GEM1

Issue 1 – June 1983

EDITORIAL

Introducing ‘Gay East Midlands’

NEWS

  • Gay Activist Elected to City Council
  • Gay Centre for Nottingham?
  • But Manchester Gay Centre to close?
  • ‘Gay News’ to be revived?
  • Triple blow for Nottingham Switchboard
  • Midland ‘FLAGS’ out!
  • Warwick University gay week
  • ‘We are the experts’
  • Derby Youth Group

HEALTH

A.I.D.S.

INTERVIEW

Tom Robinson: ‘Son of a Gun’

GAY RIGHTS

The Police Bill has been lost; the threat remains

CARTOON

Dykes About Town

REVIEW

Film

‘Tootsie’

Video

‘La Cage Aux Folles’

Club

Spots, Leicester.

Music

‘Part Two’ playlist

DIARY

GEM2

Issue 2 – July 1983

EDITORIAL

Gasp!

NEWS

  • Action on A.I.D.S.
  • Stoke Gay Centre to close
  • ‘Busters’ goes straight
  • The Police and Criminal Evidence Bill
  • Gay Press
  • Shorts

HEALTH

A.I.D.S. feedback: National Gay Switchboard conference

SCHOOL’S OUT

  • Pink Triangles [poem]
  • Gay Youth
  • Lesbian Teachers

CARTOON

Dykes about Town

REVIEW

Film

  • ‘The Evil Dead’
  • ‘Return of the Jedi’
  • ‘Gays and Film’

Music

‘Part Two’ playlist

Club

Part Two

DIARY

GEM3

Issue 3 – August 1983

EDITORIAL

Pride and Prejudice

LETTERS

Problem page?

NEWS

  • Gay Press
  • Equal Opportunities
  • Queerbashing in Shardlow
  • Health Strategy Group
  • Manchester Gay Centre
  • LCGR at peace festival
  • The Coventry scene
  • Gay Outdoor Club

SCENE

Pub scene

Ye Hole in Ye Wall

SHORTS

  • School’s Out
  • Married Gays
  • Gay Youth in Nottingham

INTERVIEW

Peter Tatchell

PERSONAL VIEW

Roots

ARTICLE

Coming Out

CARTOON

Dykes about Town

REVIEW

  • Part Two happenings
  • Music
  • The Pavilion Club, Shardlow

DIARY

GEM4

Issue 4 – September 1983

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters

NEWS

  • Switchboard gets Council funding
  • Loughborough Gay Group
  • Disabled gays survey
  • ‘About men’
  • Gays Interned

PERSONAL VIEW

  • Gays in Prison
  • Time to Start Talking?

CARTOON

Dykes About Town

REVIEW

Venues

Checkers Society – Top Rank Suite, Sheffield.

Record

‘Coming out – ready or not’

Music

‘Part two’ playlist

Film

‘Flashdance’

Books

  • ‘The Advocate Guide to Gay Health’, R.D.Fenwick, (Alyson Publications/Gay Men’s Press)
  • ‘The White Paper’, Jean Cocteau (Brilliance Books, £1.95)
  • ‘The Beauty Queen’, Patricia Nell Warren

DIARY

GEM5

Issue 5 – October 1983

ANNOUNCEMENT

Help wanted!

NEWS

  • Lesbians & gays meet city council
  • Gay CND
  • Aggro in Loughborough
  • Gays sacked en masse
  • The charred remains
  • CHE & LCGR attack paedophilia hysteria
  • NALGO conference
  • Gay mum in ‘Woman’s Own’

SHORTS

Tatchell book

GROUPS

  • Sheffield Students Gaysoc
  • LCGR at TUC
  • ‘SMART’
  • Beards Meeting Beards

HEALTH

Illustrations from Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club leaflet ‘Can We Talk?’

