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Chick-fil-A Banned from University Campus Over Anti-LGBT Views

A university in New Jersey, USA, has decided that a Chick-fil-A restaurant will not be built on campus because of the chain’s anti-LGBT+ views. Students at Rider University reportedly voted for the Chick-fil-A branch as their top choice for a new food outlet on campus in a poll in spring. However, in an open letter to students, the university’s president and vice-president said that Chick-fil-A had been removed from the list of options for the new campus restaurant because of its poor record on LGBT+ issues.“Although it was included in previous surveys, Chick-fil-A was removed as one of the options […]

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Queer-Friendly Big Businesses to Give Your Business to

Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equalirt Index takes the ethical guesswork out of Black Friday. As quickly as Thanksgiving comes and leaves us stuffed and merry, the madness of Black Friday descends upon us. There’s nothing quite as American as the gluttony of Black Friday. With the objective being getting as many deals, deals, deals as possible, it can be easy to forget to consider where one’s dollar is going. Who’s corporate pockets are we fattening? Every year, Human Rights Campaign releases a Buyers Guide index to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. The guide assesses whether the companies are committed to […]

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Twitter Now Protects Trans People from Targeted Misgendering and Deadnaming

You can now report Twitter users for targeted deadnaming and misgendering. Twitter updated its Terms of Service last night (23 November) to protect trans people from online abuse. The new protection comes under the heading: ‘Repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes or other content that degrades someone.’ It continues: ‘We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful steroetypes about a protected category. ‘This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,’ it said. Targeted misgendering is the process of deliberately using the wrong pronouns […]

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Donates $10,000 to Anti-LGBTI Republican Politician

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has reportedly donated $10,000 to a notorious anti-LGBTI politician. Bezos and his wife Mackenzie donated a combined total of $10,800 to Republican Senator Cory Gardner. They individually donated $5,400 each, which is the maximum amount allowed for individual donors in Colorado. The couple donated to Gardner’s 2020 reelection fund in September this year, according to CNBC. Gardner from Colorado has a long history of anti-LGBTI voting. In 2006, he voted no to allowing same-sex couples to adopt and has long voted against same-sex couples right to marry. Bezo wasn’t the only Amazon employee to […]

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56 Major Companies Denounce Trump On Trans Rights: Apple, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, More

From the site Business For Trans Equality: We, the undersigned businesses, stand with the millions of people in America who identify as transgender, gender non-binary, or intersex, and call for all such people to be treated with the respect and dignity everyone deserves. We oppose any administrative and legislative efforts to erase transgender protections through reinterpretation of existing laws and regulations. We also fundamentally oppose any policy or regulation that violates the privacy rights of those that identify as transgender, gender non-binary, or intersex. In the last two decades, dozens of federal courts have affirmed the rights and identities of […]

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New Owners of 2 Major LGBTI Publications Allegedly Donated to Anti-gay Politicians

The new owners of OUT Magazine and The Advocate, two major LGBTI publications, allegedly donated money to anti-gay politicians. Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) reports that step brothers Adam Levin and Maxx Abramowitz bought the two publications, under the umbrella of PRIDE Media, back in September. The brothers are the founders of Oreva Capital, a private equity firm, as well. In addition to PRIDE Media, Levin and Abramowitz are also, respectively, the CEO and lead investor of the High Times Magazine parent company, High Times Holdings. WWD found that Levin has donated money to numerous Republican politicians with anti-LGBTI agendas. For […]

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Hyatt Hotel Announces it’s Going to Stop Hosting Hate Groups

Hyatt Hotels has announced they will no longer host hate groups in their spaces. The decision comes after one of their hotels in Virginia hosted an annual conference for an anti-Muslim group. At the Skift Global Forum in New York City on Thursday (27 September), CEO Mark Hoplamazian announced the decision. ‘If a group is primarily focused on disparaging a group by virtue of their identity…that’s really where we need to draw the line,’ he said. Hoplamazian also added that traits like empathy and inclusiveness are ‘deeply personal to me’. He also clarified that groups like the anti-Muslim one in Virginia are […]

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More than 70% of LGBT people have experienced mental Health Issues Because of Work

Nearly three-quarters of LGBT people have experienced mental health issues because of work, a survey has found. The poll, commissioned by Business in the Community with HR firm Mercer, found 72 percent of LGBT people have experience problems as a result of work. A quarter of LGBT employees (26 percent) said they had hidden their identity at work in the last year because they were afraid of discrimination, it also found.The survey, conducted by YouGov, was published ahead of World Mental Health Day and shows LGBT people are disproportionately affected by mental health issues. The results show only 60 percent of LGBT […]

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Facebook Blocked a Bunch of LGBTI-themed Ads for Being ‘Political’

Facebook has blocked ads containing LGBTI material for being ‘political’. Adverts for everything from a gay fairy tale cabaret in Las Vegas to a Spanish-language social group for Latino men were deemed political by the social media site’s monitors. This is despite none of them containing any form of advocacy or political views, according to The Washington Post. This comes as Facebook tries to regulate the use of its site for political means after Russian-state actors were accused of using adverts to sway the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit vote. The site uses both automated and human monitors […]

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Grindr Will Stop Profiles From Stating ‘No Fats, No Fems, No Asians’

Dating app Grindr today launched its new ‘Kindr’ initiative. The project arrives in response to complaints from some users after experiencing racist, body-shaming or stigmatizing language. Grindr announced Kindr a few weeks ago, but provided scant details as to what the project would entail. Today, it released the first of a series of videos in which it addresses the debate around online behaviour. It also unveiled new user community guidelines. These state profiles face moderation if they list what they disliked based on racial group or gender expression The first video features app users explaining why stating what you’re not […]

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