Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
British LGBTQ charity worker and columnist (born 1974)
Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah (born November 1974), also known as Lady Phyll, is a British political activist known for her work for racial, gender and LGBT+ equality. She is co-founder and chief executive of UK Black Pride, executive director of DIVA Magazine and former executive director of Kaleidoscope Trust.
Early life and education
Opoku-Gyimah was born in Britain in 1974 and attended Bullsmoor School in Lea Valley, where she first became politically active. She is of Ghanaian ancestry.
Career
Opoku-Gyimah joined the civil service working for the Department for Work and Pensions benefit fraud section. She ran the online voluntary organization BLUK (Black Lesbians in the UK), which brought women, transwomen, and bi-women together online. This led her to becoming a co-founder, trustee and executive director of UK Black Pride, which "promotes unity and co-operation among all Black people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent, as well as their friends and families, who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender". UK Black Pride began in 2005 as a day trip to Southend-on-Sea in England.
Opoku-Gyimah was appointed trustee of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights charity, Stonewall in January 2015 but resigned three years later when the charity announced it would partner with UK Black Pride. Opoku-Gyimah publicly refused an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours.
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