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1981. Capital Gay

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On 26th June, 1981, Graham McKerrow and Michael Mason (a former director and news editor of Gay News) published the first issue of Capital Gay. It was London’s first city-wide gay newspaper. The free paper was published weekly and distributed … Continue reading →

1982. Hall Carpenter Archives

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In 1980 the UK’s Campaign for Homosexual Equality established a media monitoring service – the Gay Monitoring and Archive Project (GMAP) – to collect evidence of discrimination and police arrests. GMAP’s collection grew quickly. In the first instance it received … Continue reading →