Because the idea of separating such a thing is inefficient and unrealistic.
We’re not drones or machines to work in silence all day. People have feelings, emotions, connections, relationships and more with their coworkers. How often do you hear someone telling stories about or even mentioning “Their Wife” or “The…

because as one wise writer put it “orientation is not just some fetish”— it’s not “about sex” any more than being black is about sex, or being Irish or being anything else that defines how you see the world.

I didn’t see the importance of doing the workshop to get a rainbow placard to put on my office door because I just am an ally and didn’t feel I needed visual proof. Until it was explained that a student would appreciate being able to explain she missed class because her wife was in an accident or something without…

So no one should talk about their wife & kids then either? Or their pets? or what they did on the weekend? Straight people talk about what they do, it’s not like they are giving you a blow by blow of their sex life, but why shouldn’t gay people be able to talk about their boyfriend/girlfriend, the great date they…

I’m from NY, so a simple ‘yo’ works for a single person, as in “Ay Yo!”. and for a group, it’s you’s as in “Where you’s all goin’?” With this accent most o’ yous think I’m an idiot, but fuckem.

This is a good article. I wish any of the companies I have ever worked at had made me feel included the way these suggestions would. Once I worked at a company that said very vaguely “We’re a family, we accept everyone” (with no particular mention of accepting LGBT people). I sent in a question for the company town…