Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner whose work has meant the LGBTQ+ community have taken HUGE steps forwards over the decades.

You probably know he’s been massively influential in the queer movement and has been involved in so many groundbreaking campaigns.

I got into contact with Peter Tatchel a couple of months ago.

I feel like I’ve always been aware of his activism but our conversation really made me realise just what he and others like him have done for us and he continues to do through the Peter Tatchell foundation.

I spoke to Peter Tatchell about a week after the news broke about Brunei strict new laws that made anal sex and adultery offenses punishable by stoning to death.

In the past week Peter wrote a piece for the Guardian openly criticising Pride for selling out its soul to rainbow branded Capitalism, saying that 50 years after Stonewall the LGBTQ+ movement have abonded its dream of sexual democracy. So I can the irony of publishing my conversation with him as Pride special and on the day of London Pride. But I think that Pride can look differently to different people and I think people can disagree wholeheartedly with how many Pride events looks today, however it’s important to remember that even if you do feel like that, or you can’t get to a Pride celebration, or you don’t have other LGBTQ+ people or allies to celebrate your queerness with, then you can still celebrate pride and remember that pride comes in many forms. And if celebrating pride means partying all day or if it means putting your earphones in and listening to a podcast… then happy Pride to you, however you celebrate it.