Darren Rosenblum, ‘Queers, Closets, and Corporate Governance’, 80 Business Lawyer 413 (2025). Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the board level and beyond have been a major topic in corporate governance for the last decade or two. Those efforts have mainly focused on gender and racial diversity, but initiatives (now struck down) in California and at Nasdaq have also included LGBTQ or queer people. Turning our focus to them reveals a unique challenge: the closet. Boards and C-suites probably already contain a fair number of queer people, but most of them are not out about their status. How does the closet affect efforts to diversify boards? Are numerical goals an adequate response, or does addressing queer exclusion require deeper changes in corporate culture? Might non-queer people also benefit from such cultural changes? … (more)
[Brett McDonnell, JOTWELL, 22 April 2026]
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