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PETER Tatchell was on Big Radio (what I call Radio 4) the other day, and he was graceful.
Tatchell has spent his life fighting for the rights of the gay community and for justice. He came to attention first at the Bermondsey by-election in the 80s, a fight so dirty that it became history.
The Lib Dems attacked Tatchell, the Labour candidate, because he was gay. Simon Hughes, who had not yet admitted he was himself gay, won. It’s not clear if he was ever forgiven for that.
Anyway, it was about rights and condemnation that Tatchell was speaking on the radio.
This individual had been booted off a training course because he saw a gay lifestyle as a Biblical sin. He couldn’t