IT features topics of special interest from around the world to those who identify as atheists, freethinkers, humanists, secularists and sceptics in LGTB+ communities and those who support them.
The magazine’s editor is Barry Duke who also edits the Freethinker (the Voice of Atheism since 1881). He was also a co-founder in 1979 of the Gay Humanist Group, now a section of Humanists UK.
In the autumn issue, to mark the 30th anniversary the scrapping of Section 28 in the UK – legislation introduced to ban the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools – Terry Sanderson chronicles the history of this shameful law; and American blogger Andrew Spitznas points to evidence that the Republican Party is now the US’s “largest hate group”.
Barry Duke provides two recent examples of how social media was harnessed to spectacularly turn the tables on homophobes in Ohio and Florida, and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell welcomes the decriminalisation of homosexuality in India.
The issue also focuses on the advance of LGBT+ rights in Cuba, and examines the controversy of a gay-themed South African movie called Inxeba (The Wound).
Brazil’s lurch to the far right signals a worrying crackdown on LGBT+ rights and secularism in that country; and a report on quack ‘gay cures’ in the UK indicates that the authorities in Britain are fighting a losing battle against mainly faith-based groups determined to rid people of the “demons” of homosexuality.
Also in this issue is a report that the Christian Institute is up in arms over a decision by the Scottish government to embed LGBT+ equality and inclusion in all state schools.
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