THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE PINK HUMANIST

THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE PINK HUMANIST
The latest issue of the Pink Humanist – the online magazine published by UK gay humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust – has been published. Click here to read.
Please note that there are several ways to read it. The easiest is to click on the 4th icon that appears in the black bar near the bottom right-hand corner of your screen (a rectangle overlapping two smaller rectangles). This enlarges the magazine’s cover. You can now scroll through the entire magazine by clicking on and dragging down the lozenge-shaped scrolling bar on the right-hand side.
The magazine’s contents include “From Russia with Hate” which examines what, if anything, can be accomplished by boycotting Russian goods and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as a means of protesting at the wave of homophobia that is sweeping the country.
There is a report on the fear that has overtaken gay rights campaigners in Cameroon following the brutal murder of activist Eric Lembembe.
There is an article reacting to the planned pardon of the British mathematician Alan Turing (http://www.turing.org.uk/) who was convicted of homosexual acts in 1952, subjected to chemical castration, and committed suicide in 1954. The article refers to criticism of the forthcoming Turing bio-pic, The Imitation Game, for trying to push the gay atheist hero “back into the closet”.
There is also a detailed report of President Obama’s recent visit to three African countries, and the fury following his defence of gay rights in Muslim Senegal.
The editor looks at a row that erupted in American Catholic circles over the use of a Catholic church for a scene in the Liberace bio-pic, Beyond the Candelabra, and reviews this.
Other items include news that a lawsuit alleging “crimes against humanity” by US hate preacher Scott Lively is to proceed, and that New Jersey has banned quack  “gay cure” therapies.