In common with other humanists, I believe that the only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and […]
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Alan […]
To say that “God moves in mysterious ways” is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may […]
We are (of all the synonyms I most prefer to ‘humanist’) freethinkers. We are deprived of nothing. We have lost […]
The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology was officially formed in April 1914, ‘for the consideration of problems […]
I have adhered to such of the older traditions as I find adequate for my most lawless and revolutionary passions […]
I for one don’t believe in looking regretfully back into the past or forward with illusive hopes into the future, […]
Humanism could (better) be honoured by reciting a list of the things one has enjoyed or found interesting, of the […]
I have never believed in any formal religion, but I have experienced an emotion that seemed to me religious. In […]
‘Being Rational About Being Gay’ was a talk given by activist Antony Grey (Anthony Edgar Gartside Wright) for the Gay […]
‘Separate Development? Out of the closet, into the ghetto’ was a talk given by writer and activist Maureen Duffy on […]
George Broadhead was a humanist activist and gay rights campaigner, motivated by a twin commitment to humanism and human rights. […]
I don’t understand people panicking about death. It’s inevitable. I’m an atheist; you’d think it would make it worse, but […]
Harford Montgomery Hyde was a Belfast-born barrister, politician, author, and humanist, who championed humane legal reforms and progressive social attitudes. […]
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, […]
About the moral problem there is nothing mysterious; it is simply the old, old question of how best to live […]
But however little it conforms or tenders allegiance, no life worth having can be isolated from the lives of others. […]
It was the start of opening up society to be more caring and sensitive. One was battling for all men […]
Formed in the wake of the Gay News blasphemy trial, GALHA (now LGBT Humanists) came into being in 1979 as […]
A wide-ranging Humanism will always seek to extend to more and more people, through education and opportunity, the enrichment of […]
In celebration of the 45th anniversary of LGBT Humanists in 2024, the Humanist Heritage website is expanding to include even […]
I cling to my tiny philosophy: to hug the present moment. Virginia Woolf, diary entry, 31 January 1940 Virginia Woolf […]