George Broadhead

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Broadhead, George (24 June 1933 - )

Broadhead, a veteran gay freethinker, was editor from 1990 to 2000 of the English Gay and Lesbian Humanist. Also, he was Secretary of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA). He had previously been involved with the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and helped found and run one of its local groups.

In 1979, he co-founded GALHA, became its administrative secretary, and two years later its principal spokesperson. In March 2007, he resigned as secretary after serving for twenty-five years, saying

• At 73 I am well past retirement age and for various reasons I have been finding my position more of a strain of late. However, I am proud to have helped form GALHA into one of the longest-standing and active LGBT campaigning groups in the UK with a nationwide and international membership. I will of course continue to give it my full support both as a member and as a vice-president.

In recognition of his long service to the group, GALHA’s committee named Broadhead a vice-president. Although Gay & Lesbian Quarterly is defunct, Broadhead retains his role as consultant for Gay & Lesbian Humanist internet magazine and remains a trustee and secretary of the group’s associated charity, the Pink Triangle Trust.

In 2002, he received the annual Happy Rainbow Man award from Nordic Rainbow Humanists "for his enthusiastic, courageous and years-long work for the human rights and dignity of lesbians and gays all over the world".

In 2006 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the UK National Secular Society "for services to secularism and gay rights".

Broadhead lives in Warwickshire in the central region of England.