The Boys of Boise by John Gerassi, Collier
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Oct 11th, 2025. Artwork published in
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West Fantini, stacked and interlocked, for Collier’s paperback edition of The Boys of Boise. This book by John “Tito” Gerassi (1931–2012) was first published by Macmillan in 1967. In it, Tito would —
investigate the Boise homosexuality scandal in The Boys of Boise, exposing the persecution of homosexuals in the city that was carried out under the guise of a moral panic.
The blurb from Harper’s Magazine describes it as “probably the strongest cast than can be made against the present laws against homosexuality.”
Fantini is a variant of Dave West’s Italiano with less contrast. It was shown in PLINC’s 1967 Alphabet Yearbook.
