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Being visibleBy Sophie Green
Transgender Day of Visibility is held annually on March 31st and is an international event that celebrates the lives of transgender people. It’s intention is to applaud achievements of the trans community while also highlighting the many issues and prejudices we face.
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Whose stereotypes are they anyway?By Will Fletcher
Like me, many of our supporters will have seen an interesting new poll from YouGov over the weekend. It found that 49% of 18-24 year olds say they are not exclusively heterosexual. It’s undeniably a good thing that younger generations are becoming less rigid in their understanding of sexuality.
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Reflections on my first week at DRMBy Lucy Caldicott
Well it’s the end of my first week as Interim CEO at Diversity Role Models and I wanted to share a couple of thoughts.
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Happy birthday to us: four years old today!By Will Fletcher
It’s four years today since DRM registered with the Charity Commission. And what a long way we’ve come. We’ve delivered over 1,050 workshops, seen nearly 25,000 young people and now have 270 trained role models.
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Annual Report 2014
By Suran Dickson
As we look back on our third full year of operation in our latest annual report and accounts, it’s inspiring to see how Diversity Role Models has grown. When I founded the charity in 2011, I was the only employee. We finished August 2014 with six fantastically talented staff members, 200 inspirational role models and countless valued supporters.
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DRM celebrates delivering 1,000 workshopsBy Will Fletcher
Leading anti-bullying charity Diversity Role Models has today delivered its 1000th workshop to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying. Since the charity was founded in June 2011 it has reached 22,833 students with their message of acceptance and inclusivity. This includes an estimated 1,370 young LGBT people.
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Ben Cohen visits the Elmgreen School to support Diversity Role Models' workshops
By Will Fletcher
Ben Cohen visits the Elmgreen School to support Diversity Role Models' workshops tackling homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying
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Laughing all the way to the bank
By Ali Hendry Ballard
Ali is company director of the Short & Girlie Show, an award-winning comedy troupe. In this guest blog she writes about how they supported DRM on their 2014 tour.
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I Am Michael - a lesson in empathy
By Will Fletcher
Last night I went to see the UK premiere of I Am Michael at BFI Flare, the London LGBT Film Festival. The film tells the real-life story of Michael Glatze, an American former gay rights advocate who now identifies as heterosexual, denounces homosexuality and is the Pastor of a church in Wyoming.
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Let’s make our #LGBTFuture a reality
By Will Fletcher
To celebrate LGBT History Month we've been featuring a series of guest blogs from our volunteer role models about their personal histories. To round things off, our Operations Manager Will takes a look towards the future.
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