Winter edition of Pink Humanist now online.

The magazine, published quarterly by the UK gay charity, the Pink Triangle Trust, also carries a particularly gruelling feature on AIDS.

IN “AIDS: then and now”, Barry Duke, editor of The Pink Humanist writes of how his life was torn apart by HIV in the 1980s, and young American Brandon Griewank recounts the horror of being diagnosed HIV positive in 2006.

The issue also covers the disappointing swing to the right in Australia which has put the country well out of step with nations that have legalised gay marriage, and the continued hostility towards homosexuals from diehard leaders of the Catholic Church are just two of the issues covered in depth in the latest issue.

Other features include an examination of Pakistan’s rampant homophobia, seen through the eyes of an ex-Muslim who has created a book for children – My Chacha is Gay, and there  is a fascinating re-examination of the ground breaking 1961 movie Victim, which played a major role in changing Britain’s draconian anti-gay laws in 1967.

And the dangerous power exerted by mainly white evangelicals from the West over politicians in black countries is examined in a report on the latest anti-gay rally staged in Jamaica earlier this month.

To read the Winter 2014/5 ediition, click here: