2017 National Coming Out Day Book - Final v2

At Mosaic, we get this question a lot: “Why do we need to talk about things like sexual orientation at work?” The short answer is that we already do. It comes up on a regular basis without us even realizing it. For example a female coworker might come to work wearing a dress and say, “My husband and I had a date-night without the kids.” No one thinks twice about what she is wearing and what she said because it matches assumptions we have typically already made. But, in essence, she’s just broadcast her sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. For a member of the LGBTQ community the choice of what to wear or how to say that sentence can be very different. Here are a few stories from your Proud LGBTQ colleagues about how they came out to their families, friends, and coworkers.

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