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By ditching usernames, OKCupid is removing a crucial protective barrier.

Days after deleting an OKCupid profile that included personal information, Reddit user Drinkscocoaandreads logged onto Facebook to find an unpleasant surprise. “I had like three guys find me on Facebook within two days, screaming at me for leaving mid-conversation/not ever acknowledging their initial message,” the Redditor wrote in a thread… Read the full article HERE.

BUSINESS

There is now a cryptocurrency for the LGBT community.

LGBTQoin (LGBTQ) had a good 24 hours as the cryptocurrency jumped $0.00054801 or 30.77% trading at $0.00232908. According to Cryptocoin Analysts, LGBTQoin (LGBTQ) eyes $0.002561988 target on the road to $0.00463364423284011. LGBTQ last traded at Yobit exchange. It had high of $0.00232908 and low of $0.00164406 for December 24-25. The open was $0.00178107. Read the full article HERE.

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Four ways every company can advance LGBT rights in 2018.

In the first year of Trump’s tumultuous presidency, many businesses stood on the side of fairness and equality, just as threats to LGBTQ rights mounted. Last March, for example, business leaders pushed North Carolina to revise its discriminatory HB2 legislation, which barred transgender people from using restrooms in government buildings and… Read the full article HERE.

BUSINESS

San Francisco LGBTQ newspaper Bay Area Reporter sold.

The Bay Area Reporter has been sold to a gay man who has helmed the legacy LGBTQ publication in various capacities for more than 20 years. The newspaper., which marked its 47th year in 2017, is one of the nation’s leading LGBT newspapers and is a member of the National LGBT Media Association… Read the full article HERE.  

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Trump is very good for the bottom line of LGBTQ nonprofits.

The Movement Advancement Project (MAP), an LGBTQ advocacy organization, estimates this week that the combined revenues of 39 major U.S. LGBTQ nonprofits jumped 11% in fiscal 2016, compared to the year before–and that was all before Trump took office. We won’t know until the numbers are crunched toward the end of 2018 how the first year… Read the full article HERE.  

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How bidding for Amazon’s HQ2 could affect LGBTQ rights.

Cities competing to lure Amazon’s second headquarters have presented an array of economic incentives. But the competition may be eliciting at least one state to reconsider how its policies affect LGBTQ residents too. Georgia has been fighting for four years to pass a religious freedom law, modeled after other states’ Religious… Read the full article HERE.  

A & E

How the LGBTQ magazine boom is defying the monotony of mainstream media.

Niche magazines may be a small moon in the journalism galaxy, but there’s nothing small about how they celebrate the voices of people who are often silenced because of their identities. Condé Nast, the holy grail of the magazine industry that’s responsible for titles including Vogue and Glamour, Read the full article HERE.