Director Christopher Amos has known Peter Tatchell since 2000. They previously worked together, when Peter Tatchell supplied monthly editorials for Bent Magazine, which Christopher was the editor of.
Celebrated director and gay rights activist Derek Jarman appears in archive footage in Hating Peter Tatchell in a protest sequence where gay men hands themselves into the police for kissing in public. Derek Jarman and Peter Tatchell were friends.