California Pioneers New Quotas For People Of Color & LGBT People – Forbes
California’s state government is nothing if not famous for its progressive legislation. It’s no surprise then that on October 1st, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a mandate on California-headquartered corporations to...
Twitter Users Flood Far-Right Proud Boys Hashtag With Gay Pride Images – Gadgets 360
Twitter users are flooding the #ProudBoys hashtag on social media with images of LGBTQI+ pride, displacing posts made by neo-Nazis and white supremacists using the tag.Proud Boys, a far-right group founded...
Justices Thomas, Alito Blast Supreme Court Decision On Same-Sex Marriage Rights – NPR
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The gay community is beautifully reclaiming #ProudBoys – Mashable
In one of the first good plot twists of 2020, the #ProudBoys hashtag has become a thing of beauty.
On Sunday morning, #ProudBoys was trending on Twitter, but not for the reasons...
Group: Egypt police arbitrarily arrest, torture LGBT people – Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — A prominent human rights group Thursday accused Egyptian police of arbitrarily arresting and torturing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and urged authorities to end prosecutions for adult,...
Ban on Gay Men Donating Corneas May No Longer Be Supported by Evidence –...
“At the time of the policy’s introduction, HIV screening tests were unreliable up to 6 months after viral exposure, so it was argued that a categorical exclusion policy for sexually active...
Why the only openly gay heavy metal superstar, Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, hid his...
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has always lived a loud and proud heavy metal life, but only in 1998 during an MTV interview did he become the first metal icon to...
New report shows it could take 12 years to reach equal representation of women...
Like many industries, tech is still struggling when it comes to gender diversity. Overall, women technologists make up 28.8% of the tech workforce today. Though this number is a steady increase...
Technology & real estate: How COVID propelled industry forward – Washington Blade
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Technology has transformed the real estate industry, enabling contact-less viewings and sales.
Over the past six months, nearly every industry in our economy was accelerated by technology due to COVID-19. Whether...
Roanoke community marks 20-year anniversary of Backstreet Cafe shooting – WSLS 10
ROANOKE, Va – Twenty years later, the Roanoke community is remembering the life of a man killed at the Backstreet Cafe.Six other people were also injured when Ronald Gay opened fire...
Top 13 Countries with Biggest Gay Populations – Yahoo Finance
BloombergCentral Banks to Pour Money Into Economy Despite Sharp Rebound(Bloomberg) -- The aggressive rebound in global economic growth still isn’t enough for most of the world’s central banks to pull back...
Discrimination against gay men who can’t make donations is arbitrary, archaic — and deadly...
When Sean Reinert — a Los Angeles-based musician memorialized by Rolling Stone as a “death-metal drum trailblazer” — died suddenly at the beginning of the year at 48, he had a...
.gay Is Good – Official Domain Launch Brings Historic LGBTQ Online Representation – Yahoo...
New .gay domains now available will proudly signify more inclusive and safer online spacesDomain registry Top Level Design today announced the public launch of top-level domain (TLD) ".gay", enabling consumers, businesses...
Bartow police officer resigns, admits to directing anti-gay slur at citizen – The Ledger
BARTOW — A Bartow police officer has resigned after admitting in an internal investigation that he directed a derogatory slur toward a citizen while assisting a call for service.Interim Chief Bryan...
TikTok admits restricting some LGBT hashtags – BBC News
In a statement, TikTok said: "We believe that accountability and transparency are essential to facilitating trust with our community. As part of this, we've committed to making our moderation policies, algorithm,...
Game changer: Violet Power to offer 50-year solar panel warranty with US-made IBC technology...
Coming out of stealth-mode, US-based integrated PV panel manufacturing start-up, Violet Power intends to disrupt the PV industry with in-house production of high-efficiency IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) solar cells. The company...
Top 21 Companies That Support The LGBTQ+ Community 2021 – Built In
While tremendous strides have been made in the past few decades, there is still sadly a long way to go when it comes to achieving equality and liberation for the LGBTQ+...
My Colleagues Have Great Work-Life Balance (Thanks to Childless Me) – The New York...
Am I the Worst?I work as a product manager at a small start-up. I’m only two years out of college, and recently, I was thrust into a new role. I’m excited....
State Dept. fighting to deny US citizenship to gay couple’s child – ABC News
A federal judge ruled in June that the agency had to grant citizenship.August 20, 2020, 3:14 PM• 5 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleThe State Department is appealing a...
Ex-Goldman CFO Chavez on being gay in macho banking: ‘Math was my survival strategy’...
Marty Chavez has spent five months in lockdown in the mountains of West Massachusetts. However, his trademark beard has not grown to frontiersman proportions. Instead, he is clean-shaven, tanned,...
TeleTracking Technologies, Firm Running Coronavirus Database, Refuses to Answer Senators’ Questions – The New...
And one month into the new arrangement, there are questions about how useful the new database is. The Covid Tracking Project, a heavily used resource, reported this week that the federal...
How the internet is changing the experience of coming out – The Economist
Aug 8th 2020BOGOTÁ, NAIROBI AND NEW YORKPROPPED UP BY his Union flag pillows, Tom Daley was at last ready to unburden himself. As the camera wobbled about, the then 19-year-old British...
As more gay people come out, tolerance will spread – The Economist
Aug 6th 2020PHILIP LARKIN was only half-wrong. Sex didn’t begin in 1963, as the poet joked; for a hefty minority of Britons it was four years later—legally, at least—when Parliament nixed...
Trump fires chair of Tennessee Valley Authority board – The Washington Post
The TVA chair is James “Skip” Thompson, a Trump appointee whose term was scheduled to end in 2021. He was earning $58,650 a year. The term of the other director, Richard...
Five key moments from the big tech grilling – BBC News
In one, Mr Zuckerberg said: "These businesses are nascent but the networks established, the brands are already meaningful, and if they grow to a large scale they could be very disruptive...
Why the Aircraft That Dropped the First Atomic Bomb Will Always Inspire Debate –...
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | July 30, 2020, 10:16 a.m. Everything changed in an instant. One moment, it was a warm summer’s day with a few clouds in the sky. The next,...
Mexico City just outlawed gay conversion therapy. These cities have not – Big Think
Are you a worrier? Do you imagine nightmare scenarios and then get worked up and anxious about them? Does your mind get caught in a horrible spiral of catastrophizing over even...
‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Brings Deepfake Technology to Documentaries – The New York Times
When the documentarian David France decided to chronicle the anti-gay and lesbian purges that had unleashed a wave of fear and violence in Chechnya, he needed more than just a camera.He...
In heated hearing, lawmakers allege tech industry ’emperors’ hold too much power – NBC...
Google came under fire for limiting other websites' traffic, Facebook faced questions about its purchase of Instagram and Amazon was accused of raising diaper prices as lawmakers held a rare congressional...
Openly Gay Indian Prince Joins Calls To Ban LGBT Conversion Therapy – Forbes
The global LGBT community are becoming more vocal about the horrors of conversion therapy, as eradicating the discredited practice emerges as one of the highest priorities for global LGBT citizens.And the...
The Fight for Fertility Equality – The New York Times
While plenty of New Yorkers have formed families by gestational surrogacy, they almost certainly worked with carriers living elsewhere. Because until early April, paying a surrogate to carry a pregnancy was...
The varying American fortunes of Grindr and Blued – The Economist
America’s government viewed one gay-dating app with Chinese ties as a national-security concern. Can another that has just listed in New York expect similar treatment?BusinessJul 18th 2020 editionJul 18th 2020“I ...
Opinion | DCPS LGBTQ+ programming: Finding ways to connect in a pandemic – Washington...
Despite technology integrations in our classrooms and the more wide-scale availability of educational tech platforms, few school districts were logistically prepared for the pandemic fallout. DC Public Schools—despite being more prepared...
Mondaire Jones poised to become first gay Black man in Congress – Roll Call
Attorney Mondaire Jones is poised to become the first openly gay Black man in Congress after winning a crowded Democratic primary in New York’s 17th District. But he may share that distinction...
Facebook and Instagram ban all posts related to gay conversion therapy – India Today
Facebook and Instagram announced a ban on all gay conversion therapy content on the social media platforms. The conversion therapy attempts at forcefully changing an individual’s sexual orientation. The ban is...