A singer-songwriter featured on a gay rights anthem and a central New York native who was the manager at Pulse nightclub in Orlando will headline Pride Day events Friday at the New York State Fair. Mary Lambert, who was featured on “Same Love” with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, is among several acts scheduled to perform at the new Empire Experience Stage in the fair’s New York Experience.
qFLIX Worcester: New England’s LGBTQ Film Festival presents a series of films that seek to educate and entertain at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Thursday, September 14 through Sunday, September 17. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 18 at 10 a.m.
The Prime Rib’s website boasts that it is one of the top five romantic restaurants in America. But a couple who recently dined at the restaurant’s Washington location disagrees: After the man and his partner asked to split an ice cream sundae, they say their server told them two men eating out of the same bowl “doesn’t go with the ambiance of the restaurant.”
When University of Nebraska track and field athlete Jace Anderson found himself alone on a balcony at a campus party last year with three football players he described as “gigantic human beings,” he was nervous. He became even more nervous when one of the players asked him indirectly if he was gay. Anderson, 20, was just coming to terms with his sexual orientation and slowly telling people around him.
I’ve seen it in everything from clickbait articles on The Daily Beast to research from the very reputable Williams Institute out of UCLA: The numbers are in, and millennials (identified by Gallup as those born between 1980 and 1998) are the “gayest generation.” The honor comes from a whole host of self-identifying polls and surveys that have shown high percentages of millennials who identify somewhere on the queer spectrum.
Recently, in a dramatic shift, the Department of Justice broke ranks with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit in Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc., No 15-3775, Dkt. #417 (S.D.N.Y. July 26, 2017). In that brief, the Department argued that, contrary to its prior position (and that of the E.E.O.C.), discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was not prohibited under Title VII as harassment on the basis of gender. The E.E.O.C.’s longstanding position is that such discrimination is prohibited, a position that recently found support in the Seventh Circuit in Hively v. Ivy Tech, No. 15-720 (7th Cir. Apr. 4, 2017) (en banc).
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