Forty years ago, the UK summer heat-wave was glorious timing for a young man living in the Sussex countryside, sharing a cottage with friends. It was 1976, I had just graduated and plans were coming together to walk across the USA with three others to raise awareness of the threats to wildlife. We were the generation protesting war, whaling, apartheid and nuclear proliferation. To the soundtrack of Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in need of love today” I could face my sexuality wit