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Article

7 Feb 2008

Author:
von Raphael Minder, Financial Times Deutschland

Cool reception for Asia's gay workers

Homosexual employees face discrimination across most of Asia, but global investment banks are at the forefront of change...Lehman Brothers…recently held an unusual recruitment event at Hong Kong university…aimed at gay and lesbian students...Lehman is planning to extend its initiatives targeting the gay community…[to] Singapore...Lehman...is not the only bank seeking to recruit from Asia's gay community...Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Merrill Lynch and UBS co-sponsored a cinema evening in Hong Kong which featured The Bubble, a 2006 film about...gay relationship...[I]n most of Asia, gay people still face discrimination and censure - both in and out of the workplace…Kay McArdle [of Goldman Sachs]...describes Seoul as "the least diverse office we have in Asia".