Goldman Sachs Wants to Know if Job Seekers Are Gay or LGBT | Fortune

Contents:

• A GOLDMAN SACHS PARTNER EXPLAS HIS STGGL AND RISE AS A GAY MAN THE 'LOUD, MASCULE' WALL STREET CULTURE
• GOLDMAN SACHS SUED BY GAY EX-SENR EMPLOYEE OVER DISCRIMATN CLAIMS
• GOLDMAN SACHS IS SUED BY A GAY FORMER EXECUTIVE WHO ALLEG SEXUAL ORIENTATN DISCRIMATN
• GOLDMAN SACHS VP FIRED AFTER BEG TOLD HE 'SOUNDS TOO GAY': SU
• A GAY, LATO PARTNER TTS GOLDMAN’S BUTTON-DOWN CULTURE
• FORMER EXECUTIVE SU GOLDMAN SACHS AFTER ALLEGEDLY BEG FIRED FOR BEG 'TOO GAY'
• ON BLANKFE, GOLDMAN SACHS AND GAY MARRIAGE
• WHY HAVG MORE GAY WOMEN IN FANCE IS IMPORTANT FOR DIVERSY
• GOLDMAN SACHS'S CEO SHOWS GAY MARRIAGE IS A NO-RISK TRA
• GOLDMAN SACHS WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

A GOLDMAN SACHS PARTNER EXPLAS HIS STGGL AND RISE AS A GAY MAN THE 'LOUD, MASCULE' WALL STREET CULTURE

"Broadbery says he has known he was gay sce he was a teen. Disverg his inty the early 90s, as the HIV/AIDS epimic ced a new wave of homophobia, and while attendg an all-boys boardg school, was isolatg and sry, Broadbery said.

"My siblgs were a great support the early years, and my mother eventually forced an hont nversatn wh me where she sisted I say the words 'I am gay' so that we uld move on and prerve our very close relatnship, " Broadbery said. "I thk the story of a lot of young gay people is that they tend to leave the area which they grew up and they try to start anew. "Beg gay on a Wall Street tradg floor was "dntg"Wall Street is stereotypilly thought of as an dtry filled wh men who flnt their masculy — wh a domeerg energy that overtak meetg rooms, watch that flex their e, and a gaggle of women on their yacht ck the Hamptons.

GOLDMAN SACHS SUED BY GAY EX-SENR EMPLOYEE OVER DISCRIMATN CLAIMS

It's a trope that has been portrayed and perpetuated movi about the dtry, om "The Wolf of Wall Street" to "Marg Call" and "The Big Short" — and has not clud gay men. "Broadbery remembers worryg that the tradg floor, a "loud, mascule environment, " was perhaps not the right f for a gay man.

GOLDMAN SACHS IS SUED BY A GAY FORMER EXECUTIVE WHO ALLEG SEXUAL ORIENTATN DISCRIMATN

It's really dntg to be on the tradg floor as a gay pliance officer, " he said. "I thk back when I was a junr person, I would check my behavr to see if I was beg too gay or too effemate.

GOLDMAN SACHS VP FIRED AFTER BEG TOLD HE 'SOUNDS TOO GAY': SU

"He told me he was gay, " said Broadbery.

"Havg somebody senr the dtry, somebody senr the firm, take the time to nnect wh me and to tell me was OK to be gay on Wall Street at that early stage of my reer was hugely impactful.

A GAY, LATO PARTNER TTS GOLDMAN’S BUTTON-DOWN CULTURE

"For example, Broadbery add, Sgapore didn't allow gay pri celebratns or march at that time.

"There's also much ls stigma now around beg "too gay" for Wall Street, he add. When he was g up the ranks, he said, femy gay men was not very much on display.

FORMER EXECUTIVE SU GOLDMAN SACHS AFTER ALLEGEDLY BEG FIRED FOR BEG 'TOO GAY'

"There was a time when I was my earlier reer where was OK to be gay as long as you weren't too gay. So 's like, how gay is too gay for Wall Street? Now I thk you n really, tly be your full self as a gay person, " he said.

"We were gay or lbian back the day. "What we're dog terms of rights for our transgenr employe terms of healthre, the typ of dividuals we're hirg, the trag that we do for our employe, has really shifted away om jt gay and lbian to a much broar spectm of the muny and the muny's needs. Bankg giant Goldman Sachs has been h wh a lawsu over claims om a former senr employee that he was discrimated agast on the basis of his sexual orientatn and allegedly subjected to homophobic retaliatn.

William Ltleton, scribed urt papers as a vice-print and one of the bank’s most senr LGBTQ lears, claims he was exclud om a client ll bee “he sound too gay” another cint, the eight-year employee was allegedly asked: “What’s wrong wh you? Do you act this way bee you’re gay?

ON BLANKFE, GOLDMAN SACHS AND GAY MARRIAGE

“Wall Street ntu to stggle to create an environment that is clive and acceptg of LGBTQ+ employe, ” Gottlieb said a an Instutnal Invtor article tled Gay on Wall Street: An Invtigatn, the plat stat “a veil of vulnerabily unifi LGBT experienc fancial servic, and sets the group apart om many straight profsnals”. Further, Ltleton alleg that the bank’s efforts to hold self out – “prumably for public relatns purpos” – as a iendly environment for LGBTQ employe is plat stat that after Ltleton was allegedly exclud om a client ll for soundg too gay, supervisor Skulpone, “provid no support other than to say, sum and substance: ‘That sucks’. Jon: Marty Chavez, one of the -heads of the divisn, ma some remarks and was so strikg when he talked about beg the only openly gay employee at GS globally when he joed the early 1990’s – ’s a strong ntrast to where we are today.

WHY HAVG MORE GAY WOMEN IN FANCE IS IMPORTANT FOR DIVERSY

William Ltleton, who is openly gay and was a lear of Goldman's ternal LGBTQ work, says his plats about a discrimatory atmosphere on the job led to his dismissal. "Ltleton's lawsu alleg that a supervisor exclud him om an important nference ll bee he "sound too gay. "A 2018 Human Rights Campaign study found that 53 percent of LGBTQ workers report hearg jok about lbian or gay people at least once a while at work.

Ltleton plaed directly to the Employee Relatns team at Goldman 2018, sayg he had been subjected to numero cints of homophobia and discrimatn. The bank vers sexual reassignment surgery for employe, and sce at least 2017, has asked job ndidat to intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr when they apply for the job, g a method siar to the data requted by the Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn for other mographic factors.

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GOLDMAN SACHS'S CEO SHOWS GAY MARRIAGE IS A NO-RISK TRA

Subscribe to Patch's new newsletter to be the first to know about open ho, new listgs and se is jt one example of how a major fancial stutn wh few LGBT executiv has failed to take discrimatn agast s gay employe serly, acrdg to the plat. But that didn't stop his lleagu om allegedly lobbg homophobic remarks at him. In March 2014, the plat says, he heard that he had been exclud om a nference ll bee the morator thought that "he sounds too gay.

GOLDMAN SACHS WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

Ltleton was retaliated agast for fally havg the urage to pursue his plats of discrimatn ternally wh Goldman’s (Employee Relatns), " the plat lawsu not that jt 1 percent of Goldman's 500 partners are LGBT and that the pany's LGBT Network do not have formal iativ that advote for gay more lol news livered straight to your box. He displays his gay and Lato inti proudly, as well as the Japane tattoos on his arms. Chavez stggled, though, wh drkg, a vice he attribut to an overdulgence New York’s gay night life.