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发帖数: 2153 | 1 To mark the 60th birthday of our most iconic human rights campaigner,
PinkNews.co.uk will be naming Wednesday 25 January Peter Tatchell Day.
To celebrate the day, we will look back at the enormous contribution Peter
Tatchell has made to the fight for equal gay rights and human rights in
general across the UK and abroad with contributions from all around the
globe.
Late January will also mark 45 years of human rights campaigning by the
naturalised Briton, and 10 years since the Peter Tatchell Foundation was
originally launched.
For the day, all advertising space on the PinkNews.co.uk website and email
newsletter will be donated to the Peter Tatchell Foundation, which promotes
and protects human rights in the UK and globally. The foundation will use
the estimated 300,000 spots (of varying sizes and locations) to raise
awareness of its campaigns and to recruit new donors. More importantly, for
the rest of Peter’s 60th birthday year, PinkNews will donate advertising on
at least one spot on every piece of content on the PinkNews website to the
foundation as well as space on our iPhone/iPad apps. It is hoped that in
total 41 million advertisements will be shown to mark the 41 years since Mr
Tatchell first joined the London Gay Liberation Front.
Born in Australia in 1952, he began his career as a campaigner at the age of
15 by opposing the death penalty.
Two years later, he realised he was gay and two years after that was bound
for England because he objected to Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam
war and was not willing to be to drafted.
In 45 years of non-violent human rights campaigning, Mr Tatchell has been
arrested hundreds of times, but only one conviction has been upheld.
Convicted under the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860, he received
a fine of £18.60 for interrupting the 1998 Easter Sermon of the then
Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, in protest at his support for
homophobic discrimination.
We are also appealing to our readers for their messages to Mr Tatchell,
which we invite you to leave in the comments section below for publication
on the day.
Today, Mr Tatchell said: “I am immensely grateful to Benjamin Cohen and the
rest of the PinkNews team for their support and generosity. This
advertising blitz will increase awareness of our human rights work and raise
much-needed funds.
“The Peter Tatchell Foundation has no organised funding. Donations from
readers will help us continue our campaign for the worldwide abolition of
the death penalty for gay sex, and assist our efforts to win same-sex
marriage, football without homophobia and the decriminalisation of
homosexuality throughout the Commonwealth.
“My message to everyone is very simple: Don’t accept the world as it is.
Dream of what the world could be – and then help make it happen.”
PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen explained why this publication is
celebrating Peter Tatchell Day, writing: “More than any other person or
organisation, Peter has, often single handed, campaigned for the rights we
now enjoy in the UK. He’s also been a huge campaigner all around the world
for LGBTQI rights.”
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