A project to digise early edns of the UK's pneerg LGBT+ newspaper Gay News
Contents:
- CAPAL GAY
- CAPAL GAY
- FILE 18 - PRS CUTTGS - 'CAPAL GAY' (LGBTQ)
- GAY GAZETTE
- 1981. CAPAL GAY
- CAPAL GAY (LONDON, UK) [NEWSPAPER]: NO. 122 (DECEMBER 9, 1983) - NO. 330 (FEBARY 19, 1988), PLETE.
- CELEBRATING GAY NEWS & CAPITAL GAY
- GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
- LBIAN AND GAY NEWSMEDIA ARCHIVE
- NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
CAPAL GAY
Prs cuttgs om var issu of Capal Gay magaze, verg many facets of LGBTQ+ cultural and social life London and the UK, cludg... * capital gay newspaper archive *
Cover of issue 686 (24 March 1995)Capal Gay was a weekly ee gay newspaper published London. Its last edn appeared on 30 June 1995, havg bee Bra's longt-nng gay newspaper. Capal Gay sponsored the London Lbian and Gay Swchboard and volved self events the wir gay muny London; s edorial le tend to be strong.
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CAPAL GAY
On 26th June, 1981, Graham McKerrow and Michael Mason (a former director and news edor of Gay News) published the first issue of Capal Gay. It was London's first cy-wi gay newspaper. The ee paper was published weekly and distributed through pubs, clubs, bookshops and other gay-iendly outlets. Dpe 's name, 's distributn area also * capital gay newspaper archive *
After s llapse the summer of 1995, s edor moved to the Gay Gazette which was found by Chronos Publishg a week later to soak up s advertisers.
Edors of Capal Gay were:. ↑ Capal Gay The Kntg Circle: Lbian and Gay Staff Associatn, London South Bank Universy] Accs date: October 8, 2006.
Capal Gay. Capal Gay was a ee, weekly London newspaper tablished by Graham McKerrow and Michael Mason. It was priced at 20p when first published but beme ee six months later, and went on to be Bra's longt-nng ee gay newspaper.
FILE 18 - PRS CUTTGS - 'CAPAL GAY' (LGBTQ)
LGBT Magaze Archive offers digal accs to the backfil of many of the most fluential, long-nng perdils voted to LGBT terts, cludg The Advote, Gay News, and The Pk Paper. This llectn offers primary source sights to myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, om the 1950s to recent tim. * capital gay newspaper archive *
Prs cuttgs - 'Capal Gay' (LGBTQ). Prs cuttgs om var issu of Capal Gay magaze, verg many facets of LGBTQ+ cultural and social life London and the UK, cludg Pri march, protts & monstratns, the bate around S&M and fetish gear, employment, hog and homelsns, HIV/AIDS, Sectn 28, polics, and related issu & events.
Gay Gazette newspaper, issue 3, 2 Augt 1995. The Gay Gazette was a ee weekly newspaper published by Chronos Publishg, aimed to mop up the market om the llapse of Capal Gay 1995.
GAY GAZETTE
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Rather than buy the tle, Chronos, who published Pk Paper and Boyz at the time, set up the Gay Gazette a week after the llapse of Capal Gay, eded by Roger Goo, who had been Capal Gay’s most recent edor. The Pk Paper was seen as beg a left-wg lbian newspaper, whereas Capal Gay was que often scribed as a right-wg male newspaper.
The Gay Gazette was published for xx weeks before was scrapped.
On 26th June, 1981, Graham McKerrow and Michael Mason (a former director and news edor of Gay News) published the first issue of Capal Gay.
1981. CAPAL GAY
It was London’s first cy-wi gay newspaper. The ee paper was published weekly and distributed through pubs, clubs, bookshops and other gay-iendly outlets.
In April 1983, followg the llapse of Gay News – Bra’s only natnal gay and lbian publitn – Capal Gay announced would ‘temporarily’ extend ’s distributn area to selected gay clubs areas such as Nottgham, Manchter and Newstle. The aim was to provi an ’emergency’ news service until such tim as a new natnal gay and lbian publitn emerged. It never happened: ndidate publitns such as Gay Reporter, the New Gay News and (unsurprisgly) HIM magaze all tered exclively or predomantly to a gay male market.
