“There has been so much progress in LGBT+ rights, but there is still much more to be done. In the UK, we have amazing rights in comparison to other places. There are many countries where it’s illegal to identify as gay, or engage in gay sex, or to transition. So it’s important to think about LGBT+ rights in a worldwide sense.

And, where we do have rights, there are people in positions of power who are trying to wind them back. This is timely with Donald Trump’s visit to the UK approaching. The UK and America’s histories are so interlinked that a lot of our struggles share a lot of the same literature. We have this special relationship so lots of British and American activism is intertwined.

The world is so divided but, when we think about equality, we need to be thinking in a worldwide sense. We are all human beings.