Tag: Peter Tatchell Foundation
Hostility & support at LGBT-Muslim Solidarity campaign launch
There was a mix of hostility and support from local Muslims when the LGBT-Muslim Solidarity campaign was launched with a street stall and pavement discussion in Tower Hamlets, East London, 21 October.
London rally urges: Repeal Nigeria’s anti-LGBTI laws
Petition with over 65,000 signatures demands LGBTI equality in Nigeria.
Pratt & Smith – Last men hanged in England for gay sex
One hundred and eighty years ago, on 27 November 1835, a crowd gathered outside Newgate Prison in London to witness a macabre, notorious and historic event – the hanging of the last two men in England to be executed for the ‘abominable crime of buggery’ (anal sex).
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.
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.”
1930’s sex researcher & LGBTI pioneer who defied the Nazis
Eighty years ago this month, one of the world’s greatest pioneering sexologists and gay rights advocates died in exile with little acclaim or mourning.