Evolve: Dallas Morning News to ExxonMobil

Evolve, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper says to ExxonMobil.

Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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Neal Broverman

May 24 2012 7:54 PM EST

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The Dallas Morning News editorial board wants ExxonMobil to finally add nondiscrimination protections for its LGBT employees.

The Irving, Texas-based oil giant has for years resisted a formal policy prohibiting discrimination against gay and trans employees; Texas, meanwhile allows people to be fired simply for being LGBT. ExxonMobil shareholders will consider changing the policy May 30, though the corporation still appears resistant to the change.

"By explicitly prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, the company will join the growing community of corporations that now view this as an essential and even indispensable part of doing business," the Morning News wrote in an editorial. Read the full piece here.