While LGBTQ people have more rights than they ever did, and same sex marriage is legal throughout the USA, there is still a longer road for LGBTQ people, particularly people of color. Ali Marrero-Calderon is a 70 year old Puerto Rican lesbian. Kevin Hawkins is a 25 year old African-American gay man. While they are from very different generations, they…
When I first began Diversity and Inclusion work in organizations over 20 years ago, there were those in the D&I community who did not think that LGBT people had a seat at the Diversity table. Race and gender and other dimensions of diversity had a seat, but if you were a Black lesbian, a Jewish gay man, or a Latino…
Here are some of my diversity and inclusion heroes and zeros for August 2014- Feel free to send me your diversity and inclusion heroes and zeros. Diversity and Inclusion Hero #1 is The Chicago White Sox for sponsoring a night called “LGBT Pride Night, Out At the Sox,” on August 16, when they played against the Blue Jays. So if…
In honor of Gay Pride-Please promise to never use the term “sexual preference.” It’s culturally ignorant and you sound like you know nothing. When someone who should know better uses it, it’s simply offensive. Please think about sexual orientation and gender identity. Being Transgender is not a sexual orientation.A person can be Transgender and be straight or lesbian, bisexual or gay.This is…
Beyond LGBTQ, Finding Commonalities In Our Multiple Identities Every one of us has multiple identities. Those multiple identities influence our thoughts, perceptions and behaviors every day in our lives at work, and in our communities. Our multiple-identities are like panels that make us each separate but connected beautiful diversity quilts The late Dr. Roosevelt Thomas stated Diversity is any collective mixture…
It’s Gay Pride month when LGBT people and their allies take to the streets, see LGBT films, and assert their rights as human beings to be individuals, to love, have families, be as neurotic and stressed as everybody else, and be left alone. What if those of us who believe in diversity, love and inclusion were louder for one day…
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