INFORMATION
- Issue #58
- 15p
- 24 pages
- 7–20 November 1974
- DANNY LA RUE IN GAY FILM CLASH
- Women threaten breakaway
- Goodbye Neil
- Gay march to No 10
- West Country tax scandal
- Scots cheery about World Congress
- No Spanish holidays for gays
- The Cruel Sea
- A gay detective story, 1739
- 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
General Assistant: Jack Edwards - Regular Contributors: Peter Burton, Barry Conley, Laurence Collinson, Elizabeth Cornu, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Andy Dvosin (New York Correspondent), Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Peter Forster, Veronica Harvey, Mike Heberden, Carl Hill, Derek James, Howard Llewellyn, Leo Madigan, Phil McNeill, ‘Merlin’, John Montgomery, John Riley, Kurt Schiller (Swedish Correspondent), Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent), Bruce Wainwright, Pete Wicker and Joseph Winter.
- 2,500 gays turn out in Trafalgar Square for CHE’s law reform demo. The Inland Revenue sack a man whose office telephone number was accidentally printed in a CHE ad instead of his home number. Glasgow City Council is to check the home life of all male workers and could fire anybody they suspect of homosexuality.
- Reviews include Jack the Ripper at the Ambassadors, It’s Liberace on vinyl, and Out of Step by Daniel Farson.
- An apology…
LONDON: We apologise for the inexcusable slip which appeared in the story ‘Auden for Poets Comer’ in issue 56. We misquoted the inscription on Auden’s memorial stone, which was unveiled by Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate. The inscription, in fact, reads: “In the prison of his days, Teach the free man how to praise.” – p4
(The paper had printed “In the memory of his day, teach the free man how to praise”)
- Casinos of justice
DORSET: Following our report in issue 57 that a man had been jailed for seven years for molesting a fifteen-year-old boy, a new case has come our way.
47-year-old Police Constable Robert Dorrell of Poole in Dorset was convicted of indecently assaulting a ten-year-old girl on a number of occasions. Wareham magistrates sentenced him to six months imprisonment – suspended for two years!
And a driver who killed a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl in London recently was convicted of dangerous driving-and fined £60. ‘Death before Dishonour’ seems to be the guiding principle. – page 24