The star of hard-hitting race relations play Mogadishu has been the victim of prejudice herself, she tells Laura Davis
WHEN outspokenly lesbian Jackie Clune announced she was no longer gay someone set up a Facebook group suggesting she should be taken outside and shot.
Close friends were outraged by her confession and Diva magazine voted her “Most Disappointing Lesbian of the Year 2002”.
Having selected homosexuality as a “life choice” in her early-20s, she simply decided, 12 years later, that it was time to go straight.
Until then lesbianism had been about more than her choice of partner – it had informed her politics, lifestyle and her stand-up comedy.
The public reaction to her so-called betrayal was a mixture of shock and fury.
“It was hurtful but I can’t claim any great suffering,” says Clune, now a married mother-of-four.
“Prejudice is only really dangerous when it’s the people who are in the position of power that are wielding it.
“Obviously straight society is still dominant over gay society so I can’t claim I was oppressed in any way. My feelings might have been hurt but I kind of got it as well.”
