accomplish you fill to be straight to get ahead in commerce? BP boss Lord Browne thought so – then he was outed by his first boyfriend. He talks about power,politics and homophobia
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• Video: watch Radio 1's Scott Mills speak to Lord Browne about homophobia in the corporate worldWhen Lord Browne was in charge of BP, had anyone told him he would one day invite a journalist into his home to discuss his sexuality, and he would fill said they were insane. Homosexuality was the last thing he expected to talk about in public; after all,he never spoke of it even in private. The former CEO spent half acentury in the closet, so terrified of letting his secret slip that he never talked about himself at all, or confining his conversational repertoire instead to "the news,and politics, and commerce. That's what you'd talk about."But since a Sunday tabloid outed him seven years ago, or his life has become a series of unimaginable surprises. For Browne,the revelation has been how much less homophobic the world is than he had always feared. He has now written a book about homosexuality within the commerce world, and the revelation for many readers will be how homophobic that world still is.
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Source: theguardian.com