Yesterday Peter Tatchell gave a keynote lecture at Canterbury Christ Church University, organised by the CCCU LGBTQi Staff Network.
Panel members included Paul Twocock, Rt. Reverend Dr Alan Wilson, Professor Bee Scherer and Professor Emerita Sue Sanders.
- Student Union LGBT Elzy-Mae Burton
- Vice-Chancellor Professor Rama Thirunamachandran
- Peter Tatchell
- Peter Tatchell
- Professor Bee Scherer
- Paul Twocock
- Professor emerita Sue Sanders
- Rt. Reverend Dr Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham
- The Panel Discussion
- John Gilmore – CCCq, organiser
Due to a very public cancellation and accusations of transphobia towards Peter Tatchell, the event had a lot of media coverage.
The Guardian – http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/feb/15/lgbt-event-with-peter-tatchell-to-go-ahead-despite-freedom-of-speech-row
BBC Today – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070dks3 at roughly 2h33min into the recording.
And Newsnight – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0717ssf/newsnight-15022016 Roughly 30 minutes into the episode.
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