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Peter Tatchell says Pride Airways is “a poor silly fad”

Promise but no details or timetable

The ban must protect trans people & apply to religious practices

Boris Johnson deemed more likely to listen to MPs who are Tory & LGBT+

A legal business is denied insurance & will be forced to close

Government has not delivered on promise made over two years ago

The pandemic has again revealed that we are not ‘all in this together’

Persian service is promoting Iranian regime homophobia

We urge gay and bisexual men to “have fun but play safe”

President Museveni crushes critics in bid to steal January election

Police threatened £10,000 fines, despite us following lockdown rules

Commemoration of LGBT’s who died fighting Nazism & other tyrannies

Home Secretary attempts to subvert refugees’ legal rights & rule of law

He was the world’s first openly gay professional footballer

Candlelit vigil at London School of Economics where GLF began in 1970

Covid-free Mauritius puts on a show

Veterans & allies will commemorate GLF’s trailblazing activism

The newspaper’s decision follows lobbying by Peter Tatchell Foundation

In a post-homophobic society how will sexuality evolve?

Andrzej Krauze mocked same-sex marriage as like marrying a goat

Hate is undefined & there is no requirement to prove intent

He also championed feminism, animal rights & environmentalism

Indonesia’s occupation & repression must end

UK’s flawed voting system thwarts a solution to major challenges

Repressive regimes are using apps to lure & arrest LGBTs

His imprisonment by UK is attack on journalism & publishing freedom

Two years ago today, the pledge was made by the British government

Decision bucks the homophobic trend in many parts of Africa

They celebrate 50th anniversary of Gay Liberation Front

Former Gay Liberation Front activists speak out 50 years on

A gay man in the Gulf reveals ignorance, prejudice, hypocrisy & abuse

Official Pride postponed but veterans will march anyway

Former health minister Ramon Carrillo to feature on banknote

Statement from Peter Tatchell

Direct action activists challenged homophobes & won reforms

His killers roam free, but his killing led to formation of OutRage!

No satisfactory explanation offered for censorship

LGBTs remain criminals in one of Asia’s most conservative countries

Violent protest is counter-productive. It alienates the public

TV series Sex Education is teaching what schools are not

Heterosexual couples can have civil partnership from 31 December

Green Party leads the way, with the most candidates signed up

End restrictions on numbers, make Pride a march for LGBT+ rights

Reviled over his support for LGBT+ & other minority rights

Commemoration of LGBT’s who died fighting Nazism & other tyrannies

Where does the right to parenthood start and end?

Candidates & public urged to sign eight LGBT+ equality pledges

Section 250 dates back to 1898 & is a relic of Mauritius’s colonial past

School’s Out & Peter Tatchell Foundation express concern

Church cover up of his love for Ambrose St John & their joint burial

PR elections, regional lists & 50% women’s representation

He was a megalomaniac who impoverished his own people

Stop anti-LGBT+ attacks by government, church & far right extremists

It protects the idea of Islam, rather than Muslim people

Putin urged to ban far right group that ‘hunts down’ LGBTs

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