She was an award winning journalist whose documentary films would both shock and galvanize the LGBT+ movement.
Today in 2017, the award-winning journalist, Liz MacKean dies at the age of 52.
Liz MacKean was a veteran journalist who worked for both Channel 4 and BBC. She worked hard to expose the injustices faced by people, including LGBT people suffering absolute hate in Russia and Africa.
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One of her most notable films was her shocking Dispatches documentary Hunted on Channel 4. It was a stark view of how hate mobs hunted gay men with dating apps and hook up websites to lure them to beatings and humiliating angry encounters.
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In 2014 she was crowned Journalist of the Year in 2014 and then Journalist of the Decade in 2015 by Stonewall.
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She was married, to her wife Donna Rowlands and together they had two children.
