Transport for London launches portrait series to celebrate Pride and 20 years of LGBTQ+ colleague community
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Transport for London (TfL) is celebrating 20 years of its LGBTQ+ colleague community OUTbound across the transport network ahead of the Pride in London parade on Saturday, 5 July.
TfL’s colleague network group, which was founded in 2005 and has more than 900 members, aims to support anyone who identifies as being LGBTQ+. It also works to help increase awareness and understanding of the LGBTQ+ community throughout the transport industry.
Across the transport network, customers will be able to see portrait posters of staff who have made contributions to LGBTQ+ community within TfL and across the transport industry, alongside portraits with local activist groups and organisations, including Lady Phyll, Terrence Higgins Trust , Switchboard and TransActual, that have been in the forefront of social change in London.
TfL will once again be taking part in the Pride in London parade this weekend with a bus containing TfL staff who will be wearing newly designed T-shirts that represent this year's theme, activism and social change. This is the 20th year in row that TfL has taken part in Pride in London parade.
Seb Dance, London's Deputy Mayor for Transport, said: “I'm proud we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of TfL's OUTbound colleague network group. Reaching this incredible milestone is a massive achievement and the role of the group is so valued in championing the LGBTQ+ community as well as representing equality and support for all staff across TfL.
"It's really fitting we are marking 20 years of OUTbound by recognising staff who have made significant contributions to the LGBTQ+ community ahead of what promises to be another memorable Pride in London parade.”
See the portrait poster series at Bishopsgate Institute, Outside Project’s Trans Winter Shelter, Queer Britain, London School of Economics, The Common Press and Ye Olde Rose and Crowne Greenwich.
