The Periodicals' Pyre - No. 2

An occasional look at classic magazines of yesteryear that tragically did gone...


SQUIGGLE:
It's often said that the gay rights revolution of 1982 would have come along a lot sooner if the gay race had been able to openly speak of their love of doodling, scribbling and idly scrawling on the backs of envelopes while chatting on the phone about chiffon and poppers. Squiggle gave them a voice and was the biggest selling magazine with pink words on the cover for fifteen straight years. Sadly, it all fell apart in the summer of 2005 when the magazine's publisher was bought out by former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie, who filled its pages with horse tits and questionnaires.