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To mark 50 years since the law that decriminalised homosexuality was passed we have been looking at what impact that Bill has had.

John Browne was the chief executive of the energy company BP between 1995 and 2007. He kept his sexuality secret for the first 50 years of his life.

After being outed by the Daily Mail in 2007 he became the first person, leading a major publicly-traded company, to acknowledge his homosexuality. But he later stepped down after revelations about his homosexual affair.

In 2014 he published The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business.

Lord Browne told Becky Milligan that if gay people come in to business 'but see no gay people at the top' they will go elsewhere.

(Photo: Lord Browne, credit: Getty Images)