A project to digise early edns of the UK's pneerg LGBT+ newspaper Gay News
Contents:
- GAY NEWS
- GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
GAY NEWS
A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be. * gay news 1972 *
Gay News was lnched 1972 and ntued to circulate until 1983. At the time of s lnch, was the first pennt gay magaze.
Other gay prs were the platform publitns of polil groups; 'Come Together', for example, was the mouthpiece of the Gay Liberatn Front. Gay News provid an alternative eclectic publitn produced by, for and about gay men and some other radil magaz at the time, Gay News faced censorship trials. The edor was given a ne month spend jail sentence and a £500 fe and Gay News was fed £1000 and ma to pay £10000 urt sts.
The trial provoked a backlash; many nounced the verdict and Gay News' rearship grew om 8000 to 40, 000. Fd out more about the Gay News Here. Gay News was a fortnightly gay newspaper, lnched June 1972.
GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
The origal edorial llective clud Denis Lemon (edor), Mart Corbett - who later was an active member of ACT UP, David Seligman, a founr member of the London Gay Swchboard llective, Ian Dunn of the Sttish Mori Group, Glenys Parry (natnal chair of CHE), Si J Pcher, and Doug Pollard, who later went on to lnch the weekly gay newspaper, Gay Week (he is now a prenter on Joy Melbourne 94. 9FM, Atralia's first full-time GLBTI rad statn, and was for a time edor of Melbourne Star, the cy's fortnightly gay newspaper). Amongst Gay News's early "Special Friends" were Graham Chapman of Monty Python's Flyg Circ, his partner David Sherlock, and Antony Grey, secretary of the UK Homosexual Law Reform Society om 1962 to 1970.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
Gay News tle om 1977 issue. The paper played a pivotal role the stggle for gay rights the 1970s the UK.
Although sentially a newspaper, reportg alike on discrimatn and polil and social advanc, also mpaigned for further law reform, cludg pary wh the heterosexual age of nsent of sixteen, agast the hostily of the church which treated homosexualy as a s, and the medil profsn which treated homosexualy as a pathology. It mpaigned for equal rights employment (notably the ntroversial area of the teachg profsn) and the tras unn movement at a time when left polics the Uned Kgdom was still historilly fluenced by s Nonnformist roots s hostily to homosexualy. Keh How later published the encyclopaedic reference, Broadstg It, ostensibly alg wh homosexualy film, rad and TV om 1923 to 1993 but amountg to a cultural review of Brish homosexualy the twentieth century.
GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
Two of the paper's news staff, Michael Mason and Graham McKerrow, later found the London weekly newspaper Capal Gay which was lnched June 1981. Gay News challenged the thori om the outset by publishg personal ntact ads, fiance of the law — early edns this sectn was always headled "Love knoweth no laws.
In 1974, Gay News was charged wh obsceny, havg published an issue wh a ver photograph of two men kissg.
When all totalled up, f and urt sts award agast Lemon and Gay News amounted to nearly ₤10, 000. Gay News Ltd ceased tradg on 15 April 1983. ↑ Rictor Norton explas how, as a staffer on Gay News, he may have been rponsible for the cisn to publish the poem that led to the trial.