It cannot be easy to disclose as an adult the sexual abuse that happened to you as a nine-year-old. It cannot be easy, after a lifetime of supporting radical causes and becoming a criminal barrister, to find that at your workplace there are complaints about you orchestrated by a group set up originally to protect gay rights: Stonewall. Section 28, which was implemented in 1988, left gay teenagers with little support. It cannot have been easy to be a black woman of Jamaican heritage in the late 1980s, living in Oxford and realising you were a lesbian.
