Career Center and Tech’s GSA chapter team up for presentation

The Indiana Tech Career Center, in conjunction with Indiana Tech’s chapter of the Gay/Straight Alliance, is proud to sponsor “OUT at Work: Legal and Practical Considerations for LGBTQ Employees.” The event is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 3, at noon in the Seitz Conference Center inside Andorfer Commons on Indiana Tech’s Fort Wayne campus.

This free program is open to the public and will be led by Nancy Marcus, founding constitutional law professor at Indiana Tech Law School, LGBTQ-rights scholar and chair of the American Bar Association’s LGBT Rights/Civil Rights Litigation Section Subcommittee, and David Amen, openly gay practitioner, former chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s LGBT Committee, board member of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago and chair of its mentoring program.

“While most people across the country are familiar with the recent Supreme Court decisions affirming same-sex marriage rights, what is less well-known is the comparative lack of equal rights that LGBT individuals in many states, including Indiana, have in other contexts, including employment,” Marcus said. “This panel will provide some critical information to Indiana Tech students and members of the community to help equip them for the realities, both positive and negative, that they may face as ‘out’ LGBT members of the workforce, whether in Indiana or other states.”

The workshop will address the current state of the law, pending legislation that could affect employment rights of LGBT individuals, and will include an informal discussion from the perspective of out LGBT attorneys about day-to-day issues related to being out at work. A question-and-answer session will follow.