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THE star-studded British LGBT Awards take place in central London in May. Nadine Rae has been nominated in the Future Leader category to mark the work she is pioneering in the rail industry to challenge stereotypes and make the world of work properly inclusive of diversity.
She leads from the front. And it is her simple but effective poster campaign in which she showcased LGBT+ rail industry workers, members of her union, to lend their photographed profile to confront stereotypes.
Rae speaks to the Morning Star about the award and her ambition for transforming the hegemonic male rail industry into a beacon of inclusiveness by 2025:
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