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Issue 31

Posted on 6 September 197325 September 2024

INFORMATION

  • Issue #31
  • 15p
  • 20 pages

  • 6-19 September 1973

  • HELLO. CAN I HELP YOU?

  • Editor: Denis Lemon
  • Reporter at Large: Stephen MacLean
  • Advertising/Circulation Manager: Peter Mundy
  • Business Manager etc: Michael Mason
  • Subscriptions, Listings, Box Replies: Derek Jardine
  • Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
  • Art Assistant: David Rushton
  • Typesetting: Sandi Rutenberg (BLOT)
  • Gay News Special Friends: Roger Baker, Barry Conley, Denis Cohn, Anna Raeburn, Laurence Collinson, Graham Chapman, Brian Dax, Antony Grey, Peter MacMillan, Manus Sasonkin, David Seligman, Grant Dowling, Pete Wicker, Bearnard Searey, David Sherlock, David Hart, Maxie Bacon, Tim Morris, Christopher Ambury, Carl Hill, Richard Watkins
  • Special Thanks To: Richard & Norman, Ken & Allan, David & Anthony, Peter & Adrian, Peter, Eric, Ken, David, Richard, Jim, and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.

  • This is the first issue with professional national distribution, so the editorial welcomes what the paper hopes will be a flood of new readers. Gay News – via David Seligman in particular – has spawned a new off-shoot: Gay Switchboard. It’s still running to this day. Meanwhile, GLF is picketing the homophobic local rag Hendon Times (also still extant today). Reporter Tim Skinner has taken a sabbatical to tour Australia. For the rest of us, why not visit Brighton? And is what we do in bed an integral part of the LGB experience or just a facet of our lives? Roger Baker examines the issue. Reviews include Equus at the Old Vic and De Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde.

  • CQ CQ gay radio hams and SWLs around 21 years of age within 160 or 80 meter radius of Richmond Surrey. How about meeting and starting a net. G8s also welcome. Phone number, callsign and photo please. Box 31/27 – personal ad, page 17. My kinda guy!

  • Our OCR scanning software simply can’t cope with the front cover of this edition, resulting in the first page of the PDF being skewed and trimmed in odd places. Apologies.

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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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