- Angela Mason
Angela Mason OBE (born
9 August ,1944 ) is a British activist, the third director of the UK-basedLGBT lobbying organisation Stonewall 1992 - 2002. She is currently the Chair of the Fawcett Society, a UK women's rights campaigning organisation [http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/] .Born Angela Weir in
High Wycombe inBuckinghamshire , she grew up on theIsle of Sheppey and was educated atBasingstoke High School , Bedford College, University of London, and theLondon School of Economics .In 1971, she married scriptwriter
William Randolph Mason whom she divorced in 1980. The same year, Mason also met writer and academic Elizabeth Wilson, a co-activist in theGay Liberation Front , who was to become her life partner. Mason was an activist in thetrade union and radical movements. In 1971 she was falsely accused of the bomb plot against Conservative Party officials that was attributed to theAngry Brigade terrorist group. She was acquitted of all charges the following year.Mason became a lecturer at the LSE then the Principal
Solicitor for theLondon Borough of Camden . In 1984, she gave birth to a daughter conceived viaartificial insemination . She became a member of Stonewall in 1989, becoming its director in 1992.From 2003 to 2007 she was the director of the UK government's Women and Equality Unit, now the
Government Equalities Office . Mason has also been a member of theEqual Opportunities Commission and an advisor to theMayor of London ,Ken Livingstone . She was awarded the OBE in 1999.
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