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Sexual diversity in Islam
Is there room in Islam for LGBT+ Muslims?
Corbyn should apologise for collusion with anti-Semites
Labour urged to adopt full IHRA anti-Semitism definition & examples
Freedom for West Papua – ‘slow genocide’
Indonesia’s occupation & repression must end
Double standards for LGBTs over burka row
Boris’s remarks were wrong but no comparable outcry over LGBT Muslims
Commonwealth must not legitimise Zimbabwe’s homophobia
Without reform homophobic persecution will be viewed as legitimate and acceptable
LGBT+ is most universal global movement of all time
Transcends all nations, cultures, ideologies, classes & races
Mayor of London strangles Pride with restrictions
London Pride is the smallest in the western world
Government LGBT+ Action Plan is flawed
No action on LGBT+ refugees or gay compensation
Theresa May ends Tatchell ban
Invited to Downing Street after decade of exclusion
Supreme Court rules for equal civil partnerships
Heterosexual equality at last! Discrimination ends
Theresa May urged: compensate convicted gay men
Compensation letter handed to 10 Downing Street today
The Economic Cost of Homophobia
Peter Tatchell Foundation launches major new report
Update: Tatchell released
Human rights and LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell has been released
Tatchell Arrested in Russia
Peter was arrested while staging a peaceful demonstration for LGBT+ rights.
Tatchell In Russia for LGBT+ Rights
Standing in solidarity with LGBTs & human rights defenders
Screen the blood, not the sexuality
Challenge to blanket global restrictions on ‘gay blood’
Royal wedding symbolises privilege & unequal UK
This is a private wedding. The public should not foot the bill
Supreme Court to rule on civil partnerships ban
Fear that the Government may abolish same-sex civil partnerships
UN fails Ugandan LGBTI refugees abused in Kenya
Homophobic UN staff and beatings by police & other refugees
Belfast ‘gay cake’ row is about freedom of expression
The law should not compel businesses to aid the promotion of gay marriage
Protest urges Commonwealth leaders to scrap anti-LGBT laws
Anger at leader’s refusal to even discuss LGBT persecution
PM expresses regret for anti-LGBT laws
Historic, landmark acknowledgement of colonial era injustice
Commonwealth: Theresa May urged to apologise for anti-gay laws
Apology at this week’s Commonwealth summit would be a game-changer
Commonwealth chiefs receive LGBT petition with 104,000 signatures
Next week’s Commonwealth summit urged to end gay ban in 37 countries
Shipping line backs bid to overturn Bermuda’s same-sex marriage ban
Carnival Cruises makes concession following lobbying by LGBT+ groups
Martin Luther King: More than a black rights advocate
A sanitised radical who was anti-war and anti-poverty
Grindr data release of people’s HIV status
Data protection is the new frontier in the battle for human rights
Jeremy Corbyn has failed the Syrian democracy movement
No active Labour support for humanitarian aid drops of food & medicine
Foreign Office must protect LGBT+ fans at World Cup in Russia
English gay football fans at risk of attack or arrest
My memories of Britain’s first LGBT Pride in 1972
Out, proud & radical: A pioneering parade with a political message
Protest in front of Queen & PM against homophobia
Commonwealth Day, Westminster Abbey
Bermuda gay marriage ban: Open Letter to Carnival cruises
Cunard, Princess, P&O are colluding with homophobic discrimination
Murder plot to stop expose of Chief Justice?
Was Dillian Johnson shot to silence him & stop gay scandal?
