When Black gay London came out

Opposite the Ritzy in Brixton, in what is now Windrush Square, there is a set of abandoned and rather dilapidated-looking public toilets. They are an inconspicuous sight — the kind of landmark that fades into obscurity in a place you know well, so that you have to recalibrate your eyes to notice it’s even there.

I must have walked past them dozens of times over the years growing up in London (usually under the influence of something, I confess). But catching sight of them on my way to meet Jason Okundaye to discuss his upcoming book, Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain, they exude a new, flirtatious energy.

‘I had also always seen those toilets and never in my life thought anything about