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At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With approximately $16 billion in annual revenue and a talent force of more than 60,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.
For more than 70 years, our teams have provided integrated solutions to help solve the most complex and hazardous challenges of space exploration. We invent by imagining what’s possible.
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The National Air and Space Museum's One World Connected exhibit will tell the story of how flight fostered two momentous changes in everyday life: the ease in making connections across vast distances and a new perspective of Earth as humanity’s home. Below are some stories from Jacobs that also highlight the connections and digital solutions we are making around the world.
Stories that capture our partnerships and innovative impact for a more connected, sustainable world
Meet Kevin (he / him), a document controller working in our Winnersh office in the U.K. who identifies as a cisgender gay man – or, as he explains in the video below – a unicorn, “a mythical beast that is gorgeous and stands on its own”.
Sadly, Kevin wasn’t always a unicorn. Brought up in a painful, homophobic atmosphere in rural England, he struggled to accept and understand his identity, eventually running away from home when the pressure and despair became too much.
Aged 14, Kevin fled to London with nothing more than a bag of belongings, a wallet full of small change and his teddy bear. He was forced to sleep on the streets, was robbed of his belongings and quickly found out that as a teenage boy with no money or friends he was unlikely to survive in the big city.
At his lowest ebb, Kevin was rescued by an incredible group of black LGBT youths who helped get him off the street. They were The House of Perpetual Hope, a collective of gay black men and trans women who lived in a commune and styled themselves as a family “House” as part of the Ballroom culture of the 1980s.
For the first time in his life, Kevin had a family who didn’t just accept him but reminded him daily of how beautiful, how fabulous and how special he was. Kevin became “Babybird Hope” and, slowly but surely, began to spread his wings for the first time. Although he was a “white boy” from the countryside and they were black men and women from Brazil and Africa, they were his brothers and sisters and they lived together for years.
While Kevin and the House of Perpetual Hope thrived as a family, it’s important to note that this was against the backdrop of both the HIV AIDS crisis and a hostile political situation in the U.K. during the 1980s. Britain’s Conservative Government – headed by the incredibly divisive Margaret Thatcher – sought to dispossess LGBT communities, actively repealing gay rights and introducing toxic legislation like the Section 28 clause that banned schools from teaching children about LGBT people.
In Thatcher’s words, no children should be taught “that they have an unalienable right to be gay”. This homophobia was backed by many popular newspapers at the time, who portrayed HIV as a “gay plague”, spread damaging misinformation (such as the myth that straight people could be infected with HIV by sitting on a toilet seat or holding hands with a gay person) and portrayed gay and lesbian people as “diseased vermin” and child abusers.
If the climate of homophobia wasn’t already enough to deal with, over the next ten years Kevin would lose all the members of his family to AIDS – a heart-rending and unfortunately all-too-familiar story that is shared by thousands of gay men who were alive at the time. And yet, nevertheless, Kevin continued to live his life, committing through his pain and loss to keep the memory of his brothers and sisters Mamma Hollywood, Steph, Tez, Twinks and Susi alive.
Thanks to our LGBT+ network, Prism, the House of Perpetual Hope lives on at Jacobs with Kevin as the leader. He’s an incredible mentor and supporter of our young LGBT+ colleagues and is changing lives on a daily basis through his work with the Terrence Higgins Trust, the U.K’s leading LGBT, HIV and sexual health charity.
Find our more about Kevin’s story in the video below.
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