ERGs are useful for ensuring employees within an organization feel acceptance, camaraderie, and fairness in the workplace.  But, for LGBTQ+ persons, many are seeking more than a sense of belonging—they are seeking a sense of safety.  ERGs are often those safe spaces that make it possible for employees to feel like they can be their authentic selves at work. Joining an organization’s ERG specifically for the LGBTQ+ community & its allies, helps employees to feel safe, to feel seen, and to feel heard.

Is it just buzzwords? Does it impact the way you communicate with your team? Can it help you find solutions among the many challenges of being a leader?

This means that many members of the primary workforce in the US are parents of LGBTQ+ youth. And they are struggling right now. Being a parent is hard enough given the increase in school shootings and other violent acts that target our young people. Add a child whose marginalization is compounded, and you have a whole other set of problems. Parents of LGBTQ+ youth struggle to walk the line of encouraging their children to be true to themselves, while also being safe in a homophobic and transphobic society that is getting increasingly more violent against them.