Veteran Gay Activist Gets Lifetime Achievement Award

KENILWORTH, 11 OCTOBER 2006 — George Broadhead, the veteran gay activist and secretary of the UK Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) for the past twenty-five years, was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Secular Society at its annual lunch held on 7 October 2006 at the Montcalm Hotel, London.

Mr Broadhead, who helped found GALHA in 1979 and has served on its management committee ever since, was rewarded for his unstinting work in promoting the rational, gay-friendly humanist outlook within the LGBT community and combating homophobia – especially from religious sources. It was acknowledged that the present resurgence of this sort of homophobia was a cause for great concern, and that GALHA was in the forefront of opposing it.

George Broadhead administers GALHA from an office in Warwickshire and he said: “I am very honoured to receive this award. It is a great pleasure to have the work I have done on behalf of GALHA over so many years recognised in this way. GALHA has provided a forum and voice for LGBT people who live their lives without religion and who often feel oppressed by religious teachings. The group’s resistance to the sometimes vicious attacks on LGBT rights motivated by such teachings has never been more important.”