It's wrong to erase women for the rights of others
Pushing for the rights of minorities is a fine thing – but not at the expense of the rights of others
A rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument in New York
Credit: Mike Segar/Reuters
Stonewall was once a terrific and necessary organisation. After a meeting at Sir Ian McKellen’s house in 1988 to fight Section 28, the first homophobic law introduced in Britain for a century, it formed properly a year later, in May 1989.
At the start of the century, it lobbied seriously for rights for gay, lesbian and bisexual people. What it achieved has been phenomenal: helping to equalise the age of consent, legislation allowing same-sex couples to adopt, the overturning of Section 28.