From yesterday (for me, a long 4th of July work day, 6 am to 6 pm) on my Facebook page (somewhat edited):
In going through stuff in my closets, I came across a t-shirt (one that fits me, so I put it on) that has a logo on the front: a (portrait) rectangle with horizontal stripes of the rainbow flag in it and the word IN in white letters superimposed on the rainbow stripe. The back of the shirt identifies it as from out@in, which is presumably some sort of gay organization, but I don’t recognize the name or remember how I came to have the shirt.
My attempts to search for the organization and the logo came to nought, as did my attempts to scan the t-shirt logo into my scanning printer, so I appealed to readers to supply me with information about the organization and with a copy of the logo. (Given the precarity of my current life, I did not take well to people who, instead of giving me the information I sought, explained to me how I should have done the searches.)
Someone to help. One of my readers had a special interest in being helpful to me, and also some inside knowledge about the tech world and its LGBT+ diversity groups: my daughter Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky. To compress several absurdly complex stories dramatically: EDZ is employed by Yahoo! to ride herd on e-mail security (and has been a techie since her teenage years); and she is a very good friend of the LGBT+ community (among other things, she was raised by three parents, two of them being me and my husband-equivalent Jacques; note that I said this stuff was dramatically compressed). So she was able to identify the organization easily, and then to frame a search that would find their logo.
Two more sweet gifts to add to the many she has given me. (You might stop and reflect on what it would be like to have someone like me as a parent — just the extravagant oddness of my being and the intensity of my many commitments, to which you can add sharing the care of Jacques through 12 years of dementia before he died, and coping with, on my part, periodic brushes with death, some years of low-grade depression and financial fecklessness, an endless series of increasing afflictions and disabilities, and, oh yes, the alcoholism crisis.)
The diversity support group. From EDZ, the LinkedIn posting, “Why it’s so great to be Out@In” by Trafford Judd on 9/22/15, beginning:
Progressive employers know that diversity support groups are an effective strategy in attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that is representative of their employee and customer base. At LinkedIn, our LGBT diversity group is called Out@In, an internal networking and support group where LGBTI employees and allies can participate in social events and form global friendships.
Indeed. I’ve been an enthusiastic contributor to all sorts of diversity support and political action groups, going back to 1970; these include employee — staff / faculty — groups at both Ohio State and Stanford. I’m still attached to QUEST (Queer University Employees At Stanford), which has a monthly social gathering and sponsors other events as well, though it’s been many months since I’ve been able to take part (because of my disabilities).
The logo. There’s a little trick involved, but once you know that Out@In / OUT@IN / out@in is a LinkedIn group, you can find its logo, in a long and short form:
The long-form logo is the name of the group, out@in, with the short-form logo (described above), the one on the front of my t-shirt, in the place of the in in the name
My shirt is aqua in color — but Canvas offers basic shirts in tons of colors, on which you can have things imprinted.