Browne calls for end to gay discrimination

Former BP chief executive John Browne is urging the international business community to do more to end discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace. Meanwhile, ExxonMobil shareholders have voted down a proposal that would add gay and transgender employees to the company’s non-discrimination policy. Read moreOklahoma Teacher Fired Over Laramie Project FilmLord Browne — speaking at

Former BP chief executive John Browne is urging the international business community to do more to end discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace.

Meanwhile, ExxonMobil shareholders have voted down a proposal that would add gay and transgender employees to the company’s non-discrimination policy.

Lord Browne — speaking at an event in London launching a new lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) network — said he believes the business world “remains more intolerant of homosexuality than other worlds such as the legal profession, the media and the visual arts”, The Upstreamonline.com reports.