15 Facts About Angela Mason

Angela Margaret Mason was born on 9 August 1944 and is a British civil servant and activist, and a former director of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lobbying organisation Stonewall.

Angela Mason is a former Chair of the Fawcett Society, a UK women's rights campaigning organisation and a Labour Party councillor in Camden.

Angela Mason was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front in the UK.

Angela Mason was one of the Stoke Newington Eight, who in 1972 were charged with planting or sending bombs which aimed to maim or kill government Ministers, their families and Conservative Party officials.

Angela Mason was one of the four accused who was acquitted following a long and still controversial trial.

Angela Mason still refuses to discuss the trial in interviews as of 2016.

Angela Mason was an activist in the trade union and radical movements.

Angela Mason became a lecturer at the LSE then the Principal Solicitor for the London Borough of Camden.

Angela Mason became a member of gay rights organisation Stonewall in 1989, becoming its director in 1992.

Angela Mason was unsuccessful and the measure was passed in the Equality Act 2006.

Angela Mason was awarded the OBE in 1999 and promoted to CBE in 2007.

Angela Mason was appointed as chair of the feminist group the Fawcett Society in the same year serving until 2013.

Angela Mason served as Deputy Leader of the borough council, and cabinet member for sustainability but was dismissed from the roles in May 2011.

Angela Mason was reappointed to the council's Cabinet the following year, and was Cabinet Member for Children until her retirement from the council in 2022.

Angela Mason is in a Civil Partnership with Marxist academic Elizabeth Wilson and has a daughter who was conceived by artificial insemination.