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LGBT Rights: History

 

15 September 2011

Gay USA TV – Peter Tatchell interview

44 years of LGBT and human rights campaigning

12 October 2010

A gay revolution that subverted traditional gender roles
GLF's radical critique of orthodox masculinity and femininity

03 July 2010

Beyond gay and straight
The Gay Liberation Front begun a movement that will, eventually, render gay identity redundant

26 June 2010

40 years of Gay Liberation Front - a celebration
1pm, Saturday 26th June 2010, Electric Cinema, Notting Hill, London

20 October 2009

Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it
Black History Month should celebrate LGBT black heroes such as Malcolm X

11 September 2009

Victory! PM’s Alan Turing apology commendable
But 100,000 other gay victims also deserve an apology

01 September 2009

Alan Turing - Time for an apology and pardon
Shameful hounding of gay war hero and maths and computer genius

18 June 2009

Britain’s first Gay Pride march, London 1972
A fun carnival with a serious political message: gay liberation

  • 25/11/2008 Edward Carpenter – A Life of Liberty and Love

    Socialist, environmentalist, feminist, pacifist and gays rights activist

18/11/2007 The Nazi Doctor Who Escaped Justice

British collusion with escape to Argentina after WW2

18/08/2007 One of my heroes: Sylvia Pankhurst 1882 – 1960

Feminist, socialist, anti-fascist and internationalist

09/07/2004 We've Come a Long Way Baby....But

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

05/07/2002 30 Years of Gay Pride

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

12/06/2001 Survivors of a Forgotten Holocaust

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.

04/04/2001 The Einstein of Sex

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

08/03/2001 The Moment the ANC Embraced Gay Rights

How exposing and challenging ANC homophobia helped pressure the South African liberation movement to support lesbian and gay human rights.

01/01/2001 Homophobic Histories of Nazism

Most of the world's leading holocaust historians are guilty of historical revisionism: the suppression or downplaying of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals.

02/07/2000 Halfway to Freedom?

The gay community has made great gains, but true liberation is yet to come.

01/07/2000 30 Years of Gay Liberation

This year's Pride/Mardi Gras celebrates the 30th anniversary of the London Gay Liberation Front. Peter Tatchell looks back at the movement that created the gay community and changed society forever.

30/10/1997 Hidden From history - The Gay Holocaust

Unlike most holocaust memorials, the awesome US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC refuses to ignore the Nazi persecution of queers.

18/04/1997 How the ANC was won to support LGBT freedom

The campaign that led to South Africa adopting world's first constitution to outlaw homophobic discrimination

17/07/1996 War Heroes, Queer Villains

Gay men who helped defeat Nazis were also often victimised because of their homosexuality.

24/11/1995 Memories of the London Gay Liberation Front

The ideals and activism of the early 1970s gay liberation era.

07/07/1995 A False history of Nazism

William Shirer's history of the Third Reich ignores the Nazi war against homosexuals and stirs up homophobia.

18/11/1994 Queer Comrades

In 1973 in East Berlin, Peter Tatchell staged the first ever lesbian and gay rights demonstration in a communist country.

14/10/1994 Equality is not Enough

Equal rights versus queer emancipation. Recalling the radical ideals of the Gay Liberation Front, more than mere legal equality is demanded-changing society is necessary.

 

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