02
Jan. 29, 1982
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vol.5-no.03
Feb. 12, 1982
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vol.5-no.04
Feb. 26, 1982
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vol.5-no.05
March 12, 1982
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vol.5-no.06
March 26, 1982
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vol.5-no.07
April 8, 1982
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vol.5-no.08
April 23, 1982
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vol.5-no.09
May 7, 1982
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vol.5-no.10
May 21, 1982
 
vol.5-no.11
June 4, 1982
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vol.5-no.12
June 18, 1982
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vol.5-no.13
July 2, 1982
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vol.5-no.14
July 16, 1982
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vol.5-no.15
July 30, 1982
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Volume 5- issue 18 may have been the last issue of the smaller size Escape. See the "Covers of Escape, magazine & newspaper format" page for the successor larger size issues.
vol.5-no.16
August 13, 1982
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vol.5-no.17
August 27, 1982
 
vol.5-no.18
Sept. 10, 1982
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vol.5-no.19 ?
 

 

(Escape started life in February 1978 as a "bar rag" type format magazine, named The Milwaukee Calendar. That early publication was bought by the publishers of Gay Chicago magazine in 1980 and became Gay Milwaukee for about one year before being morphed into Wisconsin's Escape magazine. This page shows the issues only of the one year that Wisconsin's Escape existed as a small "bar rag" type format magazine. Then, early in October 1982, Escape became affiliated with Chicago's GayLife newspaper: numbering was restarted as "Volume 1", and it was converted into first a magazine size (8.5"x11"); and later a newspaper format, which was inserted as "Part B" in Wisconsin area distributions of GayLife newspaper. All new "Volume 1" issues we have been able to locate are shown at this link.)

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    Disclaimer-- Any publications reproduced here are shown without release because we have been unable to locate the copyright holder, if any. Their reproduction is intended to document and honor those who made such early contributions to the community and with full desire to include proper credit, if known. We will remove any reproductions immediately upon notification of or from any valid copyright holder.

Credits: All cover images and text from Escape copyrighted;
Copies of issues v04-12, v05-12, 13, 14, 16, 18 from Ron Thate (Rona) collection.
Web site concept, design and format by Don Schwamb.
Last updated: April-2024.

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