David met David in a straight club on the West Side of Manhattan weeks after the Twin Towers fell. “Now no one goes to clubs anymore. They all have these apps,” chuckles David Ross, an executive with Viteos Fund Services, which runs operational plumbing for hedge funds and private equity… Read the full article HERE.
This past Tuesday, Dec. 5, the Allies and Safe Zones 101 workshop offered a three-hour basic training in allyship and basic LGBTQ+ issues. The Allies and Safe Zones program promotes acceptance and support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and Pansexual (LGBTQ+) individuals. Read the full article HERE.
IN 1709, THE LONDON JOURNALIST Ned Ward published an account of a group he called “the Mollies Club.” Visible through the homophobic bile (he describes the members as a “Gang of Sodomitical Wretches”) is the clear image of a social club that sounds, most of all, like a really good time. Read the full article HERE.
An LGBT homeless shelter in honour of Golden Girls star Bea Arthur has just opened just in time for Christmas. Bea Arthur, who died in 2009, left $300,000 in her will to the Ali Forney Center, which works to help LGBT homeless youths in New York… Read the full article HERE.
Annise Parker, the first openly LGBTQ mayor of Houston, will serve as the new president and CEO of the Victory Fund and Victory Institute, two organizations that fight to increase LGBTQ representation in politics. Parker will take over this leadership role from… Read the full article HERE.
Over 500 people from around the nation and around the world attended the three day 2017 International LGBTQ Leaders Conference in Washington DC. There was a much different vibe at this meeting than in 2016 which was held less than a month after Donald Trump was elected President… Read the full article HERE.
A woman who was a pioneering activist for gay and lesbian rights was honored in East Nashville on Saturday. A ceremony was held to celebrate a new historical marker that was placed outside the former home of Penny Campbell. Campbell earned her undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University… Read the full article HERE.
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