LGBTQ Rights In The Workplace: One Step Forward And Three Steps Back

Vicky Sladeis an employment lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and co-leads the firm's DEI Counseling Practice. Vicky has extensive experience and training in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including an Advanced Diversity and Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University, and she holds the Cornell Certified Diversity Professional credential. As we celebrate Pride Month, we are mindful that the LGBTQ community faces many emerging and difficult issues in the workplace. Vicky shares her thoughts on these challenges and why it is so important to stay committed to fighting for equity.

As we enter Pride Month, it is important to celebrate our community and all we have accomplished. (I, for one, plan to get a babysitter and go out dancing. And here at DWT, we are celebrating with drag bingo on our rooftop deck!) At the same time, though, we can't lose sight of the emerging and difficult issues facing the LGBTQ community at work. While progress has been made, we