Although the rules of the workplace are striving to fight LGTBIFOBIAThe workplace remains in many cases the hostile world for many people in the LGTBI team, who are forced Hide your true personality and disguise the heters in order to avoid discrimination and persecution at the workplaceField
Hugo He lived in the first man. At 26, he began to work in the security sector and was supposed to avoid the show, as it was to avoid deviation in his company. “I entered the girl, with long hair, makeup and a neckline, I did this so that people do not know who they are“He says.
However, For a month he decided to start his transitionAnd he lived a test through which the majority of trans -people pass: “I began to suffer from discrimination, I went with my beard, but in the papers I continued to put Veronica“Given this situation, he was forced to hide who he was, and assured that the situation with the name was from a mistake:“ People who joined this issue told them that I had a partner’s name because he expired. “
Miguel also received discrimination, working as a consultantA very male working environment in which he found only obstacles to make his homosexuality public. “A couple of girls knew that it was gay, but not my bosses, it generates the fear that, knowing your condition, it sticks you.”
This fear He forced him to refuse even permission after marriage. “I didn’t like it, because the company’s story meant to leave the closet.”Concerts. Every day, entering the office, he had to pretend to be another person from who really was and laid this mask, which depressed him for many years.
Oscar Most of his professional life in the closet also passed. In particular, he hid his sexuality for 10 out of 20 years, which he worked in a large consumption sector. “Small“He explains.
The viewability, which in fact was nothing more than a fear of showing his homosexuality and ultimately damage to him: “You do not dare to say from the fear of your meaning, this is not that we are deceiving, if we expect, it will have an impact on our professional career.”
Eve is a lawyer and also underwent oppression in the judicial field What suggests that fear is open as a member of the LGTBI team. “Many people are not in the closet in their personal lives, but at work they do not say it,” he explains.
Something, which, unfortunately, is too common. Only 26% of the residents of the LGTBI team are visible to their colleagues, and this figure descends to 12% when it comes to showing their bossThe field because in mid -2025, although many companies seek to encourage inclusion, the workplace remains a world in which many are forced to disguise themselves as a hetero.
