Gay Youth

Gay Youth (later called Lesbian and Gay Youth magazine) was a publication of the Gay Youth Movement. The first edition in June 1981 cost 5 pence and consisted of four pages. It had a strap line 'an occaisional (sic) magazine of the Joint Council for Gay Teenagers and the Gay Youth Movement'.The first headlines were 'Progress in Newcastle and 'charlie's aunt'. The magazine contained news of gay youth groups in Britain as well as national events. Issue 6 (August/September 1982) had the strapline 'The Journal of Lesbian and Gay Youth Liberation published by the Joint Council for Gay Teenagers and Gay Youth Movement'. The last known edition of the Lesbian and Gay Youth magazine was no 21 (Summer 1987) .

Gay Youth front cover issue 11 (courtesy of the LGBTQ+ Archive at the Bishopsgate Institute, London)

Many editions became notorious for support of Pedophilia, leading to some radical bookshops refusing to stock it .

Courage to be:Organised Gay Youth in England 1967-1990, A history of the London Gay Teenage Group and other lesbian and gay youth groups, by Clifford Williams,was published in 2021 (the Book Guild). The book includes the history of the Gay Youth Movement.