LGBT activists ‘under-resourced, isolated and vulnerable’

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  1. Support them financially if you can’t…if not support the ideas they are trying to get across…by living your life to be an example of the finest in human beings the g/l/b/t communities

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  2. TallDave  17 Jun 2009, 8:37pm  Report
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    This is also true here in the UK. Peter Tatchell still routinely gets death threats and now lives in fortress like conditions on his council estate, with a hotline to the local police station in case of attacks.

    And it happened to me when I and my boyfriend of the time appeared, some 15 or so years ago, on a daytime TV programme talking about gay marriage. Afterwards when because our faces were now known as “gay” to our neighbours we had a hell of a time from local youth who taunted us, encouraged by their parents.

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