Skip to content
Menu
Gay News Archive Project
  • About this Project
  • Project notes
  • Contact the Project
  • FAQ
Gay News Archive Project Gay News Archive Project

Issue 44

Posted on 11 April 197425 September 2024

INFORMATION

  • Issue #44
  • 15p
  • 20 pages

  • 11-24 April 1974

  • GAY MAGS

  • Editor: Denis Lemon
  • News Editor: Michael Mason
  • Reporter-at-Large: Bill Lemmer
  • Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker
  • Contributing Editor (Features) and Typesetting: Rictor Norton
  • Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
  • Art Assistant: Glen Platts
  • Advertising/Circulation Manager: Bernard Mears
  • Business Manager: Stuart Patterson
  • Admin Assistant, Subscriptions, Box Replies, Listings: Anne Elizabeth
  • Regular Contributors: Sean Aubrey (Brighton & District Correspondent), Peter Burton, Denis Cohn, Barry Conley, Elizabeth Cornu, Brian Dax, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Veronica Harvey, Mike Heberden, Sebastian Helmore, Carl Hill, Howard Llewellyn (Cardiff & District Correspondent), ‘Merlin’, John Montgomery, Barry Nonweiler, Rictor Norton, John Riley, David Seligman, Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent) and Pete Wicker.

  • The GLF squat in Brixton is opening up for meetings and discos. Police in Glamorgan want our help in finding the murderer of gay man in Barry and understand why we won’t come forward to help them. Willie Whitelaw comes out for an equal age of consent. 
  •  
  • Reviews include the book Staying on Alone, the letters of Alice B Toklas, edited by Edward Burns. Flowers: A Pantomime for Jean Genet is on at the Regent. Zardoz is in cinemas. The OST of The Way We Were is out as an LP.

  • Call Me A Queen Will You? POW! – SOUTHAMPTON: A 41-year-old stevedore knocked out his postman when the mail-carrier implied he was gay… The Post Office has not delivered mail to [his] address since the affair. – page 20

  • Download PDF

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Search metadata and tags

Years

  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1975

This year

  • Issue 38
  • Issue 39
  • Issue 40
  • Issue 41
  • Issue 42
  • Issue 43
  • Issue 44
  • Issue 45
  • Issue 46
  • Issue 47
  • Issue 48
  • Issue 49
  • Issue 50
  • Issue 51
  • Issue 52
  • Issue 53
  • Issue 54
  • Issue 55
  • Issue 56
  • Issue 57
  • Issue 58
  • Issue 59
  • Issue 60
  • Issue 61

Inflation

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.

Meta

  • About this Project
  • Contact the Project
  • FAQ
  • Project notes

Attribution

Please link to the Gay News Archive Project if reusing this material

Citation

Cite the print edition of Gay News using ISSN 2753-3468.

Cite the online archive of Gay News using ISSN 2753-3476

Follow

Facebook
Bluesky
RSS

Supported by

 
BCM Transdiffusion
LONDON WC1N 3XX
03333 391 247

ISSN 2753-3476

Produced by

Facebook
Bluesky
RSS

A part of

©2025 Gay News Archive Project | WordPress Theme by Superb WordPress Themes