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Issue 42

Posted on 14 March 197425 September 2024

INFORMATION

  • Issue #42
  • 15p
  • 20 pages

  • 14-27 March 1974

  • CHE – NEW ACTION BRIGADE

  • Editor: Denis Lemon
  • News Editor: Michael Mason
  • Reporter-at-Large: Bill Lemmer
  • Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker
  • Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
  • Advertising/Circulation Manager: Peter Mundy
  • Business Manager: Stuart Patterson
  • Admin Assistant, Subscriptions, Box Replies, Listings: Anne Elizabeth
  • Typesetting: Rictor Norton, Sandi Rutenberg
  • Art Assistant: Glen Platts
  • Regular Contributors: Sean Aubrey, Barry Conley, Denis Cohn, Brian Dax, Richard Thomson, Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, John Gough, Carl Hill, Howard Llewellyn, John Montgomery, Rictor Norton, David Seligman, Pete Wicker and Ian Dunn (Scottish correspondent)

  • Berni Inns have told the Spartacus gay guide to remove their venues as being listed will cause them to lose their alcohol licences. A man from Blackburn gets a life sentence for murdering gay man at a cruising ground in order to steal 2p. A shortage of aluminium tubes means that KY cannot be found in shops for love not money. Bobby Crush, 19, due to appear at a gay club in Nottingham, had the booking cancelled by his father who feared he’d be “bothered”. 
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  • Reviews include the book Street Boy – Swinging London by Richard Green, fresh from its prosecution for obscenity. Marianne Faithfull is in The Collector at St Martins. (Brian) Eno releases the album Here Come the Warm Jets.

  • Issue 41’s feature on poetry proved popular, so the paper has decided to regularly publish more contemporary poems on gay themes. This will not end well.

  • Teaching Coppers the Law – MANCHESTER: Two cool girls drove a policeman into a quandary here the other day, when they decided to have a kiss and a natter. In public? The girls left a fortnightly gay women’s meeting in central Manchester and walked to their car. Inside the car, their kiss and cuddle was interrupted by tapping on the window. A policeman told them they were going to be arrested. The girls patiently explained to him that the 1967 Sexual Offences Act applied only to men. And while the girls smooched, the policeman conferred with the station. He was told that he had made a mistake. But he returned and tried again to arrest the girls. They told him he was being silly and drove off. – page 20

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