OutRage! – 30th anniversary of queers who changed UK
Direct action activists challenged homophobes & won reforms
Direct action activists challenged homophobes & won reforms
Without reform homophobic persecution will be viewed as legitimate and acceptable
In 2000, he stood unsuccessfully as an independent Green Left candidate for the London Assembly. He attempted another citizen’s arrest of President Mugabe in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Brussels in March 2001, which resulted in him being beaten unconscious by Mugabe’s bodyguards and; suffering permanent minor eye and brain damage. In 2002, Peter […]
After playing a prominent role in the London chapter of the AIDS activist group ACT UP, in 1990 he and 30 other people jointly founded the radical queer human rights direct action movement OutRage!. Most notoriously, in 1994 Peter Tatchell and OutRage! outed 10 Church of England Bishops and called on them to “tell the […]
780 vigils outside Zimbabwe Embassy since October 2002
Peter Tatchell – Official Biography Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy, LGBT+ freedom and global justice since 1967. Among his many involvements, he was a leading activist in the Gay Liberation Front 1971-74 and in the queer human rights group OutRage! 1990-2011. Through the Peter Tatchell Foundation, he currently campaigns for […]
“Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream about what the world could be – then help make it happen.” “The only liberation struggle worth fighting is a struggle inspired by love. Love is the beginning, middle and end of liberation. Without love, there can be no liberation worthy of the name.” […]
Less oppositionism. More constructive, imaginative alternative polices
For his 50 years of human rights work in the UK and worldwide
Rally demands: An end to fraud & repression by the Museveni regime