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For over a , Microsoft has earned a rankg of 100 on the natnal benchmarkg tool that rat rporate polici and practic pertent to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer employe. One key ndu for creatg a supportive workplace is the ternal employee group, Gay and Lbian Employe at Microsoft or GLEAM (which also clus transgenr, queer, and bisexual employe, and their alli).
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She was trepidat when she asked her manager, unsure how takg time off work solely to unrstand how what means to be gay the workplace might be perceived. Michelle Gay ReachVictoria BC. July 31, 2003 -- Gay Ameri has been makg a fabulo but on the small screen — but the reasons for this g out, and s impact, rema the season, two of the most-talked-about programs are gay-themed: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, where five gay men make over a hopelsly un-hip straight man, and Boy Meets Boy, which n be bt scribed as The Bachelor wh gay more gay-themed shows are due this fall: ABC (parent work to this Web se) will lnch It's All Relative, a s about life wh gay parents, while Showtime will reveal, The L Word, a new seri about jo a roster of well-tablished gay-posive shows, such as Showtime's Queer as Folk, HBO's Sex and the Cy, and NBC's Will and 's been a dramatic change om 1998, when Ellen Degener me out on her work televisn show.
Advertisers pulled out and her show was, recent signs suggt Ameri may be growg more fortable wh s gay month, for stance, the Supreme Court stck down a Texas law banng gay sex, lg an unnstutnal vlatn of privacy. This week, New York Cy, regnizg the discrimatn often faced by gay, bisexual and transgenred stunts, opened the natn's first high school for such stunts.
Televisn executiv' tert gay Ameri is not jt a new gimmick or a new transgrsn, thks Robert Thompson, profsor of popular culture at Syrace Universy. "Lots of our fellow cizens are gay, " he says.
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"Also, a recent USA Today/CNN Gallup poll also found jt 46 pecent thk homosexualy is an acceptable alternative is certaly a mercial aspect to the current tert gay-themed televisn. The works n't afford to turn their backs on a whole slice of life that's out there watchg televisn, " observ Matt Rsch of TV giant Via announced January 2002 was rearchg the viabily of a gay work.
While those plans have reportedly been put on hold, two other pani are openly tryg to bee the natn's first gay work.
"The gay muny has already been targeted as big spenrs, " explas Variety's Meredh Amdur. "Reflectg RealyMany gays are happy about their new exposure.
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But some are quick to pot out the current spate of televisn seri is hardly reprentative of their are few blacks, Asians, Latos or poor people to be seen the current le-up, not Móni Taher of The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. The media "perpetrat the ia that the LGBT [Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenred] muny is whe, male and affluent. "Gay and lbian groups are ncerned about the stereotyp — that an over-the-top, flamboyant character like Jack om Will & Grace will be the only type Ameri fds acceptable.
Ironilly, nservativ also fear the new shows may not be reprentg Gay Ameri accurately. "Every sgle program promot one si of the gay liftyle … there's no discsn about the downsi of the gay liftyle, " argu Genevieve Wood, vice-print of the Fay Rearch is on the crease the gay muny, she says, cg a CDC study, but "none of those aspects are ever discsed the programs. … The gay character is always glorified, he's the popular character, the funny character.
"Conservative media cric Brent Bozell wrote his July 11, 2003, lumn, there is a "distorted view" of Ameri's sexual revolutn: "The msage is everywhere: It is not jt gays who have a 'right' to their liftyle, is society which mt accept .