Just had a flashback to the HIV/AIDS agency where I worked for most of the 90s. Almost every staffer was a gay man, a trans woman, or a lesbian. Our clients were all HIV positive and some of them were very ill, which of course was very emotional for everyone.

Staff meetings often featured plenty of tissues to wipe away tears. Our revered (really) leader was a powerful, highly competent, older straight woman who helped us grow dramatically to serve more and more clients in need.

She admitted once to several of us in private over drinks that it took time for her to get used to so much open emotion in a professional setting, but she didn't feel it was her place to try to change our culture, especially since some of us were as ill as our clients.

She didn't say so in as many words, but I think she meant that she learned that our culture added to our success rather than took away from it.