<p><strong>Talkpot:</strong> While progrs has been ma many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people still worry that revealg their sexualy at work will have negative nsequenc. What n bs do to support LGBT employe?</p>
Contents:
- THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
- HOW COMPANI MAKE IT HARR FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL EMPLOYE TO ACHIEVE WORK-LIFE BALANCE
- DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT GAY”?
- PHYSICIAN AND GAY: AM I SAFE AT WORK? : AMIC MEDICE
THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
Homosexualy was still classified as an illns Swen 1979. Swes protted by llg sick to work, claimg they felt gay. * too gay to work *
Homosexualy was nsired a mental illns many untri as late as the mid-20th century—if was not classified as an outright crime.
Even Swen, that Sndavian bastn of openns and equaly, intified beg gay as a disorr as late as year, a group of Swes took advantage of the legal amework that ma beg gay an illns and lled sick to work, claimg their homosexualy as the reason.
One woman, om the southern provce of Smålanven, managed to get Social Secury benefs for llg gay.
HOW COMPANI MAKE IT HARR FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL EMPLOYE TO ACHIEVE WORK-LIFE BALANCE
* too gay to work *
Callg gay was part of a larger prott om the RFSL, the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights. Swen crimalized homosexualy 1944, but acrdg to the Natnal Board of Health and Welfare, which velops health standards, was still a disease. As a b of ntext, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn announced that would no longer nsir homosexualy a mental disorr 1973, though ntued to e “sexual orientatn disturbance” to tegorize dividuals who felt distrsed by their sexual orientatn (among other odd disorrs) up wh the lack of tractn was gag through tradnal letter and phone mpaigns, RFSL planned to occupy the Natnal Board buildg as a monstratn agast pathologizg homosexualy.
On Augt 29, durg the middle of Stockholm’s “Homosexual Liberatn Week” (which later beme known as Stockholm Pri), RFSL protters gathered to block the stairs of the Natnal Board buildg, chantg and wavg banners.
DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT GAY”?
In late October of 1979, the Natnal Board classified homosexualy as a disease, makg Swen the first European untry to do so. In the US, employers are more likely to view rum om visibly gay or lbian applints unfavourably. In the EU, six tim as many trans people as cis lbian, gay and bisexual people report beg asslted at work.
PHYSICIAN AND GAY: AM I SAFE AT WORK? : AMIC MEDICE
Miller, who was raised a relig fay, and stggled to e to terms wh his gay and genr-fluid inty, first me out at work while bartendg.