Booker prize and a co-founder of Britain’s first black theatre company, has spoken of an angry, lesbian period she went through in the 1980s and of a decade spent living in a “black womanist” community.Although she looks back on it now as “fun”, at the time she was “very angry as a woman”, she says.“I had a period of about 10 years where I lived as a lesbian, and that was my identity,” she said on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. “I used to go on lesbian marches and I used to go clubbing and I had lots of relationships.”The acclaimed writer, poet and playwright, who met her husband, the writer David Shannon, in 2006, explained that she had found the feminist movement “quite exclusionary” because it “didn’t really accommodate black.