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More information: For more information on Stonewall’s work, or ways that you can support them visit
www.stonewall.org. uk or contact the free InfoLine on
08000 50 20 20.
Whether you’re looking to move to a gay-friendly employer, or want to explore an alternative career path, Stonewall has a range of online tools. The annual Workplace Equality Index lists the Top 100 gay-friendly employers in Britain (
www.stonewall.
org.uk/wei). Jobseekers and career-switchers can use the Starting Out guide for detailed profiles of inclusive employers, along with contact details and real life examples (
www.startingoutguide.org.uk). All of the employers in the guide are committed to their gay staff and have joined Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme. Students looking for universities that welcome and support lesbian, gay and bisexual people can find detailed reviews of British universities at Stonewall’s Gay By Degree site (www. gaybydegree.
org.uk).
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual roles are often noticeable by their absence on our screens. Positive characters are essential in developing young people’s self-esteem and when Stonewall analysed the numbers of gay characters on the television programmes most watched by young people, the results were shocking. Of the 126 hours monitored in 2010 report Unseen on Screen, lesbian, gay and bisexual people were positively and realistically portrayed for just 46 minutes. Three-quarters of all portrayal was confined to
just four programmes – Hollyoaks, I’m a Celebrity..., How to Look Good Naked and Emmerdale. As young people look to their favourite programmes to learn about the real world, the dearth of positive gay characters is particularly worrying. Limited real-life acquaintance with other gay people means they rely on TV to learn about gay people. Young people want to see positive and realistic portrayal of LGB people on TV and believe it would have a positive effect on both their own and their peers attitudes and behaviour. Since the research was published, LGB
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characters have become far more visible on our screens. In November 2010, Coronation Street won Stonewall’s prestigious Broadcast of the Year award after gaining its first and second lesbian characters with Sian and Sophie’s relationship, alongside Antony Cotton’s established centrepiece role as Sean Tully. Stonewall is continuing to press broadcasters to increase their inclusion of gay issues and characters to ensure gay issues are positively approached.
tonewall tirelessly campaigns for legal and social equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Over the years they have been at the forefront of many advances that have transformed lives. When booking hotels now, it is illegal for the owners to turn you away because you’re lesbian, gay or bisexual; adoption and foster services must now treat applications from gay people
equally; gay people can now serve in the armed forces; and it’s now illegal for employers to discriminate against you because of your sexual orientation. These are all changes Stonewall has championed and driven through to legislation. We catch up with Stonewall’s recent work and find out why there is still so much to do.
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