The Best Queer Films of 2020 – IndieWire
Being a year where everyone was trapped indoors glued to their screens meant, for moviegoers, that smaller films were able to sneak onto the radar, and that especially extended to queer...
These Bonuses Beat The Biglaw Market Rate! – Above the Law
This is getting to be a habit — boutique law firm Selendy & Gay, has, once again, beaten the prevailing market rate for year-end bonuses doled out in Biglaw. We get...
10 Years After DADT Repeal, LGBTQ Airmen Say More Can Change – Air Force...
Share Article Ten years after the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy began to phase out, gay and lesbian Airmen say there’s more the Department of the Air Force...
Pete Buttigieg’s faith was as much a part of his profile as being LGBT....
When President-elect Joe Biden this week announced his intention to nominate former South Bend, Indiana, mayor (and one-time rival for the Democratic presidential nomination) Pete Buttigieg as his secretary of transportation,...
Religious leaders are standing up against LGBT+ discrimination – World Economic Forum
Almost 400 global multi-faith religious leaders are calling for countries to overturn bans on same-sex relations and end LGBT+ conversion therapy. The campaign is run by is supported by...
Colombian village offers hope for indigenous gay men – Jakarta Post
Growing up in an indigenous village in the Colombian Amazon, Junior Sangama long hid his sexuality -- before clashing with his family and choosing to leave. But the 27-year-old has...
Chapter One: How Fashion Was Forever Changed by “The Gay Plague” – Vogue
Chapter One: How Fashion Was Forever Changed by “The Gay Plague” Vogue
Hungary amends constitution to redefine family, limits gay adoption – Reuters
Same sex couple Adam Hanol and Marton Pal play with their four year old adopted son Andras at a playground in Budapest, Hungary, November 19, 2020. Picture taken November 19, 2020....
How a 1980s AIDS Support Group Changed The Internet Forever – OneZero
As the AIDS epidemic spread, Ben Gardiner took to the nascent internet — and shaped the way we share health information onlineBen Gardiner was a larger-than-life mainstay of San Francisco’s Castro...
U.K. Will Make It Easier For Gay And Bisexual Men To Donate Blood –...
The U.K. announced new rules for blood donation that are defined by individual behaviors, rather than sexuality and gender. ...
India’s entrepreneurs have a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to shape the future of tech, says Paytm...
India's entrepreneurs have a unique opportunity to shape the future of technology, not only within their own country but across the globe, according to the billionaire founder of one of the...
Mexico’s senior Catholic leader backs civil unions for gay couples – Reuters
Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes arrives to take part in the inauguration ceremony as Mexico's new Archbishop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico February 5, 2018....
French Europe Minister comes out as gay, will visit Polish ‘LGBT-free’ zone – POLITICO.eu
French Minister for European Affairs Clément Beaune publicly came out as gay in an interview with French gay magazine Têtu, in which he also promised to support LGBTQ communities in Poland....
Were You An Emo Baby Gay? Try These 5 Alt Androgynous Looks – GO...
Were You An Emo Baby Gay? Try These 5 Alt Androgynous Looks GO Magazine
Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ Season 4 makes up for past queer missteps in a rollicking...
“Big Mouth” — created by Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett — debuted on Netflix in 2017 and quickly became a hit. Viewers saw themselves in the animated...
Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, documents show...
The overhaul, which is known as the WoW Project and is in its early stages, involves re-engineering Facebook’s automated moderation systems to get better at detecting and automatically deleting hateful language...
Brian Gay soaks up recent success – West Orange Times & Windermere Observer
As Brian Gay approached the tee on the final hole at the Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda, he and his caddy had a short conversation about the moment....
The New STEM Gap: Study Confirms Gay Men Are Less Likely Than Straight Men...
MASON, OHIO - P&G Mason Business Center on February 21, 2020 in Mason, Ohio. Photo by Duane ... Prokop/Getty Images for Olay Body ...
