Gay News
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| - | '''''The Love that Dares to Speak its Name''''' is a [[controversial]] [[poem]] by [[James Kirkup]]. | + | '''''Gay News''''' was a pioneering fortnightly newspaper in the [[United Kingdom]] founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] and members of the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] (CHE). At the newspaper's height, circulation was 18,000 to 19,000 copies. |
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| - | It describes [[homosexual]] acts committed with the body of the dead [[Christ]]. | + | |
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| - | It was at the centre of the ''[[Whitehouse v. Lemon]]'' trial for [[blasphemous libel]], where the editor of ''[[Gay News]]'' was convicted and given a suspended prison sentence. | + | |
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| - | <!--As Wikipedia is governed by [[Florida]] law this case does not apply to it.--> | + | |
| - | ==External links== | + | |
| - | *[http://torturebyroses.gydja.com/tbrkirkup.html Text of the poem] | + | |
| - | *[http://urchin.earth.li/~ganesh/kirkup.html Another copy of the text of the poem] | + | |
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Gay News was a pioneering fortnightly newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). At the newspaper's height, circulation was 18,000 to 19,000 copies.
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