Stonewall has launched a national campaign to tackle endemic levels of homophobia in Britain’s workplaces. The campaign comes in response to YouGov polling which shows that in the last five years 2.4m people of working age have witnessed verbal homophobic bullying at work. A further 800,000 people of working age have witnessed physical homophobic bullying at work. Further polling shows that over a quarter of lesbian, gay and bisexual people are not at all open to colleagues about their sexual orientation. Posters will appear on nearly 650 buses in London, Cardiff and Edinburgh as well as 4,000 adverts on the London Underground. Campaign posters have been made available to Stonewall Diversity Champion members, who together employ more than 6 million people in Britain, with Stonewall calling on organisations to tailor posters with their logos and reproduce them in their workplaces.

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