For LGBTQ+ agency employees, relationships with their workplaces and employers can be discordant.
On one hand, LGBTQ+ pop culture is ascending quickly. On the other hand, their challenges still remain. This kind of divergence is what prompted Graham Nolan and Kate Wolff, longtime agency and marketing veterans, to co-found Do the WeRQ, a community and platform for LGBTQ+ marketing professionals that aims to elevate queer creativity, representation and share-of-voice in the marketing industry.
“If we’re showing up in ads and entertainment at growing rates, certainly that points to greater equity in the actual business of creativity, right? Erasure makes it hard to see our challenges.”
Do the WeRQ is now on a mission to create a community that can provide discussion, programmin