How Gay Men Navigate the Corporate World | Universy of Ccnati

Contents:

• WHAT IT’S LIKE BEG THE ONLY GAY MAN THE OFFICE
• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
• WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS
• GAY OFFICE PORN VIOS
• THE OFFICE’S GAY CARITURE
• HOW GAY MEN NAVIGATE THE CORPORATE WORLD
• GAY WCH HUNT
• GAY WCH HUNT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.

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

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. 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).

WHY GAY MEN MAKE THE BT BOSS

Richard Grenell is the first openly gay person to hold a Cabet-level posn.

Before beg actg director of natnal telligence, he led an effort to crimalize homosexualy untri where is illegal. In the year sce the effort started, one untry has crimalized homosexualy.

Print Tmp beme the first print to name an openly gay person to a Cabet-level posn this week wh the appotment of Richard Grenell as actg director of natnal telligence.

GAY OFFICE PORN VIOS

Grenell was already the hight-profile gay person an admistratn wh a mixed rerd on LGBTQ+ rights.

As ambassador to Germany, he spearhead a global effort to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy nearly 70 untri where is still illegal. The iative followed the reported hangg of a gay man Iran, one of the Tmp admistratn’s adversari, and an op-ed for a German news publitn Grenell voiced a ll to arms.

THE OFFICE’S GAY CARITURE

“Beg gay is a ath sentence eight untri and crimalized 70 more.

Only one untry, Botswana, has crimalized homosexualy sce then. Tmp was the first Republin printial nomee to mentn gay rights on the mpaign trail.

HOW GAY MEN NAVIGATE THE CORPORATE WORLD

Embassy Berl hosted a roundtable on the subject of crimalizg homosexualy July. 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.

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 WCH HUNT

“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.

GAY WCH HUNT

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. “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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

“ 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.

“That said, if your new boss happens to be gay, chanc are you’ll be happier and more fulfilled your job.