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News and Views
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Hate stars get a rapping.
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Religion must not dominate, says NSS.
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Lesbians’ invisibility is magazine’s target.
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Mayor slammed for cuddling up to hateful imam.
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Surgeon who addressed Wolfenden dies.
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Blunkett’s Law meets with more resistance.
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Homophobe Muslim group’s rally moves out of town.
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Munching with Michael.
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Beyond Our Ken – Brett Lock wonders what the “gay-friendly” mayor of London is playing at.
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Whose Side Are You On, Ken? – Peter Tatchell comments on Ken Livingstone’s support for clerical misogyny masquerading as a right-to-choose campaign.
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World Watch edited by George Broadhead – news from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States and Zanzibar.
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Features
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Islam’s Same-Sex Love – Barry Duke looks at another side of gay-hating Islam.
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Award for Amnesty’s German LGBT Group – Colin de la Motte-Sherman sends us this report on and translation of a speech in praise of Amnesty’s award-winning gay group in Germany.
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Happy Birthday, GALHA! – As the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association celebrates its silver jubilee, George Broadhead looks back at the organisation’s beginnings and its history.
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Reforming Spirits – Allan Horsfall, at the forefront of the beginnings of gay campaigning in Britain, writes of an important anniversary.
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Martyrs to Gayness – Now that the initial Passion mania has had time to diminish, Matthew Thompson reflects in tranquillity on why sexual minorities suffer for others’ sins.
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Stateside Gossip – Warren Allen Smith says Bon Soir to Marlon Brando.
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1979 And All That – What we were doing, watching, singing and dancing to when GALHA was born as the Gay Humanist Group 25 years ago – plus messages from some of GALHA’s vice-presidents.
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Theatre
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Edinburgh Fringe and Book Festivals – Tony Challis brings us some of the fun and frolics from Edinburgh.
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Gossip
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Steven Dean is coming ... In Yer Face.
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Infidel – a mildly irreverent look at what some people find sacred.
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Books
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Clark Flint reviews The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America, edited by Kimberley Blaker.
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Postbag
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Denis Lemon; Coronation Street; the Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund; and a pat from Northern Ireland.
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