Tag: Peter Tatchell
Grindr data release of people’s HIV status
Statement from Peter Tatchell Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation.
End criminalisation of LGBTQ in 37 Commonwealth states
Eighty LGBTQ rights defenders protested as Her Majesty the Queen, the UK Prime Minister and Commonwealth High Commissioners celebrated Commonwealth Day 2018 at Westminster Abbey in London, 12 March 2018.
LGBT people makes gains worldwide
72 countries still criminalise same-sex relations and there is an anti-LGBT backlash in about 20 countries. But liberation cannot be halted forever. Queer freedom is an unstoppable global trend. It knows no borders.
Another gay murder. More police failings
Jason Marshall was found guilty on 9 August in London of murdering an elderly gay man, Peter Fasoli, who he lured on the dating app Badoo. He murdered another gay man in Italy and tried to kill a third gay man, also in Italy.
Theresa May urged to apologise & compensate gay men
On the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which is this Thursday, 27 July, the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, is being urged to “apologise and compensate men convicted under discriminatory anti-gay laws – both before and after the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality 50 years ago.”
Born This Way
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, which partially decriminalised sex between men, actor Andrew Scott tells the remarkable story of how gay people and gay culture came to transform pop culture in the face of persistent oppression.