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Peter Tatchell (Peter Gary Tatchell) was born on 25 January, 1952 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian-born British human rights campaigner (born 1952). Discover Peter Tatchell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Peter Gary Tatchell
Occupation Human rights campaigner, journalist
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 25 January, 1952
Birthday 25 January
Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Melbourne

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1952

Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-born British human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBTQI+ social movements.

1967

Tatchell's political activity began at Mount Waverley Secondary College, where in 1967 he launched campaigns in support of Australia's Aboriginal people.

Tatchell was elected secretary of the school's Student Representative Council.

Prompted by the impending hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967, Tatchell went round his local area painting slogans against the hanging, a fact he did not reveal until nearly 30 years later.

Ryan was accused of killing a prison warder while escaping from Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Victoria.

Tatchell claimed, unsuccessfully, that the trajectory of the bullet through the warder's body probably made it impossible that Ryan could have fired the fatal shot.

1968

Since the family finances were strained by medical bills, he had to leave school at 16 in 1968.

He started work as a sign-writer and window-dresser in department stores.

Tatchell claims to have incorporated the theatricality of these displays into his activism.

Raised as a Christian, Tatchell says that he "ditched [his] faith a long time ago" and is an atheist.

It has been wrongly reported that Tatchell is a vegan; however, Tatchell himself has stated that although he eats no meat, he does eat eggs, cheese, and, according to Richard Fairbrass, wild salmon, meaning Tatchell is a pescetarian.

He became interested in outdoor adventurous activities such as surfing and mountain climbing.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions about how insurance and legal risks were making British teachers reluctant to take pupils on outdoor adventures, he said outdoor activities helped him develop the courage to take political risks in adult life.

In his final year in 1968, as school captain, he took the lead in setting up a scholarship scheme for Aboriginal people and led a campaign for Aboriginal land rights.

These activities led the headmaster to claim he had been manipulated by communists.

In 1968, Tatchell began campaigning against the American and Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, in his view a war of aggression in support of a "brutal and corrupt dictatorship" responsible for torture and executions.

The Victoria state government and Melbourne city council attempted to suppress the anti-Vietnam War campaign by banning street leafleting and taking police action against anti-war demonstrations.

1969

He had opened up about being gay in 1969, and in London became a leading member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) until its 1974 collapse.

During this time Tatchell was prominent in organising sit-ins at pubs that refused to serve "poofs" and protests against police harassment and the medical classification of homosexuality as an illness.

1971

To avoid conscription into the Australian Army, Tatchell moved to London in 1971.

1972

With others, he helped organise Britain's first Gay Pride march in 1972.

1973

In 1973, he attended the 10th World Youth Festival in East Berlin on GLF's behalf.

His plans to protest at the festival were not well received by either the British delegation or the GDR hosts, but he was eventually allowed to give a speech at Humboldt University.

His lecture was subject to various disruptions; it ended in his denunciation as a "troublemaker" by a member of the audience.

The following day, Tatchell attempted to hand out leaflets at a concert, an official of the Free German Youth objected and encouraged fellow concert-goers to destroy the leaflets.

Tatchell intended to carry a placard advocating gay rights at the closing rally of the festival.

1981

Tatchell was selected as the Labour Party's parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey in 1981.

He was then denounced by party leader Michael Foot for ostensibly supporting extra-Parliamentary action against the Thatcher government.

1983

Labour subsequently allowed him to stand in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election in February 1983, in which the party lost the seat to the Liberals.

1990

In the 1990s he campaigned for LGBT rights through the direct action group OutRage!, which he co-founded.

He has worked on various campaigns, such as Stop Murder Music against music lyrics allegedly inciting violence against LGBT people and writes and broadcasts on various human rights and social justice issues.

1999

He attempted a citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and again in 2001.

2004

In April 2004, Tatchell joined the Green Party of England and Wales and in 2007 was selected as prospective Parliamentary candidate in the constituency of Oxford East, but in December 2009 he stood down due to brain damage he says was caused by a bus accident as well as damage sustained during various protests.

In 2004, he proposed the renaming of Australian capital cities with their Aboriginal place names.

2011

Since 2011, he has been Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation.

He has taken part in over 30 debates at the Oxford Union, encompassing a wide range of issues such as patriotism, Thatcherism and university safe spaces.

Tatchell was born in Melbourne, Australia.

His father was a lathe operator and his mother worked in a biscuit factory.

His parents divorced when he was four and his mother remarried soon afterwards.

He had a half sister and brothers.