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Celebrating Pride 2012
June 29, 2012
We encourage people to bring their
whole
selves to work. And this month Googlers, Gayglers (gay Googlers), and their families and friends took this spirit to the streets in Pride parades and celebrations around the globe. In Sao Paulo, a group of 50 marched as a Google contingent for the first time ever. In San Francisco, more than 1,000 Googlers and allies marched (nearly doubling the number of people we had in 2011!). In New York, more than 700 of our friends and colleagues took over 5th Avenue marching alongside our double-decker Pride bus. And this weekend in Singapore, we’re sponsoring the
Pink Dot
celebration for the second consecutive year.
It’s not just through Pride that we show our support for the LGBT community. At
Mardi Gras
in Sydney, we hosted two Queer Thinking seminars on
Activism in the Internet Age
and
Queer Careers
. We also have big plans for the
World Pride
celebration in London this year, launching a “Legalise Love” Conference at Google London, partnering with organizations to identify ways to decriminalize homosexuality and eliminate homophobia around the world.
In addition to supporting the LGBT community outside of Google, we made some changes to our benefits offerings to support our Gayglers. Earlier this year, we enhanced our
transgender-inclusive benefits
to cover transitioning procedures and treatment in accordance with the
World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) Standards of Care
, which includes coverage for procedures like facial feminization for transgender women and pectoral implants for transgender men. We also increased our lifetime maximum coverage for these benefits to $75K—more than double what it had been previously.
Next month we’ll carry the energy of Pride into our fourth annual company Diversity & Inclusion celebration, the Sum of Google. The Sum is an opportunity to celebrate and engage in a discussion about diversity and inclusion across our offices around the world.
Take a look at the photos below for a peek at this year's Pride celebrations.
Posted by Randy Reyes, Gaygler and Global Diversity & Inclusion Team Member
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