Stonewall's Diversity Champions

To what extent does the experience of Stonewall's ‘Diversity Champions' initiative demonstrate that business-led action to promote diversity is an effective means of reducing disadvantage at work?

Introduction
‘Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual people have been working together successfully since the beginning of time. What is different today is that many people now openly live out their sexual orientation.' (Zuckerman & Simons, 1996, p.1).

Like any minority group, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) have had to overcome barriers to gain acceptance within society. Whilst sexual orientation was beginning to be included in equal opportunity policies in the late 1980's, the Conservative Government ‘showed little support for these "gay-friendly" developments' (Colgan et al, 2007, p.594) and called attention to this with section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which ‘prohibited local authorities in England and......

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