World of Chig   

29.11.01

Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!


(Sat 24/11/01) I’m not normally the type to rejoice in someone’s death, but I can’t help feeling a sense of relief that Mary Whitehouse died yesterday. It feels like the long overdue end of the sixties. In a four page obituary on Ceefax, her malicious prosecution of Gay News for blasphemy, all because of a poem, wasn’t mention at all. The omission of this story from the BBC coverage was picked up on by someone called ‘Terry from Bow’ in Radio Five Live’s Up All Night phone-in. I have strong suspicions that this is Terry S from Gay Times. Both he and I owe a lot of our income in recent years to the miraculous survival of Gay News after the Whitehouse prosecution, as it later became Gay Times.

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