BLK Vol. 3 No. 6

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This is the 31st issue of BLK magazine published June 1991. The front cover is printed in color and features a photograph of Joe Simmons, marking it as the first issue printed in full CMYK color. Simmons is wearing a black firefighter’s hat, with the number 1 in large, white font and the initials H.F.D. in red. He is pictured from the waist up, shirtless, with a firefighter’s jacket hanging from his left shoulder. There is a red backdrop with vertical folds. At the top and centered off to the left, [BLK] is printed in bold, white, uppercase letters within a yellow rectangular box. Above the text box in small, white, uppercase letters it reads [THE NATIONAL BLACK LESBIAN AND GAY NEWSMAGAZINE], fitting across the length of the textbox. Outside of the upper right corner of the [BLK] text box is the magazine issue information; in small, blue text it reads [Vol. 3, No.

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