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L-Women Conference a Success
The L-Women at Work conference took place last week. This was the first Pan-European event focused on advancing the careers of lesbians, bisexual and transgender women in business. Approximately 100 attendees from 11 countries heard from 22 female executives and workforce leaders.
Selisse Berry, Out & Equal Founding Executive Director, spoke about the importance of visibility and joining forces as women to bring about positive change in the workforce. Read more.
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Tools to Build Strong Partnerships
We invite you to visit Out & Equal's LGBT Business of Change website. The site offers practical ideas for nonprofits and corporations with concrete examples of successful partnerships.
LGBT nonprofits and corporations can build strong and mutually beneficial partnerships. Here are some tools:
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Applause, applause: Thank you Summit sponsors!
The success of the 2011 Out & Equal Workplace Summit and our ability to continue offering the many vital education and training programs is only possible with the generosity of our corporate sponsors and partners. One merely had to enter the Exhibition Hall in Dallas to sense the excitement, the energy and the pride radiating from the room.
In all, 126 sponsors, including presenting sponsors Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Northrop Grumman, participated in the Summit. This year we welcomed 20 new sponsors to the Summit. Please encourage your friends and colleagues to support our corporate partners!
Next step: Budget for your 2012 Out & Equal sponsorships!
2012 promises to be an equally exciting year with a host of events that offer sponsorship opportunities. Please remember your sponsor partnerships with Out & Equal as you prepare your budgets for the upcoming year and be sure to contact a member of our Sponsor Team for information about early sign-up discounts.
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Welcome, Barbara Wrigley!
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Barbara Wrigley
Out & Equal Senior Director
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Out & Equal Workplace Advocates is pleased to welcome Barbara Wrigley, who recently joined the team as Senior Director.
Prior to joining the Out & Equal team, Barbara was the Founding and Executive Director of the highly-respected Women's Business Center of Northern Virginia which provides training and assistance to minority and socially disadvantaged women seeking to start and grow their own businesses.
During her 11 year tenure, the Center trained over 22,000 women, and helped launch thousands of small businesses. Additionally, she served as Vice President of Public Relations for the Center's parent company, the Community Business Partnership, and was also instrumental in establishing its Business Incubation Center in 2004 and Financial Education Center for Women Entrepreneurs in 2006. Read more.
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 Six Tips: LGBT Employees and the Company Holiday Party Company holiday parties can spark unique anxieties for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. Learn how to turn this holiday necessity into a great networking opportunity. |
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Receive 12 months of unlimited job postings, candidate searches and up to five pages of company diversity branding for only $5,000! Visit the LGBTCareerLink Marketplace for more information or contact a member of our Sponsor Team to sign up before December 31st and save $2,500!
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LGBT Icons to Remember with Gratitude
A look back at a few of the people who helped shape our LGBT movement
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Paula Ettelbrick
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Paula Ettelbrick was a visionary leader who dedicated her life to advocating for the legal rights of LGBT families. She was a strong advocate for LGBT parental rights, and was instrumental in developing the domestic partner benefits we see today in many corporations, universities and local governments. In 1997, Ettelbrick took the lead in negotiating domestic partner provisions in New York City, and succeeded in obtaining the most progressive provisions available in any US city at the time.
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Sylvia Rivera
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Sylvia Rae Rivera was a transgender activist in New York who helped create several organizations, including a group dedicated to helping young, homeless trans women. Sylvia advocated to include transgender people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project was formed in her memory by attorney and transgender civil rights activist, Dean Spade.
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Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin
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"Del" Martin and Phyllis Ann Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis, the first social and political organization for lesbians in the US, in 1955. Both served in the White House Conference on Aging in 1995. They married in 2008 in the first same-sex wedding in San Francisco after the California Supreme Court temporarily
legalized same-sex marriage in California.
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Frank Kameny
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Frank Kameny was fired from his federal government job in 1957 for being gay. He fought his firing in a petition that went to the U.S. Supreme Court. He didn't win, but his willingness to be out and take a stand for his rights as a gay man led others to step forward as well. Kameny coined the term "Gay is Good." He was honored last week in Washington for his work as a gay rights pioneer. Read more about Kameny's courageous contribution to our community.
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What's hot on the blog?
 Transgender Day of Remembrance gives us an opportunity to memorialize those who have died as a result of hatred and prejudice. It is also a time when we can consider what we can each do to end the violence.
Now that LGB veterans can be counted as part of the workplace, we can begin to see a disturbing trend regarding unemployment.
Out & Equal Deputy Director Kevin Jones discusses ways to create a more diverse and inclusive Workplace Summit. World AIDS Day is December 1st; here are some ideas to raise awareness at your workplace. We also have a list of resources from many countries and regions of the world.
Are you out at work, or in the process of coming out at work? We invite you to share your story, via a short video or written submission, to our Get Your Story Out project.
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