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February is LGBT History Month and with that in mind we have chosen Heather Peace as our Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month.<\/p>\n
Heather is an actor and musician studying at Manchester Met University.\u00a0 She has appeared in a number of well-known TV series including Emmerdale, London\u2019s Burning, Ultimate Force, Waterloo Road and Prey.\u00a0 She has been a classically trained pianist since the age of six and held a jazz residency at a club whilst at university.<\/p>\n
Heather divides her time between acting and her music.\u00a0 She has released numerous albums and tours regularly in the UK, Europe and currently in Australia.<\/p>\n
Heather and her longtime partner Ellie Dickinson entered into a\u00a0civil partnership\u00a0in 2013, and subsequently converted it to marriage in 2014 and they have three daughters together.<\/p>\n
Heather is a prominent supporter of LGBT equality causes. She is a patron of\u00a0Manchester Pride\u00a0and has recorded a video for\u00a0Stonewall<\/a>‘s “It Gets Better” campaign.\u00a0She is involved in a number of related charities, including\u00a0Diversity Role Models and The\u00a0Albert Kennedy Trust.<\/p>\n She has hosted and curated her own “Heather Peace Presents” stage in several editions of\u00a0Manchester Pride and\u00a0in July 2016\u00a0Diva\u00a0announced that Heather was its new columnist.<\/p>\n In 2010 she was number 40 on the\u00a0Independent on Sunday<\/em>‘s Pink List, and number 10 in 2011.\u00a0She was also voted number 18 on US website afterellen.com’s 2011 Hot 100 list. She is also the only woman to have appeared twice on the cover of Diva Magazine in the space of six months.<\/p>\n To find out more about Heather\u2019s music see here http:\/\/www.heatherpeace.com\/<\/a> and for her acting see here http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0668698\/<\/a><\/p>\n To find out more about Diversity Role Models see their website at https:\/\/www.diversityrolemodels.org\/<\/a> and the Albert Kennedy Trust at https:\/\/www.akt.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February is LGBT History Month and with that in mind we have chosen Heather Peace as our Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month. Heather is an actor and musician studying at Manchester Met University.\u00a0 She …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month","category-lgbt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}