HEALTH

Connecting LGBT patients with inclusive doctors with new app.

Three medical students at the University of Pennsylvania are getting ready launch their LGBTQ-focused health care app, SpectrumScores, by the end of August. The app will connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer patients with doctors who have been recognized as LGBTQ-friendly by advocacy organizations, academic medical centers and, eventually, the app users themselves.

HEROES

Lesbian attorney general candidate working to protect all people of Michigan.

When civil rights and criminal attorney Dana Nessel officially announced her campaign for state attorney general on Aug. 15 she said she will work to protect all the people, including members of the LGBTQ community. “Instead of harassing them, persecuting them and making them feel like they don’t belong in our state,” said Nessel last week in Braun Court.

BUSINESS

Wall Street continues support for LGBT employees.

Investment advisory firm TIAA has added reciprocal IVF assistance to its family planning benefits package as an LGBT inclusion measure. The New York City-based firm officially added the benefit July 1 after conversations with its LGBT employee resource group during Pride Month in June.

PRIDE

Publo, CO Pride is a huge community event.

Hundreds of people in Pueblo joined together for the acceptance and celebration of diversity Sunday at the annual Pueblo LGBTQ Pride Festival. The Southern Colorado Equality Alliance hosts the event every year. More than 50 businesses, nonprofits, food trucks, and entertainers filled Mineral Palace Park. “I support gay pride,” attendee Taylor Herrera said. “I support it for my friends that I’m here with, my uncles, my aunties, whoever I know that are part of the community.

DESTINATIONS

Where to drink in Hotlanta.

It’s not called Hotlanta for nothing, and the ATL has a happening mix of nightlife options for the LGBT community. After all, it was named the No. 1 city for LGBT travel in 2016. Whether you’re seeking a welcoming spot to cheer on the Falcons or an epic drag show, these eight bars and clubs in Atlanta have a scene everyone.

PRIDE

St. Louis’ Black Pride still fighting for equality.

President Donald Trump’s words and actions were at the forefront of people’s minds on Sunday at St. Louis’ Black Pride Rally. One of the longest-running black LGBTQ community events in the nation, this year’s gathering coincides with a summer in which the president announced on Twitter that transgender people were banned from serving in the military and, more recently, assigned some blame to counterprotesters for violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

5 THINGS TO KNOW

Without the hippies’ belief in free love, there would be no gay marriage.

San Francisco. If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to check out the trams at the airport. They’re done up in psychedelic colors. And over by the gates you can have your picture taken in a mock-up of an old VW bus like the hippies used to drive, also decorated psychedelically. Wearing flowers in your hair is strictly optional.