THE STATE of say journalise in Fritain is pretend Gay Left. front Gay News and Gay the only national gay Joumals, there: CSTE produced journals which appear erratically and are subject changes of editorial requent taff. A significant exception be this I Outcome which is pro duced by Lancaster Gaysor and Is now on to its fifth issue.
exceptional 100 breadth of its content and it commitment to a left come tear to a to cal it, nals, They leaded to repeat old-style Gay articles and sentiments without trying to work them trying mays tele Four of Outcome has articles National Front: the development of left gay groups in France and haly, and the hassles of trying to in the clude explicil aul-sorist and pro and anri-gay bias libraries choose books an homo SCALLS.
on the new light on the possibilities of setting up a new nacional paper from the game, rather than trom kids comics, in the was Emitted lo rarely as far as everyone is concerned including of course the Mary Whitebouses. And so long as this outlook, is the case we have to defend it. since it is the one contact that many gay people have with the gay world. An attack on it is an attack on gas people, loutcourt But Gay News is committed to profit and is explicitly not com left. abstract organised lett gay groups carely get a chance to use its columns, and demonstrations on particular receive advance publicity. It still comes over as a analo-dominated enterprise, and panders win its commercial adver dising to the sexism and objec tification rife in the gay male world to which it primarily PEOPLE LIKE YOU LO SUBSCRIBE to GAYNEWS THE GAT NEWSPLED TO IS PROUD OF For heterosexuals aren't in standing growed naked reading advertisements, Gay News ser advertisement above is less Gay Left is socialist in but is very much concerned with theoretical issues the connections belueen sexual policies and Marxism. It is only publisbed three or four times a year and has a restricted reader ship, essentially those people who already have some grasp of th problems with sexual liberation. Wie need i magazine Bke Gay Left, but we erich can appeal to a broader orienied newspaper section of the gay community which can he used 10 There are a large number of gay women and men who are getting with the way Gaj News handles things but have t alternative. So the prospect of the Outcome collecrive expanding and attempting to set up a Belahoulk revolution. Sun 9 Oct. 4.30pm. sections of the gay world at present out of touch with the gay movement, but it would also provide a national focus fa co-ordinating campaigos around attacks by the renctionaries.
Maybe we could even get Gay Liberation out of its own closet nd begin to put our idcas acro in the labour movement and in the organised left Gay Left is available fram, 36Craven Road, London W2. Price Op plus passage. Outcoise, c obert Mitchel, 9 Fermban Lancaster There a national conter ence on 15 Octobar to discuss and coordinate the defence o Gay News and or gays generally against the backlash from mar Whitehouse & Co. To be hold a Birmingham Communily Centre Tel 021-543 Bordasiey St tumed Inalde in genaral, ant
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