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Does being you get easier with age? With James Barr and Mags Scott

The Green Room: Questions That Matter Most In Business

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The Importance of Being Open About Who You Are

I'm one of Deloitte's national charity partners, and the main thing they do is help schools to be more supportive of their LGBT students by providing an inclusive environment. I had a very, very supportive family life when I was a kid but despite knowing I was gay, I did not come out at all. To have had to constantly sense yourself or worry about the next question you are going to be asked has changed me as a person. And maybe a degree of shame about it, just because of how I was brought up,. And the total lack of understanding of what it even meant to be gay - in terms of your understanding of the difference between gay and straight people.

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