Tom Read Wilson
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jun
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So, therefore, you have a... And this was... It sounds like it was an epiphany.
It was a very long cotch date.
But you think, therefore, I need to find a way to celebrate it.
It's...
It's the only way I can survive is to celebrate it.
Well, the resistance mostly was never violent, but it was a constant, constant barrage of verbal abuse.
I was very lucky because in my immediate orbit,
I had a group of friends and we were terribly close and we were all othered for one reason or another.
We had strength in that little unit and it really helped us survive.
And something happened.
when I was 16 that kind of made us all politically aware at school and it was sort of hot debate and it was the time I sort of came out really because there was a wonderful
Anglican reverend called Reverend Geoffrey John and he was nominated to be Bishop of Reading and I believe I'm right in saying this might be wrong but I believe I'm right in saying that he would have been the first gay bishop so suddenly it wasn't just Reading news or Berkshire news it was national news so it was through
Yes.
Yes, and also it was a wonderful, selfishly, it was a wonderful sort of...
Dress rehearsal, if you like, for coming out because I could test the water with people and see where they were politically.
I see.
And I found to my delight that my parents had long divorced by then, but they were both pro the bishop.
Very muddled, very uncomfortable, but very important because I think all the really big epiphanies about the importance of being
again, Shakespeare, to thine own self be true, of that, even when it's uncomfortable, especially when it's uncomfortable.
Yes.
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