Richard Burnett: How my mom saved gay Pride in Mauritius

My mother, Liliane Laventure Burnett, has always been a fierce supporter of LGBTQ rights. A British Empire glamour girl who emigrated to Canada aboard the Cunard ocean liner RMS Carinthia, she is as unsinkable as Molly Brown, and she always stood up for her gay friends.
So it was no surprise to me that Diamond Lil, as she is affectionately known, played a key role in fighting back when death threats from religious extremists in Mauritius threatened to shut down that African country’s Pride