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Phillip Schofield’s mother has praised her son after he announced he is gay,
The This Morning host released a statement on Friday revealing he had been “coming to terms” with his sexuality.
Schofield added thsy his wife of 27 years, Stephanie Lowe, and two daughters had “stunned” him “with their love, instant acceptance and support”.
And his mother, Pat Schofield said: “For him to be so brave in front of so many people was inspiring, because I know how hard it was for him to do.
“I love Steph and the girls more than anything in the world and I will always be there for them.”
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1/50 Billie Jean King, athlete
‘When I heard about Stonewall, I remember feeling just like the famous line in the movie Network – "I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more." Standing up for our community and advocating for ourselves was powerful then and it is powerful now.’
AFP/Getty
2/50 Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, activist
‘I think what we can learn from the uprising is everything we’ve learned after it: until the most marginalised among us are free, none of us are free.’
Sarah Jeynes
3/50 Courtney Act, performer
‘Resist. That’s what the people at the Stonewall Inn did that fateful night in 1969. They resisted arrest and the status quo because they knew that their right to love and exist was equal to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts.’
Getty
4/50 Munroe Bergdorf, activist
‘Growing up I just did not see myself reflected within the history books. But when I found out that it was Marsh P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two transgender women of colour, who kicked off the Stonewall riots which lead to the gay rights movement... If filled me with pride.’
Getty/NYFW: The Shows
5/50 Stephen Fry, actor
‘I think perhaps the most glorious fact of the Stonewall riots is that it was the queens, the camp, glitzy queens who saw off the police that night in Greenwich Village. Years of mockery in the streets, being jostled, spat at, arrested and pushed off the sidewalk had toughened them up.’
PA
6/50 Isis King, model
‘Trans women of colour have always stood at the forefront of this movement. Some try to erase the legacies but it’s still apparent in today’s climate that trans women are as bold as ever.’
Getty/GLAAD
7/50 Matt Lucas, actor
‘I am eternally grateful to those who fought for the recognition of gay identity at a time when society saw it only in crude sexual terms. Stonewall was about the freedom to love without fear.’
PA
8/50 Ruth Hunt, CEO of Stonewall
‘We named ourselves after this historic moment and we continue to honour those involved by naming the meeting rooms in our London office after some of the leaders, including a lesbian woman of colour called Storme DeLarverie and two trans women of colour, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson.’
Andy Tyler
9/50 Rikki Beadle-Blair, creator and performer
‘I put my heart and soul into the script for Stonewall. And they’re all there: the butches, the fems, the blacks and hispanics and whites. The middle-class activists. The street queens. The homeless queer kids. And they are still here, with us in every battle we still have to fight.’
Gary Beadle
10/50 Christopher Smith, MP
‘It laid the foundation for all the campaigns for LGBT+ equality that followed: against Section 28, for an equal age of consent, for equal access to services, for equal marriage, for justice around the world in the face of hostility and violence and bigotry.’
Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament
11/50 Mhairi Black, politician
‘The Stonewall riots were the spark that galvanised the LGBT+ community to organise in support for our rights. From homosexuality being a criminal offence, to a law requiring a person to be wearing at least three items of “gender appropriate” clothing, 1969 was a dangerous time to be queer.’
PA
12/50 Shon Faye, writer and comedian
‘While important, I wish 28 June 1969 wasn’t held up as the single moment where LGBT+ history starts, particularly in Britain, where LGBT+ people’s political emergence has its own fascinating history.’
Random Acts
13/50 Peter Tachell, activist
‘Since Stonewall, the LGBT+ movement has gone global; liberating hundreds of millions of people; though hundreds of millions more live in the 68 countries that still outlaw same-sex relations. The Stonewall revolution is not yet over.’
PA
14/50 Tamal Ray, baker and doctor
‘Would I have had the bravery and the fury, to do what did they did that night? Maybe. Maybe not. But I’m here today. And having grown up under the bullshit of section 28 I’m so aware of how lucky I am to have the rights and protections I do.’
