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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd

LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell refuses ‘national treasure’ jubilee offer

Peter Tatchell speaks at a protest outside Downing Street against the exclusion of transgender people from plans to ban conversion therapy
Peter Tatchell speaks at a protest outside Downing Street against the exclusion of transgender people from plans to ban conversion therapy. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Peter Tatchell has refused an invitation to be declared a “national treasure” at the Queen’s platinum jubilee because of the monarch’s “neglectful stance towards the LGBT+ community”.

Tatchell, who has been campaigning for gay rights and equality since 1967, had been invited to attend the pageant outside Buckingham Palace as one of more than 100 “national treasures”.

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