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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.

Marje Proops (good) and Jean Rook (bad) have takes on the Young Liberals’ plans for comprehensive sex education. The chief constable of Hampshire says there’s a problem with sex crimes in his area, mainly caused by his broad definition of being gay being a sex crime.
Reviews include the book Challenge by Vita Sackville-West, Life Class at the Royal Court, and Cleo Laine’s new live album.

Gay News has been forced on to poorer quality paper in a new taller size, which they have apologised for by adding a splash of extra colour.

The Queen’s Navy – LONDON: We quote, without comment, from an advertisement for the Royal Navy which appeared in The Sunday Times:
“And then there’s the morning watch, when perhaps there’s just you and a junior seaman on the bridge and the sleeping ship is entirely in your hands. Apart from the dim glow from the repeater compass and the situation board, the only light is the hint of the Caribbean dawn – and it’s then that you remember why it is that you wanted to be a Naval Officer.
“It’s because you don’t want to do what everyone else does.” – page 5

Issue 46