BP has built a reputation for itself as a LGBTQ-friendly employer, with Pride floats, a Stonewall top employer badge, and recruitment events for LGBTQ students. But BP’s donations and deals also keep in office notoriously homophobic politicians[1], from US Congressman John Culberson to Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. We started this open letter to call on LGBTQ+ people working at BP to stop these donations.
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Endnotes:
- keep in office notoriously homophobic politicians: http://platformlondon.org/p-publications/fight-bp-pinkwashing-briefing/