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LGBT Great regularly represent our members on public platforms to share our LGBT+ message with a wider and global audience.

 

This includes speaking at over 50 external events. In 2021 we represented our members at the 2021 Global Invest Forum in Paris, the Opening Doors Initiative, Pensions Management Institute, APCOM in Thailand and NICSA in the US.

We also talk to the media including: The Financial Times, Reuters, Investment Week, Professional Pensions, International Investment, ESG Clarity and Professional Advisor about important

We attracted the support of Sir Elton John, David Furnish and the Elton John Aids Foundation with our ESG LGBT+ investing insights report and our work to ignite the support of the financial services industry together.

LGBT Great announce we can no longer support the UK Government’s forthcoming Safe to Be Me conference. We remain aligned with Stonewall and over 80 other LGBT+ organisations in the UK in this matter.
LGBT Great writes to Boris Johnson as representatives of the LGBT+ community in the financial services industry to urge commitment to banning conversion therapy for both gender identity and sexual orientation.
September 2021: Diversity Project and LGBT Great Response to the UK Regulators ‘Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change’