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News and Events => People news => Topic started by: LostInTime on January 31, 2007, 07:56:34 AM

Title: Met named as friendliest employer for gay workers
Post by: LostInTime on January 31, 2007, 07:56:34 AM
Link (http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1151648.0.met_named_as_friendliest_employer_for_gay_workers.php)

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.