ABSTRACT
He had a little house in an Earls Court mews where I’d been visiting for three years when the sixties ended. It became 1970 and Gay Liberation Front came to Britain and I was twenty-nine. I’d been out for only two years. I’d been a Fleet Street journalist since I was twenty-one and by then was on The Times. Also living with the editor of the Daily Mirror in his Earls Court house at the end of the sixties, when I came to know them all, was his wife Sheila, another journalist, who wrote in her maiden name of Sheila Black. She had written to the editor of the Financial Times in the early sixties pointing out that though women spend vast sums in retailing, and since the Victorian age have been managing their own property, the paper had no women writers on the great industries.
