Ken Howard, LCSW, a specialist therapy for gay men and executive achg for gay men, giv survival tips for when you're the new boss at work.
Contents:
- GAY MEN AS WORKPLACE SUPERVISORS: SURVIVAL TIPS FOR WHEN YOU’RE THE NEW BOSS
- 40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- GAY, HIV-POSIVE SF SUPERVISOR DORSEY WS FULL TERM
- GAY SF SUPERVISOR MANLMAN SAILS TO 2ND TERM
- POLIL NOTEBOOK: GAY SF SUPERVISOR MANLMAN SEEKS 2ND TERM
- LGBTQ+ MILWKEE SUPERVISOR SAYS MAN LLED HIM A GAY SLUR, THEN PUNCHED HIM THE FACE AT A MALL
- GAY SUPERVISOR HARRY BRT DEAD AT 82; APPOTED AFTER HARVEY MILK'S ASSASSATN
- POLIL NOT: FOR 1ST TIME TR OF GAY MEN SWORN AS SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISORS
- GAY MILWKEE COUNTY SUPERVISOR CLAIMS HE WAS ACSTED, PUNCHED FACE AT LOL MALL
- 8 GAY SUPERVISORS WHOSE FLICKS ADDN TO TELEVISN DISCLOS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW
GAY MEN AS WORKPLACE SUPERVISORS: SURVIVAL TIPS FOR WHEN YOU’RE THE NEW BOSS
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For over 24 years, my specialty as a therapist and life/bs ach has been workg wh gay men.
For many topics, treatg or achg a gay man is very siar to how a woman (straight or gay) or a straight man would be. However, “cultural petency” workg wh gay men mands that the provir know, unrstand, appreciate, and apply the special nsiratns workg wh this populatn vers others.
40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. * gay supervisor *
It’s not enough to be LGBT-iendly, such as those who have nothg agast the LGBT muny, you mt be also affirmative and petent knowg the special nsiratns that workg wh LGBT clients general and gay men particular brgs.
But for gay men, we have to overe an extra “layer” of challenge when we try to amb thgs like the bee, unlike straight men, we live a society that has historilly put down as entire group, told we were “ls than” (pecially the ey of the law, and havg equal legal civil rights), and even bullied/abed , om dly to severely. Still, I have worked wh hundreds of gay men my office who have achieved amazg thgs wh their profsnal liv, many different fields, om law to entertament to medice to real tate to fance. My servic therapy and achg help someone to have this support, and help gay men who perhaps are new to learship to embrace – and succeed at – this role.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * gay supervisor *
There n be a part of your ternal monologue, or what therapists ll your “gnive schema”, where your self-teem might be a ltle vulnerable, pecially if your past you have endured abe, bullyg, cricism, or discrimatn for beg gay.
GAY, HIV-POSIVE SF SUPERVISOR DORSEY WS FULL TERM
Milwkee County’s first openly LGBTQ+ unty supervisor says an assailant lled him a gay slur, then punched him the face at a suburban mall this week * gay supervisor *
), we have to accept the realy that once a while some staff will not rpect you or “take orrs” om you as a gay man, bee they believe gay men are not “really men” servg of rpect.
If you’re too vted beg “liked” by everyone bee on some level (probably unnsc) you’re “embarrassed” for beg gay, will unrme your abily to set lims. Gay men beg supervisors or other lears an office happens when a guy is his late 20’s or early 30’s, and is part of the Developmental Psychology that I e my practice. Bee gay men sometim like to be “over-achievers” (and some would say we do this to flect others’ cricism for beg gay the first place), gay men n be excellent lears and clu CEO’s (like Apple’s Tim Cook), media moguls (David Geffen, Barry Diller), Hollywood directors (Gee Cor, Bryan Sger), and Congrsmen (Brian Sims of Pennsylvania).
Workg Los Angel, I’ve worked wh some major executiv who are gay men, but I also work wh guys are stgglg to “get ahead”, and they are need of achg to take their reer (and their self-nfince!
GAY SF SUPERVISOR MANLMAN SAILS TO 2ND TERM
Harry Brt was an LGBTQ activist and soft-spoken polician who took up the mantle of a murred gay in. * gay supervisor *
All that I do wh clients executive achg would be enough for a seri of blog articl, at least, but here are some ial tips for gay men who are beg supervisors the workplace for the first time:.
POLIL NOTEBOOK: GAY SF SUPERVISOR MANLMAN SEEKS 2ND TERM
An East Bay man ma history last year as the first openly gay supervisor Contra Costa County’s history. * gay supervisor *
The tips jt troduce you to what therapy for gay male executiv and achg for gay men the workplace n be like. 40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.
40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California.
LGBTQ+ MILWKEE SUPERVISOR SAYS MAN LLED HIM A GAY SLUR, THEN PUNCHED HIM THE FACE AT A MALL
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: Colorado this month elected the untry's first openly gay ernor. This all 40 years after the assassatn of the first openly gay elected official California, Harvey Milk.
GAY SUPERVISOR HARRY BRT DEAD AT 82; APPOTED AFTER HARVEY MILK'S ASSASSATN
In California, a nservative state senator named John Briggs was phg a statewi ballot measure - Prop 6 - to ban gay and lbian teachers.
Harvey Milk, an openly gay member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, led the fight agast the proposn, batg Briggs around the state. He thought the murr meant the end of the gay rights movement. Today the seat Milk held when he was killed is occupied by another openly gay man, Rafael MANDELMAN: As someone who was 5 years old when he was shot, I am ntually grateful, not jt for Harvey but for the folks of that generatn who really did change the But first, Manlman not, Milk changed himself.
POLIL NOT: FOR 1ST TIME TR OF GAY MEN SWORN AS SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISORS
But he worri that as queer people are priced out of gay neighborhoods like the Castro, dilut their polil power.
Gwen Craig, who me to San Francis the 1970s and worked wh Harvey Milk before he was killed, trac all back to Milk phg people to e out of the CRAIG: I do thk that he sort of started this path that ma possible for the openly gay officials that were elected this last round. A prev versn of this story rrectly stated that Gee Mosne was the first openly gay elected official California. In fact, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official California.
GAY MILWKEE COUNTY SUPERVISOR CLAIMS HE WAS ACSTED, PUNCHED FACE AT LOL MALL
Joseph ZieglerSome Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. “One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man.
The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. In wng a full term on the San Francis Board of Supervisors, gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has bee the cy's first HIV-posive elected supervisor.
8 GAY SUPERVISORS WHOSE FLICKS ADDN TO TELEVISN DISCLOS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW
His w also ntu the prence of two gay men on the board, as gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman easily won his November 8 reelectn bid. Manlman first won electn to the seat that vers the LGBTQ Castro district a June special electn 2018 where he trounced gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, a longtime survivor of HIV who had been appoted to fill a vancy.