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Issue 57

Posted on 24 October 197417 December 2024

INFORMATION

  • Issue #57
  • 15p
  • 24 pages

  • 24 October – 6 November 1974

  • SOCIAL CONTRACT
  • WE pay for THEIR marriages
    WE feed and clothe THEIR children
    WE pay for THEIR housing
    WE educate THEIR children
    We pay for THEIR police
    We pay for THEIR reading
  • Support for national rally snowballs
    New gay switchboard
    Conference reports
    Travellers’ notes
    Three’s company
    Liberation jottings
    Super-Gay

  • 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, Listing, and Box Replies: Catherine Hiscox
  • Regular Contributors: Peter Burton, Barry Conley, Elisabeth 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, Kurt Schiller (Swedish Correspondent), David Seligman, Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent), and Pete Wicker.

  • Malcolm Greatbanks, the GLF’s candidate in Lambethj Norwood got 223 votes in the general election. Dr Una Kroll, Women’s Rights Campaign, got 298 in Sutton and Cheam. Two men who used the Sauna 385 bathhouse in West Bromwich were arrested and charged by homophobic police; one was fined £150 with £15 costs, the other £125 and £25. Club Rokoko in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is closed by magistrates after the users of the building in daytime – a bingo club – objected to sharing the building.
  • Reviews include two books on Oscar Wilde, Roxy Music in concert, and Emmanuelle.

  • “Modest dream boy frustrated with poorly paid Estate Agency seeks position of responsibility to stimulate his commercial aptitude, or a financially rewarding proposition. He would also like to meet similar young, handsome, active guy. Photo please. Box 57/114.”  – page 43

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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.

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