If you’re an employee at a company where no gay and lesbian group exists, what can you do to make a little progress in the direction of equality?

The answer is simple: start a group. But the process of actually starting one is a little more complicated. We asked some experts how you can get started.

Kim Mills, director of workplace education at the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay and lesbian political organization, says the first thing you have to do is make sure there isn’t already an underground group at the company that you don’t know about.

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The Gay Scribe Archive is a repository of work by Gip Plaster, an author who has written for gay and lesbian newspapers, magazines, websites and other publications around the country and the world. The Archive features a variety of author interviews, book reviews, business and consumer articles, as well as general interest pieces.

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At least there’s not a lavender rhinoceros on your bumper.

Sticking on bumpers, hanging around necks and dangling in front of windows are a few of the places you’ll find the symbols of lesbian and gay pride.

There might even be one tattooed on your partner’s arm. Rainbow flags, pink triangles and that odd wishbone-like Greek letter called lambda are the most popular symbols today, but there were many others before them.

And, by the way, what does a lavender rhinoceros have to do with gay pride? Stay tuned.

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The Gay Scribe Archive is a repository of work by Gip Plaster, an author who has written for gay and lesbian newspapers, magazines, websites and other publications around the country and the world. The Archive features a variety of author interviews, book reviews, business and consumer articles, as well as general interest pieces.

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If you’re planning to start investing, you’ll likely have no shortage of advice, but we thought you might like some good advice — uniquely tailored to our unique community.

We asked four of the country’s top investing experts — two who are part of the gay community and two who aren’t (that we know of) — to tell us their most important advice for gays and lesbians starting to invest. They offered not just the expected broad, esoteric advice that fills so many investment magazines, but the also offered some specific advice that will get your dollars on the path to earning you more money.

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The Gay Scribe Archive is a repository of work by Gip Plaster, an author who has written for gay and lesbian newspapers, magazines, websites and other publications around the country and the world. The Archive features a variety of author interviews, book reviews, business and consumer articles, as well as general interest pieces.

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