Understanding, Designing, and Teaching LGBT Issues

Abstract

This article will provide a context as well as content for teaching LGBT issues within HRD. In order to frame both context and content, the article begins with a discussion of queer theory. It then surveys employment laws that protect LGBT people around the world. Because LGBT issues intersect HRM and HRD, and because of the scarcity of LGBT issues courses within the field of HRD, the article highlights a freestanding college course in HRM as an example for purposes of design as well as content.