HEALTH

Bad parenting 101 – spyware to find out of your son is gay.

A French company offering “invisible PC spy software” has been criticised after it said its product could be used “to find out if your son is gay”. Listing a series of “clues”, the company, Fireworld, suggested that “hacking his Facebook account” and seeing if he had visited gay websites could confirm a parent’s suspicions. The company has since taken down the article. The post was highlighted by a French youth LGBT rights group.

US NEWS

Keep the pressure on liberal politicians.

It turns out we’ve been getting the debate over safe spaces all wrong. It’s not college students we should be talking about, it’s politicians. That’s apparently the message from the world of some liberal pundits as the Great Kamala Harris Debate continues. The news that the former California attorney general and current senator is courting Hillary Clinton’s donors for a possible 2020 presidential run has ignited an intense discussion over her merits as a candidate.

HEALTH

LGBT communities smoke more than ever before.

Since 1964, when the U.S. Surgeon General first reported that the risks from smoking could not be ignored, tobacco use in the United States has plummeted. More than 40 percent of Americans smoked cigarettes in 1965. Over the last half-century, that smoking rate has fallen by half. And yet for some populations, the needle has barely moved. In fact, one of the U.S. demographics most burdened by tobacco’s wrath of illness and death are LGBT communities.

PRIDE

Jersey City Pride expected to be the biggest yet.

On Saturday, August 26th, 2017, Gayborhood Jersey City & Human Pride Productions will host the 17th Annual Jersey City LGBT Pride Festival at Newark Pedestrian Plaza in Downtown Jersey City. One of the largest festivals in Northern New Jersey, LGBT Pride serves to highlight the significance of diversity in the community through a variety of fun, celebratory, and informative events.

HEROES

U.S. Soccer supports LGBTQ initiatives.

U.S. Soccer will donate more than $65,000 to the You Can Play Project after a series of initiatives celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month in June. The U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams wore pride-inspired jerseys with rainbow numbers during their June friendlies and the game-issued kits were autographed and auctioned online. All proceeds from the auction – which was a partnership with the respective players associations – as well as all sales of the jersey and a special commemorative hat have been donated to You Can Play.

A & E

Tchaikovsky was a gay man, but not according to Russia.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, often referred to as Peter Tchaikovsky, is among Russia’s greatest cultural exports. He composed Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty, arguably the world’s greatest ballets, which sell-out theatres to this day. His compositions pack London’s Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms season year in, year out. Despite being the first Russian composer to find worldwide popularity, the nation of his birth has spent more than 100 years airbrushing the truth about his life.

A & E

Carrie Bradshaw – bisexual men are on a “layover on the way to Gaytown.”

On “Sex and the City,” Carrie Bradshaw was the self-proclaimed sex expert. She wrote a weekly column detailing her gripping sex life — and the sex lives of her friends — with the goal of sparking conversations about sex and dating across Manhattan. But for someone whose job was to write about the ins and outs of sex, Carrie was shockingly ignorant when it came to exploring sexuality — specifically, bisexuality. Carrie’s narrow view of bisexuality was incredibly problematic.