What is Straight Friendly?
Per its website, Straight Friendly Global is a media and education brand that makes the LGBTQ+ story accessible to everyone, through talks, podcasts and online content that build bridges between communities. The opening episode presents it as a social enterprise promoting LGBTQ+ culture in underrepresented communities, and host Michael Ross tells his personal story and the idea behind "Straight Friendly". The audience is not only LGBTQ+ people but also their families, friends and colleagues.
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How can I be an ally at work?
In the episode with Shachar Grembek on founding LGBTech, the podcast covers the difference between diversity and inclusion, the economic benefits of inclusion, visibility in key roles, role models, and the challenges of coming out in business. The episode on LGBTQ+ business types says the significance of allyship cannot be overstated. "Trans in the Business Sector" with Bianca Lewis and Shachar Grembek focuses on transgender people at work.
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What was Stonewall, and what is LGBTQ+ history?
The podcast has several history episodes. With Jeffrey Masters, host of "LGBTQ&A", it travels "from the first brick thrown at the Stonewall Inn more than 50 years ago to the Ballroom Culture & RuPaul". With Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem it explores some of the earliest gay poems, written more than 1,000 years ago, and how historians reconstruct hidden history.
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