As told to Thomas Stichbury
As LGBTQ people, we’ve probably all been called out on the street or been made to feel uncomfortable on public transport. I remember holding hands with a guy I was dating – I must have been 25 – and getting abuse. We were in Soho of all places. It just made no sense.
Then I started to think about it more: maybe no one taught these lads that it’s OK to be gay. That encounter was one of the reasons I decided to write my children’s LGBTQ books.