My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham known to his family as Frank Longford and as Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer.