Omnicom agencies come together to launch Australian chapter of Omnicom Open Pride
A group of Omnicom agencies, including Clemenger Group, DDB, TBWA, PHD and OMD have announced the launch of a local chapter of Omnicom Open Pride.
Open Pride is Omnicom’s global employee resource group committed to inclusion and diversity efforts across the group and its agencies to foster inclusive and engaging work environments for the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies.
The Open Pride chapter launched with an event hosted at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne’s offices, with Jason Ball, the first openly gay Australian Rules player and ambassador of the LGBTQIA+ community and iconic Melbourne drag queen Karen from Finance in attendance.
Says Claire Tenzer of TBWA\Melbourne and Chris Donnellon of Clemenger Group, co-chairs of Open Pride: “We are so lucky to work in a diverse and inclusive industry. It’s exciting to unite our networks to work together on common goals in this space, and we are thrilled to launch the first chapter of Open Pride in Australia.”
Says Gayle While, CEO, Clemenger BBDO Melbourne: “The Open Pride committee is a wonderful demonstration of how we can come together as an industry to continue to celebrate and institutionalise diversity and inclusion and ensure that everybody has a safe, accepting and respectful environment at their workplace.”
The Open Pride committee will roll-out a series of initiatives and events for the industry to assist in fuelling personal growth, organisational inclusion and visibility for LGBTQIA+ employees.
More information about Open Pride can be found here.
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LGBT – I get those.
Q – how is Q different to L/G?
I – I don’t understand I at all. Isn’t I the same as T?
A – that’s a new one. What is A? If it’s asexual, well, that’s like inviting an atheist to join your church innit? Asexual doesn’t get to join the rainbow party.
Not being facetious here at all, I’d really appreciate it if someone in the community could give me the skinny.
I mean, I could google it, but then I’d have IT all over me (yeah, sure you were just curious)
Are you alright? What sort of inane comment is this? Serious question back at you; are you attempting humour here? It’s not funny. You come across like a deranged loser.
There’s absolutely nothing rude or wrong or negative or offensive or untoward in asking those questions. And you know what, I did google it. And it is confusing. And so what if I asked for someone who knows to clear it up for me? We want to celebrate our differences and celebrate diversity but heaven forbid someone asks what some fucking confusing letters mean?
While there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking, you do come across as a troll as the info is readily available and, apart from Q and maybe +, it’s all very well defined and not nearly as confusing as you’re making out to be. But in the spirit of openness, I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and thank you for showing interest. So here’s the skinny.
L – Lesbian.
G – Gay. This obviously can refer to men and women, but in this acronym, it’s men.
B – Bi.
T – Trans. Trans people are people who identify as a gender other than their physical one. Some make the physical change, and some live their lives as the people they identify with. As you’ll see, this is totally different to Intersex.
Q – Queer. Yes, this is loosely the same a LGB, but it’s a broader, more inclusive and probably a little more old fashioned term.
I – Intersex. Intersex people are people who physically have characteristics of both sexes. This can be having a full set of male and female genitals, or having the chromosomes of both genders. Intersex people can be LGBT or straight.
A – Asexual. This is a new addition to me as well, but it doesn’t mean, as you suggested, that they’re not invited to the rainbow party. Everyone is invited to the rainbow party, which is why we have the best parties. Asexual, like the other LGBTI+, is simply not straight-up hetro.
+ – Human sexuality is a complex thing, and there’s a broad spectrum to cover outside of girlfriend and boyfriend. The + is exactly that, inclusive.
In this list, I am an out and proud and happy L. And having an open, kind, accepting community makes an enormous difference in our lives. So we’re protective of it, and we’re protective of each other.
I hope this has gone some way to clear it up for you.
You’re an absolute fucking legend for explaining that
Thank you. That was awesome.
It’s not up to the queer community to educate you. So yeah, look it up mate.
The queer community.
Q.
So what’s with the LBGTIA+?
Anyway, just thought if someone’s happy to parade down the main drag in sequinned chaps singing ‘Sisters are doing it for themselves’, they’d maybe be okay with answering a few honest questions is all.
OK Boomer
Mate, I’m sorry the term “LGBTQIA+” is causing you so much grief. It must be really hard for you. Those seven or so letters have a big task: they have to communicate the entirety of non-dominant expressions of human sexuality and gender. As it turns out, sexuality and gender are actually super complicated! Even in empirical neurophysiological terms (i.e. science), they’re poorly understood. Maybe we’d understand them better if straight men like yourself hadn’t oppressed women and sexual minorities throughout human history.
I can understand why you’re confused: the only sex you encounter is two minutes of loveless lights-off missionary once a decade. So I suggest you go do some googling and educate yourself, instead of feeling entitled to the time of LGBTQIA+ people (who have much better things to do).
You seem nice.
It’s fine to ask the question, but why do you feel the need to be rude in how you go about it? Googling LGBTQIA+ is not going to get you ‘flagged’ by IT and the fact that you think it’s funny to insinuate that googling it is some how immoral and going against company conduct shows how small-minded you are.