Author: Peter Tatchell
High Court rules against heterosexual civil partnerships
A High Court judge, Mrs Justice Andrews DBE, this morning ruled that the government’s discrimination against opposite-sex couples by denying them access to civil partnerships is legitimate and justified.
Sharley McLean: lesbian survivor of Nazi fascism
Sharley McLean – Jewish feminist, lesbian, humanist and survivor of Nazi fascism – was born Lotte Reyersbach in Oldenburg, north Germany, in 1923.
Time for straight equality in civil partnership law
A historic, landmark legal challenge against the UK government has begun in the High Court in London. It seeks to overturn the legislative ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships.
Civil partnerships: An important advance but flawed
Peter Tatchell, Equal Love coordinator and Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, writes about civil partnerships.
Commonwealth Summit in Malta urged to back LGBTI equality
Fifty people rallied outside the London headquarters of the Commonwealth, two days before the start of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta.
Isle of Man avoids segregation of English same-sex marriage law
“The government of the Isle of Man plans to incorporate same-sex marriage within the island’s main marriage legislation, the Marriage Act 1984. It will not replicate the flawed and discriminatory same-sex marriage law that was enacted for England and Wales in 2013, which created two separate marriage laws – the previously existing 1949 Act for opposite-sex couples only and the new 2013 Act for same-sex couples only.