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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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