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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

Dame Kelly tells Pride: I’m never going to live behind that curtain again

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Dame Kelly Holmes has insisted she will never live “behind that curtain” again as she addressed crowds at Pride in London just a few weeks after publicly coming out.

Describing herself as “a gay woman” to people gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday evening, she said she had not been able to say those words for 34 years as she lived with the “fear of judgment and retribution”.

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