INFORMATION
- Issue #21
- 15p
- 20 pages
- Undated. Approximate publication date: 18 April 1973
- Gay Morecambe
- Happy Easter
- BREAKING OUT OF THE GREAT SHELL OF DISCRIMINATION
- Joint Editors and Members of the Editorial Collective: Denis Lemon, Michael Mason, Peter Mundy, Mike Nightingale, David Seligman, Tim Skinner, Jean-Claude Thevenin (Design)
- and Ian Dunn (Scotland), Graham Chapman, David Sherlock.
- Gay News special friends: Roger Baker, Denis Cohn, Barry Conley, Laurence Collinson, Brian Dax, Simon Benson, Antony Grey, Peter MacMillan, Manus Sasonkin, Martin Slavin, Bernard Searey, Rebecca John, David Hart, Brian Taylor, Maxie Bacon, Toni Ranz, Tim Morris, Derek Jardine, Christopher Ambury, Richard Watkins.
- Special thanks to: Richard & Norman, Ken & Allan, Angus, John, Stanley, Peter, Anthony, David, Ken, Wolf and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.
- The news is dominated by the first annual conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) and the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG), held in Morecambe. CHE estimated 400 attendees. The Times newspaper suggested 230. Monty Python’s Flying Circus is going on tour through the UK and Canada. A problem page debuts: Alan is drinking to avoid shyness and worries about going bald at 24; Ken is 46, lonely in Newcastle and banned from the local CHE group for announcing the name too loudly. Reviews include Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and Lady Sings the Blues starring Diana Ross.
- Het of the month: Charlie Chaplin
- This appears to be the last ‘Het of the month’ picture and is presented as a competition. Apologies for spoiling the answer.