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Fortune 500 companies continue to implement inclusive non-discrimination policies with 93% providing explicit protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace.
This indicates tremendous progress.
However, policies and procedures have not necessarily translated into culture change in the workplace, and this fact remains a difficult reality for LGBTQ+ people, their families, and allies. And that's why, since 2007, PFLAG has supported workplaces across industries to create space that is welcoming, kind, and respectful for LGBTQ+ employees and customers through our Straight for Equality in the Workplace program.
This guide will help you understand how allies fit in the effort to achieve equality for all. Learn more about what it means to be a straight ally and get some great tips and tools to being more supportive of your LGBTQ+, friends, family, and colleagues.
You don’t need to know everything before you can take action as an ally to people who are LGBTQ+—and your work doesn’t stop when you feel like you’ve reached Super-Ally status. Consider incorporating these suggestions to build your ally skills and create a lasting difference.
Use these postcards as part of an event to show people how to be better trans allies. The card can also be used as a part of a social media campaign and is a great way to get a conversation started.
In this session, participants will learn the power allies have to create change. We’ll also provide space to honestly discuss the barriers to expressing support in the workplace. Finally, participants will get strategies and tools needed to be part of creating real inclusion.
In this session, participants will find out how to transform the reason they’re an ally (or need one) into action, get effective strategies to create conversation about LGBTQ+ equality, and understand how to transform conflict into opportunity.
This customized, scenario-based session features opportunities for participants to apply what they’ve learned to real-world situations and share their unique strategies for transforming from good to great allies in the workplace.
In this session, participants will learn about both gender identity and expression, review expansive pronouns and how to use them, and grow the skills they need to be allies to people who are trans and nonbinary.
In this session, we’ll spend time discussing what the + after “LGBTQ+” encompasses. Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about intersex experiences, nonbinary gender identities, bisexual+ identities, asexuality and aromanticism.
Participants in this session will learn more about the bi+ community, why it’s so important to understand and respect bi+ people, and some tools to be a great bi+ ally.
Participants in this session will learn more about common myths and stereotypes about people who are bisexual+ discuss advanced bi+ ally behaviors, and continue the conversation about how organizations can grow to be even more inclusive of colleagues who are bi+.
In this session, learn more about people who are asexual and aromantic, how their experiences differ from those of allosexual and alloromantic people, and how we can all be better allies that create space that is not only inclusive, but also affirming.
