Lesbian L and D nurse

A better question is this...why would you disclose your sexual orientation at a job interview?

You wouldn't. Straight people don't...so it shouldn't be any different for gays.

Then, if you get to working on the job, you'll have to make the call on how 'gay friendly' the staff is before you talk openly about it...and if they are not, then I wouldn't.

Unfortunately, I hate to tell you, that clip from the EEOC covers GENDER ...not sexual orientation....they are very, very different things.

Discrimination against sexual orientation is not a Federally protected class..it is very, very important that folks who are gay or bisexual know this before discussing it at work.

Some states have statues protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation...MOST don't.

In the states that don't, some companies have a policy against...most don't.

So, if you live in a state where it's not a protected class, if you disclose you are gay, an employer can legally terminate you, even tell you, it's why he's terminating you, and you would have no legal recourse.

No, I am not agreeing with this...I am not saying it's right...but it's a cold hard fact.

I'm glad to read that you will try for your desired job.
I am a lesbian nurse working on an acute medical ward, and have never experienced any problems with patients or colleagues. I am pretty sure that none of my patients have ever known that I am gay. It depends how I handle questions from patients, when they ask me if I am married or have children etc. I will sometimes I will simply answer 'no', other times I might say that i am engaged. I just assess each situation as it comes.

I have been open from when i started my job with my colleagues that I am gay, they have been very accepting and it's been a non-issue.

There seems to be an attitude of 'I don't mind what your sexual orientation, I don't want to know what you do in your private life'. Which to me assumes that being gay is about sex and nothing else. I agree that talking about sex lives probably isn't usually appropriate at work. Other general conversations that involves families etc it is nice to be able to talk openly with everyone else. If we are talking about what we did at the weekend for example, I will (and feel comfortable doing) say what my partner and I did.

I would like it if my workplace was as open that patients could know that I was gay without issue. If one of my co-workers said to a patient "I'm hoping to get off on time today as my husband is taking me out for a meal", I hope one day it would feel ok for me to say "I'm hoping to get off on time today as my girlfriend is taking me out for a meal"

In the UK when applying for jobs we are asked our sexual orientation, also religion, disability. The information is not passed to the manager interviewing but it is held by HR, for monitoring and equal opportunity purposes. You can of course refuse to answer the questions.

(apologise for the ramblings, not slept after night shift in attempt to convert back to days)

I do not care what your sexual orientation is, just do you job and do it well.
We even have quite a few lesbian nurses on active duty in the Army. Unfortunately, they are forced to keep their lifestyle very quiet.
The ones I have worked with are great nurses and also exceptional military officers. I just hope that one day the administration will change the current policy and allow them to openly serve.

It's no one's business whether you're lesbian, bi-sexual, heterosexual or asexual.

That thar speeling is makin me curazy.....fonics wurked fur mee!

Sheesh, what's THAT got to do with the topic, anyway? And for the record I WAS an English teacher for 12 years.....

Back to the topic: I wouldn't care if you loved cockroaches. I just want you to be a competent nurse and a compassionate human being. I don't know why we in the US are all so hung up on sexual orientation.

I do not personally think its a prob. What I hate are when the husbands are in the room when I am checking their wives and some make crude sexual comments about it.