Sandi Toksvig: Why my fight for LGBTI equality is not over
Sandi Toksvig, the beloved TV presenter, has come out swinging in defense of the LGBTI community saying that although we’ve come a long way in terms of rights there ‘was still a long way to go’.
Fighting back tears – the lesbian presenter of The Great British Bake Off and QI made the comments at an event celebrating the first global LGBTI Founders Day.
Hosted in conjunction with Barclays, Gay Star News launched the LGBTI Founders’ Day this year. It wanted to celebrate contributions of LGBTI elders to the rainbow community around the world.
Toksvig cried during her speech when she told the story of a gay couple she knew. John and Roger had been together for more than 20 years, when Roger was in a serious car accident.
When it looked Roger was likely to die, John contacted his estranged family to give them a chance to say goodbye. But then they cruelly locked John out of seeing Roger at the hospital. He didn’t go to his funeral and John doesn’t even know where Roger is buried.
Read more about Sandi's speech here:
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/s...
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Life is not a timeline. We all age, and should do so with full ownership because after all, it’s literally unavoidable.
For too long, getting ‘older’ has been aligned with negative and disempowering descriptions of age.
To challenge this, Gay Star News - in partnership with Barclays is holding the first LGBTI Founders’ Day on September 24th, 2018.
Tweet: #LGBTIFoundersDay – and show your support.
See more content and research about getting older in the LGBTI community on our mini-site here:
https://www.gaystarnews.com/founders#...
Watch more from our LGBTI Founders week series, in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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