A Malaysia perspective: Culture and working life as an LGBTQIA+ person in the industry | Advertising
linkedin Ganesh Nair is a marketing manager at software company Everise DX, where he's worked for just over a year. Nair has spent most of his life in his home country of Malaysia, besides a seven-year stint studying and working in Australia. Nair identifies as a cis-gender gay man. On the face of it, Malaysia is a repressive environment for those in the LGBTQIA+ community. Same-sex relations and expression of transgender identities are criminalised, informed by the country's official state religion of Islam. But in some major cities, a more progressive attitude pervades. According to Nair's...