LGBTQ+ group launches sticker for businesses

Image caption, The sticker can go in the window of any premises with customers
  • Author, Olivia Copeland
  • Role, 大象传媒 News, Guernsey

Liberate is launching a new initiative to help businesses show their support for the LGBTQ+ community.

The Guernsey equality group's Rainbow Mark is a sticker that shows premises are welcoming to LGBTQ+ people.

Any business wanting to display the sticker will be given information and guidance by Liberate about how to support all customers.

It's been launched at the same time as a LGBTQ+ Business Network for professionals and allies.

Liberate said it launched the initiative "in light of the current global wave of anti-LGBTQ+ (and particularly anti-Trans+) rhetoric, something that the Channel Islands are sadly not exempt from".

It said by displaying a sticker in their window businesses would be pledging their support for LGBTQ+ inclusion and promising to report instances of homophobia or transphobia to the charity.

Any premises with clients or customers may take part, such as offices, public buildings, beauty salons, cafes, bars, gyms and nightclubs.

The charity is running a series of events for businesses to inform them about the Rainbow Mark and other opportunities to show their support.

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