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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... said. Bravo! One law for all. Away with all discrimination. Civil partnerships Marriage Gay rights Peter Tatchell guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
QueerSighted (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Filed under: News News - I'm often grateful for gay rights activist Peter Tatchell. He certainly has a voice that is heard, and worth listening to...and then you get this- Speaking to The Stage Tatchell criticised UK broadcasters for presenting audiences "camp, ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell has said that TV executives should chose a wider range of gay presenters, not just "camp and cliched" stereotypes.
QueerToday.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was sent an article today written by Peter Tatchell and Fran Singh of the Inquirer which detailed another 'politically correct' disaster. It seems that with the hosting of Abu Usamah, the extremist Islamist preacher by University College London to address the Islamic Society of the University, this educational institution has gone a step too far. It seems that City University had beaten...
JURIST (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a distinction amounts to segregation in matrimonial law. The human rights and gay rights activist Peter Tatchell is supporting the couple in their challenge and has decried the difference in application of the laws experienced by heterosexual and homosexual couples. In the UK, civil partnerships were created exclusively to recognize same-sex couples by the Civil Partnerships Act of...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over at CiF, Peter Tatchell is giving his backing to a heterosexual couple who want to have a civil partnership, not a marriage. OutRage! has long held the position that separate can never be equal and has also argued that any two people in a relationship of mutual care and commitment sharing a home ought to [...]
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 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 man and throw him...
Maryam Namazie (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Rights in Iraq’s Issam Shukri; Iran Solidarity’s Bahar Milani; Human Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell; National Secular Society’s Keith Porteous Wood and the rally’s Master of Ceremonies, Iranian Secular Society’s Fariborz Pooya. The rally heard from people with direct experiences of Sharia law, including Iranian-born activist Sohaila Sharifi and Somali-born...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | yesterday
... sanction civil partnerships between partners of the same sex. The couple, who are supported by Peter Tatchell, the gay rights campaigner, said that they were being discriminated against because of their sexuality. They vowed to take their challenge to the European court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, if necessary. Mr Freeman, a civil servant, said: “We are here to challenge...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... 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, executive...
EuropeNews (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
International Humanist and Ethical Union 24 November 2009 Based on a report from Peter Tatchell, Video Cannel Sighteffect Muslims, ex-Muslims and non-Muslims joined forces in London to protest against Sharia and against all religious laws and courts. The rally took place in Hyde Park, Saturday 21 November 2009. Speakers included: Roy Brown, of the International Humanist and Ethical Union...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... 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" that they had been been refused...
stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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...
HASSNERS Humanist Atheist Scientific Secularist... (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism Comments (564) Peter Tatchell guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 November 2009 21.00 GMT Article history This Saturday's London rally against sharia law and all religious tyrannies should be huge. Millions of people are suffering at the hands of clerical regimes, especially our Muslim
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... advice and take it to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary." Noted gay activist Peter Tatchell supports the couple, saying, "Two wrongs do not make a right and we want equality in law for everyone." Subscribe to Joe.My.God.
