Summary
Over the course of his career he has, in addition to the Moscow attack, been beaten up by Robert Mugabe's bodyguards, threatened by Muslim militants, interrogated by the Stasi, and ridiculed, often in unacceptably hostile and personal terms, by both the press and his political opponents. Perched on a hard-backed chair in the cramped living room of his flatin Elephant and Castle, south London, he still resembles the ideal-type campaigner for social justice: lean frame, simple, faded clothes, socks and sandals . To prove his point, he reels off a list of his concerns ofthe moment: the deportation of gay asylum-seekers, the hypocrisy of the Anglican church, the government's refusal to arrest clerics who incite violence against gay people.
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The Trials of Peter
Peter Tatchell is not very well. He is still suffering from head injuries sustained when he was attacked by neo-Nazis during a Gay Pride march in Moscow in May. His right eye is damaged, the lining of his brain is swollen, and he feels like he is "drowning, mentally drowning". He fumbles for words, and stops in the middle of sentences to clutch his head. And yet he has spent the morning campaigning on an ...
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