Peter Tatchell collection.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tatchell, Peter, 1952- compiler.

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay activists--South Africa.

Gay activists.

Gay liberation movement--South Africa.

Gay liberation movement.

Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa.

Anti-apartheid activists.

Gay liberation movement--England--London.

Gay activists--England--London--Biography.

Anti-apartheid activists--England--London--Biography.

Tatchell, Peter, 1952-.

Tatchell, Peter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (9 manuscripts (148 pages)) : illustrations.

Summary:

Peter Tatchell is a human rights activist and journalist who was involved in the anti-apartheid movement in the UK from the late 1960s. An anti-apartheid activist since his teens in the late 1960s, his lobbying of Thabo Mbeki and the ANC in 1987 contributed to it renouncing homophobia and making its first public commitment to LGBT human rights. Later, together with others, he helped persuade the ANC to include a ban on anti-gay discrimination in the post-apartheid constitution - which became the first constitution in the world to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. He was also actively involved in the London based queer rights group Outrage! The collection consists of copies of articles written by or about Peter Tatchell from 1987 to 1990. These articles focus on developments of lesbian and gay anti-apartheid activism and cover the detention of gay and lesbian activists involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, including well known figures such as Simon Nkoli, Ivan Toms and Sheila Lapinsky. The collection also includes correspondence between Tatchell and leading figures in the anti-apartheid struggle. The collection will be of interest to anyone researching the background to the Equality Clause and the intersection between lesbian and gay and broader liberation politics in South Africa.

Notes:

Date range of documents: 1987-2016.

Reproduction of the originals from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA).

Includes the following subcollections: Correspondence, 1987-1994 -- Later addition to the collection -- Newspaper clippings -- Other.

OCLC:

1164110037