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Contents:
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Pri Month. This would look like replacg “Gay people love iced ffee” wh “I love iced ffee. Dpe beg a member of the queer muny, actively volved wh the Gay Coach Alliance and a profsnal speaker, I am still learng, unlearng and relearng what means to be an LGBTQ+ ally.
Some still bristle when they hear , but 2019, when ed to scribe a gay person, “queer” don’t rry the same pejorative nnotatns that might have 25 or 30 years ago. ” And even though has evolved and bee more generally accepted, she admted that she’s ut when g the word ont of an dience of “gay and lbian elrs. She provid “approach and tools for munitg wh — and to — the LGBTQ [lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer] employe a way that sends the msage, ‘You are wele here.
“I am talkg about people who are hidg a very liberate way: people who pretend they don’t have a partner, change the pronoun of their partner, people who lie about their experience over a weekend bee might reveal that they are gay or trans, ” she said. Acrdg to GLAAD, “more than 40% of lbian, gay, and bisexual people and almost 90% of transgenr people have experienced employment discrimatn, harassment or mistreatment.
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
Studi have shown that openly gay employe are happier and more productive than those who are forced to hi their sexual orientatn, and the productivy gas also extend to their workers.
Also watch this vio by the Uned Natns, which explas more about the wir societal st of homophobia and other forms of LGBT discrimatn:. For example, Atralia held a ntroversial vote on marriage equaly 2017, and even though the oute was posive, the procs volved a lot of fear, uncertaty and public scty, which a study has now lked to “creased levels of prsn, anxiety and strs” among gay, lbian and bisexual people.
For example, check out this list, which is broken down by dtry and clus both broad-based groups like Pri at Work and much more foced on like the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn. Adults intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or somethg other than straight or heterosexual – that’s a signifint portn of the workforce. Make a pot to unteract the prsure to be silent and “say gay” — ways big and small.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
“Sayg gay” at work n look like:. But well-beg iativ only have a chance at rectifyg the discrepancy straight and LGBTQ+ people’s experienc if you also “say gay. While “sayg gay” is a necsary signal, supportg LGBTQ+ rights is the necsary actn.
Acrdg to the 2008 General Social Survey and the Williams Instute at UCLA School of Law, 27% of lbian, gay, and bisexual persons have experienced some form of harassment or discrimatn at the office. After all, many stat, anti-gay harassment is perfectly legal. We’ve all heard “that’s so gay” or “what a faggot” ed mon nversatn.
A send type of queer harassment volv targeted slurs or ments, ually about a gay person’s sexual orientatn or any queer person’s genr exprsn. Durg the Zarda se, which spanned the transn om the pro-equaly Obama Admistratn to the more hostile current admistratn, the Tmp Jtice Department filed a stereotype-lan brief that argued that employers should be allowed to fire gay people.