Gay News
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Gay NewsEntry/Object ID
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LGBTQ PrideDescription
Gay News was a fortnightly newspaper that covered LGBTQ discrimination, political and social advances, law reform, equal rights in employment, and the trades union in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and 1980s. Holdings: Vol. 6 #15, 1982. This issue contains an interview with Rita Mae Brown.Context
Gay News was a UK newspaper founded in June 1972 in collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. The orgiianl editorial collective included Denis Lemon, Martin Corbett, David Seligman, Ian Dunn, Suki J. Pitcher, and Doug Pollard. The paper served as the UK gay rights movement's "debating chamber." While often focusing on the contemporary struggle for liberation, the paper's features editors, Howes and Hennegan, often ran stories on gay, Lesbian, and general cultural histories. The paper won an obscenity trial in 1974 after publishing an issue with a cover photograph of two men kissing. In 1976, the paper was sued again, this time over the publication of James Kirkup's poem "The Love that Dares to Speak its Name." The paper ceased trading on 15 April 1983.Category
Periodical