Kathryn Bell obituary

Kathryn Bell, right, with her partner Elsa Wallace Beckett, in 1976. Kathryn was instrumental in setting up an authors’ collective, Paradise Press, which focused on LGBTQ+ writing Photograph: none

My friend Kathryn Bell, who has died aged 91, was a founder member of several organisations promoting creativity and human rights.

In 1976, Kathryn and her partner, Elsa Wallace Beckett, a wheelchair-user, set up Gemma, a support and social network in London for lesbians with disabilities, which went on to become a national group, with more than 100 members at its peak.