5 THINGS TO KNOW
Month: October 2017
5 THINGS TO KNOW
Businesses realize that being LGBT friendly is good for the bottom line.
In 1991, Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel made no bones about why it fired gay and lesbian workers, saying in a company memo that the firm’s “traditional American values” could not co-exist with those “whose sexual preference fails to demonstrate normal heterosexual values…
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The ACLU is asking you to report denial of services in Mississippi.
The law known as House Bill 1523 provides government employees and others the opportunity to back out of performing services they say conflict with their religious beliefs. The services include licenses, accommodations and other services related to same-sex marriage.
BUSINESS
Orlando Pride is good for business…$11 million worth of good.
Come Out With Pride, the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender event in Florida, kicked off on Oct.12 with a launch party at The Veranda, and the event runs through Oct. 14. The massive multi-day celebration attracted more than 150,000 attendees last year.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers seek to end the transgender troop ban.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Friday to protect transgender people from being pulled from military service. The proposal from Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), Susan Davis (D-Calif.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) prevents…
HEALTH
Switching sides, sexual fluidity in the lesbian community.
In recent years, celebrities like Cynthia Nixon and Maria Bello have made headlines for dating or marrying women after spending years in heterosexual relationships. These Hollywood stars may have helped make it more socially acceptable—or perhaps even fashionable—to “switch sides” well into adulthood. Turns out the phenomenon has been going on for quite some time.
POLICIES
Anti-gay crackdowns in Indonesia, Egypt and Azerbaijan get the attention of the UN.
The United Nations human rights office says Indonesia unjustly arrested dozens of people during an anti-gay crackdown last week at a sauna in Jakarta.