Why Gay Men Make the Bt Boss | GQ

Contents:

• WHAT IT’S LIKE BEG THE ONLY GAY MAN THE OFFICE
• GAY OFFICE PORN VIOS
• WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS
• THE OFFICE’S GAY CARITURE
• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
• GAY WCH HUNT
• HOW GAY MEN NAVIGATE THE CORPORATE WORLD

WHAT IT’S LIKE BEG THE ONLY GAY MAN THE OFFICE

It was clear that I had reached a breakg pot: Although I had e out as a gay man to iends and fay years earlier, I was walkg right back to the closet and lockg my te inty away every day om 9 a.

One inty was that of an openly gay man, eply love wh his boyiend, bnch, and Beyoncé. That inty, the actualized versn of a gay man I had always hoped to bee and fally did, never entered the workplace, however. I was hired by a startup s early stag, and quickly learned two thgs my first week: I was the first and only openly gay man hired by the pany, and the all-male management had no ia I wasn’t sexually terted women.

I didn’t know at the time, but I wasn’t alone worryg about standg out for the wrong reasons as the only gay man the office. I wasn’t worried about havg supportive lleagu or LGBTQ peers: I was hell-bent on extractg everythg I uld get out of this opportuny for my reer, even if turned out I was once aga the only openly gay man the office.

GAY OFFICE PORN VIOS

I was workg the largt edorial team I had ever been a part of New York Cy, at one of the olst news magaz the natn, and yet I was the only openly gay man at the publitn’s headquarters (only one other gay man was employed by the pany at the time, and worked remotely a part-time posn). Today, a growg number of polici and protectns are supportg lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer-intifyg (LGBTQ+) employe the Uned Stat.

WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS

Eisenhower’s 1953 ban on feral gay and lbian employe and clus Barack Obama’s repeal of the U. Durg the 1950s, gay and lbian employe were rooted out of feral ernment and telligence jobs what was lled the Lavenr Sre. Eisenhower signed an executive orr banng gays om feral employment that stood effect until 1973 and wasn't revoked entirely until 2017.

Kameny, who held a doctorate of astronomy om Harvard and fought World War II, was fired at 32 om his job as an astronomer the Army Map Service bee he was gay, and was prohibed om employment the feral ernment fely. “An employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law, ” stated Jtice Neil M.

THE OFFICE’S GAY CARITURE

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, who me out as gay 2014, was the first the Fortune 500's history to do so. In 2018, Ford beme the first openly gay woman to be CEO of a Fortune 500 pany. Jim Fterlg, CEO of Dow Chemil Company, also me out as gay 2014 after 30 years as an executive the pany.

At the helm of Macy’s is Jeff Gente, an openly gay man who assumed the role of chairman and CEO 2017. Jason Grenfell-Gardner, the former CEO of Teligent, was the first openly gay CEO of a publicly listed pany the Uned Stat.

Mart Chavez—followg his tenure at Goldman Sachs where he was the most senr openly gay executive—is vice chairman and partner at Sixth Street. Populatn intifi as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg other than heterosexual – double what was a earlier. Gay men elected to public office rose by 2.

TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN

And while ’s not nclive, evince suggts that one of the reasons Ollanr-Krane is so effective is that he’s part of a new breed—gay managers—who uld be beg Ameri’s most sirable the Edors of DetailsIn The G Quotient: Why Gay Executiv Are Excellg as Lears... And What Every Manager Needs to Know, thor and USC bs-school profsor Kirk Snyr argu that gay boss embody a style of personalized attentn that allows high-matenance Gen Xers and Yers to maximize their performance. “Gay executiv tend to look at how each dividual brgs unique abili, and they see their job as figurg out how bt to take advantage of those skills, “ he fact, durg Snyr’s five-year study of Amerin executiv, he stumbled on some startlg fdgs: Gay male boss produce 35 to 60 percent higher levels of employee engagement, satisfactn, and morale than straight boss.

GAY WCH HUNT

And the Saratoga Instute, a group that measur the effectivens of HR partments, found that a study of 20, 000 workers who had qu their jobs, the primary motivator for jumpg ship was their supervisors’ what mak gay boss different?

“Gay people are nstantly havg to dodge and weave and asss how and where they’re gog as they grow up, “ says Snyr. “ In other words, your boss is ol wh your leavg a ltle early one day a week to pick up your kid om school, or happy to offer a learng experience that helps you close a ccial executiv note that the reflectn and ndidns required for g out mean that by the time they get to the workplace, gay men are often secure their inty and don’t feel the need to abe people orr to boost their ego.

“I thk ’s really important that you give people the opportuny to have self-rpect, even if that means helpg them leave a job the way they want to, “ he this kd of empathetic management style is both gay and straight benefg employe. PR firm, he approached his gay manager, Jason Smh. “It’s fely surprisg to me that I have a 38-year-old gay male my life who is such a huge fluence.

HOW GAY MEN NAVIGATE THE CORPORATE WORLD

“Matthew Kle says that workg for a gay boss has tght him that emotnally hont don’t equate to weak the workplace. “But beg gay don’t give you a monopoly on management skills. “The only managers that succeed are on that have energy and are outgog and terted, “ says Richard Laermer, the gay CEO of a New York–based PR firm and -thor of Punk Marketg: Get Off Your Ass and Jo the Revolutn.

“If that’s a gay thg, then mazel tov, but I know the same number of straight managers who are emotnal and rg.

“ And one gay vice print at a fancial firm says his learship tras e om his life history, not om anythg related to his sexual orientatn. “I feel like I spend my life explag that what I’m sayg or dog has nothg to do wh the fact that I’m gay.