My friend Malcolm Johnson, who has died aged 89, was a popular City of London clergyman whose ministry focused on supporting people who need care, compassion, acceptance and understanding. At his City church, St Botolph’s Aldgate, where he was rector for 18 years from the mid 1970s to the early 90s, he worked to support homeless people and those with addictions by opening up the crypt for rehabilitation.
From his entry into the Church of England in the early 60s, Malcolm was also an advocate for the ordination of women and gay people and, as a gay man himself, he played a pivotal role, in 1978, in the foundation of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement.
