1975 Archives - Gay News Archive Project https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/archive-project/gay-news/1975/ A project to digitise early editions of the UK's pioneering LGBT+ newspaper Gay News Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:00:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.png 1975 Archives - Gay News Archive Project https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/archive-project/gay-news/1975/ 32 32 Issue 62 https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/issue-62/ https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/issue-62/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 1975 13:03:18 +0000 https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/?p=13905 From the project to digitise early editions of the UK's pioneering LGBT+ newspaper Gay News...

INFORMATION Issue #62 15p 24 pages 16–29 January 1975 WAR & PEACE AT WORLD CONGRESS Delegates march on press and radio  Women: ‘We were forgotten’ Editor: Denis Lemon News Editor: Michael Mason Reporter at Large: Jeff Grace Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker Research Editor: Rictor Norton Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin Art Assistant: Glen Platts Advertising, Circulation...

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  • Issue #62
  • 15p
  • 24 pages

  • 16–29 January 1975

  • WAR & PEACE AT WORLD CONGRESS
  • Delegates march on press and radio 
  • Women: ‘We were forgotten’

  • Editor: Denis Lemon
  • News Editor: Michael Mason
  • Reporter at Large: Jeff Grace
  • Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker
  • Research Editor: Rictor Norton
  • Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
  • Art Assistant: Glen Platts
  • Advertising, Circulation Manager: Stuart Patterson
  • Circulation Assistant: Bernard Mears
  • Subscriptions, Classified Ads: Maggie Donovan
  • Admin Assistant, Listing, and Box Replies: Catherine Hiscox
    General Assistant: Jack Edwards
  • Regular Contributors: Peter Burton, Barry Conley, Laurence Collinson, Elizabeth Cornu, Brian Dax, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Andy Dvosin (New York Correspondent), Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Peter Forster, David Hart, Veronica Harvey, Mike Heberden, Carl Hill, Derek James, Howard Llewel­lyn, Leo Madigan, Phil McNeill, ‘Merlin’, John Montgomery, John Riley, Kurt Schiller (Swedish Correspondent), Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent), Bruce Wainwright, Pete Wicker, and Joseph Winter.

  • eThe current and former managers of the Father Radcap are fined £100 with £40 costs each for allowing men to dance together. Tricky Dicky, the DJ at the disco the police infiltrated, was conditionally discharged for a year. The Magistrates noted that the public had not complained about the disco – the operation was entirely one generated within the Metropolitan Police.
  • Reviews include Liberace – an autobiography, The Mastersingers opera at the Coliseum, and two original soundtracks from Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

  • ‘No poofters’, rules local radio
    MANCHESTER: Hackles rose as late night volunteers at CHE National Office listened in to Manchester’s local station Piccadilly Radio.

  • The seven-month old commercial station was promoting a talent competition for young men and doing a ‘funny’ with the rules. “Rule five – there is no rule five. Rule six – no poofters.”

  • CHE’s Assistant General Secretary, Chris Bowden-Smith, immediately wrote to Philip Birch, Piccadilly’s Managing Director, to complain about the item. He drew attention in particular to the bad effect such jokes had on young gay people still coming to terms with their homosexuality. And he accused the station of encouraging people to use the word ‘poofters’ – perpetuating public attitudes of contempt and derision.

  • Piccadilly Radio reacted swiftly to Chris’ complaint. A letter was sent two days later by the station’s Programme Controller, Colin Walters. He assured Chris that the item was not intended to be insulting. “I think there are circumstances in which any group in the community must expect to have a little fun poked at it. But there is a world of difference between this and continuous calculated insults.

  • “I can assure you most sincerely that had I felt the item in question could genuinely have been taken exception to by a significant number of homosexual people
    I should not have let it be broadcast. I honestly felt that the item fell into the
    ‘light-hearted’ category mentioned above.

  • “However since you feel the reference to be insulting I have given instructions for the tape to be removed from the studio, and it will not be heard again. I apologise for having given you or your members any offence.”

  • – (p2, included purely because Chris Bowden-Smith is the husband of this Project’s leader)

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]]> https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/issue-62/feed/ 0 Issue 63 https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/issue-63/ https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/issue-63/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 1975 13:47:43 +0000 https://gaynewsarchive.co.uk/?p=13912 From the project to digitise early editions of the UK's pioneering LGBT+ newspaper Gay News...

INFORMATION Issue #63 15p 24 pages 30 January – 12 February 1975 TOP POST FOR ALAN CHE choses new general secretary  You’re not going to believe this! VD, Lust and Disorder Editor: Denis Lemon News Editor: Michael Mason Reporter at Large: Jeff Grace Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker Research Editor: Rictor Norton Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin...

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  • Issue #63
  • 15p
  • 24 pages

  • 30 January – 12 February 1975

  • TOP POST FOR ALAN
  • CHE choses new general secretary 
  • You’re not going to believe this!
  • VD, Lust and Disorder

  • Editor: Denis Lemon
  • News Editor: Michael Mason
  • Reporter at Large: Jeff Grace
  • Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker
  • Research Editor: Rictor Norton
  • Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
  • Art Assistant: Glen Platts
  • Financial Manager, Classified Ads: Peter Baugh
  • Advertising, Circulation Manager: Stuart Patterson
  • Circulation Assistant: Bernard Mears
  • Subscriptions: Maggie Donovan
  • General Assistant: Jack Edwards
  • Regular Contributors: Peter Burton, Barry Conley, Laurence Collinson, Elizabeth Cornu, Brian Dax, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Andy Dvosin (New York Correspondent), Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Peter Forster, David Hart, Veronica Harvey, Mike Heberden, Carl Hill, Derek James, Howard Llewel­lyn, Leo Madigan, Phil McNeill, ‘Merlin’, John Montgomery, John Riley, Kurt Schiller (Swedish Correspondent), Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent), Bruce Wainwright, Pete Wicker, and Joseph Winter.

  • Legalising homosexuality in New Zealand would lead to an epidemic of VD and breakdown of order and discipline, apparently. The Inner London Education Authority sack a teacher after a pupil saw him at a CHE rally. The paper and CHE look at whether same-sex couples can get a joint mortgage and find that the Anglia Building Society particularly welcomes us. 

  • Reviews include John Vassall’s autobiography, Eskimo Nell at the Scene 2 in Leicester Square, and the operas Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci and The Magic Flute at the Coliseum.

  • Male/female impersonators
    LONDON: We could be flattered that there are people going around impersonating
    Gay News staff but we’re not.

  • So, if someone comes along to your group, club, pub or whatever, claiming to be a GN reporter or from the ad department, then get that person to identify
    him/herself.

  • We issue this warning after a recent case of deception, when someone (we know not
    who) attended the first night opening of the Odyssey club in Victoria, claiming to be from GN. When another member of staff went along the next night, he was told by
    one of the club’s directors that a GN staff-member had been in the night before making a scene about prices.

  • No one from Gay News went to the Odyssey on the first night, so we can only assume that the person who caused the fuss was an imposter.

  • Ask for identification! – p24

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