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Tatchell's best birthday gift

 
p16 p17 diary Political Activist Peter Tatchell Photographer: ALEX LENTATI Copyright: Evening Standard
ALEX LENTATI
25 January 2013

Happy birthday, Peter Tatchell. “I’m delighted that the Government has chosen to unveil the same-sex marriage bill on my 61st birthday, today,” he tells me. “It’s the best present I could have hoped for, after a long, often lonely 20-year slog to secure equal marriage.” Trust Peter to turn his birthday into a political soapbox.

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