Rex
15/50 Owen Jones, writer
‘In the midst of a growing homophobic and transphobic backlash against victories won by LGBT+ people, we need to re-invigorate a radical queer movement with demands ranging from reforming the Gender Recognition Act to reversing cuts to LGBT+ services, to properly funding mental health.’
PA
16/50 Ruth Davidson, politician
‘Those rights and that acceptance, which have been hard-won over the last 50 years, are still fragile. LGBT+ people are still subject to hate crimes. Bosses can still be unsure over points of employment law. Prejudice persists. The fight continues.’
PA
17/50 Shahmir Sanni, whistleblower and digital strategist
‘In the UK, Stonewall collaborating with UKBlackPride and LGBT+ activists reaching out to marginalised communities with a significant focus on BAME sexual health is a giant leap forward for all of us.’
Rex
18/50 Travis Alabanza, performer and activist
‘It reminds us that our change and progress will never be made in just books, or just on our screens, or just in theory - but always in practice, on the streets, together.’
Tim P Whitby/Getty/Free Word
19/50 Ashley C Ford, writer
‘The stories of Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and others have been carried though time by some of our most marginalised communities, beautifully and with all the reverence they deserve.’
Paul Jun
20/50 Michael Cashman, politician, actor and co-founder of Stonewall
‘For me it signifies the moment of fighting back when the straw finally breaks the camel‘s back. That happened here in the United Kingdom when the Thatcher government introduced Section 28 in the middle of the Aids and HIV crisis being faced by the gay community.’
Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament
21/50 Sarah McBride, political activist
‘It is a legacy of solidarity across diversity and difference. It is a legacy of how a single act and a moment can have ripple effects for generations to come.’
Sarah McBride
22/50 Francis Lee, filmmaker
‘I was born in the year of the Stonewall riots and through my lifetime so much has changed. Its a time to thank and celebrate the working-class queer people of colour, the heroic trans people, the drag queens, the fem guys, the butch dykes who fought for their rights to be who they are.’
PA
23/50 Ben Hunte, journalist
‘Until we have queer history taught properly within our schools, and until media organisations report on our lives with care, I hope that we can come together as a community and share our knowledge, so that our heroes are never forgotten.’
BBC
24/50 Charlie Craggs, activist
‘Trans people, especially trans women of colour, need you to fight for them they way they fought for your rights 50 years ago.’
Great Big Story
25/50 Lea DeLaria, actor and comedian
‘That riot, what I saw, my people fighting back, is the reason I have always been out and proud.’
Getty/AEG
26/50 Ryan Atkin, football referee
‘Now, more than ever, we must stand firm as the tide of tolerance turns against us in many places, in an effort to undo the hard-won victories of the last few decades.’
Rex
27/50 Leo Kaylan, musician
‘We need that spirit of solidarity now more than ever, especially for trans people and queer people of colour - especially seeing what’s happening in places like Chechnya and Brunei.’
Leo Kalyan
28/50 Phillip Picardi , journalist and editor-in-chief of OUT magazine
‘This year, celebration may be a part of Pride – but what we really need is the rebirth of a movement, led by the very folks who have consistently been left behind.’
Getty
29/50 Juno Dawson, author
‘On that date in New York, lesbians, gay men, trans people (although they wouldn’t have used that term) and all manner of queer people came together as a unified community and said no to state-sanctioned police brutality.’
edbookfest
30/50 Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, activist
‘A global rise in extremism and nationalism makes our hard-fought victories vulnerable to attacks and setbacks. It serves to push back even harder and negate the strides we have already made.’
Kaleidoscope Trust/Eivind Hansen
31/50 Jide Macaulay, pastor and activist
‘As a black African British gay Christian living with HIV, it’s a reminder of the continuous fight for inclusion, liberation and diversity, to be respected for who I am and who I love.’
Pride in London/YouTube
32/50 Scottee, performer
‘Will those corporations be aligned with us once the parade inevitably turns back to a protest?’
Rex
33/50 Joleen Mataele, activist
‘Stonewall was the founding legend that we all learn from and we must stand tall as one community and one voice so we can pave the way for the new generations.’
