“If you let me, I can turn you straight.” – this is what one boss said, to be ‘helpful.” At work, our LGBTQ peers/colleagues/loved one’s experience disturbing and sometimes severely distressing remarks and reactions. Discrimination is rampant, and even higher among LGBTQ people of color. What do we accept? What do we tell ourselves is “not that bad” – how much do we tolerate in order to exist/survive/remain employed? In a report titled LGBT People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. found that 46 percent of LGBTQ workers reported receiving unfair treatment at some point in their careers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity —" Reported in Out News, Sept. 8, 2021, 11:01 AM CDT https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-n... The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, or age. The human Rights Campaign has a website designed to provide this info : https://www.hrc.org/resources/yeo.