Zoe Woodhouse is an associate in the London corporate team of Sidley Austin. Here, she discusses her positive experiences of being ‘out’ at work – and also what firms can do to improve their environments for LGBTQ+ people – during U.K. Pride month in June.
My experience of being an open member of the LGBTQ+ community within the legal profession has been unexpectedly positive. When I first joined Sidley as a newly qualified solicitor in 2017, I had few reservations in terms of being open about my status as a LGBTQ+ lawyer – by this time I’d had plenty of practice correcting assumptions that my partner was “my boyfriend” in the occasional awkward professional setting.
