Month: August 2017

HEROES

Gay track star warming up for Olympic run.

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Gay track star warming up for Olympic run.

Openly gay former college track star L’equan Chapman is getting his shot at the United States Olympic Team. Chapman is one of 97 athletes invited to be part of Team USA’s “Scouting Camp: The Next Olympic Hopeful,” which will air nationally as a two-hour broadcast premiering at 9 p.m. ET on Aug. 25 on NBCSN. Chapman was a standout jumper and sprinter at Shippensburg University. In 2015 he was named the 2015 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Atlantic Region Men’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year.

HEROES

Project Q, a youth program in Milwaukee, awarded $15,000.

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Project Q, a youth program in Milwaukee, awarded $15,000.

The City of Milwaukee Youth Council has awarded The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center $15,000 for its youth program – Project Q. One of six agencies to be awarded grants, the center will use the money to enhance existing resources and fund community service projects for LGBT youth. “This grant is a sign of continued faith in the center’s programs,” said the organization’s co-president Paul Williams.

PRIDE

Government support keeps Montreal Pride marching along.

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Government support keeps Montreal Pride marching along.

One of the biggest travel and tourism event in French Speaking Quebec and Montreal and as the LGBT pride parade draws near, along with the final activities that will close 11 days of festivities that have once again rocked Montréal, the Government of Canada announced that four financial contributions totalling $463,300 have been granted to the Montréal Pride non-profit organization.

GayARP

Reaching out to LGBT seniors in Massachusetts.

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Reaching out to LGBT seniors in Massachusetts.

A lack of social and community groups in MetroWest often leaves LGBT senior citizens having to trek to Worcester, Cambridge or even Providence, Rhode Island, to socialize with members of their community. Or worse, they become isolated and feel unconnected to their peers. “Once you can no longer drive they become more isolated,” said Linda Marshall, director of the Holliston Council on Aging. “It’s really hard for them to get out of the MetroWest area.”

5 THINGS TO KNOW

A sad page in history for Northern Ireland’s gay community.

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on A sad page in history for Northern Ireland’s gay community.

Fifty years ago the landmark Sexual Offences Act transformed the lives of gay men in England and Wales, but in NI it is only 35 years since legislation brought the same rights to the north in 1982. Bimpe Archer meets some of those who lived under the threat of incarceration.

PRIDE

Madison, Wisconsin Pride – standing with the transgender troops!

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Madison, Wisconsin Pride – standing with the transgender troops!

Near the front of Madison’s annual Outreach Pride Parade on Sunday, the Madison Area Transgender Association’s float flew flags of the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. A sign on the float, which read, “Standing with our trans troops,” represented a clear response to tweets last month by President Donald Trump that announced his decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

POLICIES

It looks like the same-sex marriage vote in OZ will pass.

August 21, 2017 compassq Comments Off on It looks like the same-sex marriage vote in OZ will pass.

IAN Thorpe and his partner Ryan Channing have released a new video urging Australians to vote in next month’s postal plebiscite on whether to legalise gay marriage. The Olympic swimming champ is making a last-ditch effort to get Australians to update their electoral roll details before the list is finalised this Thursday ahead of the postal ballot.