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Issue 26

Posted on 28 June 197321 September 2019

INFORMATION

  • Issue #26
  • 15p
  • 20 pages

  • 28 June – 11 July 1973

  • Gay Has A Free Say On Radio
  • Lay Lady Gay – This Woman If For You

  • Gay News People: Denis Lemon, Michael Mason, Peter Mundy, Stephen MacLean, Mike Nightingale, Tim Skinner, Jean-Claude Thevenin (Design), Pascal Danot (Photography), David Seligman, David Rushton (Design Assistant).
  • Gay News Special Friends: Roger Baker, Denis Cohn, Barry Conley, Laurence Collinson, Brian Dax, Antony Grey, Peter MacMillan, Manus Sasonkin, Bernard Searey, David Sherlock, David Hart, Maxie Bacon, Tim Morris, Derek Jardine, Christopher Ambury, Carl Hill, Richard Watkins and Ian C Dunn (Scottish Correspondent).
  • Special thanks to: Richard & Norman, Ken & Allan, David & Anthony, Peter & Adrian, Peter, Eric, Ken, David, Richard, and all the other Friends and Loved Ones.

  • The 1970s have a bad reputation in popular memory but they were a time of great social change as well as all the upheaval as the Post War Consensus came to an end. Proving it, we have BBC Radio London hosting an LGBT+ phone-in, something that the forthcoming commercial rival LBC (and the non-London ILR stations BRMB, Clyde and Piccadilly) would also do. And we have the advice columnist Anna Raeburn being, like all the best advice columnists, loudly pro-gay. She would become one of the voices on another BBC Radio London competitor, Capital Radio, which launched in October 1973. In other news, British Transport Advertising, the billboard division of the much-missed British Rail, wouldn’t accept an advertisement for Gay News. No reasons were given. Reviews in this issue include The Art of Sensual Massage by Gordon Inkeles and Murray Todris and Neither One of Us by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

  • The survey of MPs in issue 25 has proved controversial, mainly for naming John Gough as one of the authors, to the displeasure of his local CHE branch.

  • “…we’ve had a great many problems – it has been a meeting point for undesirables for several years… trouble on the male side that is. We did have it floodlit at the suggestion of the police.” – Mr Curtis of Barnet Council explaining why there was now a security officer with an alsatian stationed outside the cottage on the North Circular (page 5)

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Years

  • 1972
  • 1973

1973 issues

Issue 14 10 January 1973
Issue 15 24 January 1973
Issue 16 7 February 1973
Issue 17 21 February 1973
Issue 18 7 March 1973
Issue 19 21 March 1973
Issue 20 7 April 1973
Issue 21 18 April 1973
Issue 22 2 May 1973
Issue 23 16 May 1973
Issue 24 30 May 1973
Issue 25 14 June 1973
Issue 26 28 June 1973
Issue 27 12 July 1973
Issue 28 26 July 1973
Issue 29 9 August 1973
Issue 30 23 August 1973
Issue 31 6 September 1973
Issue 32 20 September 1973
Issue 33 4 October 1973

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