![]() Hanlon and Hickey made plans to recruit at the event.Īs Wells Fargo team members gathered after the AIDS walk for a group picture, Hanlon and Hickey handed out flyers encouraging people to contact them if they were interested in getting to know fellow LGBT team members. The Wells Fargo Foundation already donated to AIDS and HIV support groups that served LGBT communities, and 300 members of the company’s volunteer network were participating in an upcoming AIDS walk. ![]() ![]() They decided that the first step in preparing for the next parade was to find interested people to join them. Just four years prior, Wells Fargo had added sexual orientation to nondiscrimination employment policies - a protection that does not exist under federal law - and Hanlon and Hickey hoped this meant that LGBT team members would feel comfortable and safe expressing themselves, advocating openly in the workplace, and joining a company team at the parade. Tim Hanlon and Shannon Hickey shared their desire to see a Wells Fargo group walk in the parade the following year. It all started when two team members met for lunch in the summer of 1991, a week after San Francisco’s annual pride parade - at the time called the International Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day Parade. June 2017 marks 25 years since Wells Fargo team members first marched in that parade, and 30 years of the company supporting the LGBT community.
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