This site provides online access to the text of selected items from the magazine.
|
News and Views
|
Catholics’ “culture of death”.
|
|
Happy birthday, GALHA.
|
|
No sexuality, please.
|
|
New members.
|
|
BHA supports new coalition.
|
|
Suck it and see.
|
|
EastEnder on the menu.
|
|
World Watch edited by George Broadhead – news from Australia, Israel, Kenya, the United Nations, the United States and Zanzibar.
|
| Obituary |
Obituary for Peter Ustinov. |
|
Special Feature
|
Alan Turing – An Enigma After Fifty Years – In this first part of our special feature marking the 50th anniversary of Alan Turing’s death, his biographer Andrew Hodges provides a portrait of the man whose story, fifty years on, is still full of life.
|
|
The Chemical “Cure” – Continuing our special feature on Alan Turing, philosopher Peter Cave tells us how the great man’s ideas continue to stimulate research into the nature of mind.
|
|
Unburying the Evidence – To end our special feature on Alan Turing, Brett Humphreys revisits the acclaimed biography by Andrew Hodges.
|
|
Other Features
|
The Uganda Experience – Jim Herrick reports on the recent IHEU conference.
|
|
Europe’s Capital of Intolerance – Colin de la Motte-Sherman tells how “every trick in the Book of Hatred” was used to try to stop a peaceful march for basic human freedoms.
|
|
The Christian Editor who Dared to “Blaspheme” – Ten years after the death of Gay News editor Denis Lemon, Andy Armitage looks back at the devout Christian who was found guilty of “blasphemous libel”.
|
|
A Fascination with Sexual Modesty – J. Martin Stafford has been invited to make a contribution to an encyclopaedia about the Finnish sociologist Edward Westermarck. Here he shares some of his findings.
|
|
Losing my Virginity – In the second in a two-part coming-out series, Roy Sainsbury tells why he was forced to remain a virgin until he was 45 – largely because of religious attitudes towards sexuality.
|
|
Why I’m Interested in Gay Rights – The American writer Vern Bullough is one of G&LH’s newest subscribers. Here the straight author of Before Stonewall (and dozens of other books) tells us of his lifelong interest in sexual politics.
|
|
Stateside Gossip – Warren Allen Smith brings us his quarterly roundup of celebrity gossip.
|
|
Television
|
Terry Sanderson reviews 2,500 Years (and more) of Freethinking.
|
|
Video
|
Steven Dean talks sewage.
|
|
Gossip
|
Infidel – a mildly irreverent look at what some people find sacred.
|
|
Books
|
Warren Allen Smith reviews Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, by David Carter.
|
