ARTICLES AND FEATURES
34 Profile: Alabama
38 VacationAmerica
44 Lovers & Other Neighbors
62 The Reagan Crusades
66 Road Warriors
70 Even Crazy Old Barmaids Need Love
74 The Big Chili
76 Sex in America, Part Seven of Seven
86 Private Lives: Rich Tastes
90 Toys for Men
PICTORIALS
24 The Birds of London
48 The 'Girl Next Door' June Entries
55 The 'Girl Next Door' June Winner
79 Kristi
106 Bodyscapes
DEPARTMENTS
6 The Fox Speaks
8 Feedback
15 Booktalk
16 About Entertainment
18 The Right Tracks
19 Newswave
22 The Great Outdoors
92 Keeping Score
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Photographed by Martin Schreiber
Golden Goose Gossage
Vacationamerica
Rude and Reckless Road Warriors
Racy Lacy Birds Of London
About Gallery
Gallery is an adult sex magazine published by Magna Publishing Group. It is one of the more popular "skin" magazines that arose on the Playboy magazine pattern in the 1970s.
Gallery was launched by Ronald L. Fenton and trial attorney F. Lee Bailey in Chicago, Illinois. The first issue appeared on newsstands in November, 1972 bearing an uncanny resemblance to Playboy magazine, even using the same style font for the cover. Many people therefore assumed Gallery was also published by Hugh Hefner as a companion publication to Playboy. After Hefner sent a letter to Bailey pointing out the magazine's many similarities, the layout of Gallery was quickly changed.
Financial difficulties plagued the magazine from the start, causing Bailey to leave during its inaugural year. Following publication of the January 1974 issue, Fenton was forced to forfeit ownership of the magazine to its distributor.
Montcalm Publications, based in New York, eventually acquired Gallery and added it to its portfolio of periodicals. Montcalm also published The Twilight Zone Magazine in the 1980s, apparently in imitation of Penthouse magazine's offshoot Omni.
Montcalm Publishing went bankrupt in March 2008, owing many photographers and models unpaid wages; some were owed as much as $100,000.
On April 30, 2008, Gallery magazine was purchased by the Magna Publishing Group. On December 22, 2015, Magna Publishing Group was acquired by 1-800-PHONESEX.
