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,...
New Me, New Wardrobe: A Transformative Makeover – Autostraddle
New Me, New Wardrobe: A Transformative Makeover Autostraddle
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...
Fashion, Functionality And Feminism – curvemag.com
Fashion, Functionality And Feminism curvemag.com
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+...
These queer designers are on a mission to break fashion’s binary and make lasting...
These queer designers are on a mission to break fashion’s binary and make lasting change PinkNews
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 Queer Designers On Navigating Fashion and Identity – nylon.com
5 Queer Designers On Navigating Fashion and Identity nylon.com
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...