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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 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. 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.
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. 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.
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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.
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!
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