Porter Gilberg, executive director of the Long Beach LGBTQ Center, waves to the crowd during the Long Beach Pride Parade on May 20, 2018.
Photo: Thomas R. Cordova for Q Voice News. LONG BEACH — Porter Gilberg, executive director of the Long Beach LGBTQ Center, should be fired for creating a “traumatizing and hostile work environment…(that has) included misogyny toward, tokenism, and harassment of Black and non-Black women and femmes of color,” according to an open letter from 14 people who say they are former Long Beach LGBTQ Center employees.
According to the letter, the former employees have sent the Center’s board of directors a list of more than 60 specific incidents of alleged abusive behavior by Gilberg.
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