I was met at the airport, taken to the home of my hosts, Cristian Massardo and Maria Ester Fernandez, in the Providencia district of Santiago, and given lots of orientation information.
"The Anglo-Saxon model was sexier than the Rhinelandic, and a lot of the Anglo-Saxon orientations have been introduced in Continental Europe," Jan Peter Balkenende, the former Dutch prime minister, said in a recent interview.
A lot of couples go through that orientation holding onto their partner's hand like grim death.
"New York City is such a different environment for a lot of our people, so they need orientation," said Mr. Byrne, who grew up in the Stanley Isaacs public housing project in Manhattan and is a former lieutenant in the New York Fire Department.
Although there is a lot of evidence that entrepreneurial and market orientation impacts firm performance, there is little understanding of how these capabilities are deployed to obtain competitive advantage.
And the Party Platform was called"the most sweeping pro-LGBT national platform in Democratic Party history," though there was a lot of grumbling that the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" were used instead of "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender".
"So it's really cool to give our friends and a lot of people of color and different orientations an opportunity to speak for themselves and be sort of the main character as opposed to like the side character or supporting character".
He also had "fingers in a lot of pies" at university: organising elections, making orientation speeches for first-years and eventually editing the student newspaper, the University Observer.
Written tributes of LGBTQ people have all too often included a lot of tiptoeing around the decedent's sexual orientation.
A lot of people get gender identity and sexual orientation confused, but they're actually completely different.
