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INFORMATION Issue #45 15p 20 pages 25 April – 8 May 1974 OBSCENITY TRIAL: TRIUMPH No Case To Answer Editor: Denis Lemon News Editor: Michael Mason 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 Admin Assistant, Subscriptions, Box...

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INFORMATION

  • Issue #45
  • 15p
  • 20 pages

  • 25 April – 8 May 1974

  • OBSCENITY TRIAL: TRIUMPH
    No Case To Answer

  • Editor: Denis Lemon
  • News Editor: Michael Mason
  • 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
  • Admin Assistant, Subscriptions, Box Replies, Listings: Anne Elizabeth
  • Regular Contributors: Sean Aubrey (Brighton & District Correspondent), Peter Burton, Denis Cohn, Barry Conley, Elizabeth Cornu, Brian Dax, Ian Dunn (Scottish Correspondent), Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, Veronica Harvey, Mike Heberden, Sebastian Helmore, Carl Hill, Howard Llewellyn (Cardiff & District Correspondent), ‘Merlin’, John Montgomery, Barry Nonweiler, Rictor Norton, John Riley, David Seligman, Richard Thomson (Portsmouth & District Correspondent) and Pete Wicker.

  • Bath police raided a wholesaler and stole their copies of Gay News, saying that the edition of the paper, with an image of a wedding from a Yorkshire Television documentary on the cover, was clearly obscene without even having to read it. The local magistrates have sided with the paper. GLF is to contest three seats on Lambeth council. When CHE meets in Malvern at the end of May, they will be showing rare archive material of David Bowie in 1969. And the Naval Welfare Committee is concerned that their fathers being away at sea means that children will turn gay. Uh huh.
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  • Reviews include the book Pantomime, A Story in Putures by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, Eden End at the National, and a selection of big screen show tunes on LP.

  • This is the last edition of the paper with this masthead, introduced in July 1973 with issue 27.

  • The front page credits the photograph to Camera Press London. Except there’s no photograph on the front page. The next issue explains that the page was hurriedly remade just as the edition went to print and the credit still being there was missed.

  • 15p of Rubbish – “Not again! Not content with the Chris­topher Street interview (GN35), the Royal Wedding Souvenir (GN36), Bob Sturgess’ and Terence’s letters (GNs 41&42), and not forgetting John Olday’s sexist humourless cartoons, you have to give us 2 pages in GN43 on ‘Homophobics’. If any of these had been funny it might have been worth filling up the odd half page with them, but to devote up to 10% of the paper to any of them is a waste of valuable space. I don’t spend 15p on a ‘newspaper’ in order to read such rubbish.” – Michael Foreman, page 2

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