Gay Times at the Peace Centre
1983
“I also had links with the Peace Centre; there were a large number
of gay people involved with the Peace Centre. The Peace Centre sold Oz,
Gay News, including the controversial copy of Gay News that had the
poem that Mary Whitehouse took against and of course, then Gay Times.
It was one of the only places you could get it because Smiths wouldn’t
carry that sort of thing then. The Peace Centre was closeted gay men
who would come in with their money clutched in their hands, walk around
the shop looking at other things until everyone was gone, then rush
over, grab a copy, shove the money at us, shove it under their arm and
then run out the door.”
The Peace Centre closed in 1985
Contributed by: Betty Hagglund, 50