Naz Foundation is trying to sensitise workplaces towards the LGBT community

Naz's trainers facilitate the participants to understand how to co-exist with LGBT individuals in the workplace

“Am I safe around someone who is gay?”

“How should I behave with a gay person?”

“Is it natural?”

“Why should I make a special effort to hire people like them?”

This is a sampler of questions Anjali Gopalan and her cohorts at Naz Foundation have to field in their latest project — a series of interactive workshops on LGBT rights in the workplace for corporate employees. “For us, addressing such queries sensitively is an opportunity to demystify the LGBT community to people who may not have had much interaction with them,” says Gopalan. “It’s the first step toward fostering