Peter has sent us excerts from the article that appears in this month's Attitude Magazine... "Elton John & David Furnish interview Peter Tatchell in celebration of his 60th birthday, 45 years of human rights campaigning and 10 years of his Peter Tatchell Foundation."
David Furnish on Peter Tatchell:
"During the 80s I was full of self-loathing and I wasn't out and I couldn't tell my family and I had no role models... People like Peter made me uncomfortable, because you were so in people's faces with OutRage! and there was a part of me that, because I wasn't confronting it in myself, the fact that someone else was confronting it so much, was slightly frightening. But, as the years have gone by and you learn to accept yourself you learn to appreciate the benefits that we have. I've always followed what you've (Peter) done in the press and continually said that Peter is a good man and that we need people like Peter Tatchell in the world.
Elton John on Peter Tatchell:
"You've never said anything hateful about anybody, you've just told the truth. And you never condemned anybody - well you have - but you haven't done it with hate. You've just said: Listen, this is unfair, this is not right, with the Pope, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the thing in Moscow (Peter and Richard Fairbrass of Right Said Fred were beaten up by anti-gay Russians), and you've never reacted violently and reacted with hate. You've just been like Jesus Christ would've been when he forgave all the people that sinned."
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