Missing gay man found ‘alive and well’ – Washington Blade
Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Monika Nemeth, who became the first known transgender person to win election to public office in D.C. when she won her ANC seat in 2018, says...
Trusting The Tech – Why technology is key for the LGBTQ community – Washington...
After being confined to a to-go program for the last two iterations, Washington, D.C.’s Restaurant Week is back this summer to celebrate the revitalized dining scene in the city. Summer Restaurant...
The Best Thing to Happen to Museums in the Pandemic – Slate
If you’ve never visited the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, you won’t fully comprehend the sheer cavernousness of the space. The cumulative 346,774 square feet in...
‘About time’: Gay athletes unleash rainbow wave on Olympics – Chron
TOKYO (AP) — When Olympic diver Tom Daley announced in 2013 that he was dating a man and “couldn't be happier,” his coming out was an act of courage that, with...
DaBaby slammed for ‘homophobic’ comments about gay men and HIV – Metro.co.uk
DaBaby’s comments have offended many (Picture: Rich Fury/Getty Images)DaBaby has been criticised for comments made during his set at Rolling Loud in which he claimed people with HIV and Aids...
The Math Ph.D. Who Just Shocked Olympic Cycling – The Wall Street Journal
Oyama, Japan The mathematician pedaled away from the bunch, right at the start. It was a flyer, to test her limits, and see how it goes. Anna Kiesenhofer wasn’t considered a...
Report that led to priest’s resignation prompts journalism ethics questions – Crux Now
High-tech data collection and cellphone tracking services allegedly used in a report by The Pillar that triggered the resignation of a high-ranking U.S. Catholic official July 20 has sparked a fresh...
Miss New Jersey contestant hopes to be role model for Black, LGBTQ communities –...
Taylor Lee is not exactly a typical beauty contestant candidate. Yes, the 24-year-old former model is tall, thin and attractive, but she's also Black, gay and a computer geek who's passionate about...
Amazon will investigate gender discrimination at cloud unit after employee complaints – The Washington...
The charges echo claims made by Warner in her lawsuit, filed the same day as four other current and former Amazon employees sued the company over allegations of race and gender...
Why Queerbaiting Matters More Than Ever – Rolling Stone
In June 2021, pop singer Billie Eilish put out the music video to her newly released single, “Lost Cause.” The video features Eilish at a sleepover with a handful of her...
How smartphone data can be used to learn secrets – The Washington Post
Trying to fully protect your data would be a full-time job, and not something most smartphone owners could easily manage. To start, you’d need to comb through every privacy policy, manually...
Senior US Catholic resigns over Grindr allegations – BBC News
On Monday, the Catholic News Agency reported it had, in 2018, declined an offer from a party claiming " to have access to technology capable of identifying clergy and others who...
A Prominent Priest Was Outed for Using Grindr. Experts Say It’s a Warning Sign....
Early Monday morning, the executive director of the conservative news service Catholic News Agency published a warning to the Catholic world: an unknown Catholic group was about to use mobile app...
Top official with US Conference of Catholic Bishops resigns amid misconduct allegations – The...
The National Catholic Reporter was the first to report Tuesday morning that Burrill had resigned, citing a memo from Archbishop José Gomez, the USCCB president, to other bishops. The Tuesday memo...
Priest Jeffrey Burrill allegedly being tracked on gay dating app Grindr divides Catholics –...
“Without that information readers can’t adequately assess the story’s credibility. The end result: efforts toward increased transparency are not strengthened, they’re undermined,” Daniels wrote. “The actions alleged in the story are...
The Nightmare of Our Snooping Phones – The New York Times
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.“Data privacy” is one of those terms that feels stripped of all emotion. It’s...
Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns over report linking him to gay bars and...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Tuesday the resignation of its top administrator for "possible improper behavior" after an outlet linked Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill's phone activity to gay bars and...
