StreetLaughter

Obviously the big gay political movement of the 1970s was the fight for civil rights aka Gay Lib which began at the end of 1969. Independe...

National Lampoon, May 1984 “The Fan’s Journal by Jean Genet” By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones A comic trick is to describe sports in t...

From a longer column which is just an extended opportunity to knock out puns on football team names and congregate silly incongruities. The ...

“Lancer – The Hair Conditioner for Men” 0.00 - 0.50 “Everything you always wanted to know about sex* (*but were afraid to ask)” Writte...

Punch, 11 February 1976 Wup-wup-whooppeee! (Twirls finger in air like a tiny pixie about to throw a lasso.) Thank god my TV’s partly br...

ABC. 10.30 P.M. (1) NOT TONIGHT, CLYDE Two FBI agents decide to move in together. Edgar has a headache and Clyde burns the roast. Edgar: ...

“National Lampoon”, March 1979 from “Letters from the Editors” Sirs: We’ve had just about enough of your childish “homo” jokes. You snee...

Punch, 15 Decemeber 76 By J.E. Hinder I'M SORRY, I'LL WRITE THAT AGAIN (Members of the Students Union recently voted to pulp thi...

"Punch" 30 March 1983 AGITORY - The helpful guide for the Committed Reactionary. "Anti-Gay Movement" Don't be af...

National Lampoon, April 1971 from “Real Balls Adventure Magazine” by Doug Kenney, Michael O’Donoghue, John Boni and Terry Catchpole Th...

Something for the Jubilee. Something other than just posting a load of puns involving the word “Queen”, mind you. So something related to he...

“The Romans in Britain” was a play by Howard Brenton first staged in 1980 by the National Theatre. The play alternates between contemporary ...

"Star Roars" Mad Magazine, January 1978 Writers: Larry Siegel and Dick De Bartolo So if C3PO is a camp seeming robot, how d...

"Star Spats" By Laurence Gonzales in "Playboy", December 1977 Back to the soul-sinking chronicle of fag jokes. I am Ixio...

Another long-running English joke. “Heaven” is the gay London nightclub, established in 1979. The name is obviously a bit cheeky, and so pro...

Oh please, Dr Freud, I enquire in a faux-naif fashion as a perfectly normal macho man, please tell me what my incessant dreams of phallic ob...

from “TV Offal”, 31 October 1997, May 22nd – 19 June 1998 by Victor Lewis-Smith Part 1, 31 October 1997 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 P...

This article, “Sherlock’s dear Watson” by Robbie Hudson is a decent run-down of various gay interpretations of Sherlock Holmes: http://enter...

“The Change at Pooh Corner” by Alan Coren in “Punch” 13 October 1976 A contemporary updating of A.A. Milne’s children’s poem “Buckingham”, e...