Issue 27

Gay News Archive Project — Thu, 12 Jul 1973 13:14:40 +0000

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

INFORMATION

Gay News People: Denis Lemon, Michael Mason, Peter Mundy, Stephen MacLean, Mike Nightingale, Tim Skinner, Jean-Claude Thevenin (Design), Pascal Danot (Photography), David Seligman, David Rushton (Design Assistant)
Gay News Special Friends: Roger Baker, Denis Cohn, Barry Conley, Laurence Collinson, Graham Chapman, Brian Dax, Antony Grey, Peter MacMillan, Manus Sasonkin, Bernard Searey, David Sherlock, David Hart, Maxie Bacon, Tim Morris, Derek Jardine, Christopher Ambury, Carl Hill, Richard Watkins and Ian C Dunn (Scottish Correspondent).
Special thanks to: Richard & Norman, Ken & Allan, David & Anthony, Peter & Adrian, Peter, Eric, Ken, David, Richard, and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.

The editorial bemoans that only 300 people turned up for Gay Pride in London. The Liberal Party’s Michael Steed pushed the Tories into third place in a by-election in the Labour safe seat of Manchester Exchange. The police raided the Father Redcap, closing the upstairs gay disco under an 1839 law. David Bowie announced “it’s the last show we shall ever do” at the end of his Hammersmith Odeon gig. Reviews include The Rocky Horror Show at the Royal Court (“beautifully sleazy”) and Soylent Green.

Having featured a naked male in their adverts for many months, the S & H Publications ad on page 12 now has a big ☆ covering their model’s genitalia. This means this is the first edition in about a year with no picture or drawing of a cock in it.

“I spoke to one of the policemen in the kitchen, and he said to me ‘You’re running a club for poofs and lesbians,’ and I said ‘They’re your words not mine.’ He said they had kept watch on the disco for four particular nights – they had plants up there – and they believed I was running a ‘disorderly house’.” – Alfred Carmody, manager of the Father Redcap (page 3)