Stop Building Bad AI – Boston Review
Jul 21, 2021 14 Min read time Image: DedMityay / AdobeStock Justice demands that we think not just about profit...
Concerns raised about using surveillance technology to track clergy – The Catholic Telegraph
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The prospect of private parties using national security-style surveillance technology to track the movements and activities of bishops, priests,...
California court upends part of law to protect gay seniors – Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gay rights advocates said Monday that they will seek to challenge an appeals court decision tossing out part of a California law designed to protect older LGBTQ...
Thierry Baudette was a model in a gay magazine: ‘I didn’t quite fit her’...
in the last Budbast This season, Bastien Mejer confronts the politician with his modeling past. “Yes, how do you...
Surgeon General Assails Tech Companies Over Misinformation on Covid-19 – The New York Times
President Biden’s surgeon general on Thursday used his first formal advisory to the United States to deliver a broadside against tech and social media companies, which he accused of not doing...
Court To Probe Vimeo Win In Gay Conversion Censorship Suit – Law360
Law360 (July 16, 2021, 4:49 PM EDT) -- The Second Circuit has vacated its March ruling that a California-based church cannot sue Vimeo Inc. for deleting its account promoting gay conversion...
EU to take legal action against Hungary’s anti-gay law – POLITICO Europe
The European Commission is set to launch legal procedures against Hungary's new anti-LGBTQ+ law on Thursday, two officials familiar with the plans told POLITICO's Brussels Playbook. Brussels will commence two separate infringement...
Minnesota Executive Order Aims To Bar Access To “Conversion Therapy” For Minors – NPR
A woman waves a rainbow flag during a Pride march in June 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brandon Bell/Getty Images...
EU to take legal action against Hungary’s anti-gay law – POLITICO.eu
The European Commission is set to launch legal procedures against Hungary's new anti-LGBTQ+ law on Thursday, two officials familiar with the plans told POLITICO's Brussels Playbook. Brussels will commence two separate infringement...
Beyond Pride: The fight against tech’s brogrammer culture – TechCrunch
Phil Schraeder Contributor Phil Schraeder is CEO of GumGum, the global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence.
I was 4 years old when...
Part 3: Popular Gay Dating App Grindr Poses Exploitation Risk To Minors – wgbh.org
This article is the third installment in an ongoing investigation by the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting, titled "Unseen: The Boy Victims of the Sex Trade." Read part one here...
Popular Gay Dating App Grindr Poses Exploitation Risk To Minors – wgbh.org
This article is the third installment in an ongoing investigation by the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting, titled "Unseen: The Boy Victims of the Sex Trade." Read part one here...
Unseen: Popular Gay Dating App Grindr Poses Exploitation Risk To Minors – wgbh.org
This article is the third installment in an ongoing investigation by the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting, titled "Unseen: The Boy Victims of the Sex Trade." Read part one here...
Unseen Part 3: Popular Gay Dating App Grindr Poses Exploitation Risk To Minors –...
This article is the third installment in an ongoing investigation by the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting, titled "Unseen: The Boy Victims of the Sex Trade." Read part one here...
Israeli court annuls parts of surrogacy law excluding gays – Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday cleared the way for same-sex couples to have children through surrogate mothers, a move hailed by lawmakers and activists as a victory for...
West Virginia is Trading Trump for Tech Workers – POLITICO
In April, West Virginia went viral for the wrong reasons when MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle fact checked Justice about a bill he signed to ban transgender students from playing on the sports...
Free speech group seeks to stop Virginia Tech’s anti-bias policies – Roanoke Times
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A conservative free-speech group is seeking a preliminary injunction that would prohibit Virginia Tech from enforcing policies that it says encroach on the rights of right-leaning students.Speech First Inc....
Chinese social media giant WeChat shuts LGBT accounts – Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — China’s most popular social media service has deleted accounts on LGBT topics run by university students and nongovernment groups, prompting concern the ruling Communist Party is tightening control...