In 2011, the Williams Institute, an LGBT-focused think tank at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, published a comprehensive report examining employment discrimination. It found “widespread and persistent employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” with one survey showing that 27 percent of lesbian, gay or bisexual people had been discriminated against at work.

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*A special thanks to Lexie Burton, an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, for bringing this story to the attention of the Organizational Communication in the News team!*