My dear friends at Out & Equal (thank you Deena Fidas!) have produced a wonderfully comprehensive guide designed to assist companies in navigating the COVID-19 crisis for their LGBTQ employees.
As the piece points out, employers play a pivotal role in shaping the lives and well-being of LGBTQ employees and their families, especially in times of crisis.
We, as LGBTQ persons/allies/activists/DEI practitioners, must fully embrace the fact that our work in the LGBTQ community is more important – and vital – than ever before.
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From my friends at the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), a very timely guide for transgender and non-binary people who may find themselves having to navigate the COVID-19 virus, within an already-discriminatory environment in many states in our country with respect to employment, housing, health care, identification, and accessing assistance from government agencies…read more
As we all struggle as individuals and businesses to deal with the effects of this unprecedented global pandemic – and if we truly live the values of #weareallinthistogether – then I believe it is critical to understand the impact the spread of COVID-19 is having on vulnerable communities who may be particularly at risk to the effects of the virus and the economic downturn it has created….read more
It is beyond safe to say that “at-home” life has changed radically for all of us as we cope with the challenges of the day-to-day in the midst of a global pandemic. In keeping with the theme of my recent posts regarding the transgender community and COVID-19, this piece does a wonderful job of bringing into focus the specific and unique challenges faced by transgender and non-binary youth living with the reality of stay-at-home orders…read article