In 1999 Peter Tatchell gaed ternatnal celebry for his attempted cizen's arrt of Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean print. He has been a parliamentary ndidate for the Labour party and more recently the Green party 2007, and is a proment mpaigner for gay rights.
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- RSIAN POLICE EE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRTED MOSW
- GAY ACTIVIST PH FOR PEDOPHILIA: SEX WH 9-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOULD BE OK
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- PETER TATCHELL ON HIS LIFE-LONG FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- OPN GAY MARRIAGE IS GREAT, BUT HOW ABOUT SOME LOVE FOR THE AIDS FIGHT?
RSIAN POLICE EE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRTED MOSW
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Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell was released by Rsian police on Thursday after beg taed near Mosw’s Red Square for prottg agast the untry’s reported abe of LGBTQ people.
GAY ACTIVIST PH FOR PEDOPHILIA: SEX WH 9-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOULD BE OK
Tatchell stood outsi the Kreml on Thursday holdg a banner cril of Rsian Print Vladimir Put, sayg, "Put fails to act agast Chechnya torture of gay people. Rsian police ta gay rights activist Peter Tatchell near Red Square Mosw on Thursday. Alexanr Zemlianichenko / APDozens of gay men have said they were tortured secret prison facili the Rsian regn of Chechnya.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
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9, AP PhotoHarvey Milk, the subject of the Osr-wng film Milk, was the first openly gay polician to be elected California.
PETER TATCHELL ON HIS LIFE-LONG FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
Alice NkomEmbed om Getty ImagAlice Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist om Cameroon, where homosexualy is still crimalized. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.
OPN GAY MARRIAGE IS GREAT, BUT HOW ABOUT SOME LOVE FOR THE AIDS FIGHT?
Arsham ParsiArsham Parsi is a gay man who first began secretly workg to support members of the LGBTQ muny his native Iran.
But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East. 3, LM Otero/APMichael Sam beme the first openly gay football player to be drafted by an NFL team 2014.
About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change.