Tag: Peter Tatchell
South Africa: How the ANC was won for LGBT rights
This essay is dedicated to the many heroic South African LGBT and anti-apartheid activists that I worked with during the period of white minority rule – heroes who helped secure the commitment of the African National Congress of South Africa to LGBT human rights, including the enactment of the world’s first constitution to protect LGBT people against discrimination.
Honduras: 215 LGBT people murdered in 7 years
A new report from Index on Censorship exposes the torture, imprisonment and assassination of LGBT people and activists in Honduras.
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.
LGBTI picket of anti-gay Anglican leaders
Fifty African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex ( LGBTI ) people picketed the global Anglian Primates meeting at Canterbury Cathedral in England on Friday 15 January 2016.
Civil partnerships: An important advance but flawed
Peter Tatchell, Equal Love coordinator and Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, writes about civil partnerships.
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.