Magnus Hirschfeld 1868-1935: German LGBT pioneer
Gay, Jewish & socialist, he challenged Weimar & Nazi homophobia
Valentine’s Day petitions for Equal Love
End dual discrimination in marriage & civil partnership law
Marriage? No thanks. Here’s a better idea
Civil Commitment Pact: An alternative to civil marriages & civil partnerships
Hunger-strike against undemocratic voting system
Demand for fair votes & a representative parliament
Equal civil partnerships Bill: MPs debate this Friday
Bid for equality, to end the ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships
Here’s why critics of trans law reform are mistaken
The Gender Recognition Act is flawed & needs revising
Beyond equality: Why equal rights are not enough
Time to change the system, not just seek parity within it
Education Department clarifies new sex education rules
Mandatory lessons in all schools will address LGBT+ issues
Commonwealth summit 2018: Bid for LGBT+ rights
Time to end gay criminalisation by 37 of 53 member states
Phase 3 of #FreeBalochistan campaign: London bus adverts
Bid to highlight Pakistan’s human rights abuses in occupied Balochistan
Pakistan demands UK ban adverts urging #FreeBalochistan
Pressure on Foreign Office UK ambassador summoned in Pakistan
Psychiatrists admit harm done to LGBs by aversion therapy
The PTF urges compensation for victims of electric shock methods
Lessons we can learn from the Kevin Spacey furore
Transform the male & workplace culture that allows sexual harassment
Misguided bid to turn universities into speech police
Universities to be fined for violations of free speech by students
Pakistan: Kalash minority threatened by Islamist extremism
Smallest ethnic & religious community in Pakistan is fighting for survival
London: Zimbabwe democracy vigil celebrates 15 years
780 vigils outside Zimbabwe Embassy since October 2002
Education Minister urged to clarify sex education
Mandatory commitment does not include LGBT+ issues
West Papua: Five facts about Indonesia’s occupation
Military repression, possible genocide, western collusion
LGBT people makes gains worldwide
Backlash cannot halt the global trend to queer liberation
John Wolfenden: Not so liberal after all
60th anniversary of Wolfenden recommending partial decriminalisation
Another gay murder. More police failings
Independent Police Complaints Commission must investigate
Notting Hill Carnival will commemorate Grenfell
London Mayor backs one minute’s silence 3pm Carnival Monday
Open Letter to Pride: Defend the Council of Ex-Muslims
East London mosque has history of hosting homophobic hate preachers
Theresa May urged to apologise & compensate gay men
Thursday 27 July is 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act
Sexual Offences Act 1967: Reform and repression
Anti-gay laws remained on the statute book, arrests rocketed
Has LGBT Pride lost its way?
Mayor, Westminster & Police restrict Pride numbers
Pakistan: Crimes against female humanity
Domestic violence, rape, ‘honour’ killing, forced & child marriages
Stories of illegal love & survival in Jamaica
Victims of homophobia speak out & find solace in global allie
Muslim campaigner exposes toleration of extremists
Sara Khan: Oppose far right Islamism & defend liberal Muslims
We’re helping of hundreds of people in need
Casework report of the Peter Tatchell Foundation
1967: The myth of gay decriminalisation
Anti-gay laws remained on the statute book, arrests rocketed
ACTION: Support Tiwonge and Steven in prison in Malawi
Three things you can do to support our heroes
Balochistan – 60 years of Pakistani occupation
Six steps to halt the conflict, protect human rights & secure self-rule
Time to put SEX into sex education
Celebrate sexual pleasure. Combat sexual shame & abuse
The Nazi war on gay people: Survivors speak out
The film Paragraph 175 reveals the forgotten ‘Holocaust’
Jeremy Bamber: Police still withholding vital evidence
Evidence not disclosed & destroyed, in defiance of three court orders
Pride Matters: Peter Tatchell’s activism 1967-2017
The ideas & events that have shaped his 50 years of campaigning
Russia wages legal & cultural war on LGBTIs
The ‘enemy within’: Victims of Putin’s ‘gay propaganda’ law
Queer freedom is an unstoppable global trend
Despite backlash, LGBTI people make global gains
Bianca Jagger leads Saudi petition hand-in to PM
159,000 sign petition to stop UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Ecological disaster threatens Arab minority in Iran
Triple whammy of new dams, river diversion & industrial pollution
UK Supreme Court bid for gay pension equality
DWP opposes equal pensions, backs company that discriminates
How we survived the AIDS plague
Thanks to unlikely alliance of HIV activists, doctors & scientists
Moscow Gay Pride – London Protest
Russian Consulate picketed.
Dear Sylvia Pankhurst: Equality hero!
