Pride and Prejudice
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
What responsibility do corporates have to promote LGBTQ rights in countries where homosexuality is still illegal, or gay people are widely persecuted?
Ed Butler speaks to Mark McLane, the global head of diversity and inclusion at Barclays, one of the sponsor's of London's pride march this week about what his company is doing in the many countries in which it operates, including the US, where legislation still limits LGBTQ rights. And Nigerian actor Bisi Alimi tells his personal story of why he had to flee his home country because of his sexuality, and why he is now lobbying multinational firms to do more to protect gay and lesbian staff in Nigeria.
(Picture: Ugandan men hold a rainbow flag during the annual gay pride in Entebbe, Uganda; Credit: Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:09.9 | Today we're looking at the theme of gay rights and the corporate sector. |
| 0:14.3 | How far should, how far do companies fight on behalf of their LGBT staff? |
| 0:21.1 | There's still, what, 20 plus states in the United States that I can legally be fired for being gay. |
| 0:27.7 | But that doesn't mean that that is necessarily going to be enacted because society has moved past the legislation. |
| 0:34.8 | Some companies are taking a stand in the US, but what about the countries where being |
| 0:38.7 | gay is a crime? I think it becomes a responsibility of companies to say, is loving someone a crime? |
| 0:45.8 | Do you sack them for being in love, or do you let them know? We know you're going through this |
| 0:50.3 | cutcase. We want you to know that you've got a family here. That's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:58.6 | I say gay, you say pride, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, right, go say gay, gay, right. |
| 1:08.9 | It's just happy, like. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, we're really happy. Everyone's happy. |
| 1:11.6 | There's no negative, like, no negativity. |
| 1:14.6 | Everyone's just like positive. |
| 1:16.6 | It's so lovely. |
| 1:17.6 | Black, white, gay, lesbian, whatever. |
| 1:20.6 | Who cares? |
| 1:21.6 | We're sharing the love. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:24.6 | That's what we do. |
| 1:25.6 | And the glitter. |
| 1:26.6 | We're sharing the glitter. |
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