The collection contains 26 original holograph and typed submissions to the Straight to Hell publication, including one from American avant-garde icon and mail artist Ray Johnson, many bearing holograph editorial markings in the hand of McDonald and the submitters. The collection also includes editorial materials towards the production of SEX, the third volume of Gay Sunshine Press’s anthology series of Straight to Hell; correspondence between McDonald and other major figures of the homosexual demimonde: Bob Mizer, Winston Leyland, Vince Aletti, and Ray Johnson; and editorial materials related to Vince Aletti’s 1980 interview with Boyd McDonald, published in File, including the complete, unedited, and unpublished verbatim manuscript.