Daylight, the Gay Bankg Startup, Is Sued by Employe

Contents:

• AMERI’S FIRST ‘GAY BANK’ G SOON TO MICHIGAN
• THE MELTDOWN OF A GAY BANK
• ‘THE MELTDOWN OF A GAY BANK’
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY BANKERS, ONCE SILENT, SPEAK OF PROGRS — AND HURDL
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’
• MOSW GAY MAP

AMERI’S FIRST ‘GAY BANK’ G SOON TO MICHIGAN

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THE MELTDOWN OF A GAY BANK

Meanwhile, officials om Bank of Ameri helped negotiate a homophobic bill North Carola that blocked nondiscrimatn laws om gog to effect. In 1988, the Dallas Gay Alliance started a cred unn for the lol LGBTQ+ muny. When Rob Curtis was nng Gaydar back 2018, he’d s chat rooms and watch the amoro hopefuls talk.

” Like “the pa, as a gay man, of gog to a bank and beg asked ‘What do your wife do?, ’” he says. “Sure, two whe, cisgenred gay men might fd themselv this suatn San Francis or New York, where ’s easier to be LGBTQ+, but that’s not universal.

‘THE MELTDOWN OF A GAY BANK’

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It also created a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Alli Workg Group 2006 to tablish iativ for s muni, ctomers, and employe.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

On Monday the Michigan Department of Insurance and Fancial Servic approved a requt by a pany that hop to offer the first-ever “safe space” cred unn for gay people. BREAKING NEWS: Ameri’s first gay bank: Cred unn for LGBTQ muny gets green-light and will offer special loans to transgenr people who are transng.

Why is a cred unn for gay people need?

Bee gay people allegedly need a “safe space” to nduct their bankg servic, acrdg to Democrat Senator Jeremy Moss.

GAY BANKERS, ONCE SILENT, SPEAK OF PROGRS — AND HURDL

“It’s burnsome that gay and trans Michiganrs mt pend on private bs to take upon themselv to provi equal treatment to employe and nsumers. While a study published earlier this year found that gay borrowers were 73 percent more likely to be nied a mortgage — though ’s not proven that this dispary is ed by discrimatn — anti-LGBT discrimatn has already been banned the Uned Stat. A headle by Fortune magaze, “First Gay Cred Unn Given Green Light to Prrize LGBTQ Ctomers, ” suggts will, though ’ll apparently prrize the bankg ncerns of the LGBT muny over those of non-gay ctomers.

Back 2015, for example, officials at the Universy of Oklahoma announced a plan to build a genuely segregated study lounge signed to be ed exclively by gay stunts. There have also been reports of gay pre-K schools and gay-only jail programs:. “To provi LGBTQQIA (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, qutng, tersex, alli) teachers, stunts and fai a safe and fun learng environment, ee of homophobia and transphobia — a place that honors their inti so they n be themselv, fd themselv, and fd iends and mentors who n help them navigate the challeng of life and tn, ” the missn statement for the school seen above reads.

”“When we started explorg wh people what money reprented to them their liv, reprented eedom, ” says Curtis, who prr to Daylight was the managg director of the gay datg se Gaydar, as well as founr of the LGBTQ+ mental health platform Curtis, founr and CEO of Daylight [Photo: urty of Daylight]At lnch, Curtis says Daylight is primarily foced on LGBTQ+ lennials who “aren’t preparg for the future fast enough. So those dreams that we’re sold ads of two gay dads and their lovely dghter have never really been on the table for the first place. “Let’s get all the gays donatg sperm, and all the poor queer women beg surrogat, ” Curtis once wrote on Slack.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Huge flatable letters spelled “DAYLIGHT” the pool; later they were rearranged to say “GAY. Datg se Gaydar, to bee the chief product officer.

“If you let me do what I know how to do, we will all be very, very rich and very, very gay, ” says Jae Bleiberg, who joed the pany 2021 as head of operatns after workg at two prr ftech start-ups. ” Curtis also spoke about beg “bullied” by vtors and his fears of beg “nceled for beg a whe cis gay. We don’t get the opportuny to have a up ternally of gays stealg om gays.

The Meltdown of a Gay Bank. Jt Nelson, -founr and print of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), said a bank n be viewed as supportive of LGBTQ+ nsumers if adher to polici, practic, and servic geared toward the LGBTQ+ muny. “If you let me do what I know how to do, we will all be very, very rich and very, very gay, ” one of those workers said.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

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Prr to startg Daylight, Curtis worked for several anizatns supportg the LGBTQ+ liftyle and , cludg Gaydar, a datg se for gay and bisexual men. The buttoned-up ranks of predomantly straight whe men who n the bankg world are makg more room for their gay and lbian lleagu.

TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’

But as is mon wh the dtry's other diversy efforts, this one still falters somewhere between the soarg rhetoric and the on-the-ground the posive si, big banks have ma signifint stris shuttg down the equently overt discrimatn gay and lbian employe once faced, bankers say. No big-bank chief executiv are openly gay, and rank-and-file bank employe say some gay and lbian workers still hate to e out.

Stephanz was speakg on the sil of the third annual "Out on the Street" nference, an event voted to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly on Wall Street. Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfe prid over this year's event, which by cince took place on the same day that Jason Colls of the Natnal Basketball Associatn beme the first active male player a major sport to e nference, and the largely posive reactn to the news om Colls, reflect the extent to which attus about homosexualy and acceptance of openly gay and lbian people have changed the fancial world and cheerful, nametag-filled atmosphere at Out on the Street last week seemed light-years removed om the turn of the century, when workg groups of gay Wall Streeters kept members' nam secret. A top Merrill Lynch analyst at the time told New York Magaze that she didn't know of any gay lleagu her 10, 000-person the LeadBanks still face the ocsnal lawsu for allegedly discrimatg agast gay employe and ctomers.

More broadly, however, fancial servic pani have received much-weled posive publicy for beg among the bt plac for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people to work. "There were certa areas where you uld be gay and thrive, and there were certa areas where you uld not, " he Indtry DividWhen LGBT members ld the bankg dtry for creatg a welg environment, they're ually talkg about big stutns. Several senr executiv at big banks have e out recent years, and straight CEOs have publicly supported LGBT JPMan Chase, for example, chief spokman Joe Evangelisti says that about 10% of the bank's top 50 executiv are gay or lbian.

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Evangelisti, who is gay, adds that CEO Jamie Dimon "go out wh me and my partner, he to the [bank-sponsored LGBT] events … 's not tolerated to be unfair to any group of people. "In my entire time the dtry, 20 years, I never met another gay bank CEO and rarely met another gay senr executive, " says Bill Doni, the former chief executive and chairman of Pulaski Bank St.

4 billn-asset pany pots out that bankg's CEO ranks are notably lackg female and mory members, as well as those who are openly gay.