Veteran journalist Barry Duke—”The Angry Atheist“—was born in South Africa in 1947. He 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” and effectively trashed itself, he was summarily sacked for apparently 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 with their mini-Pinscher Fifi.
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 