Kaleidoscope Trust
34/50 Lady Bunny, performer
‘Trump and other emerging nationalists worldwide tend to hold a dim view of gay people. So we must our fight back and fight less amongst ourselves on more minor issues.’
Getty/Tribeca Film Festival
35/50 Damian Barr, author
‘News that there is to be a straight pride parade made me feel like rioting like it’s June 28 1969 all over again. But straight people don’t need Pride because they weren’t born into a culture that shames their very existence.’
Bloomsbury
36/50 Mandu Reid, Women’s Equality Party leader
‘As a bisexual black woman, I owe many of the freedoms I enjoy today to those who stood up to injustice during the Stonewall riots in 1969.’
37/50 Jake Graf, actor and writer
‘When I transitioned I wanted to understand more about our specific transgender history and felt great pride upon learning that the Stonewall riots happened as a result of courageous and outspoken trans women, mostly of colour.’
PA
38/50 Lisa Power, co-founder of Stonewall
‘We named Stonewall here in the UK so that, no matter how “respectable” we became, we never forgot that we started with a riot.’
Ardent Theatre Company
39/50 Matthew Todd, author and journalist
‘When a lesbian, we think Stormé DeLarverie, a woman of colour, was being arrested, she yelled to the crowd, “Why don’t you guys do something?” Her brothers and sisters – white, black, gay, bi, lesbian, trans, butch, femme – did do something and came to her aid. That’s incredibly inspiring to me.’
Rex
40/50 Amrou Al-Kadhi, performer
‘The pervasiveness of the glossy rainbow flag during Pride can lull us into a sense of inaction. But as we've seen over the past month of protests, attacks and media, violence and violations against gay and trans people has not gone away.’
NowThis
41/50 Joseph Galliano, CEO and co-founder of the Queer Britain Museum
‘Who threw the first punch is not the most important question, it’s what activists did with that pent up anger and frustration, over the long haul that made all the difference to so many lives.’
dear16yearoldme
42/50 George M Johnson, Writer
‘It's important to remember the black and brown trans and queer people who led the riots on those six nights, and how our community is still fighting many of those same battles.’
Gioncarlo Valentine
43/50 Glynn Fussel, performer and creator
‘I'm more concerned about my brothers and sisters in other countries who don't have the rights that we have. Every single day we should remember the fights that came before us.’
Sink the Pink
44/50 Elizabeth Barker, politician
‘Small towns now celebrate their LGBT citizens and the police are no longer hostile. That is progress of which we should all be proud.’
Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament
45/50 CN Lester, author
‘What matters most to me about Stonewall was that it was one protest of many, one moment in time across decades of rebellion, building community, making our mark.’
BBC
46/50 Andrew Lumsden, journalist and activist
‘The uprising brought us the word “gay”. When it crossed the Atlantic to us in 1970 as the Gay Liberation Front, which I promptly joined, none of us had ever before used the word in the sense of sexual orientation. And I'm glad we did.’
47/50 Jamie Windust, writer
‘The stonewall riots were not only a moment in time and history, but a real signal that we are not a community that is to stay quiet and remain silenced.’
PA
48/50 Amelia Abraham, author
‘However we should remember that there are so many stories of queer join, pain, struggle and victory out there to be discovered, if we take the time to look for them.’
Ted
49/50 Henry Holland, fashion designer
‘While many of us feel safe and accepted, Pride is about remembering that there are still people in the world who don’t. Until that day we need to keep pushing for total equality and acceptance for the whole of the LGBT+ community.’
PA
50/50 Carrie Lyell, journalist and editor-in-chief of DIVA magazine
‘What I know about Stonewall, I had to scrape together myself. So today, as editor of DIVA magazine, I feel I have a duty to keep the spirit and the stories of that night alive so those growing up don't need to hunt as I did.’
Agemi
1/50 Billie Jean King, athlete
‘When I heard about Stonewall, I remember feeling just like the famous line in the movie Network – "I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more." Standing up for our community and advocating for ourselves was powerful then and it is powerful now.’
