INFORMATION
- Issue #13
- 10p
- 24 pages (2 blank, not included in archive scan)
- Undated. Approximate publication date: 14 December 1972
- “Don’t hold it against them that perhaps in other people’s eyes they are not normal members of society, they are normal in their own eyes” – Judge Arthur James’ comment whilst summing up evidence of gays in Old Bailey trial. But gay sister Angela Weir is still freed.
- Banned Monty Python sketch
- Garland: Secrets of Stardom
- Calendar
- Happy Christmas
- Robin Maugham Short Story
- Peter Straker Interview
- Joint Editors and Members of the Editorial Collective: Richard Adams (Design); Bob Fletcher, Peter Holmes, Denis Lemon; Denis Seligman, Julie Frost; and Ian Dunn (Scotland); Glenys Parry (Manchester); Graham Chapman; David Sherlock
- Gay News special friends: Roger Baker; Denis Cohn; Barry Conley; Lawrence Collinson; Brian Dax; Martin Grant; Antony Grey; Peter MacMillan; Manus Sasonkin; Martin Slavin; Bernard Searey; Rebecca John; David Hart; Martin Corbett and Christopher Ambury.
- Special thanks to: Richard & Norman; Ken & Allan; Angus; John; Stanley; Peter; David; Ken; Wolf and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.
- Merry Christmas! The feud with CHE’s J Martin Stafford continues. Daft old bat Mary Whitehouse wants the BBC to ban Chuck Berry’s single My Ding-a-Ling as it encourages masturbation, apparently. For $20 you can join the City of Men in an “isolated tropical area” which sounds a bit Jim Jones to us. The paper prints a ‘banned’ Monty Python script and a short story by Robin Maugham. Book of the year is Technological Eating by Magnus Pyke; British film of the year is Dulcima.
- Het of the month is replaced by a 1973 calendar on the back page featuring the previous 12 ‘hets’.