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Articles by Peter Tatchell

Moscow's ban on the parade helped promote gay rights, argues Peter Tatchell

Comment: Peter Tatchell on how Moscow's ban on the gay parade led to massive media coverage of LGBT issues

Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell on how Russia's repression of last Saturday's gay parade inadvertently promoted LGBT rights

Peter Tatchell after his attack during 2007's Moscow Pride

Comment: Peter Tatchell on why he'll still march at Moscow Pride

Despite threats to bash and arrest the marchers, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell explains why he will still be attending this Saturday's Moscow Gay Pride parade. Authorities have said the parade is banned and threatened "tough measures" to those who try to march. In 2007, Mr Tatchell was arrested and assaulted during the parade.

Gays are attacked in Iraq

Comment: Iraq's gays go underground to survive

In the bad old days of slavery in the United States, there was the "Underground Railroad" – a clandestine network of secret routes and safe houses – which spirited thousands of southern slaves to freedom.

Peter Tatchell on an anti-Iran demonstration

Comment: Channel 4 should pull the plug on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not allow him to address the nation

Channel 4's decision to allow Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to deliver the Alternative Christmas message is aiding and abetting a homophobic tyrant says gay rights campaigner and Green Party Parliamentary Candidate Peter Tatchell.

Peter Tatchell campaigns with OutRage!

Comment: Pope is wrong about "gay threat", gay sexuality is part of human ecology

By choosing to highlight homosexuality instead of hunger, war and homelessness, the Pope has lost his moral bearings and sense of priorities writes gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell

Unlike mainstream football, in the gay championships the British teams are world beaters

COMMENT: Stonewall FC to win Gay Football World Championship?

The British team Stonewall FC is strongly tipped to win the Gay Football World Championship which opens in London this Sunday, 24th August writes Peter Tatchell

The corollary of the 'born gay' idea is the suggestion that no one can be 'made gay'

COMMENT: Genetic explanations of homosexuality are crude, simplistic and doomed to failure

A few years ago, Dr James Watson, the Noble Prize winner who co-discovered DNA, reopened the controversy over the so-called gay gene when he defended a woman's right to abortion.

On four issues Ken needs to explain why he has let down the LGBT community

COMMENT: I have some questions for Ken

London Mayor Ken Livingstone can justifiably boast that he has done much over the last 30 years to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Londoners. But in his second term as Mayor, he caused widespread dismay in the LGBT community.

















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