AFP/Getty
2/50 Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, activist
‘I think what we can learn from the uprising is everything we’ve learned after it: until the most marginalised among us are free, none of us are free.’
Sarah Jeynes
3/50 Courtney Act, performer
‘Resist. That’s what the people at the Stonewall Inn did that fateful night in 1969. They resisted arrest and the status quo because they knew that their right to love and exist was equal to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts.’
Getty
4/50 Munroe Bergdorf, activist
‘Growing up I just did not see myself reflected within the history books. But when I found out that it was Marsh P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two transgender women of colour, who kicked off the Stonewall riots which lead to the gay rights movement... If filled me with pride.’
Getty/NYFW: The Shows
5/50 Stephen Fry, actor
‘I think perhaps the most glorious fact of the Stonewall riots is that it was the queens, the camp, glitzy queens who saw off the police that night in Greenwich Village. Years of mockery in the streets, being jostled, spat at, arrested and pushed off the sidewalk had toughened them up.’
PA
6/50 Isis King, model
‘Trans women of colour have always stood at the forefront of this movement. Some try to erase the legacies but it’s still apparent in today’s climate that trans women are as bold as ever.’
Getty/GLAAD
7/50 Matt Lucas, actor
‘I am eternally grateful to those who fought for the recognition of gay identity at a time when society saw it only in crude sexual terms. Stonewall was about the freedom to love without fear.’
PA
8/50 Ruth Hunt, CEO of Stonewall
‘We named ourselves after this historic moment and we continue to honour those involved by naming the meeting rooms in our London office after some of the leaders, including a lesbian woman of colour called Storme DeLarverie and two trans women of colour, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson.’
Andy Tyler
9/50 Rikki Beadle-Blair, creator and performer
‘I put my heart and soul into the script for Stonewall. And they’re all there: the butches, the fems, the blacks and hispanics and whites. The middle-class activists. The street queens. The homeless queer kids. And they are still here, with us in every battle we still have to fight.’
Gary Beadle
10/50 Christopher Smith, MP
‘It laid the foundation for all the campaigns for LGBT+ equality that followed: against Section 28, for an equal age of consent, for equal access to services, for equal marriage, for justice around the world in the face of hostility and violence and bigotry.’
Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament
11/50 Mhairi Black, politician
‘The Stonewall riots were the spark that galvanised the LGBT+ community to organise in support for our rights. From homosexuality being a criminal offence, to a law requiring a person to be wearing at least three items of “gender appropriate” clothing, 1969 was a dangerous time to be queer.’
PA
12/50 Shon Faye, writer and comedian
‘While important, I wish 28 June 1969 wasn’t held up as the single moment where LGBT+ history starts, particularly in Britain, where LGBT+ people’s political emergence has its own fascinating history.’
Random Acts
13/50 Peter Tachell, activist
‘Since Stonewall, the LGBT+ movement has gone global; liberating hundreds of millions of people; though hundreds of millions more live in the 68 countries that still outlaw same-sex relations. The Stonewall revolution is not yet over.’
PA
14/50 Tamal Ray, baker and doctor
‘Would I have had the bravery and the fury, to do what did they did that night? Maybe. Maybe not. But I’m here today. And having grown up under the bullshit of section 28 I’m so aware of how lucky I am to have the rights and protections I do.’
Rex
15/50 Owen Jones, writer
‘In the midst of a growing homophobic and transphobic backlash against victories won by LGBT+ people, we need to re-invigorate a radical queer movement with demands ranging from reforming the Gender Recognition Act to reversing cuts to LGBT+ services, to properly funding mental health.’
PA
16/50 Ruth Davidson, politician
‘Those rights and that acceptance, which have been hard-won over the last 50 years, are still fragile. LGBT+ people are still subject to hate crimes. Bosses can still be unsure over points of employment law. Prejudice persists. The fight continues.’