Courts in 39 American states still admit the “gay-panic” defence – The Economist
Nov 28th 2020NEW YORKDANIEL SPENCER was a quiet, 32-year-old film editor who had recently moved to Austin, Texas from Los Angeles. He was also gay. In 2015 his neighbour, James Miller,...
‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase – The New York Times
The next day, Mr. Armstrong, 37, summarized the tone of what he had heard. “There was just this outpouring of, like, Why does the company not have my back?” he said...
‘Uncle Frank’ Leaves A Great Cast Languishing – NPR
L to R: Frank (Paul Bettany) Beth (Sophia Lillis) and Walid (Peter Macdissi) pull up to the bumper in Uncle...
Where the youngest new faces coming to Congress stand on tech – Politico
With help from John HendelPROGRAMMING NOTE: Morning Tech will not publish on Thursday, Nov. 26, and Friday, Nov. 27. We'll be back on our normal schedule on Monday, Nov. 30.Editor’s Note:...
52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman – The New York Times
In August 1968, Lynn Conway, a promising computer engineer at IBM in Sunnyvale, Calif., was called into the office of Gene Myron Amdahl, then the company’s director of advanced computing systems.Mr....
LGBTQ News: Homosexuality Makes You Enemy of State in Poland – Bloomberg
Mikolaj Milcke is a writer and broadcaster in Poland, publishing half a dozen novels, hosting radio shows and starring as a commentator on reality show “Big Brother” last year. Yet when...
New data examines presence of LGBTQ people in STEM – Open Access Government
© Motorolka While US researchers are rightfully examining ethnicity and gender in their fields, the data for LGBTQ people in STEM fields has been notoriously lacking – until now
Currently, there are...
Happiest Season: A guide to the super gay cast of the Christmas rom-com. –...
Happiest Season, the heartwarming new Christmas movie about meeting your girlfriend’s parents for the first time—while having to hide that she’s your girlfriend—features more out LGBTQ stars than any studio romantic...
Will there ever be an HIV vaccine? – pharmaceutical-technology.com – pharmaceutical-technology.com
Infectious diseases that lead to long-term disability have been a persistent threat to humanity, but thanks to vaccination many have been confined to the annals of history. Viruses such as polio,...
New data examines presence of LGBTQ people in STEM LGBTQ people in STEM, research...
© Motorolka While US researchers are rightfully examining ethnicity and gender in their fields, the data for LGBTQ people in STEM fields has been notoriously lacking – until now
Currently, there are...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual communities more at-risk for dementia, study finds – MSUToday
Lesbian, gay and bisexual — or LGB — people are more vulnerable to one of the fastest-growing health concerns in the country: dementia, according to new research from Michigan State University....
Daylight launches first LGBTQ+ digital bank in United States – Fast Company
advertisementNeobanks have emerged as not only a tech-forward solution to many of the industrialized woes of traditional banks, but also as a way to serve the needs of marginalized communities.advertisementadvertisementLast month,...
St. Thomas Stands Behind Gay Professor – Inside Higher Ed
The University of St. Thomas in Minnesota is standing by an adjunct professor of theology who is gay after a man with a history of harassment reportedly walked around campus demanding...
Singapore’s Leader Welcomes LGBTQ People in Tech Talent Pitch – Bloomberg
Gay and lesbian people are “valued members of society” and welcome in Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Wednesday, in a statement that is at odds with his government’s resistance...
The Gay Goods Launches With Veteran Editor Mark Peikert at the Helm – PRNewswire
NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the launch of new online destination, The Gay Goods. With former Playbill Editor-in-Chief Mark Peikert leading the charge, the subversive, NSFW gay editorial...
For the LGBTQ community, family brings extra benefits and costs – CNBC
John and David Auten-Schneider on their wedding day. The couple married after more than 13 years together.Studio LemusJohn Auten-Schneider and David Auten-Schneider came out about their finances about two years after...
Hamilton County elects first female, openly gay sheriff – American City & County
After claiming to have been fired in 2017 partly for being openly gay, a former Hamilton County (Ohio) major has since defeated her supervisor to become the county’s first female and...