Rainbow Atheists and Humanists Australia are proud to have Peter Tatchell speak on:
Here's Why Equal LGBT+ Rights Are Not Enough
Peter Tatchell is an Australian-British humanist and human rights defender who has been campaigning for over 50 years, since 1967.
After he moved to London in 1971, he was prominent in the Gay Liberation Front. His early activism challenged police harassment and gay conversion therapy. He staged the first LGBT+ protest in a communist country, East Germany, in 1973. He was the defeated Labour candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election - one of the most dirty, violent and homophobic elections in Britain in the twentieth century.
Later, in 1990, he co-founded the LGBT+ direct action group OutRage! He has outed homophobic bishops, exposed the Nazi war criminal SS Dr Carl Vaernet, and ambushed anti-gay Prime Ministers and sports stars, including Tony Blair and Mike Tyson.
He spearheaded the fight for same-sex marriage from 1992 onwards and his sexually-explicit 1994 HIV prevention book, Safer Sexy, helped save lives and end the censorship of sexual imagery.
His human rights activism resulted in him being beaten badly by President Mugabe's bodyguards in Brussels in 2001 and by Russian neo-Nazis in Moscow in 2007.
He is currently Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation: www.PeterTatchellFoundation.org @PeterTatchell
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