5 easy ways to help LGBTQ staff feel like they belong in the workplace

Pride month is a time to celebrate being queer, but it’s also a moment to reflect on the work that’s left to be done when it comes to making our communities—including our businesses and workplaces—more equitable. “More than 40% of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people experience conflict—such as being undermined, humiliated or discriminated against—at work,” write Luke Fletcher, Deborah Brewis, and Rosa Marvell in a recent article.

“This figure rises to 55% for transgender and nonbinary staff.” On Fast Company’s podcast The New Way We Work, host and deputy editor Kathleen Davis has been reporting on what it’s like to be queer at work in 2021, as well as what can be done to make workplaces more inclusive for trans employees, including improving healthcare offerings. We’re also covering LGBTQ success stories. You’ll find plenty of them on this year’s Queer 50 list, which highlights women and nonbinary leaders across the business and tech world.

—Julia Herbst

The New Way We Work

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We take a very long view on Reddit. We’ve been around for 15 years. I am confident we’ll be around for the next 15 years in an even bigger, more influential way.”

Jen Wong, reddit coo and no. 4 on fast company’s second annual Queer 50 list

Pride Month

‘SNL’ tells the hilarious truth about Pride—and its own LGBTQ evolution

The show’s nuanced depiction of Pride month’s wonderful and terrible messiness reveals just how far ‘Saturday Night Live’ has come in a short time.

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A new McKinsey & Co. report found that companies’ stated commitment to LGBTQ+ equity hasn’t yet translated into results.

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A gay teacher’s epiphany: “Kids don’t think the way adults do.”

Against a colleague’s well-meaning advice, a Toronto teacher came out to his students last September–and was surprised by how open-minded they were.

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5 easy ways to help LGBTQ staff feel like they belong in the workplace

One simple example could be the use of preferred personal pronouns in email signatures and during meetings.

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Queer 50

Queer leaders on the impact of the pandemic and the future beyond it

2020 had a huge impact on our lives, from the global pandemic to our reckoning with racism and bigotry. Alicia Garza, cofounder of Black Lives Matter; Sally Susman, chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer; Jen Wong, chief operating officer of Reddit; and Lara Mendonça, head of product design at Bumble discuss how it impacted queer lives and where we go from here.

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