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Hugging your male friends is fine, even if you haven’t just won an Olympic gold medalLast night Jack Laugher and Chris Mears became the UK’s first Olympic gold medallists in diving, when they won the men’s synchronized 3m springboard. I’m a big fan of Jack and Chris - because of their diving prowess, clearly - so like much of the country I was delighted for them.
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Linda Riley becomes Patron and announces gala dinner, hosted by Clare BaldingLinda Riley, publisher of Diva magazine and Outnews Global, Founder of the European Diversity awards and diversity campaigner, is unveiled today as a new patron of the award-winning anti-bullying charity, Diversity Role Models (“DRM”).
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First day back at schoolBy Salil Mazumdar
Primary school role model Salil writes a guest blog about his first day volunteering with DRM.
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This is the story of a little girlBy Navah Bekhor
One of our newest role models wrote this poem about her transgender son. We think it's beautiful, so we wanted to share it with you all.
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Announcing our new report: Embracing Diversity and Ending BullyingBy Lucy Caldicott
This afternoon we launched our report Embracing Diversity and Ending Bullying at a reception in the House of Commons. This report is the result of an independent evaluation of our workshops which have now reached 34,816 young people in the UK.
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TDoR: Visiting my old schoolBy Megan Key
There was no sympathy. I had friends, but they were into girls, clothes and, later on, going to raves, and it didn’t seem like me. So I spent a lot of time on my own. Being the fattest kid in the year, or maybe the school, meant I got used to laughing at myself. Before anyone else got in first. I had to. It was survival. There wasn’t a day went by, when I didn't wish I was at another school.
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The power of storiesBy Lucy Caldicott
Like most sensible people I woke up on Saturday morning with a heavy heart following the appalling events on Friday in Paris. I believe that human beings are inherently good but I can find myself questioning this faith when human beings do dreadful things.
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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?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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