The Pink Humanist is an online magazine published by the UK LGBT Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust, featuring topics of special interest 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 UK Freethinker (the Voice of Atheism since 1881).
To mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, the magazine highlights the impact he had on the lives of two gay rights campaigners: the American Kiyoshi Kiromiya, and UK-based Peter Tatchell.
The cover story tell of the successful legal campaign fought by gay activist Jason Jones to have Trinidad & Tobago’s colonial-era buggery law scrapped, and Marcus Robinson reports on a new Christian charity – The Ozanne Foundation – which is likely to open up new divisions in a Church of England already at war with itself.
The foundation says the Church of England should lose its protections under the Equalities Act that allow it to discriminate against people on the basis of their sexuality.
Other reports include the election of Costa Rica’s new President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, who promises to safeguard LGBT+ rights. He soundly defeated Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, a Christian evangelical leader who threatened to turn the clock back on gay rights.
In Circumcision: regulation not prohibition Dr Stephen Moreton vigorously defends male circumcision and controversially insists that the procedure has proven health benefits.
The spring issue also contains an abridged talk – Don Lean and the underground gay scholarship – given by John Lauritsen, a long-time contributor to The Pink Humanist, to the Outing the Past Conference in Liverpool earlier this year.
To download the current issue, as well as past issues of the magazine in pdf format from the Pink Humanist website, click here:
To download the magazine as a pdf document, go to Archived Issues then Back Issues and place the cursor on any cover. In the top left corner of the cover you will see click here to download pdf.
Additionally, individual articles can be accessed directly from the site’s home page. These contain all relevant hyperlinks.
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