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‘COME LIVE WITH ME AND BE MY LOVE AND WE WILL ALL THE PLEASURES PROVE’ – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

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, Brian Dax, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Andy Dvosin (New York Correspondent), Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Peter Forster, David Hart, 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.

It seems the BBC were going to make Don’t leave your lover lying around (dear) by Steve Elgin their record of the week on David Hamilton’s Radio One show… but changed their mind. NALGO published the wrong number for Switchboard in their newsletter, leading to a few weird days of calls for an unsuspecting woman. The crackdown on gay saunas (bathhouses) continues, with 12 men arrested in a police raid on the Kingsauna in Kensington.
Reviews include a rerelease of Phil Spector’s Christmas Album, Earthquake at the Empire in Leicester Square, and What Every Woman Knows at the Albery.

I am grateful to several readers for pointing out an error in my article on James I (GN60). The Duke of Buckingham was not beheaded in 1632 but assassinated at Portsmouth on 23 August 1628 by John Felton, a discontented soldier, for personal and political reasons. My apologies. – Rictor Norton (p10)

Do you need a witness?
EARLS COURT: One of our readers was witness to an all-too-common sight outside the Coleherne recently. On Sunday December 8 our informant watched the police arrest two guys who were chatting outside the gay pub. He says it all happened for “no apparent reason.”

The point is, this person is prepared to act as a witness in any proceedings that might arise out of the incident. So, if you were one of the guys involved, get in touch with Jeff Grace at the Gay News office (01-995 1958) if you’d like our reader to act as your witness. Jeff has the name and telephone number of the man who saw it all happen. – p28

Issue 61