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The 100 BEST COMPANIES FOR GAY MEN AND LESBIANS

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The tag line for this book is "plus options and opportunities no matter where you work."
This book is not merely a listing of the 100 best comanies for gay men and lesbians, but fully half of the text discusses valuable issues like coming out, discrimination and harassment, domestic partner benefits, and finding and working with labor unions, employee associations, and individual managers.
The author explains his evaluation process for the listed employers: "a written and enforced policy of non-discrimination;inclusion of lesbian and gay issues within diversity training (if such training is given); recognition of a gay and lesbian employee group (an indicator of the comfort level among gay and lesbian employees);and the availability of benefits (and recognition) for same-sex domestic partners." (p. 132),BR>After the list, the book concludes with a chapter devoted to options for gay and lesbian employees, opportunities, how to discover them, and messages we need to get across. Regardless of whether your company is listed in this four year old book, the survey and the written information will never be outdated. A must for those who wish to be "out" as a valued employee in their workplace.

What a great way to make public the companies that really care about their gay employees. It's fun to see which companies are really doing something. However, this book is quite out of date, I wish a new edition was published

Mickens names University of Chicago as one of the best work environments for gays. Let the records show that in the early 1990s, people were going around sending death threats to gay students on that campus, particularly gay students of color. I have a friend who transferred from Chicago to Brown specifically for that reason. Therefore, if Chicago does have a gay-friendly policy now, it is only because they were embarrassed into it. This book is written in a rambling personal narrative style. There are several superior books out there about gay men and lesbians in the workplace.

Since coming out as queer I have been looking for something olike this, and now I have it. One thing that hasn't happened even though there is a lot more acceptance of the gay lifestyle at the grassroots is more acceptance by institutions. This is a step in the right direction, and gives lots of good info on where to get serviced and so on.

Ed, dear fellow, I'm sorry but you have completely missed the mark this time buddy. I would agree with maybe one or two of the companies that you have written about here, but in all truth and honesty all the others have had a reputation for hate-mongering and gay-bashing, which would not constitute these companies as the best for gay men and lesbians. And one more thing... why is your title "Gay Men and Lesbians". Shouldn't it either be "Gays and Lesbians" or "Gay Men and Lesbian Women"?

Very disappointed by this book, in fact I burned it.

This book was great I found my latest Boy Toy because of it. It got me realy aroused. Thanks a bunch