Venessa Pinto, employed by the Leicester diocese of the Church of England as a lay preacher...asked him out. "I was very taken aback, because I didn't know her. And I was like, 'I'm gay, but thank you for asking.' But she asked me if it was because she was black." ... Hulme, then in his mid-twenties, was at a very happy juncture in his life. He was a poet and author, an assistant warden at the LGBT-friendly St Nicholas Church... "I'm also trans, I'd come out a number of years before, and I'd finally come to a place of full...