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News and Views
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Cool it, Williams tells homophobic hotheads.
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Slain lesbian activist remembered.
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Prelate ambushed by campaigners.
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Tatchell lends support to gay refugee.
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Labour courts Muslims over gays to win votes.
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GALHA backs Cardiff over homophobe.
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Partnership law doesn’t please all.
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Tony’s off to head up switchboard.
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Buttiglione victory in “most amazing battle”.
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Gay-friendly peer and scholar dies.
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“Rainbow” George finally gets his prize.
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World Watch edited by George Broadhead – news from Bulgaria, Honduras, Norway, Romania, South Africa and Sweden.
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Obituaries for Christopher Findlay and Clive James.
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Features
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Faith Over Facts – Bush’s Next Four Years – Wayne Besen assesses the prospects for the lesbian and gay community in the USA after November’s presidential election.
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Candle in the Wind – The Sierra Leonean LGBT rights activist Fannyann Eddy was brutally raped and murdered – for being lesbian. Tony Thorne attended a ceremony of remembrance for a brave woman, and brings us this report.
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Casting the First Stone – Again – After Rocco Buttiglione withdrew his candidacy as the Italian nominee to become the European Union’s justice commissioner, Matthew Thompson asks: Just what is sin?
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You Don’t Have To Be Sad To Be Gay – In our occasional series of personal accounts, Geoffrey Palmer, now in his 92nd year, tells us why he’s a happy homosexual.
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Gay Yesterday – It’s the End of an Era – Jack Nichols was until recently editor of GayToday, the leading web-based American magazine. Not any more. Here he ponders why.
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Stateside Gossip – Warren Allen Smith brings us his quarterly roundup of celebrity gossip.
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The Jubilee Year – A roundup of some of the special events that marked GALHA’s 25th-anniversary year, with contributions from Derek Lennard, Cherry Bennet and George Broadhead.
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Birth of the UK Gay Rights Movement – George Broadhead reports on a milestone in UK lesbian and gay history.
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Television
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Derek Lennard reviews the BBC4 series A History of Disbelief, presented by Jonathan Miller.
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Gossip
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Steven Dean gets serious.
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Infidel – a mildly irreverent look at what some people find sacred.
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Books
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Mansel Stimpson reviews Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography, by John Coldstream.
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Dan O’Hara reviews The Ancestor’s Tale: A Voyage to the Dawn of Life, by Richard Dawkins, with Yan Wong, and A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson.
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Colin de la Motte-Sherman reviews Sex, Love and Homophobia: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives, by Vanessa Baird.
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Andy Armitage reviews 50 Reasons to Say “Goodbye”, by Nick Alexander.
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Brett Lock reviews Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985, by James McCourt.
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Tony Challis reports from the Edinburgh Book Festival on The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst, The Master, by Colm Toibin, and The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change, by Irshad Manji.
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Postbag
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Congratulations on the GALHA jubilee; and long live the rainbow flag.
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