Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah, also known as Lady Phyll, is 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." Opoku-Gyimah sits on the Trades Union Congress race relations committee and is currently trustee of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights charity, Stonewall.
With Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon, she is the editor of Sista!, an anthology of writings by LGBT women of African/Caribbean descent with a connection to the United Kingdom, released by Team Angelica Publishing in 2018, which includes work by 31 writers, including Yrsa Daley-Ward and Babirye Bukilwa.
Opoku-Gyimah publicly refused an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours.
