1981. Capal Gay - Gay the 80s

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

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

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.

It is creded by the Oxford English Dictnary wh beg the first publitn the world to e the term HIV, (the send beg the ternatnal science journal Nature [1] wh the first regular lumn on AIDS the world beg wrten Capal Gay by Julian Meldm 1982. 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:.

FILE 18 - PRS CUTTGS - 'CAPAL GAY' (LGBTQ)

↑ 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.

GAY GAZETTE

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.

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. 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.

1981. CAPAL GAY

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.

CAPAL GAY (LONDON, UK) [NEWSPAPER]: NO. 122 (DECEMBER 9, 1983) - NO. 330 (FEBARY 19, 1988), PLETE.

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. It was London’s first cy-wi gay newspaper.

CELEBRATING GAY NEWS & CAPITAL GAY

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.

GAY NEWS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE

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.

LBIAN AND GAY NEWSMEDIA ARCHIVE

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. 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. In the 1970s and 1980s Bra’s leadg gay prs was Gay News and Capal Gay.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

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.

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).