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HRC Releases 2016 Buyer’s Guide to Businesses Supporting LGBT Workplace Inclusion

Just in time for Black Friday and the holiday shopping season, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation has released its popular consumer guide to hundreds of American companies rated on their LGBT-inclusive policies and practices. The Buying for Workplace Equality guide, first issued more than a decade ago, provides invaluable consumer information based on company scores reported in HRC’s annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI), as well as HRC-researched data on additional well-known companies and their brands. Through the CEI, the HRC Foundation proactively rates Fortune 500 companies and top law firms on LGBT-inclusive workplace policies and practices, and urges smaller […]

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Twitter Bans On-Site Blood Drives As Long As Gay, Bisexual Employees Can’t Participate

Twitter has taken heat for its lack of racial diversity, but it has taken a stand in support of its LGBT employees by ending on-site blood drives until the Federal Drug Administration lifts a decades-old ban that prevents healthy gay and bisexual employees from participating. Since 1983, the FDA has prevented men who have had sexual relations with other men to donate blood. The policy was put in place in response to the nation community’s AIDS crises in the 1980s, but more recently, that policy has been criticized for being unnecessary and discriminatory. “These are the only policies that the FDA has based on a […]

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First LGBTQ-owned Mobile Provider Leverages Profits to Strengthen its Community

A gay man and a straight man start a cell phone company. Sounds like the setup for a big punch line, but in fact, it’s the genesis of the first, LGBTQ majority-owned and operated wireless company. Pride Wireless seeks to change the world, one cell phone at a time. Each month, PRIDE Wireless will donate a portion of its profits through monthly distributions to community organizations based upon votes by its customers. In each country that PRIDE Wireless operates, it will identify and support worthy non-profits in areas like LGBTQ healthcare (HIV/AIDS, breast cancer), suicide prevention, anti-bullying, addiction, homelessness, employment […]

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