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News and Views
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Holy See makes new waves – Brett Lock asks why no-one will rid us of these turbulent priests.
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The 500th – and it’s Pink – George Broadhead reports on the 500th London partnership registration.
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MEPs demand equality for gays.
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Cathedral bottles out over gay service.
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First openly gay bishop visits UK.
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Sex (as usual) will be on bishops’ minds.
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Debaptise yourself, says campaign group.
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Journalist uncovers Catholic cover-up plans.
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Oi! Are these yours?.
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Darwin country for humanists’ weekend jolly.
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Channel 4 series aims to probe gay parents.
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Call for church-state split throughout Europe.
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Wrong place, wrong time, Mr Donald.
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Gay title publishes its 300th issue.
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Chatting with Muriel.
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World Watch edited by George Broadhead – news from Egypt, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
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Web Watch
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Across the Pond – Brett Humphreys returns to the UK to take another look at the coverage of British lesbian and gay history on the Web.
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Features
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Queer Veneer – James Mason asks: Why has being gay turned into a lifestyle statement?
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When Sally bashed the Proud Member – Barry Duke remembers the bonneted barflies.
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Faith, Hope, Plum Tart and Bobo – Former Anglican priest Dan O’Hara recounts the saga of the openly gay bishop and would-be bishop: USA 1 : UK 0.
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Scruples and Taboos – Charlie Coventry, prompted by a news item, ponders on religion’s effects in fact and fiction.
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I Need this Like a Hole in the Head – Matthew Thompson on being gay and being epileptic – and not being religious.
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To Let: Cottage, London, June 1953 – In this Year of the Gay Marriage, Rex Batten looks back fifty years, on the days when we were filth.
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Gossip from Across the Pond – Warren Allen Smith serves up more juicy titbits – or tidbits – from the world of entertainment.
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Anything But Gay! – Wayne Besen describes the failure of the ex-gay movement over the five years since the high-profile advertising campaign it mounted in the United States in 1998.
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Television
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Steven Dean on Blue Peter.
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Theatre
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Fringe Benefits – Tony Challis reviews the best of the Edinburgh Fringe and Book Festivals.
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Gossip
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Infidel – an irreverent column with a sceptical eye.
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Books
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Dan O’Hara reviews Humanism: An Introduction, by Jim Herrick, and The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association, by Bill Cooke.
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Stephen Blake reviews Sebastian’s Tangibles, by Anthea Ingham, and Adam, by Anthony McDonald.
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