BBC issues 'ally' badges to heterosexual staff who promote LGBT issues in a bid to tackle its...

Daily Mail ^ | PUBLISHED: 16:59 EDT, 12 October 2018 | UPDATED: 16:59 EDT, 12 October 2018 | SUSIE COEN

[E. Pluribus Unum]

FULL TITLE: BBC issues 'ally' badges to heterosexual staff who promote LGBT issues in a bid to tackle its 'heteronormative culture'

Staff at national broadcaster to wear pin badges to show they are 'LGBT allies'

BBC workers told to use the non-binary pronoun 'they' instead of 'he' or 'she'

Colleagues to EVEN change their email signatures to become more inclusive

Review wants to give LGBTQ+ colleagues promotions to create more role models

The BBC is encouraging staff to become ‘straight allies’ of colleagues who are gay, lesbian or have other gender identities.

The move is an attempt to tackle what it calls a ‘heteronormative culture’, in which being straight is considered the norm.

To shift the balance, staff who are heterosexual but ‘actively promote’ LGBT issues will wear pin badges or use email signatures to signify that they are ‘allies’ of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender colleagues.

As it strives to become more inclusive, the broadcaster will also adopt the acronym LGBTQ+ to reflect how ‘sexual orientation and gender identity blur beyond the L, G, B or T’.

LGBTQ+ stands for ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning’, with the plus sign including other sexualities, such as gender fluid, while ‘questioning’ represents those who are exploring their sexuality.

So-called ‘non-binary pronouns’ – for example, referring to someone as ‘they’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘she’ – will also be used by staff. Non-binary people who do not conform to male or female sexuality often prefer to be called ‘they’.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Heteronormative" culture bad, "Homonormative" culture good.

[Mr. Blond]

Pink triangles?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[rey]

This is what academia is becoming. Unless you are fully supportive of this crud you are not welcome.

[atc23]

Slavery is Freedom. Forward!

[webheart]

If you don’t get the badge you might lose your job. I would get one whether I deserved it or not.

[oldtech]

What a load!

[Bullish]

Satan loves to mark people too.

[Fungi]

How about necrophilia, pederasty, etc.....and I forgot murderers, wife beaters........Nonsense!!! We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.

[bagster]

[skr]

"They" is a collective noun, so it would be an incorrect usage of the English language.

[SecondAmendment]

Coerced insanity never ends well ...

[bgill]

There was another time people were forced to wear badges.

[Secret Agent Man]

Liberals virtue shaming.

Since they have made vietue shaming them, illegal.

[lurk]

Mark of the beast, the prequel. Wear a badge to show fealty.

[donna]

It's sexual harassment.

All the straight people (if there are any left) should file a civil rights suit.

[dfwgator]

Seinfeld definitely was on the cutting edge.

[max americana]

I want a badge where it says i dont put up with ass muncher faghomo crap..

[budj]

I'd wear this badge.

[BradyLS]

“Party pins! Gitcher Party pins! Can’t have a job without yer Party pin!”