‘Being gay feels like a liability again’: More LGBTQ workers are staying in the closet

More LGBTQ employees are shielding themselves from scrutiny by becoming less open at work. But that self-protection can also keep existing power structures intact.

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For much of the last decade, corporate America told a tidy story about progress: Pride logos, employee resource groups, executives marching in parades. The implication was that the workplace closet—the quiet calculation LGBTQ employees make about how much of themselves to reveal at work—was slowly........

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