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Contents:

• THE CEO IS A GAY FOR ME
• TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’
• WHEN TO COME OUT: THE CHALLENG FACG GAY CEOS

THE CEO IS A GAY FOR ME

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)Of urse, Burgs' journey to succs as an openly gay man wasn't always easy. "I end up beg, I thk, the first openly gay person ever promoted to managg director at Man Stanley, " says Burgs, who spent a there om 1998 to 2008. (A spokperson for Man Stanley nfirmed that Burgs was among the first openly gay executiv to be promoted to managg director at the firm.

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

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WHEN TO COME OUT: THE CHALLENG FACG GAY CEOS

I had been the print of my aterny and end up rigng and beme print of the gay stunts' I moved to Boston after graduatn.

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Dpe all the barriers that have fallen recent years for gay people the U.

S., there is still a arth of openly gay CEOs. Beg gay or lbian Ameri the past half has meant watchg barriers fall some surprisg quarters. S., where attus have evolved most dramatilly, no openly gay CEO exists the Fortune 500, many note.

That’s bee gay men and women n hi what sets them apart, and they sometim pay a terrible price for their secrecy.

Moni McGrath, vice an of Wharton’s Arty Instute of Executive Edutn and an experienced ach to Fortune 500 executiv, says she has e across gay CEOs the closet, and “’s don’t ask, don’t tell, ” she says, referencg the Clton-era directive toward gay people servg the ary. “I thk the choice of where and when you e out is a very personal one, ” not Mira Patel, an MBA stunt and -print of Out4Biz, Wharton’s gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr (GLBT) stunt group.

But gay- and lbian-supportive laws and polici do not exist across the board by dtry, or geographilly. S., views on homosexualy have changed Europe, Asia and Rsia, often beg more liberal, though not always.

Rsian print Vladimir Put has ma gays and lbians a special target of ernment harassment and hostily recent years. In Cha, homosexualy was removed om the ernment’s list of mental disorrs 2001, but the issue has spng to life recent years, wh Che gay activists advotg anti-discrimatn laws and same-sex marriage.

Vlence agast gays persists India, where homosexual behavr is still a crime, although recent years gay issu have bee more wily accepted and discsed media and through popular films like Don’t Know Why.

In his recent book tled, The Glass Closet: Why Comg Out Is Good Bs, Browne pots out that 77 untri, homosexual acts between nsentg adults is still illegal. In 2013, Uned Natns secretary-general Ban Ki-moon began a major drive to repeal anti-gay laws around the world, llg such laws “an outrage.

S., gays and lbians face obstacl. In a recent study by the HRC of 800 gay and lbian workers across the U.

Gays and lbians have other reasons to worry. Rum listg experience at a gay anizatn were 40% ls likely to elic a ll for an terview. Moreover, workg at a pany wh posted gay-iendly polici do not guarantee the same path to succs for gay and lbian workers as straight on.

“[Your pany] n have the most movg visn statement, but you know that ’s not the right thg to have your gay partner’s picture on your sk the executive sue.

For a CEO, beg gay is even more plited. Ironilly, many of the same workplace dynamics keepg gays and lbians om reachg the top ng may have, at the same time, forced them to velop skills that make them better lears. In a five-year study volvg 3, 500 profsnals, USC’s Snyr examed employe of out gay boss and found 25% to 30% higher levels of job engagement and satisfactn.

” While beg a closeted gay boss was read by employe as “closed, angry and unfair, ” the “procs of g out of the closet manifted self seven prcipl of learship that not everyone had, ” Snyr not — cln, creativy, nnectivy, adaptabily, muny, tun and llaboratn.

“I will never fet one woman who said that her [gay] boss was the first boss she ever had who regnized that she was a sgle mom and gave her time off to attend her dghter’s dance recal.

Bee gay people are often examg the world around them for clu about acceptance and rejectn, they have a heightened sense of tun, and that translat to better hirg cisns, says Snyr, whose rearch was published the book, The G Quotient: Why Gay Executiv are Excellg as Lears… And What Every Manager Needs to Know.

“Growg up [gay] a straight world manifts self posive learship tras, ” he not. Senk, 58, who once intified himself as the only out gay CEO at a major U.