Gay News UK

26/03/2024

Gay News columnist Robin Houston weighs into the debate on the use of pavement outside the Coleherne - Pavementgate. From issue 152.

Robin Houston is probably best known for his broadcasting career as a broadcast journalist and voice-over artist. He was also a regular columnist for Gay News.

07/12/2023

Wonderful tribute from BBC London to Andrew Lumsden who was an activist, key member of the Gay Liberation Front, journalist, author and founder of the first Pride march in London as well as a founder, news editor and editor of Britain’s pioneering publication Gay News.

Always thoughtful, intelligent, kind and generous with a brilliant quick wit and a cheeky glint in his eye. It was always a pleasure and joy spending time with him. Andrew is much missed x

Andrew Lumsden, who helped to organise London's first Pride march over 50 years ago, was a hugely influential LGBT activist and campaigner.It was announced l...

01/11/2023

Vale Andrew Lumsden. Author, journalist and activist. Founder, news editor and editor of Gay News.

22/04/2023

The former Features Editor of Britain’s pioneering fortnightly publication Gay News, Keith Howes, recalls his experiences of meeting and interviewing Dame Edna Everage in London in 1976 and 1978. Keith has lived in Sydney since 1986. Photograph by Gay News photographer Bob Workman.

The former Features Editor of Britain’s pioneering fortnightly publication Gay News, Keith Howes, recalls his experiences of meeting and interviewing Dame Ed...

22/03/2023

The cover of Capital Gay from the 22nd of January 1982 announcing the resignation of Gay News Editor Denis Lemon and the sale of the newspaper to GN Business Manager Robert Palmer. Capital Gay itself was founded and first edited by former Gay News writers Michael Mason and Graham McKerrow in 1981.

24/01/2023

Found this cartoon by cartoonist Colin Wheeler in one of my 1978 copies of Britain’s pioneering fortnightly newspaper Gay News. That year the UK retailer chain WHSmith stopped selling the publication. Protests took place outside many branches as well as outside the firm’s Annual General Meeting. The cartoon highlights what many in the gay, le***an and wider community saw as the hypocrisy of the ban. It was not until 1982 that WHSmith again agreed to stock the newspaper.

22/01/2023

From a 1978 copy (issue 137) of Britain’s pioneering fortnightly newspaper ‘Gay News’. A full page thank you from singer and songwriter Tom Robinson thanking gay women and men for their support over the previous three years. The full page also promotes Tom’s live EP ‘Rising Free’ which featured (Sing If You’re) Glad To Be Gay.

Glad To Be Gay became the most popular track on the EP even though the Chart Show on BBC Radio 1 refused to play it. However, another Radio 1 presenter, John Peel, did play it. The EP made number 18 on the UK singles chart. On rival London Station Capital Radio, the song reached number one on the listener-voted Hitline chart for six consecutive weeks.