Peter tatchell biography

Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-born British human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.
Biography.
Peter Gary Tatchell is an Australian-born British human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.

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Biography

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 human rights in Britain and internationally.

A summary of his motives, morality and methods is here:
https://www.petertatchell.net/biography/motives.htm

Peter’s key political inspirations are Mahatma Gandhi, Sylvia Pankhurst, Martin Luther King and, to some extent, Malcolm X and Rosa Luxemburg. He has adapted many of their methods to his contemporary non-violent struggle for human rights – and invented a few of his own.

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The 2020’s
Ongoing

The 1960’s

Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952, Peter began campaigning for human rights in 1967, aged 15. His first campaign was against the dea

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Peter Tatchell

Campaigning background

Peter Tatchell has been described as ‘the bravest man in Britain’ or, if the recent Netflix documentary is anything to go by, an easy target for the haters. One thing is certain, he is hard to ignore. His formidable track record of campaigning, activism, and dramatic action has contributed to an impressive array of achievements, but they have sometimes come at great personal cost. Undeterred, he fights on.

He has campaigned for human rights for over 50 years. Although best known for his work on LGBT+ rights, he also campaigns on issues of democracy, civil liberties, social equality, environmental protection, animal rights, peace, and global justice.

He first took a stand in 1967, aged 15, against the death penalty and for Aboriginal rights in his homeland of Australia. From 1971, he was a leading activist in the Gay Liberation Front in London. Two years later, he staged the first LGBT+ rights protest in a communist country, East Germany, which resulted in his detention and interrogation by the Stasi.

He stood as a candidate in the Bermond

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Peter Tatchell

Human rights activist, Peter Tatchell, was awarded an honorary fellowship by Goldsmiths in 2014.

Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights and social justice for 47 years. Best known for his work promoting and defending LGBT rights, he was a pioneer of the Gay Liberation Front in the 1970s, co-founded the direct action group OutRage! in 1990, and helped spearhead the campaign for same-sex marriage.

Tatchell popularised the phrase "sexual apartheid" to describe the separate laws that long existed for gays and heterosexuals.

Tatchell was selected as the Labour Party's parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey in 1981. He was then denounced by party leader Michael Foot for ostensibly supporting extra-parliamentary action against the Thatcher government.

He is the Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, which campaigns for human rights across the world and has been voted one of the top ten ‘heroes of our time’ by New Statesman readers.‌