Issue 33

Gay News Archive Project — Thu, 04 Oct 1973 14:24:45 +0000

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

INFORMATION

Editor: Denis Lemon
Editorial Staff: Stephen MacLean, James Tyson
Advertising/Circulation Manager: Peter Mundy
Business Manager etc: Michael Mason
Subscriptions, Listings, Box Replies: Derek Jardine
Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
Art Assistant: David Rushton
Typesetting: Sandi Rutenberg (BLOT)
Gay News Special Friends: Roger Baker, Barry Conley, Denis Cohn, Anna Raeburn, Laurence Collinson, Graham Chapman, Brian Dax, Antony Grey, Manus Sasonkin, Tim Skinner, David Seligman, Grant Dowling, Pete Wicker, Bernard Searey, David Sherlock, David Hart, Maxie Bacon, Carl Hill, Howard Llewellyn, and Ian Dunn (Scottish correspondent)
Special Thanks To: Richard & Norman, Ken & Allan, David & Anthony, Peter & Adrian, Peter, Eric, Ken, David, Richard, Jim, and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.

The government is to propose a sex discrimination act which, the paper fears, will lock down the 1967 Sexual Offences Act even further. Tony Blackburn on BBC Radio 1 reads out a letter that mentions a someone who is “a real man, not just a big poof”. Meanwhile, BBC Radio 3 runs a balanced programme explaining homosexuality to listeners. Sticking with TV, Alan Whicker’s Yorkshire Television programme The Lord is my Shepherd and He Knows I’m Gay has just aired. You can now get it on DVD. Back at the Beeb, HM Customs have seized two sprips of film showing gay couples doing it as part of a sex education programme the Corporation may be running. The BBC hasn’t asked for the films back. Reviews include Absurd Person Singular at the Criterion and Scorpio starring Alan Delon.

“I don’t ordinarily do this sort of thing but… Bi, Boy-Man intellectual 21, genuinely and urgently needs to raise substantial capital for finance of private studies (academic!) I’ll do anything legal, as the saying goes. With a heigh-nonny-no. Box 33/105″ – page 22

Gay News Archive Project — Thu, 18 Oct 1973 10:04:09 +0000

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

Editor: Denis Lemon
Editorial Staff: Stephen MacLean, James Tyson
Advertising/Circulation Manager: Peter Mundy
Business Manager etc: Michael Mason
Subscriptions, Listings, Box Replies: Derek Jardine
Art Director: Jean-Claude Thevenin
Art Assistant: David Rushton
Typesetting: Sandi Rutenberg (BLOT)
Regular Contributors: Roger Baker, Barry Conley, Denis Cohn, Brian Dax, Grant Dowling, Iain Finlayson, Jackie Forster, John Gough, Carl Hill, Howard Llewellyn, John Montgomery, Rictor Norton, David Seligman, Pete Wicker and Ian Dunn (Scottish correspondent)

Yorkshire Television have sent Alan Whicker Way Out West, where he made a feature called The Lord is My Shepherd and He Knows I’m Gay that horrified a lot of straight people for showing, you know, gays and stuff at 10.30pm, and also annoyed the homosexualists by treating us like zoo animals. Meanwhile, GLF was fighting with the Radical Gay Communards, who wanted GLF to be more… radical. A boycott of Berni Inns is narrowly avoided when a manager who said that they don’t cater to sexual deviants is immediately sacked. Just joking: a letter of apology was sent, but no action taken.
Reviews include the book The Fundamentals of Sex by Dr Philip Cauthery from Corgi, which is pleased that homosexuals cannot reproduce. In the cinema is The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Cahill.

“Gay News did NOT move to 1 Paxton Road, Chiswick, as anticipated in GN33. Instead we are now at 62a Chiswick High Road, London W4 1SY. Phone number is 01-995 1958.”
On page 7, Flamboys In Park Lane, Jean Fredericks is quoted as saying that Max Rahman is “a pre-operative sex change, on hormone treatment, but still a boy.” This will be subject to printed correction in the next edition – Max denies being trans.

Now He Tells Us – LONDON: Former Premiere [sic] Harold McMillan [sic] has “revealed” that at the time of the Lord Profumo [sic] sex scandal in 1963, “Soviet agents” exploited the situation, initiating accusations that “half the Cabinet” were involved in “perversion, homosexuality and the like.” – page 20