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Τρίτη 21 Αυγούστου 2012

Cancun Welcomes The 2nd International Expo & Business LGBT Event


The Cancun Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is proud to announce that Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the leading North American workplace equality advocacy organization, is partnering with The 2nd International Expo & Business LGBT event.
This expo will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel Cancun from September 6 – 9 and focuses on the immense growth potential of various industry segments in gay markets across the Latin American region.
During this year’s expo, a new LGBT 2020 Study will be released, showing that real issues surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity and characteristics in the workplace exist in all countries in Latin America, including Mexico.
The LGBT2020 Study is a global research project devised and implemented by Out Now Global - the world's leading specialist LGBT consulting agency. Since 2009, the project has been collecting data from countries around the world, to compare LGBT people's lives; asking the same set of questions in more than a dozen languages. Almost 100,000 people have now participated in more than 20 countries.
"Out & Equal is pleased to be participating in this event," said Selisse Berry, Founding Executive Director of Out & Equal. "Our work started in the United States and has expanded globally in recent years. We recently hosted the Out & Equal LGBT Global Workplace Summit in London with constituents from 28 countries. LGBT employees everywhere face complex and diverse issues that relate to their sexual orientation and gender identity. Something as basic as an invitation to a work function takes on a whole different hue if a person is not out about their sexual orientation with everyone they work with. This can cause real issues, and we see workplace equality as an area where there is still much to be done in Mexico, and across Latin America. Participating in this event is an important step for us, and we are looking forward to sharing our experience with the delegates attending the conference."
For 13 years, Out & Equal has been at the forefront of recognizing the workplace rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and working with corporations to bring about real improvements in the workplace as a result.
Full LGBT2020 data results for Mexico and other key Latin American markets, including Argentina and Brazil, are to be released by Out Now at the event.
"There are millions of LGBT people living in Latin America, and most of them have experienced harassment or other difficulties related to their sexual orientation in some form or other during this year," Cooper said. "For example our latest research shows that only 26% of people in Mexico feel comfortable coming out to everyone they know at work. To conceal such an important aspect of oneself from work colleagues wastes a large amount of time and effort, and tends to risk marginalizing LGBT people to the detriment of workplace teams. It is far better when workplaces offer respect and acceptance for LGBT colleagues so that all workers can be themselves and function to their maximum effectiveness as a team."
Cancun hosts a variety of events and expositions throughout 2012 that focus on diverse audiences and interests. The Cancun-Riviera Maya Food Festival, which celebrated culinary talent in the Americas, was a complete hit this February. Other festivals held this past year were The Oasis Country Music Festival, a tribute to country music at Oasis Cancun Resort and the Diving Emergency Symposium, a training program for underwater emergencies, at Krystal Hotel Cancun.