INFORMATION
- Issue #53
- 15p
- 20 pages
- 15 August – 11 September 1974
- SING A GAY SONG
- Eire
- Peter Katin
- GLC Scandal
- The Hole In The Wall
- The Molly Parkin Interview
- Needlework
- West End Gay Festival
- Editor: Denis Lemon
- News Editor: Michael Mason
- Reporter at Large: Jeff Grace
- Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker
- Research Editor: Rictor Norton
- Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
- Art Assistant: Glen Platts
- Advertising/Circulation Manager: Stuart Patterson
- Circulation Assistant: Bernard Mears
- Subscriptions, Classified Ads: Maggie Donovan
- Admin Assistant, Listings, and Box Replies: Catherine Hiscox
- Regular Contributors: Peter Burton, Barry Conley, Elizabeth Cornu, Brian Dax, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Andy Dvosin (New York Correspondent), Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Veronica Harvey, Mike Heberden, Carl Hill, Derek James, Howard Llewellyn (Cardiff & District Correspondent), Leo Madigan, ‘Merlin’, John Montgomery, John Riley, David Seligman, Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent), Richard Webster (Cumbria Correspondent) and Pete Wicker.
- The row over CHE sponsoring a piano recital in Tunbridge Wells carries on. The GLC’s guide for young visitors has mysterious blank spaces where gay information used to be. Harrogate Council decided, in a narrow 56–4 vote, to not invite CHE to hold their 1975 conference there.
- Reviews include The Good Companions at Her Majesty’s, The Feminist Papers edited by Alice S Rossi, and Stevie Wonder’s Fulfillingness’ First Finale.
- Fowl language – LONDON: Babs Todd… told us she was horrified recently by the sheer ignorance of a Labour Minister about homosexuality… She said the preamble to the [Sex Discrimination] bill should make it clear that [it]… covered discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Which brought the extraordinary remark from Gerald Fowler [Labour, The Wrekin], of the Department of Education and Science, that such a move would “open the doors to pederasty” – a remark neither Educated nor Scientific. – page 20