The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) is a democratic, membership-based, Humanist campaigning organisation that represents the many non-religious in the LGBT communities in the United Kingdom and beyond. GALHA promotes a humanist approach to homosexuality and to lesbian, gay and bisexual rights as human rights.
The Honorary President is Maureen Duffy.
Honorary Vice-Presidents are: Barbara Smoker, Darren Johnson GLA, Dr. Evan Harris MP, George Broadhead, Dr. Harry Stopes-Roe, Jim Herrick, Maryam Namazie, Michael Cashman MEP, Patrick Harvie MSP, Professor Rob Tielman, Taslima Nasrin, Stephen Fry.
GALHA is affiliated with the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) and Amnesty International. The official symbol of GALHA is a version of the Happy Human.
GALHA publishes a regular newsletter or articles and event, join and receive a copy.
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“Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other—two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
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—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
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—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)