Peter Tatchell

Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy, LGBT freedom and global justice since 1967, and is a the director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation: www.PeterTatchellFoundation.org.

He is the author of over 3,000 published articles and six books, including The Battle for Bermondsey, Democratic Defence – A Non-Nuclear Alternative, and We Don’t Want To March Straight - Masculinity, Queers & The Military.

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