By Chris Hoenig
AT&T has a record as a company that backs both the LGBT community and American Olympians. When those two worlds collide this month in Sochi, Russia, the host nation’s laws won’t receive the same support.
The Dallas-based company, No. 13 in the 2013 Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 and No. 2 in our Top 10 Companies for LGBT Employees, has become the first major U.S. corporation to condemn Russia’s anti- LGBT laws. “AT&T has a long and proud history of supportfor the LGBT community in the United States and everywhere around the world where we do business,” the company said in a blog post. “We support LGBT equality globally and we condemn violence, discrimination and harassment targeted against LGBT individuals everywhere. Russia’s law is harmful to LGBT individuals and families, and it’s harmful to a diverse society.”
