''Tuesday's Child'' was a short-lived

counterculture A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Hou ...

underground newspaper The terms underground press or clandestine press refer to periodicals and publications that are produced without official approval, illegally or against the wishes of a dominant (governmental, religious, or institutional) group. In specific rec ...

published in

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, in 1969–1970. Self-described on its masthead as "An ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult & underground," it was founded by ''

Los Angeles Free Press The ''Los Angeles Free Press'', also called the "''Freep''", is often cited as the first, and certainly was the largest, of the underground newspapers of the 1960s. The ''Freep'' was founded in 1964 by Art Kunkin, who served as its publisher unti ...

'' reporter Jerry Applebaum, Alex Apostolides, and a group of ''Freep'' staffers who left ''en masse'' after disagreements with

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to found their own paper. ''Tuesday's Child'' was edited by

Chester Anderson Chester Valentine John Anderson (August 11, 1932 – April 11, 1991) was an American novelist, poet, and editor in the underground press. Biography Raised in Florida, he attended the University of Miami from 1952 to 1956, before becoming a ...

Overview

Along with the usual underground paper staples of drugs,

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, and

New Left The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, g ...

radical politics, ''Tuesday's Child'' devoted a good deal of space to the

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, with a number of issues printing arcane and obscure material by the occultist

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. The paper "is also notable for its decidedly

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the lat ...

stance and heady admixture of sex, politics, and mysticism. Its pages often feature first-hand reportage of happenings in the Greater L.A. queer community ('GAY POWER STUNS HOLLYWOOD', Volume 1, Issue 5) as well as copious inches to kinky classifieds, personals, and erotic horoscopes." Also part of the founding group was "a bunch of angry

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" who published "

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poetry" in the paper.Leib, Rebecca
"The story of how in the wake of the Manson murders, a bunch of local beat poets founded a not-so-family-friendly newspaper with a Satanic inclination,"
Los Angeleno (July 3, 2020). Never achieving the success or circulation of its crosstown rival, the ''Free Press'', ''Tuesday's Child'' quickly attained a degree of notoriety in and out of the underground with its coverage of the

Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of nine murders at four loca ...

case. One issue featured an image of a crucified Charles Manson on the cover, and another issue had a photograph of Manson on the cover proclaiming him, "Man of the Year." Peck, Abe. ''Uncovering the Sixties'' (Pantheon, 1985), p. 227.

Publication history

The first issue of ''Tuesday's Child'' was published on November 11, 1969, and published weekly (later biweekly) from an office in

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in a tabloid format, selling for 25 cents. The paper ceased publication in April 1970, and Jerry Applebaum went north and joined the ''

Berkeley Tribe The ''Berkeley Tribe'' was a radical counterculture weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California from 1969 to 1972. It was formed after a bitter staff dispute with publisher Max Scherr and split the nationally known ''Berkeley B ...

'' until it closed in 1972.

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"Tuesday's Child" by Micah Nathan.
''The Paris Review'' Daily, October 29, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2019. * Mitch Anzuoni interviewed by M. Elizabeth Scott
"Cx72 Interview: Inpatient Press on Tuesday's Child,"
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