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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
* 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.
GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
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.
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).
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
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. Gay News tle om 1977 issue. The paper played a pivotal role the stggle for gay rights the 1970s the UK.
GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
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.