As part of HRC’s "7 Days to a Better Financial You" campaign, Senior Youth Outreach Manager Candace Gingrich caught up with Nina Smith at Queercents.com, a syndicate of personal finance writers serving a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender audience. Candace was interviewed as part of Queercents’s "Ten Money Questions" feature. The whole piece is worth a read, but here are some highlights:
Q: As an activist, what does money mean to you?
Candace: In many ways it is the invisible discriminator when it comes to GLBT equality. When I am asked whether or not I’ve ever been discriminated against, my answer includes the often unnoticed ways that we are affected financially: paying federal taxes on domestic partner benefits; the income gap between queer and straight people; paying for lawyers and documents to protect our families; etc. There is also the damage that the myth of GLBT affluence does to efforts to secure GLBT equality.
Q: The media loves to paint a picture of self entitlement when it comes to money and Millennials. As HRC’s senior youth outreach manager, how do you see finances playing a role in the lives of our youth?
Candace: Queer youth (who I call Generation Equality) are being more strategic about career choices and industry options as they plan for their futures. There are lots of great resources out there about workplace policies and practices – like HRC’s Corporate Equality Index and our searchable employer database. We also just launched a new Mobile Action Network that allows people to instantly know how GLBT-friendly companies are when they’re shopping – all from their cell phones! So, with these tools, it’s possible to know in advance which companies offer the most to their GLBT employees and for young people to become everyday activists by in supporting these companies.
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