History

But 100,000 other gay victims also deserve an apology

Tatchell urges posthumous pardon

In the run up to this year’s Pride London, The Observer’s Campaigner of the Year, Peter Tatchell, recalls Britain’s first march back in 1972.

Socialist, environmentalist, feminist, pacifist and gays rights activist

British collusion with escape to Argentina after WW2

Sylvia Pankhurst 1882 – 1960

The queer community has made great gains, but lost much of the idealism and passion of the 1970s gay liberation movement.

Recollections of Britain’s first Gay Pride march in 1972.

Gay victims of Nazism speak out in a new film, Paragraph 175. Their testimonies refute “neo-revisionist” histories of the holocaust that ignore or dismiss the Nazi war against homosexuals.

The German sex researcher Dr Magnus Hirschfeld, 1868-1935, was one of the world’s greatest gay rights pioneers.