he offers health care and fun extracurricular activities. brian every time he sees you is going to greet you and ask you, how s your family, how are things? it s sincere. i love that i feel like vie a voice. that i matter. i really feel i matter. he cares about customers. he cares about his employees. as much as brian has committed himself to being authentic in the workplace he expects the same of his team. the number of lgbtq employees is now at a new high. if someone can be who they are, they will do an outstanding job of taking care of their customers because they re not doing it in a fake way. brian says there are still stumbling blocks to his mission. but he wouldn t change a thing. if someone doesn t like who i am, i kind of feel it s their loss. if i was still in the closet, i
it was a different industry back in the day. and i grew up, you know, in the old school ways. i was scared. he remembers all too well repeating conversations from his auto repair business with his son. i called him at colleague. i had no idea. that s what went on in this business. what glenn didn t realize to brian those jokes may not have been so funny. when i realized i had done it, i started to cry what i was putting my son through. brian moak came out to his parents when he was a junior in college. it s in my blood. basically since i was 2 i ve been coming to work with my dad. he made like a playpen out of tires. i would literally hang out with him. his plan bass to join the family business. but he knew as an openly gay man, it was going to be tough. it was not today.