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Another Gay Bar Gone: Orlando’s Parliament House To Close After 45 Years

From the Parliament House’s Facebook page: For over 45 years, The Parliament House has called Orange Blossom Trail our home. We have to announce that our home at its current location will be closing Monday, November 2, 2020. We put up a good fight over the last 11 months to secure financing and renovate our existing property. Unfortunately, that fight ended today with no deal. Our “Last Dance” at 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail will be this Sunday, November 1, 2020. We have so many memories on “The Trail.” We will never forget New Year’s Eve when Miss P arrived in […]

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Business Champions of LGBTQ Equality Honored with Outie Awards

Today, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates announced the winners of the 2020 Outie Awards. The awards (also known as the “Outies”) recognize individuals and organizations who are leaders in advancing equality for LGBTQ people in workplaces globally. Outies are awarded at the annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit. This year’s Summit concludes today. “The slate of winners at this year’s Outies represents showcases some of the best work being done at large companies to create workplaces of belonging where LGBTQ employees can thrive,” said Erin Uritus, CEO of Out & Equal. “This has been a tough year for everybody. These are the companies, […]

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Feminuity Releases Groundbreaking Collection of LGBTQ2+ Inclusive Workplace Practices

Feminuity released a groundbreaking new resource: A Guide to LGBTQ2+ Inclusion for HR, People, & DEI Leaders The publication serves to center the needs and experiences of LGBTQ2+ employees, keeping companies at the cutting-edge of inclusion and better-equipping organizations to promote a sense of fairness and belonging in their future workforce.  Keith Plummer, a partner of Feminuity, certified Human Resources professional, and author of the guide, summarized its significance with the following remarks: “In this resource, we set out to create a guide for HR, People, and DEI leaders to adapt to the sexual and gender fluidity that increasingly characterizes […]

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Black-owned Gay Bars Are Dwindling. Can they Survive Covid?

When Charles Hughes and Richard Solomon began making plans in 2018 to open their own gay bar in New York’s historic Harlem neighborhood, they had no idea a pandemic would shut them down before they even opened. “The first thing we thought was, ‘Oh, my gosh, we’re going to be out of business before we started this business,’” Hughes, 39, told NBC News. But a global health crisis is not the only headwind their bar, Lambda Lounge, and the few remaining Black-owned gay bars in the United States are facing. Long before anyone had heard of Covid-19, these LGBTQ social […]

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Anti-gay Chick-fil-A No Longer Heading to San Antonio Airport

Chick-fil-A said Monday that it no longer plans to open a restaurant in the San Antonio airport, even though the Texas city relented after more than a year of legal wrangling that began when some city leaders opposed the fast-food chain getting a spot, citing donations made by company owners to anti-LGBTQ causes. “We are always evaluating potential new locations in the hopes of serving existing and new customers great food with remarkable service.” Chick-fil-A said in a statement. “While we are not pursuing a location in the San Antonio airport at this time, we are grateful for the opportunity […]

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Is ‘Gay TikTok’ Safe from Trump? LGBTQ Users on Edge Over Ban Threat

Steven King, a popular content creator on the social media platform TikTok, said he stumbled across the video-sharing app by accident early last year. “I saw an advertisement for what I thought was an app that could put your selfies into motion” he said. “I downloaded it, and two days later I was posting my first video.” King, 47, started by sharing videos about his day, his relationship with his husband and what clothes he wanted to wear. They must have resonated because his following started to grow — all the way to 3 million as of this week. “The amount of […]

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Banker Sues Citi after Being ‘Denied a Promotion’ Because He’s Gay

The multinational investment bank Citigroup is being sued by a gay man who claims he was demoted and discriminated against because of his sexual orientation. The allegations by gay banker Thomas Krauss appear to counter Citigroup’s proud ranking as the most LGBT-inclusive financial services employer in the Stonewall Top 100. Krauss joined the firm in 2010 and until recently led the firm’s capital introduction group for the Americas, Bloomberg reported. He says he was targeted when he uncovered complaints of sexual harassment made against a new hire on his team, Deutsche Bank veteran Joseph Genovese. Concerned that Genovese’s hiring could put Citigroup at […]

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Instagram Bans Posts Promoting Damaging Conversion Therapy

Instagram is taking a hard line on conversion therapy, announcing that it will block all posts promoting the abhorrent practise. Attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity have been rejected by every mainstream medical and mental health organisation for decades and are linked to higher risks of depression, suicide, and drug addiction. Instagram’s public policy director Tara Hopkins acknowledged the harm it causes as she explained how the company is changing the way it handles conversion therapy content. “We don’t allow attacks against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity and are updating our policies to ban the promotion […]

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Facebook Refused to Take Down Posts Threatening to Murder LGBT+ People

Facebook reportedly refused to take action on posts that called for the murder of LGBT+ people, according to activists. LGBT+ activists across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have called on Facebook to tackle hate speech, including posts that call for the murder of queer people. But, the platform reportedly found that they did not “contradict community standards”. Activists and rights groups wrote an open letter to Facebook in the wake of the death of Sara Hegazy, an Egyptian LGBT+ activist who was jailed and tortured for raising a Pride flag at a concert, and then tragically died by suicide. The letter said: […]

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Amazon Refuses to Advertise Anti-trans Journalist’s Book Says Trans Teens Are a ‘Contagion’

Amazon has suspended a paid-for advertising campaign for a book suggesting that being trans is “a contagion among teen girls” written by renowned anti-trans journalist Abigail Shrier. The tech giant reportedly refused to host advertising for Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughter because it “claims to diagnose, treat, or question sexual orientation”. Its author is notoriously anti-trans Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier, who wrote on Twitter that her book is about: “The idea that trans-identification has become a peer contagion among teen girls.” Shrier is known for writing obsessively about the debunked 2018 phrase “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria”, which posits that “social and […]

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