At Macquarie, one of MyGwork’s member organisations, activities to mark Pride season are well under way, with many more events planned for the summer.

Indeed, Macquarie has already marked IDAHOBIT Day by hosting, in late May, both ‘City4LGBT’, a groundbreaking event which raised over £25,000 for four LGBT+ charities, and ‘Stand Bi Me’, a breakfast-in best-practices event for MyGwork, showcasing the London Bisexual Network.

Macquarie will, in mid-June, host a ‘lunch and learn’ event featuring Mermaids, a charity providing support to the families of gender variant and transgender children, and in late June is planning to co-sponsor, with Bloomberg, an event featuring Diversity Role Models, a charity working to combat bullying, especially homophobic bullying, in schools.

In the fortnight running up to the Pride in London parade, Macquarie’s main office lobby in the City will be adorned with ‘Pride Jubilee’ imagery to mark Pride season and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots which launched the modern gay rights movement, and will feature a copy of the 2003 legislation, autographed by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, by which Section 28, which had stigmatised homosexuality in the UK for 15 years, was repealed.

In the days before the Pride in London parade and Black Pride, Macquarie will host a key speaker event with Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, and on the day of the Pride in London parade itself will sponsor a post-parade afternoon tea in Soho for participating members of Opening Doors London.

And it does not stop there! After that, Macquarie has number of other events in the pipeline for the summer, potentially including:

1. a launch event, tentatively scheduled for mid-July, for ‘Gateway to Heaven’, a verbatim play by lesbian writer and performer Clare Summerskill, based on interviews with 24 older lesbians and gay men;

2. an event with Claire Harvey in late July to mark Disability Awareness Day, exploring the intersectionality between LGBT+ and disability;

3. an event under the Pride in the City umbrella, likely to be held in August, exploring the intersectionality between LGBT+ and mental health; and

4. an event in early September to usher in Bi Pride.

Anyone interested in attending any of these events, or keen to find out more about Macquarie and/or its work in the Diversity & Inclusion space (including, of course, LGBT+), please email [email protected].