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Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-born British human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT social movements. Tatchell was selected as the Labour Party 's parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey in 1981.
- Peter Tatchell – Official Biography
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Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy, LGBT+ freedom and global justice since 1967. Among his many involvements, he was a leading activist in the Gay Liberation Front 1971-74 and in the queer human rights group OutRage! 1990-2011. Through the Peter Tatchell Foundation, he currently campaigns for human rights in Britain and...
Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952, Peter began campaigning for human rights in 1967, aged 15. His first campaign was against the death penalty, followed by campaigns in support of Aboriginal rights and in opposition to conscription and the Australian and US war against the people of Vietnam. In 1969, on realising that he was gay, the struggle f...
After moving to London in 1971, Peter became a leading activist in the Gay Liberation Front (GLF); organising sit-ins at pubs that refused to serve “poofs”, and protests against police harassment and the medical classification of homosexuality as an illness. Also in 1971, he participated in protests against Mary Whitehouse’s Festival of Light, disr...
Later that year, the Peter Tatchell Foundation was established by friends and supporters to give Peter the funds and staff to expand his work for LGBT+ and other human rights, in the UK and internationally. Peter was appointed its director. In 2021, a documentary about his life, Hating Peter Tatchell, began streaming on Netflix. The same year, he c...
Jul 12, 2020 · Peter Tatchell – Introduction. First, let me say that I condemn without reservation child sex abuse, the rape of children and adults having sex with kids. It is abhorrent, totally wrong and unacceptable. The perpetrators should be jailed. I have never condoned paedophilia.
Jan 25, 2022 · As he turns 70, Peter Tatchell tells Attitude that the moment that pushed him into activism was the bombing of a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama almost 60 years ago – in 1963, when Peter was 11. Four young girls his age died, which Peter says “enraged” him.
Nov 23, 2021 · The story of his extraordinary activism plays out in the Netflix documentary Hating Peter Tatchell, which sees the activist interviewed by his longtime friend Ian McKellen about the many battles he and other LGBT+ people have undertaken, painting a revealing picture of the man behind the activism.
Jan 18, 2022 · Election Latest. Peter Tatchell at 70: why the fight goes on – after Netflix stardom and 30 years of gay rights victories. Interview. The human rights campaigner has attained the status of...
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Jan 25, 2022 · There are few who can say they’ve been fighting for equality for quite as long as Peter Tatchell, who celebrates his 70th birthday on Tuesday (25 January). Tatchell was born into an “extreme evangelical Christian” family in Melbourne, Australia, on 25 January, 1952.
