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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Discrimination at the workplace/grad school:  an inquiry
Message-ID: <953@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 18:16:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: bbncca.953
Posted: Fri Sep 21 18:16:20 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:43:52 EDT
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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As if it weren't obvious already from the number of people from here
who contribute to net.motss, BBN and its subsidiaries truly exercise
a non-discriminatory employment policy regarding gay people.

From the BBN (and BBN Communications) Personnel Handbook:

"BBNCC believes that it is a person's contribution to the job that counts
rather than his or her creed, color, sex, or other physical or personal
characteristics that are unrelated to job performance."

This could hardly be construed as "pro-gay" (whatever that means or should
mean.)  Rather, it means what it says, and the company and its employees
generally follow through on it: being gay is simply not an issue;
competence is.  I do not know much at all about the situation of those
requiring a security clearance, since my job does not require one, but that
is a matter complicated by a third party, the US Government.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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