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 LGBTQ+-friendly are Asia’s homegrown fashion brands? – South China Morning Post
How LGBTQ+-friendly are Asia’s homegrown fashion brands? South China Morning Post
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...
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...
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,...
‘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...
How Many Software Developers Identify as LGBTQ+? – Dice Insights
How many software developers identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community? Stack Overflow recently surveyed tens of thousands of developers about everything from their favorite programming languages to their educational...
41 Black Queer Fashion Brands You Can Support Beyond Pride – BuzzFeed
41 Black Queer Fashion Brands You Can Support Beyond Pride BuzzFeed
Grindr’s new owners are straight. They say that’s OK – Los Angeles Times
The international ownership saga of America’s most popular gay dating app, Grindr, came to a close last month when a group of American investors took control of the West Hollywood company.China-based...
Five womxn on what butch style means to them – The Face
Five womxn on what butch style means to them The Face
5 Responses to “How Safe Do LGBTQ+ Individuals Feel in Tech?” – Dice Insights
Do LGBTQ+ individuals who work in tech feel safe in their workplaces? Blind, which anonymously surveys technologists, went out and asked—and received some interesting answers in return. According to Blind’s report...
Gay Pride for me celebrates the freedom to enjoy an open relationship – NBC...
The very act of being a Queer person is radical. Who we love and who we have sex with are acts of political defiance. Being visible, being proud, refusing to hide...
‘Online community’: Streaming short-play series commemorates Gay Pride – Albuquerque Journal
The cast of “It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Pink Lady Sings,” clockwise from upper left: Alix Hudson, Zoe Margolis and Zoe Burke. (Courtesy of Almost Adults Productions)In mid-March, theater productions came...
8 Queer Brands That Make Suits For Women – Refinery29
8 Queer Brands That Make Suits For Women Refinery29
Teacher: I Was Fired for Being Gay. Now It Can’t Happen to Anyone Else...
The simple truth of the recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Bostock v. Clayton County is that, for the first time ever, it has been ruled that all people in the...
25 LGBTQ+ founders, entrepreneurs and VCs you should know – PitchBook News & Analysis
Pride Month 2020 has been different. Although we’ve still been able to celebrate and affirm the LGBTQ+ people in our lives and across the US, this year’s Pride has also provided...
7 LGBTQIA+ Fashion Designers On Finding Their Identity – Vogue
7 LGBTQIA+ Fashion Designers On Finding Their Identity Vogue
Pride Month 2020: Here’s how big tech is celebrating – The Indian Express
Here’s how major tech brands are celebrating and supporting Pride month. (Image credit: Apple)
June is celebrated as Pride Month, when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community members come together to...
Supreme Court extends employment protections to LGBT individuals – Roll Call
The Supreme Court on Monday extended broad workplace protections to gay, lesbian and transgender employees, in a decision that found a 55-year-old anti-discrimination law covers them even if Congress did not...
US Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections – Business Insurance
(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights, ruling that a landmark federal law forbidding workplace discrimination protects gay and transgender employees. The 6-3...
Supreme Court rules that workers cannot be fired for being gay or transgender –...
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that employers cannot fire employees based on their sexual orientation or gender identity under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Why it matters: The...
Read it here: Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ employee rights – Fast Company
advertisementIn a sweeping victory for LGBTQ civil rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that an employer could not fire someone on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.advertisementadvertisementThe...