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| News and Views |
Jubilation and Consternation – as the House of Commons approves, but the House of Lords opposes, the equalisation of the age of consent. |
| Watery Weddings – gay affirmations on river and canal. |
| Equality Alliance confers – the first conference of the Equality Alliance. |
| Pride Demise – the 1998 Pride Festival is cancelled. |
| GALHA Garden Party. |
| New Dutch Government committed to opening up marriage and adoption to same-sex couples: A report by Kees Waaldijk. |
| Web Watch |
Brett Humphreys looks at Web Rings. |
| Features |
Who will rid us of these Turbulent Priests? – Andrew Armitage argues that the disestablishment of the Church of England is just as necessary as the reform of the House of Lords. |
| Gossip from Across the Pond – Warren Allen Smith reports from New York on recent events. |
| CD |
Jim Herrick reviews settings by Benjamin Britten and Lennox Berkeley of songs by W. H. Auden, sung by Philip Langridge and Delia Jones (Collins Classics); and Frederick Delius’s opera Fennimore and Gerda, conducted by Richard Hickox with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Chandos). |
| Theatre |
Theatrical Transformations – Tony Challis, G&LH’s accredited correspondent at the Fringe, reviews some of the events with a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender theme at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. |
| Books |
Leni Miller reviews Daughters of Desire: Lesbian Representations in Film, by Shameem Kabir. |
| Denis Cobell reviews Humanism, by Barbara Smoker. |
| Jean Raison reviews The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, by Diana Souhami. |
| Roy Saich reviews Secularism: The True Philosophy of Life, by George William Foote (recently reissued in the new Freethinker’s Classics series). |
| Postbag |
John Lauritsen replies to Terry Sanderson’s review of his book in the previous issue; and is Brazil really “the most homophobic country in the world”? |