And so, July 1985, Capal Gay announced that was reluctantly endg s out-of-London distributn.
CAPAL GAY (LONDON, UK) [NEWSPAPER]: NO. 122 (DECEMBER 9, 1983) - NO. 330 (FEBARY 19, 1988), PLETE.
The very fact that had extend s distributn the first place dited how different Capal Gay was om the other publitns of that perd. It actually sponsored London’s Lbian and Gay Swchboard and, wh the emergence of the HIV/AIDS crisis, ran the world’s first weekly lumn on AIDS, wrten by Julian Meldm.
As a rult of that lumn, Capal Gay is creded wh beg the first publitn the world to e the term HIV (so says the Oxford English Dictnary, no ls! Twisted Tori notwhstandg, Capal Gay enjoyed a relatively long life, foldg four days after ’s 14th anniversary, on June 30th 1995.
LGBT Magaze ArchiveLGBT Magaze Archive offers digal accs to the backfil of many of the most fluential, long-nng perdils voted to LGBT terts, cludg The Advote, Gay News, and The Pk Paper.
CELEBRATING GAY NEWS & CAPITAL GAY
Subjects: History, Area and Cultural Studi, Gay and Lbian Studi, Soclogy, Polil ScienceLanguage: EnglishScholarly JournalsSearch for full text or specific journals or magaz.
Jo queer performer and activist DAN DE LA MOTTE nversatn wh GAY NEWS foundg edor ANDREW LUMSDEN and CAPITAL GAY foundg edor GRAHAM MCKERROW at NEWINGTON GREEN MEETING HOUSE to memorate LGBT+ History Month 2023.
GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
In the 1970s and 1980s Bra’s leadg gay prs was Gay News and Capal Gay. Gay News, a fortnightly newspaper the size of the morn Observer, was lnched 50 years ago on 22 June 1972 time for the first Pri march London and lasted until issue 263 April 1983.
40, you got 25, 000 words, cludg some by Blossom, a drag queen a Bounds Green north London gay mune.
LBIAN AND GAY NEWSMEDIA ARCHIVE
Capal Gay (1981-1995) was started by Gay News reporters Michael Mason and Graham McKerrow to reach thoands of people g out and g the rapidly growg mercial pub and club scene but who were alienated om the polil movement. About this ArchiveAdmistrative/bgraphil historyGay News was a fortnightly newspaper the Uned Kgdom.
It was found June 1972 a llaboratn between former members of the Gay Liberatn Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE).
At the newspaper's height, circulatn was approximately 18, 000 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. Pollard later went on to lnch the weekly gay newspaper, Gay Week (affectnately known as Gweek). Amongst Gay News' 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 News was the rponse to a natnwi mand by lbians and gay men for news of the burgeong liberatn movement.
NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
The paper played a pivotal role the stggle for gay rights the 1970s the UK. Gay News mpaged for 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.
Dpe this, a succsful mpaign was lnched by var gay groups to force WH Smh, who largely ntrolled newspaper distributn the UK, to distribute and sell the News Ltd ceased tradg on 15 April and ntentPhotographs of cemas, theatr, personali and events, and miscellaneo imag published Gay News, (n. About this ArchiveAdmistrative/bgraphil historyThe Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) is based at Bishopsgate Instute the Cy of London and ho over 200, 000 cuttgs taken om the non-gay prs on all LGBTQ+ matters sce the late Neteenth Century. Whether you are terted the remendatns of the Wolfenn Commtee the 1950s, who wore what and why at the Gateways Club the 1960s, the GLF and The Ftival of Light the 1970s, Clse 28 and the rantg of Jam Anrton the 1980s, pk pounds and gay villag the 1990s or Todd Grimshaw's g out on Coronatn Street the 2000s, if the mastream prs wrote about , we'll have the and ntentWe also have a llectn of over a hundred badg, a selectn of t-shirts and a reference library of several hundred books.