Straight talk about gays in the workplace: creating an inclusive, productive environment for everyone in your organization

Abstract

* Chapter 1. Changing Landscape * Dealing with What Is Now * It's About All People * Inherent Argument * What Do We Really Choose? * What's Actually Changing * Language Used in This Book * Rest of This Book * It's a Moving Target * Chapter 2. Strategies for Inclusion in the New World * What the Work Is For * Ground Rules for the Work * Work * Tools and Techniques * Chapter 3. Facts of the Matter * Important Terms * Coming Out: Individuals to Organizations and Back * Organizational Coming Out * Replacing Myths with Facts * Chapter 4. Meaningful and Effective Workplace Sexual Orientation Education * Diversity Education Must Be a Process * Three Questions * Implementation of Sexual Orientation Education in the Workplace * Chapter 5. Meaningful Education and Policy About Gender Identity * What Transgender Is * What Transgender Refers To * Transsexuals * Nondiscrimination Policies * Transition Planning * Chapter 6. Employee Networks: Expanding Challenges and Roles * A Winning Structure for Employee Networks * Mission Statement * Objectives * Organizational and Operational Details * What a Good Employee Network Can Accomplish * Brown-Bag Functions * Demographic/Environmental Surveys * Religion * Chapter 7. LGBTs and the Marketplace: Progressiveness Pays * Business Case: An Example * What's at Stake in Dollars and Cents * Advertising to the LGBT Market * Best Practices in Advertising * A New Kind of Supplier Diversity * The Equality Principles and Shareholder Activism * Client-Acquisition Education * Chapter 8. DPBs, Civil Unions, and Same-Sex Marriage * An Important Note to Begin * Domestic Partner Benefits * Civil Unions * Other Provisions Short of Civil Unions or Legal Marriage * Why Same-Sex Marriage Is Inevitable * What's at Stake in Marital Status * Where Same-Sex Marriage Stands Now * Why Same-Sex Marriage Means Business * Chapter 9. It's Academic * Sex Education in the Public Schools * GLSEN: What It Is, What It Does * Gay-Straight Alliances * Higher Education * Why It All Matters * Appendix I. Resources * Online Resources * Selected Bibliography * Appendix II. Tips for Transitioning People * Planning for Transition on the Job * Appendix III. Assessment Questions * Appendix IV. Campus Climate Survey Recommendations * Appendix V. Strategies for Managing Transition * Notes * Index