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R3’s Liz Bingham on coming out at work: ‘I nearly cried. I thought my career would implode’

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In 2015 the former EY board member received an OBE for promoting equality in the workplace. She tells her story for FN’s Pride of Finance list

Clifford Chance partner Anna Thwaites: ‘I outed myself by applying for leave for my civil union’

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‘In a way you could say I came out in order to take a day off’

Linklaters’ Scott Simpson: ‘If I’m not out and open, I can’t be the best lawyer I can be’

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Being in the closet made the Magic Circle partner not be his ‘best self’

Pride of Finance: 20 coming out at work stories from senior leaders

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FN’s inaugural list celebrates LGBTQIA+ icons of finance

EY’s Victor Nieves: ‘Coming out at work helped me tell my family I was gay’

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Out LGBTQIA+ colleagues inspired the Big Four partner to be his authentic self

UK’s first trans judge Victoria McCloud: ‘The UK is far less accepting than in the 1990s, people are deliberately insulting’

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Victoria McCloud says firms need to check employees’ ‘rudeness and intimidation’ towards trans staff

UK’s first trans investment boss Reece Tomlinson: ‘Two senior leaders had a very hard time accepting me and they left’

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The RWT Growth boss’s team threw her a champagne reception to celebrate the day she came out at work

BlackRock’s Martin Parkes: ‘The start of my career was disturbing. I was told to put my identity away’

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Finance firms can propel careers of LGBTQIA+ employees by collecting data, says the BlackRock leader

M&G director Mark McLane: ‘I came out to colleagues at a work party’

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McLane has been a diversity champion for some of the world’s biggest firms for two decades

Lloyds Banking Group’s Andrew Walton: I have never faced prejudice for being a gay man in finance

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Don’t overthink it, says the finance giant’s chief sustainability officer to those scared to come out at work

Innovate Finance and Stripe UK chair Louise Smith: ‘I lied about having a 6ft South African boyfriend’

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The first chief digital officer for Lloyd’s of London says the finance sector risks ‘going backwards’ on LGBTQIA+ inclusion

BNY Mellon’s Rob McClenaghan-Harrop: ‘I intentionally omitted names of gay bars in front of colleagues’

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The banker on why coming out at work isn’t a ‘one-time thing’

Wall Street pioneer Marty Chavez: ‘Telling my prospective boss I was gay was a litmus test for Goldman Sachs’

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Chavez, a Latino who sports Japanese tattoo sleeves and prefers hoodies to suits, told his future employer he was gay in a job interview in 1993. FN showcases his story here as part of our Pride of Finance celebrations

Deloitte’s Will Smith: ‘I was told that being gay would harm my chances of career progression’

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The Big Four partner says he’s lost count of the number of times he has been asked questions about ‘his wife’

Dame Inga Beale: ‘I went back in the closet at Lloyd’s of London after facing resistance as a female CEO’

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Being openly bisexual and a female chief executive at one of the City’s oldest institutions came with big challenges, Beale tells FN’s Pride of Finance list

Man Group CEO Robyn Grew: ‘I’ve suffered verbal abuse and even physical aggression’

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Being open about her sexuality has come with its challenges for the hedge fund boss, she tells FN’s debut Pride of Finance list

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