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Ruth Hunt is the Chief Executive of Stonewall, the UK’s leading LGBT charity. She was appointed to the House of Lords in 2015, becoming the first openly lesbian peer.
Hunt was born in Cardiff, Wales, and studied at the University of Oxford, where she earned a degree in English Literature. She began her career in the charity sector, working for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the British Red Cross.
In 2004, Hunt joined Stonewall as its Head of Education, and was appointed Chief Executive in 2014. She has been a vocal advocate for LGBT rights, and has spoken out against discrimination and prejudice.
In 2015, Hunt was appointed to the House of Lords, becoming the first openly lesbian peer. She was made a Baroness of Bethnal Green, and sits as a crossbencher.
Hunt is a patron of the Albert Kennedy Trust, a charity which supports LGBT youth. She is also a patron of the LGBT Consortium, a network of LGBT organisations.
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12 March, 1980 |
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Cardiff, Wales |
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United Kingdom |
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Hunt edited The Book of Queer Prophets, a collection of essays on sexuality and religion to be published in May 2020. The book includes essays by Jeanette Winterson, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, John L. Bell, and others.
Hunt was nominated for a life peerage and Crossbench member of the House of Lords in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. She was created Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, of Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on 16 October 2019.
In 2019 some donors were reported by the Sunday Times to have stopped funding Stonewall as a consequence of Ms Hunt's position on trans equality. One donor was reported as saying that Ms Hunt was “no longer a worthy champion of our rights”, another that she had “lost what the big principle is”.
She publicly apologised days before the May 2015 UK general election after Stonewall was criticised for publishing an online campaign graphic which suggested that only the Labour Party substantially supported LGBT equality in its manifesto. Lib Dem Minister Stephen Williams had told PinkNews: "I'm astounded by this grossly misleading graphic."
In July 2014, after a period as Acting Chief Executive, she was named Chief Executive of Stonewall.
She attracted much attention in May 2014 when she announced in the (UK) Daily Telegraph that Stonewall would not be joining a wide boycott of the Dorchester Hotel in London, owned by the Sultan of Brunei, where Stonewall was to hold a gala dinner. The Sultan was proposing to introduce the death penalty for sodomy but she argued that there was not "a mandate for the boycott" and "We only implement actions that we can calculate will have an impact."
In 2013, Ruth Hunt was named as Deputy Chief Executive of Stonewall, overseeing the strategic development and delivery of Stonewall's policy, research, campaigns and information functions which includes the work of Stonewall's Public Affairs team, Education team, the Stonewall Information Service and Stonewall Scotland and Stonewall Cymru.
Hunt has overseen the growth of Stonewall's work in Scotland and Wales, in particular the establishment of the Stonewall Cymru bilingual information service and Stonewall Scotland's lobbying to secure the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill. She gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament Equal Opportunities Committee on marriage equality in September 2013.
In October 2013, in its "Pink List", the Independent on Sunday named Hunt as the fifth most influential LGBT person in Britain. In 2014 she dropped to eighth place in the renamed "Rainbow List", and in 2015 she was voted into third place. In 2015 she also received an honorary fellowship from Cardiff University, where her mother Sheila was then Professor of Nursing, and an honorary degree from Keele University.
During this time Hunt produced research into lesbian, gay and bisexual health needs and inequalities, religion and belief and its impact on sexual orientation equality, older gay people's experiences in Britain and, in 2012, the first guide looking at openly gay role models.
She was formerly President of the Oxford University Student Union. She entered a civil partnership with her partner Dr Kirsty Lloyd in 2010 although it was reported in 2014 that the couple had separated.
She was involved in Stonewall's campaign regarding the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, legalising lesbian to access fertility treatment.
In 2005, she joined Stonewall in the role of Senior Policy Officer where she led work on Stonewall's research into homophobic bullying in schools. She became Head of Policy and Research in 2007 and Director of Public Affairs in 2009.
Hunt joined the Equality Challenge Unit in January 2004 where she led work to advise Higher Education Institutions on sexual orientation and gender identity equality.
Ruth Elizabeth Hunt, Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (born 12 March 1980) was Chief Executive of UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality charity Stonewall, the largest LGBT equality body in Europe from 2014 until her resignation in 2019.
