Peter Tatchell

Peter Tatchell (2016)

Peter Gary Tatchell (born January 25, 1952 in Melbourne ) is a British human rights activist who became known, among other things, through attempted civil arrests of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001.

Life

At the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students from July 28 to August 5, 1973 in East Berlin with around 25,000 participants, Tatchell, as a member of the British Labor Party delegation, made his gayness public under the world clock on Alexanderplatz . Gays from the GDR had to bring him to safety from attacks by Stasi employees. After the television screening of the film Not the homosexual is perverse, but the situation in which he lives From Rosa von Praunheim in the third TV programs of the ARD , they founded the "Homosexual Initiative Berlin" (HIB) in East Berlin in 1973.

In the early 1980s Tatchell was run by the Labor Party in Bermondsey as a candidate for the general election, but disapproved by Labor leader Michael Foot for supporting extra-parliamentary action.

In the 1990s he was an outstanding activist of the lesbian and gay movement , involved in the militant action group OutRage! which he co-founded. On March 14, 1995, Tatchell, a proponent of the outing , was decried as a "gay terrorist" by the Daily Mail .

He founded the "Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund" to support his human rights work and to take action against human rights violations on a broader basis. In 2006, New Statesman magazine named Peter Tatchell the 6th "Heroes of Our Time" category. He started the Reggae Compassionate Act , which several reggae artists from Jamaica signed. In 2018 he drew attention to human rights violations against the LGBTIQ community in Russia in Moscow .

Web links

Commons : Peter Tatchell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence
• Neo-Nazi thugs left me brain-damaged, Tatchell reveals , The Independent, December 17, 2009

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1. ^ New Statesman Library - Articles by Peter Tatchell
2. ^ New Statesman
3. ↑ Peter Tatchell: Beenie Man's Signed Statement ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.