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March 12, 2013
Top firms meet to discuss how to use LGBT diversity to drive business

Networking event will ask if companies really understand LGBT diversity and call on them to celebrate their successes

Senior executives from companies including Google, Deutsche Bank and Microsoft are to attend a networking event about using LGBT diversity to drive their business.

The event is being hosted by law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP in London on 20 March and the guestlist is strictly limited to decision makers from firms who employ over 1,000 people or whose annual turnover exceeds £500m and a handful of other key influencers.

January 3, 2013
Bank of America fined after refusing lesbians mortgage loan

Bank of America has been fined $7,500 by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development after employees wrongfully denied a mortgage loan to a lesbian couple because they weren’t legally married

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has fined Bank of America $7,500 after it refused to provide a lesbian couple with a mortgage loan because they were not married.

Bank of America employees had originally told the couple they would qualify for a government backed loan if one of the women and her partner’s mother signed for the loan.

However the day before they were supposed to settle the arrangement with the bank they were told that Bank of America could not consider the signers to be legally related because the couple were not married.

January 3, 2013
Bank of America fined after refusing lesbians mortgage loan

Bank of America has been fined $7,500 by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development after employees wrongfully denied a mortgage loan to a lesbian couple because they weren’t legally married

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has fined Bank of America $7,500 after it refused to provide a lesbian couple with a mortgage loan because they were not married.

Bank of America employees had originally told the couple they would qualify for a government backed loan if one of the women and her partner’s mother signed for the loan.

However the day before they were supposed to settle the arrangement with the bank they were told that Bank of America could not consider the signers to be legally related because the couple were not married.

November 23, 2012
Power gays: Banking boss Julia Hoggett

As the most senior gay woman at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Julia Hoggett has become a role model for others like her, despite her natural reticence

Julia Hoggett’s job title is a mouthful and you probably need to be a banker to know what it means. But this understated mom is also a role model for gay women as a senior executive at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

When she’s not spending time with her partner and kids in Ireland, she’s ‘Managing director, head of short term fixed income origination, EMEA, head of covered bonds and FIG flow financing, EMEA’ (we told you) for the bank.

And when she’s not doing that, she’s co-lead of the company’s LGBT employee network.

November 9, 2012
City firms worth billions meet in London to push gay rights

Out on the Street travels from New York to London to put LGBT equality and diversity at top of financial sector’s agenda

Chief executives from some of the world’s most powerful firms will bring a taste of Wall Street to London next week for a summit on gay equality.

The Out on the Street event started in New York to allow senior business leaders to boost their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender diversity.

Now it’s coming to the City of London on Tuesday (13 November), the other financial capital of the world.

March 26, 2012
Bank of America executive decries North Carolina’s gay marriage ban

Director of the nation’s second-largest bank says ban could drive talent away from the state

A senior official within Bank of America has denounced North Carolina’s measure to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman.

Catherine Bessant, global technology and operations executive, said in a YouTube video that the initiative would make it harder for companies to attract talent to the state.

March 12, 2012
Baghdad US embassy backs gay murder vigil

San Francisco activists will carry out a vigil in solidarity with Iraqi emo, LGBT and goth youth this Wednesday as massacres continue in Iraq

The US Embassy in Baghdad has sent a message of support to San Franciscan activists holding a vigil for Iraqi emo, goth and LGBT people who are currently being murdered.