Where to work: The Advocate adds 10 firms to its list of the top gay-friendly employers in the country

Capital One Financial, McLean, Va,. 2002 revenues: $9.6 billion Employees: 18,000 U.S. Fortune 500 ranking: 191 HRC score: 100

One of the largest issuers of credit cards, Capital One also boasts an openly lesbian top executive--executive vice president of operations Marge Connelly. The company's workplace protections and benefits for gay employees are comprehensive and rich, including a written nondiscrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and gender identity as well as domestic-partner benefits for all unmarried couples. An early supporter of ENDA, Capital One currently offers adoption planning services for all employees, and it will also offer an adoption benefit of up to $5,000 per child in January. The company officially recognized June as LGBT pride month by holding a diversity discussion for all employees via teleconference with Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign. Its diversity training covers gay issues, and Capital One recently held a special transgender education session to support an employee who transitioned. The company's corporate giving and sponsorship aids such groups as the Family Pride Coalition, the Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youth in Virginia, HRC, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Cingular Wireless, Atlanta 2002 revenues: $14.7 billion Employees: 35,000 U.S. Fortune 1,000 ranking: Does not apply HRC score: 86

The nation's second-largest wireless telecommunications company was founded in 2000 from merged domestic wireless units of BellSouth and SBC, and it is already making strides in its protections and benefits for gay and lesbian employees. Its nondiscrimination policy currently includes sexual orientation, though not yet gender identity. Since 2001 it has had domestic-partner benefits for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples, such as medical, vision, dental, and dependent life insurance; employee scholarships; bereavement leave; and financial assistance for adoptions in the amount of up to $5,000 per child, among other benefits. The company has recently formed a gay employee group to accompany those for other minorities. Corporate giving includes sponsorship of the Human Rights Campaign, Georgia Equality, AIDS Walk Atlanta, and the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, plus support of various pride events and parades across the country, including those in Seattle and Boca Raton, Fla. Its Knoxville, Tenn., office has donated to the local Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation fund-raiser.

Deutsche Bank European HQ: Frankfurt, Germany U.S. HQ: New York City 2002 revenues: $30 billion Employees: 77,000 U.S. Fortune 1,000 ranking: Does not apply HRC score: 100

This German bank's involvement in the United States is significant as it is one of the largest financial services providers globally, with about 13 million customers in 76 countries. The bank has had domestic-partner benefits for same-sex couples since 1998, and its nondiscrimination policy includes both sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. All employees can receive up to $5,000 per adopted child and 12 weeks of paid family leave for the primary caregiver. Its U.S. gay employee group is called the Rainbow Group Americas, officially recognized by the company and publicized through a corporate Intranet site. Deutsche Bank supports gay and MDS groups almost too numerous to mention, including the Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York Community Trust-New York City AIDS Fund, and God's Love We Deliver. In a matching grant program for employees who raise funds for charities, Deutsche Bank has also supported the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, among others. Managerial diversity training includes issues dealing with sexual orientation. The company also does gay-focused advertising and says it will start actively recruiting openly gay and lesbian employees this fall.