Meet the proudly Black ‘gay father of the Windrush generation’ who fought discrimination when racism and homophobia were still legal

On Windrush Day, June 22, 1948, hundreds of Black Caribbean people arrived in the port of Tilbury, near London, having been invited to help rebuild the UK after the war left it with huge labour shortages. There to greet them that day was Ivor Gustavus Cummings, a gay Black man who had reclaimed the word …...