7 Ways to Be a Better LGBTQ+ Ally at Work
This blog was written by both Megan Mueller Jensen and Randy Roosekrans, supporters and members of PRISM, Perficient’s Employee Resource Group for our LGBTQIA2S+ colleagues and allies.
As cisgender straight people in a professional setting, we believe it’s our responsibility to do our best to support our LGBTQIA2S+ colleagues. We are longtime allies, advocates, activists, and parents of gay kiddos, and we want to share a few things we’ve learned over the years about making our workplaces safer, friendlier, more inclusive, and more supportive for our queer colleagues. (For the rest of this writing, we’ll refer to these folx as ‘queer,’ which is an umbrella term although we recognize that not all of this applies to everyone.)
- Pronouns matter.If someone tells you their pronouns, the bare minimum we can do is respect that and use those pronouns consistently. And if you slip up in conversation, correct yourself,...
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