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Welcome to the Gay Outdoor Club - Gay Outdoor Club. Peter Tatchell: Home Page: Main Index. Degrees of freedom: the legacy of Alan Turing. Alan Turing A storm makes a great background to a ghost story. I fell asleep last night listening to one, while outside the incorporeal banshee wailed, and battered itself (fruitlessly) against the bedroom window and (with greater effect) the garden fence. Driving to Barnet Tube station early this morning, we had (figuratively) to pick our way up the Meadway.

The storm had raised up wheelie bins, and scattered them, turning a suburban road into an obstacle course. It looks quite a mess just now. I'm sure it will all be tidied up by lunchtime. Ghosts, their effect on the living, and the act of tidying up. I wrote about Turing and the case for/against his pardon almost exactly a year ago: […] whether he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple, or whether some more prosaic malfunction of chemical equipment in his house led to his death, is almost irrelevant.

More on Alan Turing More by Graeme Archer • M&S has yielded to Muslim extremists• Stop the nanny-state lecturing. Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC 'Witness', 2004) Was Jesus gay? Probably | Paul Oestreicher. Preaching on Good Friday on the last words of Jesus as he was being executed makes great spiritual demands on the preacher. The Jesuits began this tradition. Many Anglican churches adopted it. Faced with this privilege in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, my second home, I was painfully aware of the context, a church deeply divided worldwide over issues of gender and sexuality. Suffering was my theme. I felt I could not escape the suffering of gay and lesbian people at the hands of the church, over many centuries.

Was that divisive issue a subject for Good Friday? That disciple was John whom Jesus, the gospels affirm, loved in a special way. Jesus was a Hebrew rabbi. After much reflection and with certainly no wish to shock, I felt I was left with no option but to suggest, for the first time in half a century of my Anglican priesthood, that Jesus may well have been homosexual. Heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual: Jesus could have been any of these.

The Independent on Sunday's Pink List 2013 - News - People. 1. (2012 judge) Paris Lees @ParisLees Editor, META magazine Many IoS readers will never have heard of Paris Lees, but our judges believe that the award-winning journalist, broadcaster and campaigner for transgender rights is leading a slow but determined change in attitudes for the better. “In my generation the agenda was about legal change,” says Christine Burns. “Nowadays it is about social change.” In the past couple of years Lees appeared as Channel 4 and Radio 1’s first trans woman presenter and founded META magazine – as well as being a Pink List judge in 2011 and 2012. She was honoured with a Positive Role Model Award at the inaugural National Diversity Awards. Lees was also Diva magazine’s first ever trans cover girl. Paris Lees was Channel 4 and Radio 1's first trans woman presenter 2 = (2) Clare Balding, OBE @clarebalding TV and radio presenter After stealing the Olympics, Balding has presented shows on Saturday night primetime BBC1 and BT Sport.

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