PA
17/50 Shahmir Sanni, whistleblower and digital strategist
‘In the UK, Stonewall collaborating with UKBlackPride and LGBT+ activists reaching out to marginalised communities with a significant focus on BAME sexual health is a giant leap forward for all of us.’
Rex
18/50 Travis Alabanza, performer and activist
‘It reminds us that our change and progress will never be made in just books, or just on our screens, or just in theory - but always in practice, on the streets, together.’
Tim P Whitby/Getty/Free Word
19/50 Ashley C Ford, writer
‘The stories of Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and others have been carried though time by some of our most marginalised communities, beautifully and with all the reverence they deserve.’
Paul Jun
20/50 Michael Cashman, politician, actor and co-founder of Stonewall
‘For me it signifies the moment of fighting back when the straw finally breaks the camel‘s back. That happened here in the United Kingdom when the Thatcher government introduced Section 28 in the middle of the Aids and HIV crisis being faced by the gay community.’
Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament
21/50 Sarah McBride, political activist
‘It is a legacy of solidarity across diversity and difference. It is a legacy of how a single act and a moment can have ripple effects for generations to come.’
Sarah McBride
22/50 Francis Lee, filmmaker
‘I was born in the year of the Stonewall riots and through my lifetime so much has changed. Its a time to thank and celebrate the working-class queer people of colour, the heroic trans people, the drag queens, the fem guys, the butch dykes who fought for their rights to be who they are.’
PA
23/50 Ben Hunte, journalist
‘Until we have queer history taught properly within our schools, and until media organisations report on our lives with care, I hope that we can come together as a community and share our knowledge, so that our heroes are never forgotten.’
BBC
24/50 Charlie Craggs, activist
‘Trans people, especially trans women of colour, need you to fight for them they way they fought for your rights 50 years ago.’
Great Big Story
25/50 Lea DeLaria, actor and comedian
‘That riot, what I saw, my people fighting back, is the reason I have always been out and proud.’
Getty/AEG
26/50 Ryan Atkin, football referee
‘Now, more than ever, we must stand firm as the tide of tolerance turns against us in many places, in an effort to undo the hard-won victories of the last few decades.’
Rex
27/50 Leo Kaylan, musician
‘We need that spirit of solidarity now more than ever, especially for trans people and queer people of colour - especially seeing what’s happening in places like Chechnya and Brunei.’
Leo Kalyan
28/50 Phillip Picardi , journalist and editor-in-chief of OUT magazine
‘This year, celebration may be a part of Pride – but what we really need is the rebirth of a movement, led by the very folks who have consistently been left behind.’
Getty
29/50 Juno Dawson, author
‘On that date in New York, lesbians, gay men, trans people (although they wouldn’t have used that term) and all manner of queer people came together as a unified community and said no to state-sanctioned police brutality.’
edbookfest
30/50 Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, activist
‘A global rise in extremism and nationalism makes our hard-fought victories vulnerable to attacks and setbacks. It serves to push back even harder and negate the strides we have already made.’
Kaleidoscope Trust/Eivind Hansen
31/50 Jide Macaulay, pastor and activist
‘As a black African British gay Christian living with HIV, it’s a reminder of the continuous fight for inclusion, liberation and diversity, to be respected for who I am and who I love.’
Pride in London/YouTube
32/50 Scottee, performer
‘Will those corporations be aligned with us once the parade inevitably turns back to a protest?’
Rex
33/50 Joleen Mataele, activist
‘Stonewall was the founding legend that we all learn from and we must stand tall as one community and one voice so we can pave the way for the new generations.’
Kaleidoscope Trust
34/50 Lady Bunny, performer
‘Trump and other emerging nationalists worldwide tend to hold a dim view of gay people. So we must our fight back and fight less amongst ourselves on more minor issues.’
Getty/Tribeca Film Festival
35/50 Damian Barr, author
‘News that there is to be a straight pride parade made me feel like rioting like it’s June 28 1969 all over again. But straight people don’t need Pride because they weren’t born into a culture that shames their very existence.’
