24-7 Parliament (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
I never really expected to write this post. You have to have a certain grudging respect for veteran gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, but that rarely extends to agreeing with him. He is normally known for putting out the kind of gay supremacist demands which fuel the worst form of political correctness (ie anyone who disagrees should be silenced or removed, by force if necessary)....
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has called for the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood to be abolished. Speaking ahead of World AIDS Day, which is tomorrow, Tatchell said the lifetime ban was based on "stereotyped, irrational, unscientific and homophobic assumptions".
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
VETERAN human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has called on Alex Salmond and the SNP administration to legalise same-sex civil marriage in Scotland. He also condemned the “disproportionate influence” of the Catholic Church on the Scottish Governme... Scotland: Human Rights Campaigner Calls on Administration to Legalize Gay Marriage is a post from the Out Gay...
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...
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.
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
London mayor Boris Johnson has been criticised by gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell for attending a carol service hosted by a pastor who has opposed gay equality legislation.
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a guest post by Peter Tatchell Rev Agu Irukwu is homophobic and divisive London – 9 December 2009 “London Mayor Boris Johnson has made a big mistake by agreeing to attend a carol service hosted by a homophobic clergyman,” said gay human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, of the gay equality group OutRage! He was commenting on the [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... employers who have been granted exemptions from anti-discrimination law ," said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. "It is a big embarrassment for the British government, which has consistently sought to appease religious homophobes by granting them opt-outs from key equality laws. The European commission has ruled these opt-outs are excessive." The employment directive...
Maryam Namazie (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Harris; Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq’s Houzan Mahmoud; Lawyer Rony Miah; Campaigner Maryam Namazie; British Humanist Association’s Naomi Phillips; European Humanist Federation’s David Pollock; National Secular Society’s Terry Sanderson; Activist Muriel Seltman; Equal Rights Now’s Sohaila Sharifi; Organisation for the Defence of Secularism and...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... be a landmark legal case, Mr Freeman and Ms Doyle – who have the backing of human and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell – are now planning to sue Islington Council. Mr Freeman, 25, said: "We went down to the Town Hall with Peter Tatchell and some friends and supporters to get a written refusal. If necessary, we are ready to take our appeal all the way to the...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... this event due to concerns that the health and safety criteria cannot be met." Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell had called the visit "disgraceful". In 2007, the Channel 4 programme Undercover Mosque recorded Mr Usamah referring to gay people as "dogs". He was also filmed saying: "Do you practise homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... employers who have been granted exemptions from anti-discrimination law," said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. "It is a big embarrassment for the British government, which has consistently sought to appease religious homophobes by granting them opt-outs from key equality laws. The European commission has ruled these opt-outs are excessive." ...Keith Porteous-Wood,...
stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Received this by e-mail and thought I'd put it up for comment . Straight couple defy civil partnership ban Exclusion of heterosexual couples challenged Bid for civil partnership equality backed by Peter Tatchell A London straight couple, Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, plan to challenge the ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships by filing an application at Islington Registry Office in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... law bans opposite-sex civil partnerships. Freeman and Doyle, who are supported by the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, plan to seek legal advice. "If necessary, we are ready to take our appeal all the way to the European court of human rights," Freeman, a civil servant, said. In a joint statement, the pair said they were "saddened and disappointed"...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
“The Vice Chancellor of City University London, Julius Weinberg, should resign. He is refusing to take any action after the Islamic Society hosted a fundamentalist preacher, Abu Usamah, who advocates the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith,” said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Abu Usamah was recorded on Channel Four’s [...]
