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INFORMATION Issue #49 15p 20 pages 20 June – 3 July 1974 FLOWER POWER ’74 Editor: Denis Lemon News Editor: Michael Mason Reporter at Large: Jeff Grace Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker Contributing Editor (Features) and Typesetting: Rictor Norton Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin Art Assistant: Glen Platts Advertising/Circulation Manager: Bernard Mears Business Manager: Stuart Patterson Subscriptions, Classified Ads...

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INFORMATION

  • Issue #49
  • 15p
  • 20 pages

  • 20 June – 3 July 1974

  • FLOWER POWER ’74

  • Editor: Denis Lemon
  • News Editor: Michael Mason
  • Reporter at Large: Jeff Grace
  • Contributing Editor (Features): Roger Baker
  • Contributing Editor (Features) and Typesetting: Rictor Norton
  • Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
  • Art Assistant: Glen Platts
  • Advertising/Circulation Manager: Bernard Mears
  • Business Manager: Stuart Patterson
  • Subscriptions, Classified Ads and Box Replies: Maggie Donovan
  • Admin Assistant, Listings: Catherine Hiscox
  • Regular Contributors: Sean Aubrey (Brighton & District Correspondent), Peter Burton, Denis Cohn, Barry Conley, Elizabeth Cornu, Brian Dax, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Iain T Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Veronica Harvey, Mike Heberden, Sebastian Helmore, Carl Hill, Howard Llewellyn (Cardiff & District Correspondent), ‘Merlin’, John Montgomery, Barry Nonweiler, John Riley, David Seligman, Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent), Richard Webster (Cumbria Correspondent) and Pete Wicker.

  • The Met Police’s on-going habit of arresting any young gentleman who dares to walk past the Coleherne for ‘obstruction’ continues to get a string of acquittals from the local magistrates. CHE and London Weekend Television have teamed up to make a half-hour programme to show that being lesbian and gay is normal. Traders in Malvern report being delighted at the good behaviour, and the money spent, by delegates to CHE’s conference last month.
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  • Reviews include the book Sexuality and Homosexuality by Arno Karlen, Spring Awakening at the National, and Blazing Saddles in cinemas. David Bowie, temporarily going by just ‘Bowie’, released the album Diamond Dogs.

  • Gay mags wanted – MANCHESTER: The Campaign for Homo­sexual Equality Research Officer is gathering together gay magazines, newspapers, periodicals, leaflets, bulletins, newsletters and literature of any kind to form the basis of a research library. He would be glad to receive donations of any kind of material dealing with gay life and organisations.  – page 20
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  • Heh. Well, I know where a couple of boxes of those things ended up! – RJG

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