Issue 13

Gay News Archive Project — Thu, 14 Dec 1972 15:20:27 +0000

From the project to digitise early editions of the UK's pioneering LGBT+ newspaper Gay News...

INFORMATION

“Don’t hold it against them that perhaps in other people’s eyes they are not normal members of society, they are normal in their own eyes” – Judge Arthur James’ comment whilst summing up evidence of gays in Old Bailey trial. But gay sister Angela Weir is still freed.
Banned Monty Python sketch
Garland: Secrets of Stardom
Calendar
Happy Christmas
Robin Maugham Short Story
Peter Straker Interview

Joint Editors and Members of the Editorial Collective: Richard Adams (Design); Bob Fletcher, Peter Holmes, Denis Lemon; Denis Seligman, Julie Frost; and Ian Dunn (Scotland); Glenys Parry (Manchester); 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; Martin Slavin; Bernard Searey; Rebecca John; David Hart; Martin Corbett and Christopher Ambury.
Special thanks to: Richard & Norman; Ken & Allan; Angus; John; Stanley; Peter; David; Ken; Wolf and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.

Merry Christmas! The feud with CHE’s J Martin Stafford continues. Daft old bat Mary Whitehouse wants the BBC to ban Chuck Berry’s single My Ding-a-Ling as it encourages masturbation, apparently. For $20 you can join the City of Men in an “isolated tropical area” which sounds a bit Jim Jones to us. The paper prints a ‘banned’ Monty Python script and a short story by Robin Maugham. Book of the year is Technological Eating by Magnus Pyke; British film of the year is Dulcima.

Het of the month is replaced by a 1973 calendar on the back page featuring the previous 12 ‘hets’.