Recognition for successful worldwide grassroots activism The Stop Murder Music campaign won the Advocacy Award at the Black LGBT Community Awards 2007 ceremony in London. The awards ceremony was held at a gala dinner event on-board on a luxury Thames River boat on Saturday evening, 7 April 2007. The Advocacy Award was in recognition that … Stop Murder Music campaign wins black community award
[flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157600042494571″] LGBT victims of homophobic assassinations by the Sadr and Badr fundamentalist militias in Iraq. Baghdad refuses to protect gays and denounces UN report “Iraqi lesbians and gays continue to be subjected a systematic reign of terror by Shia death squads. The government of Iraq refuses to crack down on the killers or … Gay Iraqi victims of Islamist death squads
Press Secretary’s Alleged Assault on Gay Russian Journalist The Metropolitan Police in London are investigating a complaint of alleged assault on Russian gay activist and journalist, Nikolai Alekseev, by a member of the Mayor of Moscow’s staff. The incident happened following the press conference given by the mayors of London, Berlin, Paris, Moscow and Beijing … Moscow Mayor – Met Police inquiry
Russian gay leader threatened: “we will get you” Yuri Luzhkov bans Moscow Gay Pride, due 27 May Gays denounced as “satanic,” “unnatural” and “deviations” Russian gay leader Nikolai Alekseev expressed “delight” at the “massive coverage in the Russian media” of Wednesday’s London protest against Moscow’s notoriously homophobic mayor, Yuri Luzhkov. Mr Alekseev joined the protest, … Moscow Mayor protest gets big Russian coverage
Russian gay leader will join London demo Yuri Luzhkov bans Moscow Gay Pride Gays are “satanic,” “unnatural” and “deviations” The Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, will face gay rights protesters, headed by Peter Tatchell of OutRage! and Russian gay leader Nikolai Alekseev, when he meets London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, at City Hall, London, tomorrow, Wednesday, … Moscow Mayor protest, City Hall, London
Police batter victim of homophobic mob Four men narrowly escaped being lynched by a homophobic mob in Kingston, Jamaica, on Valentine’s Day, last Wednesday, 14 February 2007. A crowd of around 200 people besieged the men in a pharmacy in the Tropical Plaza shopping centre, abusing them with anti-gay taunts and threats to kill them. … Jamaican gays escape lynching
“He is a torturer and should be arrested for human rights abuses” Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was beaten up and briefly knocked unconscious as he attempted to stage a citizen’s arrest of the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Brussels today, Monday 5 March 2001. As Mr Tatchell … Tatchell Confronts President Mugabe
AIDS drug patents and prices kill people with HIV Coinciding with the opening day of the legal action against the South African government in Pretoria – bought by GalxoSmithKline and 41 other pharmaceutical companies – British protesters will picket the GSK plant in west London today, 5 March 2001, from 8-10am. GSK is the world’s … GlaxoSmithKline = Aids Profiteer
Against Eminem and Brit Awards Judges Eminem Fans Say: “All you queers should be killed” Brit Awards Ceremony, Monday 26 February Protest from 6 – 8pm, Earl’s Court 2 Exhibition Centre, Old Brompton Road entrance (opposite West Brompton tube station). Feminist, gay and student campaigners plan vociferous protests against US rap star Eminem when he … Brit Awards Protest
Elton John’s plans to duet with Eminem at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles are being criticised as “misguided” by the British gay rights group OutRage!. “This duet should only go ahead on the condition that Eminem make a clear public statement condemning homophobic discrimination and violence”, said OutRage!’s Peter Tatchell. “If Eminem cannot express … Elton’s duet with Eminem is “misguided”