Donation from UK-based Pink Triangle Trust benefits Uganda humanist organisation

By Barry Duke • 4 years ago

Apr
2019

THE Kasese United Humanist Association announced in September 2018 that it had received a generous donation from UK-based charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT).

The money was used to purchase guitars and other equipment for the Bizoha Humanist Center, which promotes science, humanism and reason to people in Kasese and beyond.Four guitars, a piano/keyboard and a keyboard stand; a drum set comprising five drums, its stand, seat and three metal plates; a power extension cable; a DSTV decoder and dish, and a large curved television set (43 inches) were purchased as a result of the donation.

The Author

Barry Duke

Veteran journalist Barry Duke, born in South Africa in 1947, settled in the UK in 1973, where he became actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement and gay rights organisations. A militant atheist, he joined the National Secular Society (NSS) and was a co-founder in 1979 of the Gay Humanist Group which changed its name to the Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association in 1987. In 2017 he was handed a Lifetime Achievement award by the NSS for his "spirited opposition to religious intolerance and irrationality" in his roles as a free speech advocate and his work as editor of the Freethinker and the Pink Triangle Trust website. In 2022, when the Freethinker suddenly went "woke", he was summarily sacked for being too aggressively atheistic. In 2017 he was married to his partner of 25 years, Marcus Robinson, in Gibraltar. The couple live in Benidorm, Spain.