Template:Recollection

<div style="background:#faf3f7; border:0.5px solid #e6cdd9; border-left:4px solid #D4537E; border-radius:0 6px 6px 0; padding:0.8em 1.1em; margin:1em 0;"> <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>

Example use (on an article page)

This is how you would drop your recollection into, say, the Stonewall or LGB without T page:

{{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 }}