Looking Back While Looking Forward.

Polari Magazine introduces a new weekly publishing schedule, and the editor writes about the reasons why, and the driving ideas behind it.

“The word magazine is an Arabic term for storehouse. That’s what we are aiming toward.”

Search terms that have led readers to Polari.

It’s madness, and part of Polari’s WTF Friday features. Darren Hayes & superheroes!

“This is our favourite. Google translate reveals: Darren Hayes doll where to buy?.”

An Evening of Readings, Performance and Song.

Following on from the successful performance at Madam JoJo’s, Clayton Littlewood teams up with Maggie & Martin for an unforgettable evening of song and performance. Featuring the book Goodbye to Soho, and the album Union.

43 Years Since the Revolution Started.

Today is anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The editor asks how that legacy is faring in 2012.

“To cries of ‘gay power’, and ‘Christopher Street belongs to the queens’, the crowds fought back. As the activist and academic Dennis Altman later wrote, it was the ‘Boston Tea Party of the gay movement’.”

Tackling Online Bullying.

The New York state assembly has passed legislation that provides a solid system to deal with cyberbullying.

“The experience of cyberbullying for LGBT youth is, according to the Human Rights Campaign, far higher than the average. The effectiveness of this legislation is something to watch out for.”

The Fourth Plinth.

Sign the petition to erect a statue of Alan Turing on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square.

“Alan Turing is considered to be the father of computer science, the father of artificial intelligence, and the father of mathematical biology, a record second-to-none in importance today.”

Equal Dads.

The world is changing, and a dad is a dad, regardless of sexual orientation.

“It’s not just about adoption rights. There is more than one way to be a gay dad. Or a dad, in fact, as there’s no real need to differentiate.”

The Story of the Turing Pardon, Part One.

A look at how Alan Turing’s secret work was finally acknowledged in the 1980s and the British government’s 2009 public apology for Turing’s treatment.

“Alan Turing’s work on cracking Enigma, and building a computer designed to play a part in the development of a British atomic bomb, was not part of the record. He was branded a “security risk” and duly sacrificed.”

A Great Step Forward in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate.

Denmark passes a law that makes marriage gender neutral, and at the same time manages the potential conflict with the Church.

“Denmark was the first country in the world to pass a civil partnerships law back in 1989. There are roughly 4,100 couples in registered partnerships, and under the new law those couples will automatically be afforded the status of marriage.”

Part 1: From The First Written Words About Homosexuality to Alexander the Great.

The first part of the series A Queer History that looks back to Early Greece and forward to the way we live now.

“In Early and Classical Greece, homosexuality was part of the culture. The following is a snapshot of that world, and a snapshot of the fragments that are left of it.”