All of these narrative comments are reproduced in their entirety in Appendices C and D to this Report, except for redactions necessary to implement the promise of anonymity made to individual lawyer respondents. A number of the respondents to the Lawyer Survey, heterosexual, lesbian and gay, provided personal accounts of instances of discriminatory treatment of lesbian and gay lawyers in the workplace. A number of lesbian and gay respondents, in particular, submitted detailed accounts of such incidents. Reproducing such comments without redaction or paraphrasing would in many instances be likely to disclose the identity of the respondents to those involved in the reported incidents and others who know them, thus compromising the promise of anonymity that accompanied the questionnaire. Some of the incidents recounted appeared to be so unique that the comments could not even be paraphrased without potentially compromising anonymity. In some instances, therefore, the narrative comments had to be substantially redacted.15

In the case of some of the narrative comments received, it was not any single incident of discrimination recounted by the respondent that seemed likely to compromise anonymity, but rather the combination of incidents recounted. In some of these instances, detailed accounts of particular incidents have been redacted from the narrative comment in which they appeared and have been presented as freestanding excerpts (identified as such) following all of the narrative comments reprinted in Appendix C, and not linked to the comments from which they have been excerpted. The purpose of this is to avoid the possibility that the details of one incident, not themselves identifying, might become so if linked to the details of another incident recounted in the same comment.