Bobbie Wilson was quoted in “It’s Gotten Better to Be LGBTQ in Big Law, but Struggles Remain,” an article in Bloomberg Law, regarding the experience of lawyers of color who are also LGBTQ+.

“Some of the most outspoken people and the most visible people [in the legal LGBTQ community] tend to be the White guys, and I don’t necessarily find that there’s a lot of empathy for the Black experience or being a person of color and being gay,” said Bobbie.

“You walk in the room and no one makes negative assumptions when you’re the White guy in the suit,” Bobbie said. “But I walk into depositions sometimes and people think I’m the court reporter, sometimes the defendant.”

Bobbie said racism has been a much bigger problem for her in the law than homophobia. “It’s almost as if they can’t see past the brown to learn about the gay.”