Ladybirder, you can bet your boots they were! (Actually, because you haven’t been around I posted a thread a little while back asking after you but no one had any news. Pleased to see you back. Are you ok?).
Togo is right. I know a major company that encourages its employees to embrace ‘diversity’ in all its forms, but predominately LGBT. It has set up a ‘friends’ system so that anyone belonging to a minority group knows they have someone to talk to if needs be. All the staff wear nametags on black ribbons around their necks but the anyone who volunteers to be a ‘friend’ is issued with a rainbow ribbon so that they, as a ‘friend’, can be identified by the needy ....which led me to ask the same question that Togo asked. Does that automatically render those with black ribbons ‘phobics’, ’bigots’, etc., etc?