Global Cause
Pride 2019
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What’s the key to unlocking amazing tech? An inclusive workforce
Unlocking human potential is a key challenge and huge opportunity in today’s tech industry. If we can help folks realise their potential, and that’s all types of folks, the more ideas, energy and passion we can unleash to create the best products and solutions. A method to help people realise their potential is enable them...
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Creating families as a same-sex couple
IVF is enabling thousands in the LGBT+ community to create families, but understanding about a more natural and safer treatment options can be an important first step. As a fertility doctor, helping same-sex couples create families is something I take great pride in. Fertility treatments provide a unique platform to create much-needed equality and diversity...
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Why people thrive in an inclusive environment
It can be challenging to ensure that your organisation has a robust D&I strategy in place — but doing so is crucial, says Sarah Bakewell, Diversity and Inclusion Manager, AWE. How does your organisation define ‘diversity and inclusion’? ‘Diversity’ is about the different types of people we work with who could look different, have different...
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What is facial feminisation?
Not all facial shapes are alike; some males and females have square faces, long faces, round faces, concave or convex faces. But what is uppermost in a transwoman’s mind is to be able to avoid the ‘double take’ because an observer has noted something incongruous in her facial appearance. In short, the bone is heavier...
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When a new LGBT challenge arrives, all our existing issues have to make room
From our experience of taking calls on our helpline every day, it is clear that LGBT people are feeling the direct effects of an increasingly volatile political atmosphere, both here in the UK and across the globe. Delivering one of the only funded development programmes for lesbian and bi women in the country, we hear...
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50 years later: on the outside looking in
Lady Phyll, the co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride, on the whitewashing of LGBTQ history, the danger of the ubiquitous call to ‘be yourself’ for QTIPOC and the need for more substantive allyship from within the LGBTQ community. The modern LGBTQ liberation movement is littered with glittering stories of triumphant white people marching...
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Facial surgery helped unlock my confidence, now anything feels possible
For many trans people, the process of becoming themselves can be terrifying and costly before it becomes rewarding. Racing star, Charlie Martin, tells us how becoming her authentic self has helped her scale both new personal and professional heights. At the age of 19, Charlie Martin experienced the buzz and magic of the Le Mans...
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Are we there yet?
It is important for society to reflect back on key moments of history. It is how we learn, monitor progress and set new ambitions. For LGBT+ communities, a key moment of historical reflection is upon us—the Stonewall riots. A time where enough was enough and our communities stood strong together. We have much to thank...
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‘Bobby’s Bill’ to sharpen up laws against online homophobic abuse
For many gay men and women, being abused for the way they are is their normality. That is no longer good enough in 2019, argues TOWIE’s Bobby Norris. For Bobby Norris, an openly gay 32-year-old man and a star of ITV’s reality show, ‘The Only Way Is Essex’, homophobic abuse is part and parcel of...
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The power of businesses in LGBT+ inclusion
Businesses have a duty to create inclusive spaces for their employees and now, more than ever, they’re upping their game. At INvolve we’ve worked with over 100 major businesses from across a range of industries, supporting them on their inclusion journeys. Working across ethnic minority, LGBT+ and gender inclusion, we know that people don’t just...