Jamison Green, a pioneering world leader in transgender advocacy (who I even worked with early in IBM’s days of addressing transgender employees) has announced a strategic partnership with the Diversity & Inclusion Center to education organizations about transgender issues in the workplace. Val Boston III of Boston and Associates, one of my experienced consulting mentors forwarded me an announcement : Dr. In fact, while I was in the middle of writing this blog, Mr. (NOTE: As a University of Chicago graduate I was delighted and proud as am alumnus to see the Jan-Feb Alumni Magazine include an alumni essay called “On Common Ground” written by transwoman Christina Kahrl AB’90 about her finding acceptance as a transgender women as a baseball writer and television analyst.) The younger generation now emerging into more leadership roles are much more “gender fluid” and not as tied to strict gender stereotypes and roles.
When is gay pride month 2015 full#
When is gay pride month 2015 professional#
Over the past 12 months as I delivered LGBT workshops and trainings across the country, mostly in a human resources professional setting, about 80% of the questions during the “Question and Answer” time are about transgender issues. Why? This seems to be a watershed time with a significant increase of focus on the transgender segment of our community. In my annual LGBT Pride Month blog this year I want to focus on the “T” (or transgender) in LGBT. Led by a set of brave drag queens, patrons of the Stonewall Tavern boldly stood up to police harassment.
Traditionally, June is LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Pride Month commemorating the “Stonewall Rebellion” in Greenwich Village, New York in late June 1969.
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City, Universally considered the beginning of the modern Gay Rights Movement in the US