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What are the LGBT+ challenges that he now faces?

We are helping her secure asylum in the UK

The first LGBT person on a English bank note

Westminster Council & Met Police sting organisers with huge bills

Equality within status quo is not liberation

Today’s activists have lost the Stonewall vision

Statement from Peter Tatchell

Why are human rights NGOs silent?

Lack of guidance to schools after Birmingham parent protests

Restrict parental opt out & challenge sexual guilt to expose abusers

Most Labour members & voters support Remain & a People’s Vote

Homophobia isn’t over: 30% of LGBTs suffer hate crime

A human rights activist & journalist, he was in danger in Pakistan

WikiLeaks founder should answer rape claims. He did in 2016

US psychiatrist & lawyer pioneered legal challenges & gains

Mohammed faced an unwanted marriage, homelessness, depression, and now he is free.

No extradition to US for exposing war crimes

Royal family & all countries urged to cut ties with Brunei regime

The one-size-fits-all model of relationship recognition epitomised by marriage and civil partnerships is no longer appropriate

Free speech is under threat over Islamaphobia

Mina Gerges (MG), originally from Egypt, talks to us about reconciling both his gay and Arab identities

The hidden gay past of US black nationalist leader

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

Is the model of ‘restorative justice’ more effective than the usual criminal sanctions?

Alleged homophobia by UNHCR staff, Kenyan police & fellow refugees

Intimidation campaign against persecuted Arab minority

Executed at Newgate in 1835 on questionable evidence

Socialist, environmentalist, feminist, pacifist and gays rights activist

More on the politician who made ‘Gross Indecency’ a crime

On the world’s 1st constitution to protect LGBs from discrimination

Plaque unveiled the 25th anniversary of his death from HIV

A searing critique of straight supremacism with an agenda for social transformation

To the queer comrades who pioneered the LGBT freedom struggle in East Germany.

Peter Tatchell shares memories from Britain’s first pride in 1972, where he urged “Innovate! Don’t assimilate”

Activists accused of membership of non-existent group

Dedicated to women of Iran, Saudi Arabia & Pakistan

The law should not compel businesses to aid political messages

We campaigned for equal civil partnerships for all

Interest, hostility & support

A secular Jew influenced by liberal Judaism

Court ruling will inspire similar legal challenges worldwide

Historic day as one fifth of the world’s LGBTs set free from criminalisation

Six year battle confirms that human rights is a legitimate charitable objective

His businesses involve Russian finance & money-laundering

Is there room in Islam for LGBT+ Muslims?

Labour urged to adopt full IHRA anti-Semitism definition & examples

Indonesia’s occupation & repression must end

Boris’s remarks were wrong but no comparable outcry over LGBT Muslims

Without reform homophobic persecution will be viewed as legitimate and acceptable

Transcends all nations, cultures, ideologies, classes & races

London Pride is the smallest in the western world

No action on LGBT+ refugees or gay compensation

Invited to Downing Street after decade of exclusion

Heterosexual equality at last! Discrimination ends

Compensation letter handed to 10 Downing Street today

Peter Tatchell Foundation launches major new report

Human rights and LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell has been released

Peter was arrested while staging a peaceful demonstration for LGBT+ rights.

Standing in solidarity with LGBTs & human rights defenders

Challenge to blanket global restrictions on ‘gay blood’ 

This is a private wedding. The public should not foot the bill

Fear that the Government may abolish same-sex civil partnerships

Homophobic UN staff and beatings by police & other refugees

The law should not compel businesses to aid the promotion of gay marriage

Anger at leader’s refusal to even discuss LGBT persecution

Historic, landmark acknowledgement of colonial era injustice 

Apology at this week’s Commonwealth summit would be a game-changer

Next week’s Commonwealth summit urged to end gay ban in 37 countries

Carnival Cruises makes concession following lobbying by LGBT+ groups

A sanitised radical who was anti-war and anti-poverty

Data protection is the new frontier in the battle for human rights

No active Labour support for humanitarian aid drops of food & medicine

English gay football fans at risk of attack or arrest

Out, proud & radical: A pioneering parade with a political message

Commonwealth Day, Westminster Abbey

Cunard, Princess, P&O are colluding with homophobic discrimination

Was Dillian Johnson shot to silence him & stop gay scandal? 

Gay, Jewish & socialist, he challenged Weimar & Nazi homophobia

End dual discrimination in marriage & civil partnership law

Civil Commitment Pact: An alternative to civil marriages & civil partnerships

Demand for fair votes & a representative parliament

Bid for equality, to end the ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships

The Gender Recognition Act is flawed & needs revising

Time to change the system, not just seek parity within it

Mandatory lessons in all schools will address LGBT+ issues

Time to end gay criminalisation by 37 of 53 member states

Bid to highlight Pakistan’s human rights abuses in occupied Balochistan

Pressure on Foreign Office UK ambassador summoned in Pakistan

 The PTF urges compensation for victims of electric shock methods

Transform the male & workplace culture that allows sexual harassment

Universities to be fined for violations of free speech by students

Smallest ethnic & religious community in Pakistan is fighting for survival

780 vigils outside Zimbabwe Embassy since October 2002

Mandatory commitment does not include LGBT+ issues

Military repression, possible genocide, western collusion

Backlash cannot halt the global trend to queer liberation

60th anniversary of Wolfenden recommending partial decriminalisation

Independent Police Complaints Commission must investigate

London Mayor backs one minute’s silence 3pm Carnival Monday

East London mosque has history of hosting homophobic hate preachers

Thursday 27 July is 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act

Anti-gay laws remained on the statute book, arrests rocketed

Mayor, Westminster & Police restrict Pride numbers

Domestic violence, rape, ‘honour’ killing, forced & child marriages

Victims of homophobia speak out & find solace in global allie

Sara Khan: Oppose far right Islamism & defend liberal Muslims

Casework report of the Peter Tatchell Foundation

Anti-gay laws remained on the statute book, arrests rocketed

Three things you can do to support our heroes

Six steps to halt the conflict, protect human rights & secure self-rule

Celebrate sexual pleasure. Combat sexual shame & abuse

The film Paragraph 175 reveals the forgotten ‘Holocaust’

Evidence not disclosed & destroyed, in defiance of three court orders

The ideas & events that have shaped his 50 years of campaigning

The ‘enemy within’: Victims of Putin’s ‘gay propaganda’ law

Despite backlash, LGBTI people make global gains

159,000 sign petition to stop UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia

Triple whammy of new dams, river diversion & industrial pollution

DWP opposes equal pensions, backs company that discriminates

Thanks to unlikely alliance of HIV activists, doctors & scientists