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Issue 56

Posted on 10 October 197425 September 2024

INFORMATION

  • Issue #56
  • 15p
  • 24 pages

  • 10-23 October 1974

  • LOCAL BACKING FOR GLF CANDIDATE
  • Cassidy: ‘Nothing to hide’
  • Congress goes international
  • Ms Heath vs Earls Court gay scene
  • Reaching 40
  • Robin Maugham
  • Can homophobia be cured?

  • 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
  • Business Manager etc: Bernard Mears
  • Subscriptions, Classified Ads: Maggie Donovan
  • Admin Assistant, Listing, and Box Replies: Catherine Hiscox
  • Regular Contributors: Peter Burton, Barry Conley, 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, Kurt Schiller (Swedish Correspondent), David Seligman, Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent), and Pete Wicker.

  • Malcolm Greatbanks is to stand at the general election as a ‘Gay Liberal’ candidate in Lambeth. David Cassidy is gay, or bi, according to a German magazine. The paper has hit its £1100 target for donations towards its legal bills having been found not guilty of being obscene by Bath magistrates. A gay rights demo will be held in Trafalgar Square on November 2. Tunbridge Wells will let CHE sponsor a piano recital after all.

  • Reviews include Jack the Ripper at the Ambassadors, It’s Liberace on vinyl, and Out of Step by Daniel Farson.

  • John Fraser (Labour): 16,449
  • B Hancock (Conservative): 11,678
  • Eric Hawthorne (Liberal): 4,377
  • M J Greatbanks (Gay Liberal): 223
  • Labour hold.

  • Heath leads opposition against gay clubs – LONDON: Ms E Heath of Wharfedale Street, London SW10 is leading local residents in a crusade to smash the famous Earls Court gay scene based on The Catacombs and The Masquerade clubs and the two public houses, The Boltons and The Coleherne. The small band of residents have pledged themselves to “cleanse this foul area once and for all, using any means we think fit.”  – page 3

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