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	This template displays an attributed personal recollection. See [[LGBT History Project:Editorial Policy]] for how recollections are used.		This template displays an attributed personal recollection. See [[LGBT History Project:Editorial Policy]] §2.9 for how recollections are used.

	Usage:		Usage:
	{{Recollection		<pre>{{Recollection
	\| text = The account, in the contributor's own words.		\| text = The account, in the contributor's own words.
	\| name = Contributor name (or initials)		\| name = Contributor name (or initials)
	\| role = Their relationship to the events		\| role = Their relationship to the events
	\| date = Year recorded		\| date = Year recorded
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	~~== Example use (on an article page) ==~~
	~~This is how you would drop your recollection into, say, the ''Stonewall'' or ''LGB without T'' page:~~

	~~<nowiki>{{Recollection~~
	\| text = As Global Chair of BNY Mellon's LGBT network, I put us forward for Stonewall's Champions programme every year. Back then – this would have been around 2010, well before Ruth Hunt took over in 2014 – Stonewall's remit under Ben Summerskill was lesbian, gay and bisexual only; it didn't cover trans. That left us in an odd position: a global bank wanting to do right by all its people, but told that for trans inclusion we would have to separately find, vet and fund a second specialist organisation. And then there was the money. Getting one budget line signed off for a diversity subscription was hard enough; getting a second approved – for what was seen at the time as a niche topic – would have been all but impossible. Most firms never managed it. So when Stonewall brought trans expertise in-house in 2015, it was genuinely welcomed: it meant trans was covered under the single budget line we already had, we could work with one organisation for everyone, and it sent a signal, from the biggest name in the field, that trans colleagues were part of the same family. For those of us doing this work inside big institutions, that mattered.
	~~\| name = Jonathan Harbourne~~
	~~\| role = then Global Chair, BNY Mellon LGBT network~~
	~~\| date = 2026~~
	~~}}</nowiki~~>

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<div style="font-size:0.85em; font-weight:bold; color:#993556; margin-bottom:0.4em;">Personal recollection</div>
<div style="font-style:italic; line-height:1.6;">{{{text}}}</div>
<div style="font-size:0.85em; color:#555; border-top:0.5px solid #e6cdd9; margin-top:0.7em; padding-top:0.5em;">– {{{name}}}, {{{role}}} · recorded {{{date}}}</div>
</div><noinclude>
This template displays an attributed personal recollection. See [[LGBT History Project:Editorial Policy]] for how recollections are used.

Usage:
{{Recollection
| text = The account, in the contributor's own words.
| name = Contributor name (or initials)
| role = Their relationship to the events
| date = Year recorded
}}
[[Category:Templates]]
</noinclude></nowiki>

== Example use (on an article page) ==
This is how you would drop your recollection into, say, the ''Stonewall'' or ''LGB without T'' page:

<nowiki>{{Recollection
| text = As Global Chair of BNY Mellon's LGBT network, I put us forward for Stonewall's Champions programme every year. Back then – this would have been around 2010, well before Ruth Hunt took over in 2014 – Stonewall's remit under Ben Summerskill was lesbian, gay and bisexual only; it didn't cover trans. That left us in an odd position: a global bank wanting to do right by all its people, but told that for trans inclusion we would have to separately find, vet and fund a second specialist organisation. And then there was the money. Getting one budget line signed off for a diversity subscription was hard enough; getting a second approved – for what was seen at the time as a niche topic – would have been all but impossible. Most firms never managed it. So when Stonewall brought trans expertise in-house in 2015, it was genuinely welcomed: it meant trans was covered under the single budget line we already had, we could work with one organisation for everyone, and it sent a signal, from the biggest name in the field, that trans colleagues were part of the same family. For those of us doing this work inside big institutions, that mattered.
| name = Jonathan Harbourne
| role = then Global Chair, BNY Mellon LGBT network
| date = 2026
}}</nowiki>

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