Big banks have been among the most vol supporters of gay rights the workplace. Many LGBT bankers ld the progrs but say diversy efforts still sometim fall short.
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- GAY ON WALL STREET
- BEG GAY INVTMENT BANKG - LONDON
- 56-YEAR-OLD GAY, MALE, RETIRED VTMENT BANKER; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA(D AND WRTEN STORY)
- BEG GAY/OUT BANKG?
- TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’
- GAY BANKERS, ONCE SILENT, SPEAK OF PROGRS AND HURDL
- BEG GAY THE FANCE DTRY
GAY ON WALL STREET
Hey, this is probably a very different post om your ual "rank those BBs" but I would really appreciate gettg some sight to how life is a gay man London IBD given that * gay investment banker *
If you're LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans or qutng), the bankg dtry isn't a bad place to work, but 's not necsarily that good eher.
A self-nfsed math nerd, Chavez told Fancial News he ed mathematics as his survival strategy as a gay man the bankg world.
BEG GAY INVTMENT BANKG - LONDON
Cur to hear how beg gay is like the bankg world right now? any particular banks ls open-md? Would love to hear how is like for people the dtry now * gay investment banker *
While there are plenty of openly gay men fance, there are far fewer openly gay women. As an ternatnal stunt g om a fairly nservative untry, I don't have direct experience of US workplac, but I unrstand that is unlikely that anyone will be explicly homophobic.
For some background, I am not very stereotypilly gay or flamboyant, but I am out and proud, and have e too far to go back to the closet.
56-YEAR-OLD GAY, MALE, RETIRED VTMENT BANKER; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA(D AND WRTEN STORY)
In 2014, Trevor Burgs beme the first openly gay CEO of a publicly trad bank. Now CEO of Neptune Flood, Burgs gets personal on everythg om beg gay at Man Stanley the late '90s to beg a succsful entreprenr. * gay investment banker *
David Rae, print and founr of DMR Wealth Management, is a gay fancial advisor loted Los Angel who is a CFP and an accreded vtment fiduciary (AIF). Rae says, “I know I have many nversatns wh my gay clients that they would never have had wh a straight advisor.
BEG GAY/OUT BANKG?
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Acrdg to Rae, “If you have an amazg fancial advisor who is straight but gay-iendly, that is fabulo.
” And yet, he also advis, “If I was startg a search [for a] fancial advisor om scratch, I would ask my iends, or at least start the Google search wh ‘gay fancial advisor’ or ‘lbian fancial advisor. ” Another source is the Gay Lbian Directory, which offers a list of more than 5, 000 LGBTQ+-supportive bs.
TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’
Gay Mortgage Lenr Directory – LGBTQ and LGBTQ iendly mortgage loan officers all 50 stat, Canada and Internatnally. * gay investment banker *
This is pecially relevant if you live a part of the untry that is more homophobic than average. Rae warns, “The more homophobic the area you are livg , the more important is to seek out a gay-iendly or LGBTQ+ fancial advisor.
If you live a state that don’t want people to even say ‘gay, ’ well, your odds likely go up of someone not beg willg to help you once they fd out you are gay.
GAY BANKERS, ONCE SILENT, SPEAK OF PROGRS AND HURDL
” He also pots out that homophobia n rear s ugly head anywhere, so be vigilant. “You are ls likely to have an issue wh homophobia Manhattan, Wt Hollywood, or the Castro, but n happen.
BEG GAY THE FANCE DTRY
“I uld totally feel , ” he says of the new manager’s hostily toward Ross, an openly gay man.