“I’ve been lucky my church in Cheshire, and the one I joined in London, have both been welcoming liberal churches. “I have been a weekly churchgoer for 20 years and it has become very important to me now I know I am a gay woman, but it saddens me that the Church of England is not aways a welcoming place to be. “There’s a lot more acceptance and people can talk about it – and a lot of clergy are gay themselves and fighting the fight. It’s been 188 years since their marriage in 1834. Isabel goes on: “Their frustration at not being able to have this, well that’s completely relatable to me.
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Anne and her partner Ann Walker – played on TV by Sophie Rundle – had an unofficial wedding ceremony in church. Isabel joined her local choir back in Cheshire, where she grew up, before moving to London.īut she is sad that not much progress has been made in the church since Anne’s time two centuries ago. “Katie is my first girlfriend and it’s interesting to have that sense of history behind it.” I do not think I was even ‘out’ when I first read the diaries, but little things started to make sense and I started questioning. “So to have a period drama on the BBC showing two people living their lives fairly unashamedly and to see everything they went through, and the barriers faced, is incredible to have this lost history of gay women.
It was emotional for us watching it, as I had grown up watching period dramas at university and had studied English literature. “If I had this show growing up I might have known a lot sooner.
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