Feminist, socialist, anti-fascist and internationalist
Under-age sex: Statement of clarification
Adults should not have sex with children. I do not advocate paedophilia
Another year of global progress on LGBTI rights
Criminalisation in 38% of countries but gains being won
Synod victory for LGBTI love and equality
Bishops’ report endorsing discrimination is defeated
Join the vigil at Synod against Anglican homophobia
Bishops report defends straight superiority & opposes equal marriage
Here’s what Jeremy Corbyn could do, to win in 2020
Less oppositionism. More constructive, imaginative alternative polices
Gay pardons for up to 100,000 men welcomed
But pardon has connotations of forgiveness for a wrong done
Under Trump, the US can’t be the UK’s closest ally
President Trump is another reason to dump the special relationship with the US
Support LGBTI rights in Azerbaijan
Sign petition for protection against discrimination & hate crime
Honours system is discredited. I’ve said no
Nepotism and cronyism still blight the awards
George Michael: My personal recollections of his life
We met at a gay disco when he was still an unknown teenager
The truth about Syria, Corbyn and our protest
Both the Tories AND Labour failed to press for a vote on aid drops
Stop the War UK has betrayed the Syrian people
Not even one demonstration against war crimes of Assad & Putin
Here’s how the UK can help save Syrian civilians
Aid drops, human rights monitors, peacekeepers & war crimes charges
Labour urged: Actions not words on Syria
Human Rights Day protest by Syria Solidarity UK
Tatchell dedicates award to African campaigners
Peter Tatchell awarded Albert Medal 2016
Stephen Port gay serial killings Police failings exposed
Officers failed to warn & liaise with the LGBT community
Iran: Free Dr Taheri, jailed for his spiritual teachings
Held incommunicado. Six years solitary confinement in Evin prison
Age of consent: Too high? Too low? Just right
Uk law criminalises more than half of all young people
Bhupen Khakhar – Pioneering gay Indian painter
A new retrospective of his work at Tate Modern, London
Legal bid to overturn ban on different-sex civil partnersh
Appeal Court to hear case for equal civil partnerships for straight couples
Peter Tatchell receives Gandhi International Peace Award 2016
For his 50 years of human rights work in the UK and worldwide
Syria: UN General Assembly should mandate a no-bomb zone
Russia’s veto can be overridden using UN 377A, Uniting for Peace
Ashers ‘gay cake’ verdict is defeat for freedom of expression
The law should not compel businesses to aid political messages
Bid to pardon gay men convicted under anti-gay laws
MP John Nicolson’s Sexual Offences (Pardons etc) Bill to be debated on Friday
Peter Tatchell Foundation celebrates 5 years of human rights work
Huge thanks to all our supporters & donors – You make it possible
Call to ban Islamist cleric who endorses killing of gays
Home Secretary should revoke his visa
Why does gay sex scare modern Muslims?
Homosexuality didn’t frighten Muslims in Islam’s Golden Age
Peter Tatchell wins James Joyce Award 2016
Granted an Honorary Fellowship by University College Dublin
Tatchell dedicates award to African campaigners
Peter Tatchell wins James Joyce Award 2016
West must stop aiding Pakistan’s war crimes in Balochistan
Send UN fact-finding mission to Balochistan & appoint UN Special Rapporteur
Keith Vaz, drugs, the sex trade & conflicts of interest
No contradiction between Vaz’s public stance & private behaviour
Keith Vaz MP: Did Sunday Mirror pay £30,000 for male escort’s story?
Did it have a contract with the escorts & assist their secret recording?
Call to end US arms sales to Pakistan
Urgent action is vital to halt Islamabad’s war crimes in Balochistan
Sri Lanka: Anti-LGBTI abuses exposed by Human Rights Watch
LGBTI group Equal Ground speaks out & urges reform – VIDEO
Chagos Islanders remain evicted for US military base
Forced into exile by UK in the 1960s. Still dispossessed in 2016
Same-sex marriage pioneers to marry, at last!
David & Richard co-fronted Equal Love campaign & European Court bid
Pakistan’s secret, dirty war in Balochistan
Double whammy of military occupation & religious fundamentalism
China: Progress on LGBTI rights. But more to do
Public opinion shifting to accept LGBTI people & equal rights
Government can’t define extremism but wants to penalise it
Minister comes up with 10 different definitions in just over 60 minutes
‘I’m gay in Ukraine & my country despises me’
Ukraine’s crisis is not just military & political, it’s social & cultural
Pakistan’s persecution of Christians escalates
Government makes Islamic study compulsory in all schools & colleges
Pride London march – LGBT Muslim Solidarity
Post Orlando: We urge LGBT & Muslim communities to unite against all hate