Calibration labs have their share of challenges: an increasing and more complex workload; fewer technicians; a growing list of quality standards.
Understanding the language of the community is a foundational step toward respect and inclusion.
LGBTQ+ culture is built on shared experiences, values, and a long history of resilience.
This is the internal friction point of LGBTQ+ culture: the tension between gender expression (how you act) and gender identity (who you are).
Figures like (a self-identified drag queen and trans activist) and Sylvia Rivera (a Latina trans woman and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, or STAR) were not peripheral supporters; they were the spark. When patrons fought back against a police raid, it was the most marginalized—those with the least to lose—who threw the first bricks and bottles. Rivera famously said, "We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are."
Understanding the language of the community is a foundational step toward respect and inclusion.
LGBTQ+ culture is built on shared experiences, values, and a long history of resilience.
This is the internal friction point of LGBTQ+ culture: the tension between gender expression (how you act) and gender identity (who you are).
Figures like (a self-identified drag queen and trans activist) and Sylvia Rivera (a Latina trans woman and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, or STAR) were not peripheral supporters; they were the spark. When patrons fought back against a police raid, it was the most marginalized—those with the least to lose—who threw the first bricks and bottles. Rivera famously said, "We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are."