{"id":46374,"date":"2021-07-01T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T19:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=46374"},"modified":"2023-12-07T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:19:55","slug":"pride-month-panels-understanding-gender-sexuality-intersectionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/pride-month-panels-understanding-gender-sexuality-intersectionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Month Panels: Understanding Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality"},"content":{"rendered":"

During this year\u2019s Pride Month <\/strong>(June), the LGBTQIA+ community at Samsung Electronics America<\/strong> celebrated the beauty of its diversity, advocated for equality, and commemorated the historical Stonewall Uprising tipping point. But while there are many milestones crossed in the push towards progress, the community currently faces complex hurdles on a national and state level.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Samsung is committed to creating an equal environment<\/a> that supports, inspires, and respects all of our people. After all, ensuring such an inclusive workplace culture is key to our belief that when we thrive together, our creativity and innovation defies barriers. In observance of Pride Month, Samsung Electronics America has been exploring the significance of intersectional Pride and the history of the LGBTQIA+ equality movement<\/a> in collaboration with our Equality Alliance Employee Resource Group (ERG)<\/strong><\/a> through a series of events.<\/p>\n

Among these sessions was a \u201cHistory of Gender and Sexuality in the U.S.\u201d talk with Nikita Shepard<\/strong><\/a> (they\/them), a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia University\u2019s History Department. The educational discussion reflected beyond the 52 years since Stonewall and shed light on the many pioneering trailblazers who have paved the way for LGBTQIA+ acceptance and visibility. Their presentation highlighted the expansive gender and sexuality spectrum, how that spectrum has evolved throughout U.S. history, and the ways in which it shapes social and political developments today.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

It\u2019s important to find the courage to embrace your true self and the various intersectional identities \u2013 be it sexuality, race, socioeconomic status, education or religion \u2013 that make you uniquely you.<\/p>

Anthony Lopez<\/span>- Director, Sales Operations, Display Business<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>
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Nikita shared the following historical references:<\/p>\n