In October 1993, Lily Savage headlined Stonewall’s Equality Show at the London Palladium. Billed as the biggest ever gay variety show, it raised money for Stonewall’s first national campaign for an equal age of consent – the beginning of 10 years of major law reform for lesbians and gay men. Paul O’Grady (Obituary, 29 March) was a longtime supporter of these struggles, and Lily was one of the movement’s most indomitable and glamorous warriors.
Angela Mason
Executive director, Stonewall 1992-2003
• After I resigned from the civil service in 1968 when pregnant with my first child, my designated occupation was “housewife” (Letters, 29 March). By the 1970s, guidance on my role was available in the Penguin book Managers and Their Wives: A Study of Career and Family Relationships in the Middle Class. Never had time to read it.
Sue Wallace
Thame, Oxfordshire
