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Issue 25

Posted on 14 June 197325 September 2024

INFORMATION

  • Issue #25
  • 15p
  • 20 pages

  • 14-27 June 1973

  • SPECIAL BIRTHDAY EDITION
  • Gayness: What The MP’s Think
  • GN Exposes Happiness Club Racket
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  • back row (left to right): Jean-Claude Thevenin, Denis Lemon, Sandi Rutenberg, Stephen MacLean and Mike Nightingale, front row (left to right): Michael Mason, Pascal Danot and Peter Mundy.

  • Joint Editors and Members of the Gay News Editorial Collective: Denis Lemon, Michael Mason, Peter Mundy, Stephen MacLean, Mike Nightingale, Tim Skinner, Jean-Claude Thevenin (Design), Pascal Danot (Photography), David Seligman, David Rushton (Design Assistant)
  • Gay News special friends: Roger Baker, Denis Cohn, Barry Conley, Laurence Collinson, Graham Chapman, Brian Dax, Antony Grey, Peter MacMillan, Manus Sasonkin, Bernard Searey, David Sherlock, David Hart, Maxie Bacon, Tim Morris, Derek Jardine, Christopher Ambury, Carl Hill, Richard Watkins and Ian C Dunn (Scottish Correspondent).
  • Special thanks to: Richard & Norman, Ken & Allan, David & Anthony, Peter & Adrian, Peter, Eric, Ken, David, Richard, and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.

  • Gay News is a year old. Is ‘The Happiness Club’ blackmailing gay members? What do MPs think about homosexual law reform? Should Scarborough police have raided and closed a dance studio because a quarter of its members were gay? Reviews include Monty Python’s Flying Circus at the Theatre Royal, Norwich and Theatre of Blood.

  • Please see the Project’s policy on censorship. This edition has been censored by us in one place: the cover of Issue 14 is reproduced on page 6. Whilst we don’t, per se, believe the picture to be pornographic, the models were clearly underage and deserve to have their identities hidden.

  • Gay News has never sunk its teeth into public scandals before. It is not our last attempt either. Gay News is neither public watchdog nor gay saint… but we do have a growing responsibility to advise and warn on matters such as Dennis Stanbury’s Happiness Club. And we’ve only just begun. – page 3

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To obtain approximate values for money allowing for inflation, times 1972 prices by 11.5; 1973 by 10.5; 1974 by 9; and 1975 by 7.5.

For instance, £1 in 1972 is £11.50 in today’s money.

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