Therese Lee, global ethics and compliance counsel at Google Inc., is gay and has worked to make gay members of her company feel more accepted, including founding the Women’s Gaygler Employee Resource Group for female lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Google employees in 2012.

For this and other gay advocacy, the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Bar Association Thursday will present its Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award to Lee.