Welcome to our hub of exclusive resources and inspiration to help our member organisations celebrate Pride and LGBT+ history months.
Welcome to enei’s LGBTQ+ and Pride Hub.
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Resources and information
Blogs
Our blog posts are open access and available to both members and non-members. They offer advice and support in the form of opinion pieces on various diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) aspects of the workplace. They may be based on personal experiences and may explore how such encounters had an impact on the contributor and others around them.
- Embracing Sexuality Without the Labels: A Journey of Discovery – Every year, the month of June is celebrated as Pride Month. In honour of this, Michelle Davies—former service design and operations director at enei—shared her personal thoughts about sexual orientation and identity.
- National Coming Out Day – National Coming Out Day is an annual observance on 11 October to recognise and celebrate queer identities to decrease stigma, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. In this blog post, Emma Jennings, enei diversity and inclusion lead, explains how coming out can be tiring.
- Can LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Belief Rights Coexist in the Workplace? – For LGBT History Month 2022, our CEO Sandi Wassmer examined what can happen when LGBTQ+ rights and religious beliefs are in conflict.
- Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride: Ten LGBTQ+ Icons Who Inspire Us – June 2022 marked 50 years since the first Pride march in the UK. Here at enei, we recognised the importance of celebrating this milestone and commemorated the occasion by sharing some of the LGBTQ+ icons we admire.
Quick Guides
Quick guides offer support and advice in the form of checklists, process maps, charts, fast facts, top tips, downloadable handouts, and other useful resources. These resources are for enei members only, so if you’re not a member yet, contact us to find out more about how to join!
- Allyship – LGBTQ+ – This guide provides practical strategies and resources to enhance LGBTQ+ allyship initiatives within organisations.
- Celebrate Bisexuality Day – This quick guide explores ways that employers can support and acknowledge their bisexual colleagues during Celebrate Bisexuality Day.
- Gender Expression – Gender expression refers to the way in which people communicate their gender identity to others through their behaviours, appearance, and other social cues.
- Gender Identity – This guide provides an overview of gender identity. It also explains some different terms associated with gender identity and examines corresponding legislation.
- Intersectionality – Intersectionality refers to the interconnected nature of social categories (such as race, gender, class, and sexuality), and how they interact and contribute to systems of oppression and privilege.
- Lesbian Visibility Day – This quick guide explores ways that employers and managers can support and celebrate their lesbian employees during Lesbian Visibility Day.
- LGBT+ History Month – This quick guide explains the significance of LGBT+ history month and provides information on how you might celebrate it in your workplace.
- LGBTQ+ Pride – This quick guide explains the significance of Pride and can be used to help you determine how your workplace can recognise its importance.
- Sexual Orientation – This quick guide looks at how it is illegal for employers to discriminate because of sexual orientation under equality and discrimination laws in the UK.
Recordings
These are videos related to diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. Videos may be presented in various formats including webinars, interviews, roundtables, panel discussions, and more. Our extensive video library is available to enei members only, so if you’re not a member yet, contact us to find out more about how to join!
- Celebrating 50 years of LGBTQ+ Pride – In June 2022, Jordan Daly and Liam Stevenson were interviewed by enei as part of our recognition of 50 years of Pride.
- Creating Inclusive Workplaces: Intersectionality in the LGBTQ+ Community – During this webinar, the speaker explored how to apply intersectional principles in the workplace.
- Gender Identity 101 – Creating Trans Inclusive Workplaces – Watch the recording of this webinar to learn how you can create a more inclusive environment for your trans employees and service users.
Noteable dates
- Celebrate Bisexuality Day – Celebrate Bisexuality Day, also known as Bi Visibility Day, is observed annually on September 23 to recognise and celebrate bisexual people, their community, and history.
- Lesbian Visibility Week – This is an annual observance dedicated to increasing the awareness of lesbian women and their issues.
- LGBT+ History Month – This is celebrated every February since its founding in 2004 by Schools OUT UK. Its purpose is to claim LGBT+ history, celebrate the present, and create the future.
- National Coming Out Day (NCOD) – This is an annual LGBT awareness day honoured annually on 11 October, supporting those “coming out of the closet” and promoting openness to combat homophobia.
- Pride Month – Pride is dedicated to uplifting LGBTQ+ voices and commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Since then, Pride marches have spread globally, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights and celebrating progress while highlighting ongoing challenges. Pride events, featuring parades and festivals, occur year-round across various UK cities.
- Transgender Awareness Week – Transgender Awareness Week, observed from 13 to 19 November, serves to is to educate about transgender and gender non-conforming people and the issues associated with their transition or identity.
- Transgender Day of Remembrance – The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), observed annually on 20 November, memorialises those murdered due to transphobia.
- International Transgender Day of Visibility – This is celebrated annually on 31 March to raise awareness of the discrimination faced by the trans community and their contributions to society.
