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News and Views |
GALHA backs Alliance – support for the new Equality Alliance coalition of lesbian and gay groups. |
Death of a veteran gay activist – some memories of Ian Dunn. |
Lobby on the age of consent. |
Loss of a fine editor – the death of Peter Brearey, editor of The Freethinker. |
PTT leaflets well received. |
Called to the Bar. |
Elderly gays – GALHA submission to the Royal Commission on the Long Term Care of the Elderly. |
Living wills – GALHA responds to consultation paper. |
PTT affirmations on the increase. |
World Watch – news from Brazil, Australia, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and South Africa. |
Obituary |
In Memoriam – Ian Dunn, by Antony Grey. |
Web Watch |
Brett Humphreys looks at some new sites recently set up by lesbian, gay and humanist organisations and a selection of personal sites belonging to contributors to G&LH. |
Features |
Buddhism and Humanism – Have They Anything in Common? – Brian Nicol looks at the origins and doctrines of Buddhism and draws some comparisons with Humanism. |
Jesus and Homosexuality – George Broadhead considers the likely attitude of the Jesus of the gospels towards homosexuality. |
Gossip from Across the Pond – Warren Allen Smith reveals sexual proclivities of some celebrated Americans. |
CD |
Jim Herrick reviews To the Soul: poetry of Walt Whitman sung by Thomas Hampson with Craig Rutenberg at the piano (EMI Classics); and Sir Granville Bantock’s Sappho and Sapphic Poem (Hyperion). |
Video |
Diesel Balaam reviews Three, directed by Stephen Bulfield. |
Books |
Roy Saich reviews Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, by Anthony R. Birley. |
Antony Grey reviews The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: The Search for Cultural Unity, by Rictor Norton. [Note: The author’s own synopsis of the book and ordering details are available online] |
Terry Sanderson reviews A Freethinker’s Primer of Male Love, by John Lauritsen. |
Postbag |
Masochistic Christians still inflict suffering; and God-botherers bring ridicule upon themselves. |