Angela Mason

Former Stonewall director Angela Mason is to talk at The Brief Encounter in Croydon on Tuesday October 6. She will be discussing her political activism which has included being a long-term feminist and campaigner for women’s rights, lesbian mother, and being tried for terrorist offences. She is now an OBE and a Government adviser.
 
In 1971, she married scriptwriter William Mason whom she divorced in 1980. The same year, she also met writer and academic Elizabeth Wilson, a co-activist in the Gay Liberation Front, who was to become her life partner. Angela was an activist in the trade union and radical movements. In 1971 she was accused of the bomb plot against Conservative Party officials that was attributed to the Angry Brigade. After a long and controversial trial she was acquitted of all charges the following year.

Angela became a lecturer at the LSE then the Principal Solicitor for the London Borough of Camden. In 1984, she gave birth to a daughter. She became a member of Stonewall in 1989, and its director in 1992.

From 2003 to 2007 she was the director of the government's Women and Equality Unit. She has also been a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission and an advisor to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. In 1999 she was awarded the OBE.

Now retired from her government post, she works for I&DeA, the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government, as National Advisor on Equality and Diversity.

The event, arranged by the Croydon Area Gay Society, takes place at 8pm on Tuesday October 6, at The Brief, 48 George Street , Croydon CRO 1PD. It is open to all and free of charge.
 
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