It’s hard to believe that we’re just one month away from the 2024 Out & Equal Workplace Summit. We’re putting the final touches on our learning sessions, community-building activities, and unforgettable keynotes—and the entire organization is buzzing with anticipation.   

For me, the planning process is a reflective one. From first-time attendee in 2001, to Out & Equal Board member and now CEO, I’ve had the unique honor of experiencing Workplace Summit from many different vantage points.   

But one thing has remained consistent: Summit’s ability to remind us that we, as individuals and a collective, have the power to create movement-making impact. The magic of Summit is unique and multifaceted. Why? Because it connects learning and best practices to action, it reminds us why we do this work, and it builds—year after year—community that sustains us.  

In this complex, sometimes overwhelming landscape, I implore you to pause, breathe, and remember your power. Each of us has an individual sphere of influence that can spark a thought, discussion, or decision with an impact that extends far beyond our social and professional circles.   

So, don’t let inflammatory rhetoric and sensationalized news headlines dim your light and make you feel that your voice and effort can’t make a difference. That’s simply not true.   

Our creativity, our imagination, and our desire to create a more just, inclusive world, can help us do what might feel impossible. We can transform despair into hope, awareness to action, and stagnation to progress.  

With all the work that we are doing at Out & Equal to advance LGBTQ+ equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace, I know I’m ready to keep pushing forward—at Summit, and beyond. Are you?  

Registration for the 2024 Out & Equal Workplace Summit Closes Tomorrow, September 6 

Representation & Recognition Matter!

Meet Our Outie Award Finalists.

Since its inception more than 20 years ago, Out & Equal has recognized more than 100 individuals, organizational practices, and ERGs across a range of categories whose work is proven to have advanced LGBTQ+ workplace equity and belonging for all.

This year’s finalists represent an impressive group of role models made up of individuals, ERGs, organizations, and LGBTQ+ inclusion initiatives advancing representation and equity in measurable ways.



Outie Award Winners will be announced throughout the 2024 Out & Equal Workplace Summit from October 8-10.  

Celebrating the Diversity of the LGBTQ+ Community  

At Out & Equal, we’re proud to acknowledge and celebrate the following: 

Bi+ Visibility Week (September 16-September 23) and Bi+ Visibility Day (September 23)

According to research from Gallup, 58 percent of the LGBTQ+ community identifies as bisexual. Despite these numbers, additional data from Pew Research notes that those who identify as bisexual are far less likely to come out to family and friends than their gay and lesbian counterparts.  

These numbers highlight the significant challenges in achieving acceptance and understanding for members of the bi+ community. Out & Equal’s About that B: Bi+ Inclusion at Work report co-authored by bi+ expert and education, Robyn Ochs (she/her), helps fill in the gaps in information around bi+ identities in the workplace and provides tangible action items for employers and individuals. 

Latine Heritage Month begins on Sunday, September 15

The LGBTQ+ community is not a monolith. It is a tapestry of diverse and intersecting identities. And even within those like identities, there is immense diversity across thought, perspectives, lived experiences, and background.  

In a thought-provoking and insightful piece, Gabriel de la Cruz Soler (he/him), Senior Manager, Global Impact Programs (LATAM) at Out & Equal, highlights the evolution of identity within the Latin community where he notes, “Hispanic, Latinx, Latine, Latino, or Chicano? When it comes to labeling ourselves, there is no one correct answer. It depends on when you immigrated to the US, where you studied, where you were born, where you grew up, what your gender is, what generation you’re from, and what community you would like to be a part of.”  

At Out & Equal, we work with the world's leading and most influential companies—and the inclusive leaders in these organizations—to advance LGBTQ+ representation, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. 

We’re proud to welcome Abt Global, Cedars-Sinai, DPR Construction, Draper, Medline Industries, LP, Pernod Ricard, Trane Technologies, Turner Construction Company, and Weber Shandwick as our newest members of the Out & Equal Partner Community.

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