LGBT History Month Chair Sue Sanders is now and Emeritus Professor thanks to The Harvey Milk Institute.
The lifelong equalities campaigner was visibly delighted as she took the award from Stuart Milk, the US lifelong equalities campaigner who has travelled the globe supporting LGBT people and their rights. The couple met at an equalities conference in Milan two years ago.
Accepting the award humbly, Sue said she never gained a degree and failed her 11-plus as a result of her dyslexia. She spoke of how LGBT History Month achieved miracles with unpaid volunteers giving up their free time to make it happen. She also praised Manchester for its radical past.
The Professorship is bestowed upon Sue by the Harvey Milk School and is authorised by the Governor of California.