Stonewall? Anyone? You at the back? No, it’s not an HIV charity; you’re thinking of excellent ones such as THT and the Sussex Beacon. No, it’s not the thing you find in fields Up North. Sorry Janet. Yes, that’s right, it’s the organisation which has campaigned for years to bring us such run-of-the-mill, hum-drum, life changing things such as an equal age of consent, the abolition of Section 28 and civil partnerships. Each one of these behind-the-scenes campaigns costs a huge amount of money and so this year everyone was back in Brighton for the second Equality Walk to raise money, in particular, for their latest campaign against homophobic bullying in schools.

Sir Ian McKellan, “That Bloke Off Corrie" as we know him now, led the multitudes all the way from Hove to Kemptown and back (with a little stopover at Chez Nous for some of us) with fine weather and a fair wind.

Remember that, without Stonewall, one of these days those boots are going to walk all over you...