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- THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976
- GAY AND LBIAN HUMANIST
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- A BATTLE BETWEEN GAY RIGHTS AND RELIG EXPRSN
- GAY NEWS TRIAL
THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976THE GAY NEWS BLASPHEMY TRIAL, 1976
Remiscence of my work at the fortnightly newspaper Gay News durg s trial for Blasphemy 1976, and the aftermath. * gay news blasphemy trial *
In July 1977, the fortnightly newspaper Gay News and s edor, Denis Lemon, were put on trial and nvicted of blasphemo libel. It was the last succsful prosecutn for blasphemy July 2002, this special feature memoratg the 25th anniversary of that trial, Gay and Lbian Humanist brgs together the views and rellectns of var people who remember the trial personally or have e to look back on .
We open our special Gay News sectn wh his prehensive acunt of the trial and the events surroundg . “Had end there, wh the gay muny, ” he wr, “perhaps wh an apology for sensivy and a promise to act more rponsibly, all would have been well.
Judge Dread – Neil Richardson, a member of the Lbian and Gay Christian Movement, sat through the trial, and brgs a Christian perspective. Takg on Sacred Cows – One of Bra’s longt-standg queer-rights mpaigners, Griff Vghan Williams, looks at the trial through the ey of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly.
GAY AND LBIAN HUMANIST
Gay and Lbian Humanist magaze – Gay News on Trial – A special feature to mark the 25th anniversary of the Gay News blasphemy trial. * gay news blasphemy trial *
He’s also a foundg member of GALHA (or the Gay Humanist Group, as was then). Were we really Glad to be Gay? Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.
The Gay News Blasphemy Case 25 Years On - DocsLib. McCoy for The New York TimTo the Edor:Re “When Gay and Relig Freedoms Clash, ” by Tish Harrison Warren (Opn, Dec.
Warren stat that there a distctn to be ma between general discrimatn agast a group and clg to participate an act one fds signer stat that she would not refe to create a webse for a gay dividual; she simply do not want her servic to be ed for an event to which she is morally where do we draw the le?
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay news blasphemy trial *
Person’s bs, but refe to clean a tuxedo that they will wear to a “gay” weddg? Will your hairdrser choose not to style your hair when you are preparg for a “gay” event?
Instead of nmng her Bible’s barbaric homophobia, Ms. Civil law and cizens should be subject to her cherry-picked Bronze Age Lrie GaylorMadison, wrer is the -print of the Freedom From Relign the Edor:Tish Harrison Warren’s advocy for allowg bs owners to refe to provi servic based on their profsed relig beliefs is an vatn to vid discrimatn rried out behd a veneer of “pluralism.
The Talmud and rultg Jewish laws for many centuri clare marriag between Jews and non-Jews to be both prohibed and void unr Jewish we perm bs owners to refe to provi servic not only to gay upl, but also to terracial and terrelig upl? A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 23 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Battle Between Gay Rights and Relign.
A BATTLE BETWEEN GAY RIGHTS AND RELIG EXPRSN
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In June 1976, Gay News magaze published a poem that – as the subject of a high profile blasphemy trial a year later – was scribed as ‘the ultimate profany’. Openg , she disvered the June 1976 py of Gay News, the untry’s only perdil for the homosexual muny. The poem tailed, graphic language, the ccifixn of Christ seen through the ey of a homosexual Roman centurn.
In the years before she received the anonymo py of Gay News, Whehoe had bee a thorn the si of succsive ntrollers of BBC televisn and rad, lambastg them for their perilo failure to ntrol broadstg standards.
GAY NEWS TRIAL
Gay News had been found 1972 and brought together dividuals om the two homosexual rights mpaigng anisatns of the era, the Gay Liberatn Front and the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly. It had been felt that the time was right for a media reprentatn of homosexualy and issu surroundg the wake of the crimalisatn of homosexual acts England 1967. Whehoe nsired what she had read Gay News obscene, but was also a direct attack upon Christiany, which still domated the moral outlook and inty of the majory of Brons.
In rponse, new cultural forc mobilised behd Gay News and a fightg fund was set up to raise money for s fence.