Q100 Portrait at Cambridge College

Last week I went back to Cambridge for the launch of the Q100, a project celebrating the university’s LGBTQIA+ alumni.

It’s quite a mind blowing honour to have my portrait up on the wall of Girton College, especially among such powerhouses as Sandi Toksvig and Chris Smith.

While I have mixed feelings about the institution, I loved eating formal hall in a hall I learned was deliberately built the biggest when the women’s college was finally allowed to actually award their students degrees. The radical change we need won’t come out of events like this, but it was an interesting evening of hearing queer experiences and celebrating some important wins in the last few decades. And the gang was turned out and hilarious as ever. Only in Cambridge will you hear sentences like “We ran out of gay Masters so we went to Jesus.”

The portrait is by Lily Bertrand-Webb and the dress is by the lovely Edeline Lee.