The latest edition of Pink Humanist is now available for download.
The Pink Humanist is an online magazine published by the UK gay Humanist charity, the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT)
The vicious anti-gay rhetoric pouring out of Russia last year as the country introduced legislation to stop the “promotion” of homosexuality more or less halted when all eyes focused on the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Now that the games are over, will the Russian authorities resume their hate speech and stifle protest, and will violent attacks on gay communities by neo-fascists and members of the Orthodox Church continue once again?
In an in-depth, post-Sochi feature human rights activists warn that Russia could slip back into bad habits, and vigilance is called for.
The latest issue also examines developments in Africa, and focuses on Uganda where President Museveni signed harsh new anti-gay legislation into law – after earlier describing the Bill laid before Parliament as “fascist”. PTT secretary George Broadhead exposes the role of US Christian Evangelicals and the Anglican Church of Uganda in forcing Museveni’s hand.
In a related piece, Yemisi Ilesanmi, Nigerian human rights campaigner now living in the UK, counters propaganda generated by religionists that homosexuality is “un-African”.
The anger following India’s recriminalisation of homosexuality is also examined in depth.
On a lighter note, The Pink Humanist editor Barry Duke tells the cautionary (and hilarious) tale of a how a Kent-based Baptist Evangelist – Bob Hutton, an ardent believer in “praying away the gay” – got duped into publishing spoof comments from a supporter, “Doreen Potts (Mrs)”, from Ireland.
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