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Case work report 2020 – Peter Tatchell Foundation
Helping refugees & victims of discrimination, hate crime & miscarriages of justice
New ‘LGBT airline’ provokes concerns
Peter Tatchell says Pride Airways is “a poor silly fad”
1,000 days of dithering on conversion therapy ban
Promise but no details or timetable
UK Government pledges to “shortly” ban LGBT+ conversion therapy
The ban must protect trans people & apply to religious practices
Tory LGBT+ MPs urged to sign letter to PM demanding conversion therapy ban
Boris Johnson deemed more likely to listen to MPs who are Tory & LGBT+
Insurers refuse to cover gay sauna
A legal business is denied insurance & will be forced to close
Stephen Fry backs petition to ban LGBT+ conversion therapy
Government has not delivered on promise made over two years ago
Race inequality in NHS highlighted by Covid-19
The pandemic has again revealed that we are not ‘all in this together’
BBC calls LGBTs “faggots” & “abomination”
Persian service is promoting Iranian regime homophobia
Police fine gay cruisers for Covid lockdown violations
We urge gay and bisexual men to “have fun but play safe”
Uganda: Democratic opposition jailed, tortured & murdered
President Museveni crushes critics in bid to steal January election
50th anniversary celebration of first LGBT+ protest in Britain
Police threatened £10,000 fines, despite us following lockdown rules
Remembrance Sunday: LGBT+ wreath laid at Cenotaph
Commemoration of LGBT’s who died fighting Nazism & other tyrannies
Government attack on asylum lawyers puts them at risk of violence
Home Secretary attempts to subvert refugees’ legal rights & rule of law
It’s 30 years since Justin Fashanu came out as gay
He was the world’s first openly gay professional footballer
Veterans celebrate 50 years of Gay Liberation Front
Candlelit vigil at London School of Economics where GLF began in 1970
Mauritius LGBTs defy Covid – Pride goes ahead
Covid-free Mauritius puts on a show
Gay Liberation Front 50th anniversary celebration – 13 October
Veterans & allies will commemorate GLF’s trailblazing activism
The Guardian terminates contract of cartoonist accused of homophobia
The newspaper’s decision follows lobbying by Peter Tatchell Foundation
Future sex – Beyond LGBT+ & straight
In a post-homophobic society how will sexuality evolve?
The Guardian employs homophobic, racist & anti-Muslim cartoonist?
Andrzej Krauze mocked same-sex marriage as like marrying a goat
Scottish Hate Crime Bill menaces free speech
Hate is undefined & there is no requirement to prove intent
Edward Carpenter: socialist & LGBT+ rights pioneer 1844-1929
He also championed feminism, animal rights & environmentalism
Freedom for West Papua – A ‘slow genocide’
Indonesia’s occupation & repression must end
Boris has no mandate for anything. A majority never voted for him
UK’s flawed voting system thwarts a solution to major challenges
New report exposes security risks of LGBT+ dating apps
Repressive regimes are using apps to lure & arrest LGBTs
Open Letter urges release of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange
His imprisonment by UK is attack on journalism & publishing freedom
UK’s promised ban on gay conversion therapy not delivered
Two years ago today, the pledge was made by the British government
Gabon votes to decriminalise homosexuality
Decision bucks the homophobic trend in many parts of Africa
LGBT+ veterans from 1970s stage London Pride march
They celebrate 50th anniversary of Gay Liberation Front
LGBT+ veterans reclaim London Pride with political demands
Former Gay Liberation Front activists speak out 50 years on
The Gulf states are homophobic tyrannies. I know, I live there
A gay man in the Gulf reveals ignorance, prejudice, hypocrisy & abuse
2020 Pride march will be led by gay veterans from 1970s
Official Pride postponed but veterans will march anyway
Argentina honours top official who aided Nazi war criminal
Former health minister Ramon Carrillo to feature on banknote
Larry Kramer, pioneer AIDS campaigner, is dead
Statement from Peter Tatchell
OutRage! – 30th anniversary of queers who changed UK
Direct action activists challenged homophobes & won reforms
The murder of gay actor Michael Boothe – 30 years on
His killers roam free, but his killing led to formation of OutRage!
Facebook bans Lesbian Visibility Week advert
No satisfactory explanation offered for censorship
Singapore high court upholds gay sex ban
LGBTs remain criminals in one of Asia’s most conservative countries
Non-violent direct action & civil disobedience gets results
Violent protest is counter-productive. It alienates the public
Teens are turning to Netflix drama for advice about sex
TV series Sex Education is teaching what schools are not
Straight civil partnerships legal after 16-year campaign
Heterosexual couples can have civil partnership from 31 December
No Tory or Brexit party support for LGBT+ Manifesto
Green Party leads the way, with the most candidates signed up
LGBT+ Pride parade – Time to get back to the roots of Pride
End restrictions on numbers, make Pride a march for LGBT+ rights
Poland: prominent academic targeted by far-right
Reviled over his support for LGBT+ & other minority rights
Rainbow wreath laid at Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday
Commemoration of LGBT’s who died fighting Nazism & other tyrannies
Surrogacy and parental human rights
Where does the right to parenthood start and end?
