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Related: About this forumPeter Tatchell: 'I still hold on to the vision of something better'
When Downing Street hosted its annual reception for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender luminaries this week, the only real surprise of the night was one conspicuous absence. In a congratulatory speech to more than 150 activists, campaigners and celebrities, the prime minister paid tribute to many of the guests, and in particular thanked Peter Tatchell for his 21-year campaign for gay marriage. But Tatchell wasn't there to hear him, because he wasn't invited.Tatchell spent the evening alone at his desk in his one-bedroom council flat, working on a campaign against homophobia in Russia. The desk and chair comprise the only discernible furniture in his front room. As I take in the scene, he murmurs nervously: "She's thinking it's a madman's home." In truth, that's what it looks like. Waist-high stacks of manila folders, ring binders, A5 posters and box files fill the room, the only visible carpet space a sliver just wide enough for him to reach his desk. The walls are more or less wallpapered with political posters and badges and radical iconography. I don't even realise there's a sofa until he nods to a mountain of paperwork along one wall, underneath which one is apparently buried. "But I haven't sat on it for about 15 years."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/26/peter-tatchell-vision-something-better
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Nice article about a man I admire enormously.
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Peter Tatchell: 'I still hold on to the vision of something better' (Original Post)
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Jul 2013
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. k&r for courage and idealism. n/t
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LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)2. k&r
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(4,972 posts)3. A truly brave man.
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