Events tagged with "Mary Whitehouse"
Festival of Light
A rightwing Christian campaigning organisation. Founded by Mary Whitehouse and also involving Cliff Richard, Malcolm Muggeridge and other leading religious people. Its objective was to re-assert traditional Christian values and overturn the liberal a...
Gay News
Spring 1972 saw the launch of 'Gay News'. The paper ran until 1983. Famously the publication was taken to court by Festival of Light organiser and moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse for blasphemy, the editor received a 2 year suspended jail sentence. T...
Memories tagged with "Mary Whitehouse"
Gay Times at the Peace Centre
“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 ...