Sign the LGBT+ Election Manifesto
Candidates & public urged to sign eight LGBT+ equality pledges
Mauritius legal challenge to criminalisation of homosexuality
Section 250 dates back to 1898 & is a relic of Mauritius’s colonial past
Government advice weak on anti-LGBT+ school protests
School’s Out & Peter Tatchell Foundation express concern
Vatican makes Cardinal Newman a saint & erases his sexuality
Church cover up of his love for Ambrose St John & their joint burial
Abolish the Lords, Elect the Senate
PR elections, regional lists & 50% women’s representation
Mugabe fell well short of the moral stature of Nelson Mandela
He was a megalomaniac who impoverished his own people
Polish Embassy protest: Solidarity with Polish LGBTs
Stop anti-LGBT+ attacks by government, church & far right extremists
MPs definition of Islamophobia menaces free speech
It protects the idea of Islam, rather than Muslim people
London vigil for murdered Russian LGBT+ activist
Putin urged to ban far right group that ‘hunts down’ LGBTs
Boris Johnson: A mixed record on LGBT+ rights
What are the LGBT+ challenges that he now faces?
Espoir from Cameroon was beaten, jailed, & raped
We are helping her secure asylum in the UK
Turing’s incredible life recognised on new £50 bank note
The first LGBT person on a English bank note
Pride London strangled with costs & restrictions
Westminster Council & Met Police sting organisers with huge bills
LGBT+ retreat from Stonewall 1969 ideals
Equality within status quo is not liberation
Stonewall sparked a global LGBT+ freedom movement
Today’s activists have lost the Stonewall vision
Historic move as Botswana courts decriminalise homosexuality
Statement from Peter Tatchell
More Ahwazi Arab prisoners tortured in Iran
Why are human rights NGOs silent?
Fear of LGBT-inclusive lessons harks back to 80s, says Peter Tatchell
Lack of guidance to schools after Birmingham parent protests
Stephen Fry backs our call to revise relationship & sex education
Restrict parental opt out & challenge sexual guilt to expose abusers
Jeremy Corbyn is ignoring Labour’s grassroots on Brexit
Most Labour members & voters support Remain & a People’s Vote
20th anniversary of terror bombing of Soho gay bar
Homophobia isn’t over: 30% of LGBTs suffer hate crime
Azam: Peter Tatchell Foundation helped me get asylum
A human rights activist & journalist, he was in danger in Pakistan
Assange: Swedes & UK obstructed sex crime investigation
WikiLeaks founder should answer rape claims. He did in 2016
Obituary: Richard Green LGBT rights trail-blazer since 1960s
US psychiatrist & lawyer pioneered legal challenges & gains
We helped gay Pakistani win refugee status
Mohammed faced an unwanted marriage, homelessness, depression, and now he is free.
Assange’s arrest: threat to freedom of publishers
No extradition to US for exposing war crimes
Sultan of Brunei’s hotel besieged in protest at gay death penalty
Royal family & all countries urged to cut ties with Brunei regime
I Support Equal Marriage Rights But We Need A Modern Alternative To Our Patriarchal Wedding System
The one-size-fits-all model of relationship recognition epitomised by marriage and civil partnerships is no longer appropriate
Islamophobia definition menaces free speech
Free speech is under threat over Islamaphobia
Gay and Arab: the struggle for rights & visibility
Mina Gerges (MG), originally from Egypt, talks to us about reconciling both his gay and Arab identities
Malcolm X – Gay or bisexual black hero?
The hidden gay past of US black nationalist leader
Promoting equality & diversity online
The Peter Tatchell Foundation (PTF) interviewed Chris Studer (CS) of the Get Real Movement, a Canadian non-profit working to combat LGBTQ+ discrimination in schools and workplaces
LGBT+ hate crime and restorative justice
Is the model of ‘restorative justice’ more effective than the usual criminal sanctions?
UNHCR accused over abuse of LGBT refugees in Kenya
Alleged homophobia by UNHCR staff, Kenyan police & fellow refugees
Iran’s litany of inhumanity in Ahwaz
Intimidation campaign against persecuted Arab minority
Pratt & Smith – Last men hanged in England for gay sex
Executed at Newgate in 1835 on questionable evidence
Edward Carpenter – A Life of Liberty & Love
Socialist, environmentalist, feminist, pacifist and gays rights activist
Gay rights pioneer Andrew Lumsden on anti-gay Labouchere amendment
More on the politician who made ‘Gross Indecency’ a crime
South Africa: How the ANC was won for LGBT rights
On the world’s 1st constitution to protect LGBs from discrimination
Derek Jarman Blue Plaque unveiled in London today
Plaque unveiled the 25th anniversary of his death from HIV
London Gay Liberation Front Manifesto 1971
A searing critique of straight supremacism with an agenda for social transformation
Queer Comrades: East Berlin
To the queer comrades who pioneered the LGBT freedom struggle in East Germany.
Memories of Britain’s First LGBT+ Pride in 1972
Peter Tatchell shares memories from Britain’s first pride in 1972, where he urged “Innovate! Don’t assimilate”
Iran regime prepares to execute two Ahwazi Arabs
Activists accused of membership of non-existent group
Tatchell: Honorary Doctorate Abertay University
Dedicated to women of Iran, Saudi Arabia & Pakistan
Ashers ‘gay cake’ verdict is victory for freedom of expression
The law should not compel businesses to aid political messages
Government allows heterosexuals to enter civil partnerships
We campaigned for equal civil partnerships for all
LGBTs challenge worshippers at Regents Park mosque
Interest, hostility & support
The ‘other’ life of Harvey Milk
A secular Jew influenced by liberal Judaism
Impact of India gay sex law reform: Our analysis
Court ruling will inspire similar legal challenges worldwide
India: World’s most significant gay law reform
Historic day as one fifth of the world’s LGBTs set free from criminalisation
Peter Tatchell Foundation secures charity status
Six year battle confirms that human rights is a legitimate charitable objective
Why Trump is beholden to Putin!
His businesses involve Russian finance & money-laundering
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