Peter Tatchell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Tatchell
Occupation	British broadcaster
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1952(1952-01-25)
Age	72
Birthplace	Footscray
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Peter Tatchell Biography

Peter Tatchell is one of the most popular and richest British broadcaster who was born on January 25, 1952 in Footscray, Australia. Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is a British human rights campaigner, originally from Australia, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.

In 1968, Tatchell began campaigning against the American and Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, in his view a war of aggression in support of a “brutal and corrupt dictatorship” responsible for torture and executions. The Victoria state government and Melbourne city council attempted to suppress the anti-Vietnam War campaign by banning street leafleting and taking police action against anti-war demonstrations.

He was involved in the anti-apartheid movement from 1969 until the end of the white minority regime in 1990, being a regular protester and speaker at the 24/7 non-stop, four-year-long picket outside South Africa House.

A long-time anti-apartheid activist, (since 1969), his lobbying of the ANC in 1987 contributed to it renouncing homophobia and making its first public commitment to lesbian and gay human rights. Later, in 1989 and 1990, he helped persuade the ANC to include a ban on anti-gay discrimination in the post- apartheid constitution (he assisted in drafting model clauses for the ANC)

His anti-imperialist activism began in 1968 and involved campaigns against the war in Vietnam. He participated in the mass Vietnam Moratorium protests in his Melbourne in 1970. The same year he founded and was elected secretary of the inter-denominational anti-war movement, Christians for Peace. Later, on moving to London in 1971, he was active in solidarity work with the independence movements in Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Namibia, Eritrea, Oman, New Hebrides, Western Sahara, Palestine, East Timor and West Papua.

Peter Tatchell Net Worth

Peter Tatchell is one of the richest British broadcaster from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Tatchell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He joined the Australian campaign against the death penalty. Prompted by the impending hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967, Tatchell went round his local area painting slogans against the hanging, a fact he did not reveal until nearly 30 years later. Ryan was accused of killing a prison warder while escaping from Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Victoria. Tatchell claimed, unsuccessfully, that the trajectory of the bullet through the warder’s body probably made it impossible that Ryan could have fired the fatal shot.

Tatchell’s political activity began at Mount Waverley Secondary College, where in 1967 he launched campaigns in support of Australia’s Aboriginal people. Tatchell was elected secretary of the school’s Student Representative Council. In his final year in 1968, as school captain, he took the lead in setting up a scholarship scheme for Aborigines and led a campaign for Aboriginal land rights. These activities led the headmaster to claim he had been manipulated by communists.

Since the family finances were strained by medical bills, he had to leave school at 16 in 1968. He started work as a sign-writer and window-dresser in department stores. Tatchell claims to have incorporated the theatricality of these displays into his activism.

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In 1978, Tatchell joined the Labour Party and moved to a council flat in Bermondsey, south-east London. At the Bermondsey Constituency Labour Party’s (CLP) AGM in February 1980, the left group won control and Tatchell was elected Secretary. When the sitting Labour MP, Bob Mellish, announced his retirement in 1981, Tatchell was selected as his successor, despite Arthur Latham, a former MP and former Chairman of the Tribune Group, being considered the favourite. While Militant was cited as the reason for Tatchell’s selection, Tatchell disagrees and ascribes his selection to the support of the “older, ‘born and bred’ working class; the younger professional and intellectual members swung behind Latham”.

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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular British broadcaster. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Peter Tatchell celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.

In an article for a left-wing magazine, Tatchell urged the Labour Party to support direct action campaigning to challenge the Margaret Thatcher-led Tory government, stating “we must look to new more militant forms of extra- parliamentary opposition which involve mass popular participation and challenge the government’s right to rule”. Social Democratic Party MP James Wellbeloved, arguing the article was anti-Parliamentary, quoted it at Prime Minister’s Questions in November 1981.[1] Foot denounced Tatchell, stating that he would not be endorsed as a candidate and a vote at the Labour Party National Executive Committee denied Tatchell’s endorsement. However, the Bermondsey Labour Party continued to support him and it was eventually agreed that when the selection was rerun, Tatchell would be eligible, and he duly won. When Mellish resigned from Parliament and triggered a by-election, Tatchell’s candidacy was endorsed, and the ensuing campaign was regarded as one of the dirtiest and most violent in modern British history.