Speak Up!

John, United Kingdom
     I am a gay man and want to share my story.
     I was a PhD student and everyone said I could be a great professor or something like that. But everything changed when I went to a small European country to conduct fieldwork. (I was an anthropology major, so I had to [...]

Patrick, Oklahoma
     I just started a new job and the supervisor continually makes degrading remarks about fellow workers personal odors, sexual preferences, appearances, working habits.
     He is a total locker room bully and this week alone has asked me if I like little boys, have I ever considered a sex change operation, that I have [...]

Roger, Wisconsin      
     In 2002, I was working as a consultant for a Chicago based mid-tier IT Consulting and Business Solutions firm. 
     In response to my expressed dislike of a business decision, my manager, knowing I am gay, offered to pull down his pants and let me use his male endowment as a pacifier.   
     Aided by an attorney, [...]

Chip, Kansas
     A while ago, I was hired at a company that supplies wires for aircraft.  The supervisor who interviewed me knew that a  fellow employee had recommended me based upon his  knowledge of my work ethic.
     On my fifth day of employment, I was approached by this supervisor.  He stated that him and a fellow employee were going to [...]

Joe, U.S.
     At my school, there’s a teacher. The odd teacher. We’ll call him Mr. Q. Mr. Q, since day one of journalism class, has sexually harassed my classmates and I. I just feel like I need to say this, to get it off my chest. I need to talk to some more people about [...]

Logen     
     I have recently come out of a hostile work environment where a woman (I am also a woman) would constantly put her arm around me, and ask me about my sexuality.
     When I finally spoke up re this issue I was demoted from office manger to doing the laundry. I was constantly watched, [...]

Mathue, Eagle River, AK
When I was a freshman in High School I was sexually harassed. A senior in my Chorus classes decided to play pranks on me early in the school. The “pranks” escalated into sexual gestures, and advances, after only a few weeks. The harassment started in the first few weeks of school and [...]

Exhausted, Houston, Tx
     I was about 37 years old when I enrolled at a large university in Houston to explore a new career path and earn prerequisites for graduate school; but instead of starting a new journey, I suffered gender and sexual harassment by a number of professors in several departments.
     Among others, various [...]