This site provides online access to the text of selected items from the magazine.
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News and Views
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Editorial.
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Law challenged as “blasphemous” poem is read on church steps.
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Auntie’s god slot won’t change, say officials.
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Blasphemy play puts God on trial for abuse of human rights.
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Celebs wish mag well – with a notable exception.
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Young: gifted and gullible.
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I’m no homophobe, Tyson tells Tatchell.
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Tories may ditch Section 28.
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Every little might help ...
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Thank you, thank you! Fighting Fund gets off to a great start.
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Blasphemy submission.
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Are we Islamophobic?
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Tatchell defends Christian homophobe.
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World Watch edited by George Broadhead – news from Ecuador, Germany, Moldova, Russia, the United Nations and the United States.
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Web Watch
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Case Study – Fresh from studying the Gay News blasphemy case, Brett Humphreys pays a visit to some relevant websites.
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Features
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Flame and Fortuyn – Andy Armitage examines the aftermath of the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn.
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View from the Global Village – Dean Braithwaite on Zimbabwe, plus our new Pope Watch feature.
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Calling a Spade a Mysterium Iniquitatis – Brett Lock identifies four cardinal sins responsible for the Roman Catholic Church’s inadequacy in dealing with its child-molesting priests.
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Gossip from Across the Pond – further revelations from Warren Allen Smith.
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Gay News on Trial – A special supplement commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Gay News blasphemy trial of 1977.
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Gossip
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Oh, Brother! with Steven Dean.
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Theatre
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Tony Challis reviews Natalie Wilson’s presentation of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing at the Nottingham Playhouse.
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Books
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Andy Armitage reviews Calling Bernadette’s Bluff, by Dale McGowan, Teenage Sex: What Should Schools Teach Children?, edited by Ellie Lee and Tiffany Jenkins and
Some Kind of Love, by Jack Dickson.
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Dean Braithwaite reviews The Sacrifice, by Gordon Linton.
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Postbag
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Not all Muslims are homophobic; embracing diversity of beliefs; and a plea from Pakistan.
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