Leading authors are calling for Baroness Nicholson to be reinstated as honorary vice-president of the Booker Prize Foundation after she was dropped over allegations of transphobia and homophobia. The Tory peer – whose late husband helped to found the prize – voted against same-sex marriage in 2013, but has denied being anti-gay. She was also alleged to have ‘misgendered’ a transgender campaigner and was subsequently axed from her Booker role last month. Last night Baroness Nicholson told the Daily Mail: ‘I voted against same-sex marriage and in favour of same-sex partnership equal rights to marriage (the Stonewall amendment) in 2013. I have since been wholly comfortable with same-sex marriage.

Source: Daily Mail July 06, 2020 21:52 UTC