Gay rights in the workplace: the evolving corporate response

In recent years, business has evolved from open hostility against homosexuality to tacit acceptance. Companies such as Apple, Orbitz, Nike, Microsoft and Google have played an active role in driving social change: supporting internal LGBT employee groups, fighting anti-gay legislation and calling for federal workplace protections. The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (Idahot) celebrates 17 May 1990, when the World Health Organization declassified homosexuality as a mental dis...