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Coles Street Pothole · 5w
So in 2019, before the pandemic, one of the office holiday party gifts was a roll of rainbow tape (just tape that was an endless rainbow). πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³...
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We eventually returned to office. Staff came and went. My tape stayed. Eventually, most young staff in the office had no idea why the tape was there.

One day last year, a young new hire was in my office and asked how she could get a nameplate like mine. I managed to find the tape and told her to knock herself out. πŸ˜‚ The knowledge of the existence of the office's Gay Tapeℒ️ somehow had not survived the pandemic! She then asked, "Wait, are you gay?" I was like, "Nope." πŸ™‚

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Coles Street Pothole · 5w
So she asked me why I put Gay Tape on my nameplate. And I just said "Seemed like a good idea at the time. I'm an old white hetero dude with a senior role in the organization, I figured I wanted folks to know I stood for Pride and wanted people to feel free and safe when they came into my office." (...