This site provides online access to the text of selected items from the magazine.
News and Views |
Euan Wins Hearing at Strasbourg – The European Commission of Human Rights is to hear Euan Sutherland’s case on the UK’s discriminatory age-of-consent law. |
National Petition for Pride 1996. |
Runcie’s Revelations – the former Archbishop of Canterbury’s pronouncement on gay ordination. |
Sharing the Future – a new edition of the British Humanist Association’s booklet on non-religious wedding ceremonies includes a chapter on lesbian and gay affirmations. |
New Leaflet Produced – on The Humanist Movement. |
New Secretary Appointed – Keith Porteous Wood is appointed General Secretary of the National Secular Society. |
GALHA in the Media. |
More Catholic Homophobia. |
Global Humanism for the Cyber Age – 1996 World Humanist Congress in Mexico. |
World Watch – news from United States, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, and Sweden. |
Features |
Campaign Trail to Humanism – Antony Grey looks back over forty years of gay rights campaigning. |
Sexual Apartheid – Alison Rowland, Chairperson of Coventry and Warwickshire Humanists, reports on a talk given to C&WH in May 1996 by the leading lesbian and gay rights activist Peter Tatchell. |
Letter from America – Sukie de la Croix on gay Jewish weddings. |
CD |
Jonathan Sanders reviews Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (Soloists / Kirov Opera and Orchestra / Valery Gergiev). |
Video |
Terry Sanderson reviews Making It – Making a Gay Blue Movie and My First Time – Young Gay Men Talk About Sex, both from Prowler Press. |
Books |
Jim Herrick reviews The Penguin Book of Gay Writing, edited by Mark Mitchell. |
Leni Miller reviews The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories, edited by Richard Glyn Jones and A. Susan Williams. |
Stephen Moreton reviews Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict and Other Bedroom Battles, by Robin Baker. |
Diesel Balaam reviews The Potts Papers, by Terry Sanderson. |
Postbag |
Maxime seeks love; World Watch and Pride; and a television documentary on same-sex marriage. |