Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Former BP CEO: Hiding made me unhappy

Lord Browne, the former CEO of oil giant BP, is urging the business world to take a proactive role in making LGBT employees feel more welcome in the workplace. Browne resigned his post in 2007 after it was revealed he is gay. 

“I was trapped for most of my adult life, unable to reveal who I was to the world. I led a double-life of secrecy, and of deep isolation, walled off from those closest to me,” Browne said at a launch event for Connect Out, an LGBT networking group.

No mention of Browne's homosexuality is mentioned in his official biography at BP.com.