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News and Views |
Humanist for Mayor? – Ken Livingstone leads opinion polls. |
Health Education Report a Danger to Gays. |
Internet Initiatives – GALHA launches a new electronic mailing list and Online Bookstore. |
Affirmations Increasingly Popular – a report on several recent affirmation ceremonies. |
Arch-Homophobe Dies – Chief Rabbi Jakobovits, aged 78. |
Queer Remembrance – GALHA and the Pink Triangle Trust co-sponsor this year’s ceremony organised by OutRage!. |
More Catholic Homophobia – Cardinal Winning and Section 28. |
Northern Humanists Support GALHA – Tyneside Humanist Group affiliates. |
Atheists on the Increase – new survey confirms continuing decline in religious belief. |
GALHA Criticises Labour over Gays in the Armed Forces. |
York Weekend – a report on GALHA’s Twentieth Anniversary weekend gathering. |
Gay Award for IHEU – from the Scandinavian lesbian and gay organisation Tupilak. |
World Watch – news from Afghanistan, Africa, Australia, France, the Netherlands and Romania. |
Obituary |
Obituary for Don Walton by George Broadhead. |
Web Watch |
Brett Humphreys provides briefs on some recent developments on the Web. |
Features |
The New Dark Ages – Peter Tatchell documents the global threat of Islamic fundamentalism. |
Reason to be Cheerful – Terry Sanderson looks back at the way lesbians and gay men were treated by the British media in 1999 and finds some reason for optimism. |
CD |
Jim Herrick reviews Karol Szymanowski’s King Roger, sung by the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus; and his Symphony No. 4, played by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, with Leif Ove Andsnes (piano). |
Books |
Daniel O’Hara reviews Godless Morality, by Richard Holloway. |
Claire Hodgson reviews Just Take Your Frock Off, by Barbara Bell. |
Alison Rowland reviews Being Dead, by Jim Crace. |
Jim Herrick reviews E. M. Forster: Passion and Prose, by Arthur Martland. |