Author: Barry Duke

Veteran journalist Barry Duke, born in South Africa in 1947, settled in the UK in 1973, where he became actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement and gay rights organisations. A militant atheist, he joined the National Secular Society (NSS) and was a co-founder in 1979 of the Gay Humanist Group which changed its name to the Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association in 1987. In 2017 he was handed a Lifetime Achievement award by the NSS for his "spirited opposition to religious intolerance and irrationality" in his roles as a free speech advocate and his work as editor of the Freethinker and the Pink Triangle Trust website. In 2022, when the Freethinker suddenly went "woke", he was summarily sacked for apparently being too aggressively atheistic and was no a UK citizen. In 2017 he was married to his partner of 25 years, Marcus Robinson, in Gibraltar. The couple live in Benidorm, Spain, with their mini-Pinscher Fifi.
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Jewish baker in New Jersey plays victim card after anger erupts over his refusal to bake Pride confectionery

Barry Duke

https://www.facebook.com/Pinktriangletrust/ YITZY Mittel, co-owner of the West Orange Bake Shop in New Jersey, is being accused of bigotry and is facing a a boycott by local Jews after a regular customer—rabbi Julie Schwarzwald—was refused an order for kosher desserts she … Continue reading Jewish baker in New Jersey plays victim card after anger erupts over his refusal to bake Pride confectionery

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British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage

Barry Duke

https://www.facebook.com/Pinktriangletrust/ THE advice came earlier this year from Vice President of the BVI Christian Council, Rosemarie Flax, inset above, as the BVI—a British Overseas Territory—prepares to hold a vote to decide whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage. She said: … Continue reading British Virgin Islanders told to ‘obey God’ when voting in a referendum on same-sex marriage

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Christian ‘gay cure’ outfit wins compensation from a UK bank that closed its account

Barry Duke

https://www.facebook.com/Pinktriangletrust NORTHERN Ireland-based Core Issue Trust, headed by “ex-gay” Mike Davidson, above, has been awarded £20,000 in compensation plus legal costs by Barclays Bank, which closed CIT’s account in a 2020. But the bank has not reinstated the account, Davidson … Continue reading Christian ‘gay cure’ outfit wins compensation from a UK bank that closed its account

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Preacher arrested at a Pride event says UK’s ‘biggest problem’ is ‘homosexuality among teenagers and young adults’

Barry Duke

https://www.facebook.com/Pinktriangletrust THANKS to an utterly incompetent Conservative Party, Britain is suffering a cost-of-living crisis, a fast-disintegrating health service, rampant inflation and major post-Brexit damage to the economy. But its biggest problem is homosexuality among teenagers and young adults, claims street … Continue reading Preacher arrested at a Pride event says UK’s ‘biggest problem’ is ‘homosexuality among teenagers and young adults’

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Vatican cardinal says homosexuality has nothing to do with clerical abuse. The Catholic League freaks out.

Barry Duke

FOR years, Bill Donohue, above, head of the League, has insisted that there are very few paedophile priests within the Catholic Church, and that the abuse crisis within the RCC was all down to gay “psychosexually stunted” clerics targeting teens. … Continue reading Vatican cardinal says homosexuality has nothing to do with clerical abuse. The Catholic League freaks out.

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UK humanist Barbara Smoker would have turned 100 in April. The National Secular Society marked the event with a memorial this month.

Barry Duke

BARBARA Smoker, above, who died on April 7, 2020, was a British humanist activist and freethought advocate. She was also President of the National Secular Society (NSS) for 24 years, Chair of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society (now known as … Continue reading UK humanist Barbara Smoker would have turned 100 in April. The National Secular Society marked the event with a memorial this month.

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Austrian police foil suspected Islamist plot to attack a Pride event in Vienna

Barry Duke

AUSTRIAN authorities revealed today (Sunday) that they had arrested three young men—the youngest just 14—for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on Vienna’s Pride event that drew 300,000 on Saturday. According to ABC News, the three—Austrian citizens of Bosnian and Chechen … Continue reading Austrian police foil suspected Islamist plot to attack a Pride event in Vienna

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Bigotry on parade: Catholics for Catholics protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in L.A.

Barry Duke

WHILE charity group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, received a Community Hero Award in a near-empty Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles yesterday (Friday), outside hundreds of haters gathered to voice their disapproval of what Catholic for Catholics labelled a “blasphemous” … Continue reading Bigotry on parade: Catholics for Catholics protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in L.A.

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LGBT+ communities in Antigua and Barbuda have Orden David to thank for his successful challenge of archaic anti-sodomy law

Barry Duke

FAITH-based violence is common in the Caribbean, and for years Orden David, above, suffered abuse and violence at the hands homophobes. Facing ostracism and risking his life as the public face of the LGBTQ movement, David took his government to … Continue reading LGBT+ communities in Antigua and Barbuda have Orden David to thank for his successful challenge of archaic anti-sodomy law

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Who’s to blame for the rise of American Christian nationalism? The LGBT+ community, of course!

Barry Duke

THAT’S the view of Shane Schaetzel, above, a Catholic commentator who took to Twitter this week to predict that the number of Christian nationalists in America “will only get higher the more the Alphabet People keep pushing their agenda. So … Continue reading Who’s to blame for the rise of American Christian nationalism? The LGBT+ community, of course!