PERSONAL VIEW

Perspectives on Paedophilia

CARTOON

Dykes About Town

REVIEW

Film

‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’

Music

‘Part Two’ playlist

OUT AND ABOUT

Local Gay Venues

DIARY

GEM6

Issue 6 – November 1983

EDITORIAL

Help Wanted

LETTERS

Gay Chesterfield

NEWS

  • [City Council] Conference Date Fixed
  • Switchboard on View
  • Gay Sweatshop is Back!
  • Gay Youth Conference
  • G.M.A. produce A.I.D.S. leaflet
  • ‘Gay News’ authors in Nottingham
  • Gays rock the Liberal boat
  • NALGAY meeting
  • New Group for Probation Officers

ARTICLE

GEM: ‘To be or not to be’

SCENE

Is there a gay Derby?

UPDATE

Police books raid – the outcome

PERSONAL VIEW

The Rent Scene

CARTOON

Dykes about Town

REVIEW

Books

  • ‘The Battle for Bermondsey’, Peter Tatchell
  • ‘Title Fight: The Battle for Gay News’, Gillian E. Hanscombe and Andrew Lumsden
  • ‘A Boy’s Own Story’, Edmund White

Film

Querelle

Music

Nottingham Women’s Disco Playlist

DIARY

GEM7

Issue 7 – December 1983/January 1984

EDITORIAL

Update

NEWS

  • Advisory group for “Outrage!
  • Leicester Gay Youth
  • BMB meets MMM
  • SHIELD
  • ALLEGRO
  • Women’s Conference

CONFERENCES

  • Gay Welfare Workers
  • Equal Opportunities for the Lesbian and Gay Community in Nottingham.
  • Gay conference demands…..

PERSONAL VIEW

  • The Gay (O)press(ion)
  • Into ’84

CARTOON

Dykes about Town

REVIEW

Theatre

  • A Good and Faithful Servant
  • Submariners
  • Poppies

Music

  • Eartha Kitt at Part Two
  • Top Ten
  • New albums worth a listen:
  • ‘Part Two’ playlist

Poetry

Two poems by Sam Stevens:

Gossip

Gems

Books

  • ‘The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book’, Brilliance Books
  • ‘Mates’, Tom Wakefield
  • ‘Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin’, Susanne Bosche

DIARY

GEM8

Issue 8 – February 1984

EDITORIAL

GEM Update

NEWS

  • Police Bill returns
  • Tories laugh at gays
  • ‘Country Connections’ folds
  • Support Your Local Group
  • Dirty Pictures?
  • AIDS Update
  • Equal Opportunities in Manchester
  • Derby Friend
  • Nottingham Lesbian Group
  • Pub news
  • Ideas please
  • Lesbian & Gay Cycle Group

PERSONAL VIEW

  • Guns and Lovers
  • ‘Direct Action’ movement
  • Triumph of the Will(y)

ARTICLE

Gay Self Defence

PERSONAL VIEW

Glad to be Gay?

CARTOON

Dykes about Town

REVIEW

Take your Partners….

Music

  • Part Two playlist
  • Women’s Disco Top Ten Playlist
  • Derby Gay Discos

DIARY

GEM9

Issue 9 – March 1984

LETTERS

ARTICLE

Gays and the Police

NEWS

  • The Police Bill
  • Lesbians & Health
  • Gay Welfare Workers
  • “1984: What is to be Done”. Labour Party fringe meeting

REVIEW

Film

The Greatest Gay Films of All Time

Poem

Blue Larla by Sharon Foster

Competition

Short story competition

INTERVIEW

Interview with an AIDS Worker [Mitch Bart of the San Francisco AIDS/KS Foundation]

PERSONAL VIEW

‘Direct Action’ movement – part 2

PLACES TO GO

GEM Investigates

REVIEW

Music

One Night Stand Top Ten 17/2/84

‘Part Two’ playlist

NEW GROUPS AND EVENTS

Lesbians children social support group

Sheffield

HOLIDAY IDEAS

DIARY

 


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