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Balance sheets to the streets: the DiverCity Podcast dives into corporate Pride
Julia Streets, Founder and Host, DiverCity Podcast
February was LGBT history month – a time to reflect and recognise those who have empowered change before us and champion the collective pride of LGBT individuals and their allies.
Each year, LGBT history month provides us with time to acknowledge how far we have come since the Stonewall Riots in the US in 1969 and also to consider where we must focus next.
Today, Pride – the global movement fighting for equal rights for LGBTQ+ people all over the world – is emblazoned with the ideals of diversity, inclusion and representation and has evolved since that spontaneous Stonewall Uprising, where the desire to be seen as respectable and non-threatening to wider American society manifested in predominantly white gay men and lesbians taking to the streets. Today contemporary incarnations of Pride have snowballed, manifesting into over