Andrew Lumsden obituary
Journalist and leading gay rights campaigner who helped set up Gay News and the first Pride march in 1972
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Journalist and leading gay rights campaigner who helped set up Gay News and the first Pride march in 1972
From the archive in 2012, Ryan Shaffer looks at the history and abolition of the Blasphemy Law in the UK.
The history of Time Out and Pride working together for decades in London
Blasphemy laws old and new Freedom of speech includes the right to criticise, explain and even mock, insists Eddie Ford Protests are still continuing outside the Batley grammar school in West Yorkshire, three-quarters of whose pupils are from a minority ethnic background. As readers know, things went wild after a teacher showed one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his pupils, whilst doing a religious education lesson on blasphemy. Outraged, the local mosque mobilised its supporters, forcing the school to adopt remote learning. Mohammed Hussain of the Batley-based ‘Purpose of Life’ group ...