outstanding contribution in supporting the local community." In 2006, she was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours for services to diversity. She was reticent about receiving the award because she considers its association with a defunct Empire as outdated and the Honour should be renamed. She was encouraged to accept it by her family. References External links 1950 births Alumni of the University of Sussex Black British women politicians Black British women writers Black Jewish people British Ashkenazi Jews British civil rights activists British lesbian writers Councillors in the London Borough of Lambeth English feminists English Jewish writers English LGBT politicians English LGBT rights activists English people of Nigerian descent English people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish British politicians Jewish feminists Jewish women in business Jewish women politicians Jewish women writers Labour Party (UK) councillors Leaders of local authorities of England Lesbian feminists Lesbian politicians Lesbian Jews Living people Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Brixton Radical feminists Women civil rights activists Women councillors in England LGBT Black British people