George Broadhead

George Broadhead (1933–2021) was a humanist activist and gay rights campaigner. He was co-founder, in 1979, of the Gay Humanist Group (today known as LGBT Humanists) and later of the Pink Triangle Trust, two of the longest established gay and lesbian groups in the UK.

Personal life George Alfred Broadhead He attended Douglas High School for Boys and went on to study English and French at Keele University. The group was launched at CHE's annual conference that year. In 1984, four years after the formation of the Gay Humanist Group, Broadhead wrote to Canadian magazine The Body Politic to offer his help to any Canadians wishing to start a similar group. He was also active in the Coventry Humanist Group, including as their Press Officer.

In 1992, Broadhead co-founded the Pink Triangle Trust, The Pink Triangle Trust also offered humanist affirmation ceremonies for same sex couples. The Trust was a significant contributor to a secular school in Uganda, which today has a classroom named for Broadhead and Saich.

George Broadhead died in Kenilworth in 2021, aged 87.