Gay News

Gay News was a fortnightly newspaper founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between the Gay Liberation Front and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

In 1974 it was charged with obscenity, having published an issue with a cover photograph of two men kissing. It won the court case.

In 1976-77 Mary Whitehouse brought a private prosecution (Whitehouse v. Lemon) against both the magazine and its editor, Denis Lemon, over the publication of James Kirkup's poem The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name in the issue dated 3 June 1976.

Gay News Ltd ceased trading on 15 April 1983.