title: A Manager's Guide to Sexual Orientation in the Workplace
author:  Bob Powers 
description: How do American companies develop diversity in programs in their workplaces today that successfully integrate gays and lesbians into the corporate fabric of inclusivity? This question is the first premise for both these books. Bob Powers and Alan Ellis, long-time diversity trainers, look at specific individuals?gay/lesbian/bisexual/heterosexual?who have come to terms with sexual orientation workplace issues themselves and influenced others in a positive way. In six chapters the authors build on these personal accounts to explore how managers can implement diversity programs and make them work. A highlight of the book is a listing of "101 ways to make your workplace more inclusive." An excellent resource listing concludes the work. Winfield and Spielman, who are founders and principals of Common Ground, a consulting firm that specializes in workplace education about sexual orientation, offer a far more ambitious book. While they also incorporate personal stories to make points, they succeed in creating a far more comprehensive manual on how to achieve true diversity for sexual minorities. In addition to describing successful corporate diversity programs (notably Lotus and AT&amp;T), they go on to cover discussions of what "domestic partnership benefits" are and how they can be realistically achieved in work settings. Both works are recommended to general readers.?Richard Drezen, "Washington Post" News Research Ctr., Washington, D.C.<br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: 'Sexual Orientation' and American Culture     7/10/2002 
  By Robert Knight 
  Some corporations are adopting policies based on flawed reasoning 
  INTRODUCTION 
  Beset by homosexual pressure groups, some of America’s 
  corporations are adopting policies based on "sexual orientation." 
  What seems at first like a fairly easy and painless way to mollify 
  activists inside and outside the company instead invariably triggers 
  more and more demands. 
  Caught in a spiraling campaign, companies wind up adopting policies 
  that defy their self-interest, create a hostile climate for other 
  employees, and open the firm to government intrusion and lawsuits 
  designed to speed up a radical transformation of American culture. 
  As homosexual activists themselves acknowledge, their final 
  objectives are to eliminate company policies that impart a unique 
  value to marriage and to install a system to discriminate against 
  people with traditional values. 
  The strategy is this: Transform morality into a form of bigo