A year in review

PTT Chair Stephen Harvie reports on the 2022 activities of the Pink Triangle Trust The Winter Solstice has passed and, while the trustees of the Pink Triangle Trust look forward to the new year and the opportunities that this will afford, it is appropriate that we reflect upon our many achievements in 2022. As you are doubtless aware, the PTT exists to provide financial assistance and support to LGBTQ+ and Humanist causes throughout the world. During 2022 the Trust has made substantial donations to many causes both national and international, including Just Like Us, an LGBT+ young people’s charity in … Continue reading A year in review

National Secular Society wants the Core Issue Trust stripped of its charitable status

The despicable organisation is headed by ‘ex-gay’ Christian extremist Mike Davidson, above. AS more and more countries move to ban quack ‘gay cure’ therapies – Germany being the latest – Mike Davidson, above, continues to operate a Christian organisation that … Continue reading National Secular Society wants the Core Issue Trust stripped of its charitable status

The Reluctant Gay Activist: a Memoir by Terry Sanderson

STEPHEN Harvie reviews Sanderson’s recently published updated autobiography AS Malvolio says in Twelfth Night Act 2 Scene V: “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” However reluctant Terry … Continue reading The Reluctant Gay Activist: a Memoir by Terry Sanderson

Farewell to a Humanist hero: LGBT activist George Broadhead dies aged 87

IN the late 1970s, self-appointed Christian Morality Supremo Mary Whitehouse suffered a backlash after she successfully brought a private prosecution for blasphemous libel against Gay News. Stung by hostile reaction to the prosecution, Whitehouse began screeching that “everything good and … Continue reading Farewell to a Humanist hero: LGBT activist George Broadhead dies aged 87

Turing honour warmly welcomed by Gay Humanists

THE UK gay Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has warmly welcomed the news that the famous mathematician and second world war code breaker Alan Turing is to be celebrated on a special stamp as an online petition calls for a posthumous pardon to quash his conviction for gross indecency. Turing, above, who is also recognised as the father of the computer, is one of 10 prominent people chosen for the Royal Mail’s “Britons of Distinction” stamps to be launched in February 2012, which includes the allied war heroine Odette Hallowes of the Special Operations Executive and composer Frederick … Continue reading Turing honour warmly welcomed by Gay Humanists