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Issue 8

Posted on 1 October 197225 September 2024

INFORMATION

  • Issue #8
  • 10p
  • 16 pages

  • Undated. Approximate publication date: 1 October 1972

  • Pornography, Obscenity and Gays: Lord Porn Lashes Back
  • The Gay Militant

  • Joint Editors and Members of the Editorial Collective: Richard Adams (Design); Martin Corbett; Ian Dunn (Scotland); Charlotte Corday; Bob Fletcher; Julian D. Grinspoon; Peter Holmes; David Hart; Denis Lemon; Alastair MacDougall; Glenys Parry (Manchester); Suki J. Pitcher; Doug Pollard; David Seligman; Peter Waldschmidt and Graham Chapman; David Sherlock
  • Gay News special friends: Roger Baker; Denis Cohn; Barry Conley; Lawrence Collinson; Brian Dax; Martin Grant; Antony Grey; Peter MacMillan; Manus Sasonkin
  • Special thanks to: Richard & Norman; Ken & Allan; Angus; John; Stanley; Peter; Anthony; David; Ken; Wolf and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.

  • The prudish Lord Longford has just released his eponymous Report on Pornography, which brands gay people as suffering from a ‘perversion’ but allows for us to have (restricted) access to porn. Gee, thanks. The editorial is another tale of financial woe, an on-going theme. Morecambe council are getting cold feet about hosting CHE’s annual conference: will the pier be able to take the weight of all the weirdos? The Biograph cinema have asked Julian Denys Grinspoon to sling his (well-manicured) hook. Reviews include The ABZ of Pornography and Savage Messiah.

  • ‘A Reelll Doctor’ on page 11 is Dr Graham Chapman in disguise.
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  • There are six penises on display in the paper, which may go someway towards explaining why Facebook won’t let us advertise this Project.

  • Het of the month: Dusty Springfield

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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.

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