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    02 November 2011
    The Best Days of Your Life?

    We've often written from an adult perspective about why Diversity Role Models is needed and how it can encourage confidence in LGBT students and empathy in their peers. We asked Jess, a 16 year old college student from Manchester, about her experiences of school and why she wishes she'd had role models to help her through some difficult years.

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    13 October 2011
    UK lesbian artists band together to combat homophobic bullying

    On the weekend of the 21st October the UK's leading lesbian artists will band together at Dean Street Studios in Soho London to record a song which will help raise awareness and money for charities which work to combat homophobic bullying in young people.

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    14 September 2011
    Babes on the Box

    A woman with a disproportionately small waist for her G cup chest runs down the beach in a red swimsuit cut so high her hips appear to end in her armpits.

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    06 August 2011
    School is a drag

    16 year old Jamie wanted to attend his school prom in a dress. Openly gay and quite flamboyant, not a day had passed that he'd not been called a freak or faced other verbal bullying in his small northern mining town.

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    16 July 2011
    A Question of Sport

    A couple of weeks ago I attended the Prime Minister's reception for the LGBT sports community at Downing Street.

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    08 July 2011
    What do the Kids Say?

    'Please come to my school because I am the only gay one and everybody hates me. I am just the same as them'

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    10 June 2011
    Sideways Hair and Handbags

    After speaking at a staff meeting on the importance of including LGBT topics in primary schools, I was invited to spend a day in one discussing different families. It was a timely reminder, in amongst all the charity red tape & future fundraising, as to how worthwhile all this is.

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    10 May 2011
    We Are Family

    Not so long ago, 'family friendly' was a coded allusion to 'gays not welcome'. Family was what straight people had and LGBT folk were left to the outer circles of these.

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    03 May 2011
    What is Diversity Role Models?

    What we are doing, why and how?

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    01 January 0001
    Our 2019 Prides and partners

    Our partners have created some exclusive apparel, plush toys and accessories to support DRM during Pride season. Also, find out which UK prides we'll be attending.