Bloomsbury
36/50 Mandu Reid, Women’s Equality Party leader
‘As a bisexual black woman, I owe many of the freedoms I enjoy today to those who stood up to injustice during the Stonewall riots in 1969.’
37/50 Jake Graf, actor and writer
‘When I transitioned I wanted to understand more about our specific transgender history and felt great pride upon learning that the Stonewall riots happened as a result of courageous and outspoken trans women, mostly of colour.’
PA
38/50 Lisa Power, co-founder of Stonewall
‘We named Stonewall here in the UK so that, no matter how “respectable” we became, we never forgot that we started with a riot.’
Ardent Theatre Company
39/50 Matthew Todd, author and journalist
‘When a lesbian, we think Stormé DeLarverie, a woman of colour, was being arrested, she yelled to the crowd, “Why don’t you guys do something?” Her brothers and sisters – white, black, gay, bi, lesbian, trans, butch, femme – did do something and came to her aid. That’s incredibly inspiring to me.’
Rex
40/50 Amrou Al-Kadhi, performer
‘The pervasiveness of the glossy rainbow flag during Pride can lull us into a sense of inaction. But as we've seen over the past month of protests, attacks and media, violence and violations against gay and trans people has not gone away.’
NowThis
41/50 Joseph Galliano, CEO and co-founder of the Queer Britain Museum
‘Who threw the first punch is not the most important question, it’s what activists did with that pent up anger and frustration, over the long haul that made all the difference to so many lives.’
dear16yearoldme
42/50 George M Johnson, Writer
‘It's important to remember the black and brown trans and queer people who led the riots on those six nights, and how our community is still fighting many of those same battles.’
Gioncarlo Valentine
43/50 Glynn Fussel, performer and creator
‘I'm more concerned about my brothers and sisters in other countries who don't have the rights that we have. Every single day we should remember the fights that came before us.’
Sink the Pink
44/50 Elizabeth Barker, politician
‘Small towns now celebrate their LGBT citizens and the police are no longer hostile. That is progress of which we should all be proud.’
Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament
45/50 CN Lester, author
‘What matters most to me about Stonewall was that it was one protest of many, one moment in time across decades of rebellion, building community, making our mark.’
BBC
46/50 Andrew Lumsden, journalist and activist
‘The uprising brought us the word “gay”. When it crossed the Atlantic to us in 1970 as the Gay Liberation Front, which I promptly joined, none of us had ever before used the word in the sense of sexual orientation. And I'm glad we did.’
47/50 Jamie Windust, writer
‘The stonewall riots were not only a moment in time and history, but a real signal that we are not a community that is to stay quiet and remain silenced.’
PA
48/50 Amelia Abraham, author
‘However we should remember that there are so many stories of queer join, pain, struggle and victory out there to be discovered, if we take the time to look for them.’
Ted
49/50 Henry Holland, fashion designer
‘While many of us feel safe and accepted, Pride is about remembering that there are still people in the world who don’t. Until that day we need to keep pushing for total equality and acceptance for the whole of the LGBT+ community.’
PA
50/50 Carrie Lyell, journalist and editor-in-chief of DIVA magazine
‘What I know about Stonewall, I had to scrape together myself. So today, as editor of DIVA magazine, I feel I have a duty to keep the spirit and the stories of that night alive so those growing up don't need to hunt as I did.’
Agemi
Ms Schofield added that her son drove to Cornwall, where she lives, to tell her.
“The first thing I said was, ‘I don’t care’,” she told the Daily Mirror.
“Yes it was a shock, but nothing as a family that we can’t support and applaud.”
After his statement on Instagram, Schofield appeared on This Morning with his co-hosts, Holly Willoughby, Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, to speak further about his decision to come out.
He said his daughters have been “fantastic” and told Willoughby: “It’s funny because everyone I’ve spoken to have all been so supportive and loving and caring.”
Schofield continued: “Every person I tell, it gets a little lighter and a little lighter. At the same time I’ve made this decision which is essentially for me and my head.
“Of course, I’m really very aware that Steph and the girls are watching this and we are all together. They have been supporting us as we get to this moment.”