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Title: Met named as friendliest employer for gay workers
Post by: LostInTime on January 31, 2007, 07:56:34 AM
Post by: LostInTime on January 31, 2007, 07:56:34 AM
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Mr Alldus, 37, who is Lambeth's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) liaison officer decided to enrol after reading about an HIV-positive officer working in Lambeth in Positive Nation magazine.
"I thought it showed how much attitudes within the police had progressed," he said. "My father was a police officer for 30 years until 1977 and for two-thirds of that time it was illegal just to be gay.
Mr Alldus, 37, who is Lambeth's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) liaison officer decided to enrol after reading about an HIV-positive officer working in Lambeth in Positive Nation magazine.
"I thought it showed how much attitudes within the police had progressed," he said. "My father was a police officer for 30 years until 1977 and for two-thirds of that time it was illegal just to be gay.