Author: Peter Tatchell
Iran: Tatchell in gay, spy & terror smear
Iran’s Rahyab News has made bizarre, fabricated claims that LGBT and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is linked to Britain’s spy agency MI6 and to Arab terrorist organisations.
Teens hanged in Iran remembered at London vigil
Stop killing gays! Stop killing kids! End the death penalty!
Istanbul Pride: London rally against police attack
LGBTI campaigners and allies rallied on 10 July outside the Turkish embassy in London, to protest against the last minute banning of Istanbul Pride, the violent police assaults on the marchers and escalating hate crimes against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities in Turkey.
Schools are key to preventing Islamist radicalisation
Equality and diversity lessons that challenge racism, homophobia, misogyny and other forms of prejudice are being trialled in some UK schools, with promising results. They seem to reduce the levels of abuse and bullying.
LGBT Pride march – Call to end gay bans in Northern Ireland
At this Saturday’s Pride London parade, the Peter Tatchell Foundation will highlight “legal discrimination against LGBT people in Northern Ireland: the ban on same-sex marriage, the lifetime prohibition on gay blood donors and the planned ‘conscience’ Bill which would permit religious people to discriminate against LGBT people in the provision of goods and services.”
Gay priest takes Church of England to employment tribunal
Canon Jeremy Pemberton today begins his historic employment discrimination case against the Church of England over its withdrawal of his right to officiate as a priest and its refusal to give him a licence to take up a chaplaincy post with Sherwood NHS.