No company has an accurate count of gay employees.

But our gay employees have not tried to establish a dialogue with management.

In 1995, he was a co-sponsor of a bill to bar discrimination against gay federal employees.

A16 A Federal agency said it destroyed a list of gay employees.

And, of course, supporting gay employees could help financial services companies with customers as well.

"We decided to meet to make benefits more equitable for gay employees," she said.

Leaders of groups representing gay public employees were heartened by today's decision.

She praised the company for taking action like its nondiscrimination policy toward gay employees.