Richard Branson Is Ready to Cise Wh the Gays

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"We also have many, many iends who are gay and I know people who lost iends there. We also have many, many iends who are gay and I know people who lost iends there. NEW YORK (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Straight people have “a lot to learn om gay people, ” billnaire entreprenr Sir Richard Branson said on the eve of New York’s Pri march, sayg he would be “absolutely lighted” to have an LGBT+ bsman, whose Virg Group nglomerate operat 35 untri, said private sector bs like his mt help fight for LGBT+ equaly around the world.

“Us non-gay people have a lot to learn om the gay muny, and we need to embrace , ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn an terview on Saturday.

Branson said at age 16 he set up an advisory center to help young gay people meet one another, and grew to bee Heaven, a gay nightclub London. “I go back que a long way when to gay rights, ” said Branson, echoed Bra’s Prce William, who said last week that would be “absolutely fe” if one of his children were LGBT+. “I would be absolutely lighted if one of my grandchildren turned out to be gay, ” Branson said on a vis to New York to participate Virg-sponsored Pri celebratns.

“The most creative, fun, wonrful people the world are gay. ”The weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg 1969, when patrons of Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, stood up to police harassment and triggered days of ristance gave rise to the natnal and global LGBT+ movement for equal rights. Bs mt help tackle such issu such as the fight for rights Uganda, where beg gay n be punishable by life prison, Branson said.