David Shenton‘s cartoon character Stanley (Townsend) first came to our attention as the star of his own weekly cartoon strip in Gay News and, subsequently, Capital Gay. Whilst Stanley the cartoon strip documented a series of vignettes from the life … Continue reading →
One area of LGBT history that I feel is often neglected is that of regional gay publications. Admittedly, I do have a bit of a biased view here given my own involvement in one such publication, Gay East Midlands. But, … Continue reading →
It all began with the publication of the Greater London Council’s Changing the World: A London charter for gay and lesbian rights. That, in itself had taken most of us by surprise as it was one of the rare instances … Continue reading →
For those of us who had come out into a provincial gay scene of small back bars tucked away in larger straight pubs, the great metropolis of London offered up far more positive and welcoming choices. Having arrived in autumn … Continue reading →
By the end of 1982 Gay News – Britain’s only national gay and lesbian paper – was looking increasingly shaky. The internal disputes had become so bad that, as one commentator put it, ‘they made up an increasingly large percentage … Continue reading →