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Employee Spotlight – Pride Edition: Jonathan Horowitz
Today, we’re thrilled to share a Pride Month Spotlight on Jonathan Horowitz, FMP’s newest Managing Consultant. In this spotlight, Jonathan shares insights on his coming out story and how it has impacted his life. The topic of FMP’s 2024 Pride Panel was coming out, so we’re excited to continue that discussion with Jonathan here. Can…
Self-Care and Empowerment During Pride (& Always)
Celebrating Pride Month is a joyous occasion to honor the achievements of the LGBTQ+ community and to foster safe spaces where queer individuals can be visible, recognized, and celebrated. While it is important to celebrate pride, we also need to hold space for the disproportionate challenges LGBTQ+ individuals face in daily life, including difficult conversations…
What Does Pride Mean to You?
The word ‘Pride’ is an integral cultural concept within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) community, representing solidarity, collectivity, and identity as well as resistance to discrimination and violence. We asked FMPers what Pride means to them; here’s what they said. “To me, Pride means celebrating all love, freedom, and individual differences.” “Obstruction or restriction…
Pride: A Brief History
Pride began as a riot. During most of the 20th century, it was common practice in the US, and across the world, for police to raid bars and restaurants where queer individuals would gather, using excessive force to drag patrons out of the bar, humiliating them, and even reporting them to their family and workplaces[i]….
Pride: An Intersectional Perspective
What comes to mind when you think of gay pride? Is it the United States Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage in 2015, or the legions of parades and the rainbow flag? Dr. Amena Johnson, the Associate Director of LGBTQIA+ Resources at Georgetown University and the Founder of The Back Woman Aesthetic, offers a unique…
FMP’s Four Questions Podcast with Dr. Amena Johnson
In this installment of our Four Questions Podcast, FMP interviews Dr. Amena Johnson, Associate Director of the LGBTQ Resource Center at Georgetown University, to get her insight on the current state of LGBTQIA+ diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) advancements in the corporate space. Learn some anecdotal history of how PRIDE in the workplace has…