Peter Tatchell

3 weeks ago | inkl.com | Jackie Kay |Carla Denyer |Peter Tatchell |Nadia Whittome

It makes this Pride month particularly important as we champion those in the LGBT+ community who are trailblazers in their field – from sports to music, politics to fashion. It’s why we need to shine a light not just on the annual showcase of culture and rights, rooted in both celebration and protest, but on what is happening all year round. Around the world, the far right continues to weaponise LGBT+ rights, with Donald Trump’s re-election rolling back progress.

Nov 2, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Peter Tatchell

The Stop the War Coalition (STWC) is in moral meltdown and in the throes of a rebellion by many of its longtime supporters – including me – over its one-sided Syria protests and its persistent failure to listen to appeals from democratic, anti-war and civil society activists inside Syria. The air strikes by presidents Assad and Putin on apartments, markets, hospitals, schools, mosques, civil rescue teams and aid convoys are war crimes that echo Guernica, Dresden and Cambodia.

Aug 6, 2024 | theoldie.co.uk | Peter Tatchell

When I was asked by Qatari human-rights defenders to stage a protest in Doha in the run-up to the World Cup, I was apprehensive. Sure, I’ve done more than 3,000 protests over the last 55 years, been arrested 100 times and experienced 300-plus violent assaults. So I’m a risk-taker and not afraid of a few knocks. But Qatar upped the risk factor to a much higher level. It is a police state where protests are banned. Protesters get beaten and jailed. Westerners have died after being arrested.

May 20, 2024 | freethinker.co.uk | Peter Tatchell

Young people are fed up with the often prudish, vague, and incomplete information about sex and relationships that they are getting from their teachers—and parents. So they are turning to often explicit TV series, and even online pornography, to get answers. Not a good move. During my school talks on human rights, more than half the pupils describe their lessons about sex as ‘poor’, ‘inadequate’, and ‘out of touch’.

Apr 30, 2024 | insidetime.org | Peter Tatchell

The CCRC is a lumbering, inefficient bureaucracy that is not fit for purpose. People sometimes wait years to have new evidence assessed. Justice delayed is justice denied. By failing in its legal duty to swiftly process cases forwarded to it, potentially innocent people are left languishing in prison. The case of Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongly convicted of rape and spent 17 years in jail, highlights the often-shoddy nature of CCRC investigations.