Is Peter Tatchell really a homo-fascist? His dress sense alone is perhaps a giveaway. His politics, moreover, speak volumes.His political tactics in fact are utterly dispreputable. His group deliberately picks soft targets, such as schools and church services, which are normally deemed non-political. They then picket them and intimidate the children and old people they find there. It is a classic bully tactic.
He has also spoken in support of Holocaust denial (or, as he would put it, the "freedom" to deny the Holocaust). Unlike the mainstream Left he distanced himself from the anti-war movement in the run-up to the Iraq War. He also tried to woo the Right with a violent though pathetic political stunt when he tried to attack Robert Mugabe, claiming that he was arresting him for human rights abuses. He was easily blocked by Mugabe's bodyguards, who, he pretended, then beat him up.
His attitude (and I use to word advisedly) to Islam, moreover, is just as nasty as his attitude to Christianity. He's not merely opposed to radical and fascist Muslims (Iranian revolutionaries and al-Qa'eda and its allies respectively), but also to what he calls "fundamentalist" Muslims - which presumably means most observant Muslims.
The Internet group x:talk has taken up the case.
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