Sandi Toksvig

Their mental health doesn't recover.

Too many LGBTQ plus people have been lost to suicide.

It's a very high percentage because of the way in which they've been treated.

And I hope if just one person looks at me and goes, okay, let's keep going, then I feel like I didn't become a human rights lawyer, but I did something.

Yes.

It seems extraordinary.

They came up to Cambridge to look for people.

And I was at the time doing a very strange double act with a guy called Simon McBurney.

And Simon has gone on to run the most astonishing theatre company called Theatre de Composite.

And Simon was at the time going out with the girl called Emma Thompson.

I don't know what happened to her.

And so they asked me and Simon to come down to the company store and

And it wasn't a real comedy club.

There were no stand-up comedy clubs.

It was absolutely unheard of.

So what they'd done is they'd taken a Sunday night at a strip joint.

And I remember going into the bar area, and it was called the Doubles Bar.

And the woman behind the bar was very cross because she'd been made to wear a top for the evening.

which she didn't normally.

And I was, you know, 19, 20 years old.