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Green Reading - Adrian Windisch (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has claimed he is a victim of "lies and smears" after complaining about a chapter in an academic text. Tatchell was mentioned in 'Out Of Place', which contained a chapter on gender, sexuality and terrorism. He received an apology from Raw Nerve Books over passages which alleged he was racist and Islamophobic. The chapter, authored...
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has claimed he is a victim of "lies and smears" after complaining about a chapter in an academic text.
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Another Green World (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
While I wouldn't want to encourage the Islamophobia of Tatchell and Outrage! it's interesting and rather revealing to note that Tatchell targets Iran but seldom, if ever, mentions US allies such as Saudi Arabia where homophobia is at a level to match if not exceed Iran. Quelle surprise! I don't 'quelle surprise' think this person has ever looked at Peter Tatchell's work....such...
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tiredbees (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has supported the ban, others such as gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the National AIDS Trust believe it is discriminatory. He said: "This review of the blanket, lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood is long overdue. It has been ordered by the National Blood Service in response to criticisms and protests...
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... from the public sphere because of their religious beliefs on ethical issues.”Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell told the Guardian: "This case is part of a homophobic fight-back by Christian fundamentalists who resent the removal in law of their right to discriminate against lesbian and gay people."Faith can never be a legitimate reason to seek exemption from the law and...
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Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... for infecting an innocent person with fatal diseases. Oh no, here we go. But gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says a government that opposes homophobic discrimination cannot possibly uphold the ban. "It is based on the stererotyped, irrational, bigoted and unscientific assumption that any man who has had oral or anal sex with another man - even just once 40 years ago...
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has supported the ban, others such as gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the National AIDS Trust believe it is discriminatory.He said: "This review of the blanket, lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood is long overdue. It has been ordered by the National Blood Service in response to criticisms and protests by...
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Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Currently rules say that anyone who has ever worked as a prostitute or any man who has had sex with another man is banned for giving blood. Additionally anyone who has ever had syphilis, human T-lymphotropic virus, hepatitis B or C is also banned for life from blood donation. Many gay rights groups view these rules as being discriminatory, Says gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell,...
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Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... for attempting to hold a pride march. Among those detained was prominent British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. A representative of the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation, which organized the statue's emplacement, distanced the group from the gay rights issue on Tuesday. "Whitman transcended his sexuality in his art and I would like to thank Mayor Luzhkov...
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Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
... Conference of allegedly homophobic politicians from elsewhere in Europe.Meanwhile, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell urged the Tories to split from their European allies, saying “David Cameron is all talk and no action on gay rights”.He added that “so far, he has not promised a single new policy for gay equality”. Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has defended his...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
... religious freedom and sexuality alongside the production's director, Lloyd Newson, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell , Dr Katherine Zappone and Father Michael Collins. In Muslim communities the issue of homosexuality is very rarely discussed in a candid manner and is all too often wished away as if it is an affliction that involves other groups, not them. Not far from...
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theonlinecitizen (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... religious freedom and sexuality alongside the production’s director, Lloyd Newson, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, Dr Katherine Zappone and Father Michael Collins. In Muslim communities the issue of homosexuality is very rarely discussed in a candid manner and is all too often wished away as if it is an affliction that involves other groups, not them. Not far from the...
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Cornish Against Racism (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
This in from staunch Cornish rights supporter Peter Tatchell . Harriet Harman ignores Tatchell / OutRage! letter Government continues to deny gays protection against harassment London - 28 September 2009 "The government is ignoring all requests to explain why its Equality Bill explicitly denies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people protection against harassment. Protection...
