The latest issue of The Pink Humanist, December 2013, has just been published by the UK charity the Pink Triangle Trust.
The new issue opens with details of the efforts made by Nigerian humanist and human rights campaigner Leo Igwe to stop homophobic pastor Enoch Adeboye’s missionary tour of Pacific countries in November. Although the tour went ahead, Igwe succeeded in drawing world attention to the fact that Adeboye, also a Nigerian, is a dangerous fraud who has done immense damage to LGBT communities in Africa, and is deeply involved in campaigns to brand people, including children, as “witches”.
The magazine carries a piece by Stuart Hartill about ultra-conservative Hungary, and how the recent lurch to the right is affecting gay rights in that country. There is a disturbing feature which indicates that so-called ‘moderate’ Muslims in Europe hold extremist views in regard to punishing gays.
The cover story examines the background to the recently-released docu-drama, Philomena, which tells the harrowing story of the cruelty meted out by the Catholic Church in Ireland and America to Philomena Lee, and her son, a leading Washington lawyer and gay man who lived in the US until his death in 1995.
Also in this issue is a report about human rights activist Peter Tatchell’s efforts to draw international attention to the homophobia rife in Commonweath countries.
Other features include an examination by The Pink Humanist editor, Barry Duke, of the ‘pro-family’ movement, Manif Pour Tout, which drew thousands onto the streets of France to protest against same sex marriage. and one on a recently published book 50 Great Myths About Atheism.
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