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Panel on trasitioning to work from college as an LGBT person

Out for Work held a panel last night at Penn State Univeristy. I represented IBM on behalf of our LGBT group. The other panelists included folks from Johnson and Johnson, Sodexho, Mellon and Earnst and Young.

Prior to the conference there was a networking session where about 20 students showed up to chat. There was representation from freshmen to graduate classes and a variety of majors.

The panel session was a success with questions about including LGBT community participation on your resume, gender transition in the workplace, coming out experiences, and the general climate for LGBT folks at our companies.

I’m consistanly impressed by the degree of sophistication that current students seem to have. Their questions were thoughtful and sincere - I think that it was a successful event for all. Thanks so much to Eric for all of his leadership in organizing the oSTEM at PSU.

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Ever since she sang “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” I’ve had a little crush on her

For about an hour and a half. I was with 8 other people at NC State University. We were speakers at a panel session about being out in the workplace. Unfortunately no one showed up for the panel and the door to the room we were supposed to speak in was locked. No one seemed to know how to get it open, so we decided we’d just hang out in a lounge and chat for a while.

Thats when the elevator made an abrubt stop. About 1.5 hours (and several calls to university police on the call box in the elevator) later evelvator maintenence came and opened up the door.

We took the stairs down the rest of the way

Its been a rather uneventful National Coming Out Day. Who knows, maybe someone will surprise me at the gym tonight.