Why an Aussie gay rights campaigner is defending homophobes
A new film relates the Footscray-born gay rights activist’s journey from scourge of Britain’s mainstream to near-iconic status. But he’s still picking fresh battles.
Peter Tatchell disrupts the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter sermon in 1998.
On Easter Sunday 1998, the traditional and widely watched Easter Sunday sermon at England’s Canterbury Cathedral, televised live, was unexpectedly interrupted by an Australian accent.
Dogged and controversial Melbourne-born gay rights activist Peter Tatchell leapt from a pew and stormed the pulpit, to protest then archbishop George Carey’s opposition to legal recognition of same-sex relationships.
Hans van LeeuwenJournalistHans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
