SW was busy herding cats, frankly, and needed stroppy transqueers to push from the 'left' against the het-identifieds on the 'right'; my memory in any case is that SW was not explicitly out as bi at the time of the forum, though I certainly read him as such.

I don't think either Angela Mason or Ben Summerskill was ever 'just' an employee - from my experience with Liberty, I'd say that the paid employee you call a director or general secretary is always the most influential person in an organization.

Which documentary was that? It's a lovely picture.

I think you hugely overestimate the power and influence of modern radfems - in the old days, they could get people fired and I have not seen or heard any of that in recent years. I don't think Stonewall are in any way answerable to them, so much as living in a world where on some issues radfems managed to impose an unexamined agenda.

I'd go further - I see Stonewall employees not just as pushing set policy and defending their own jobs, but also as people with a particular style living in a social world where certain things are assumed. It would help to break those assumptions a little.