If 2021’s stinging Netflix documentary Hating Peter Tatchell (coproduced by Elton John and David Furnish) taught us anything, it’s that veteran human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is one of a kind. To put it bluntly, few public figures, if any, can match his passion, tenacity and commitment, or, indeed, his gall. When interrupting the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter sermon in Canterbury Cathedral in 1998, and attempting citizen’s arrests of the late homophobe Robert Mugabe, then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, he was assisted by his OutRage! colleagues. But it was Tatchell’s face that was beamed around the world and became forever synonymous with such acts of defiance. As a consequence, there have been multiple attempts on his life.