Month: August 2017

GayARP

Better healthcare for the aging lesbian community.

August 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Better healthcare for the aging lesbian community.

Lesbians are more likely to seek healthcare if they are in an accepting healthcare environment, a new opinion paper argues. “Clinicians who have an understanding of lesbian women and their unique stressors, who provide a welcoming and inclusive environment, and who provide cross-cultural care are well positioned to reduce healthcare stigma and improve clinical outcomes,” Drs. Jordan E. Rullo and Stephanie S. Faubion of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, write in Menopause, in an essay focusing on lesbians in middle age.  

BUSINESS

Travel bans hit them where it hurts, the wallet.

August 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Travel bans hit them where it hurts, the wallet.

Six states now prohibit their employees from taking nonessential work trips to states with laws that, in their view, discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Both supporters and opponents of these travel bans say they are mostly symbolic. Nevertheless, the people charged with attracting visitors to the affected states say the repercussions are real: Canceled conventions and hotel bookings have cost cities and states millions.

DESTINATIONS

Boston’s gay bar scene. The best of the best.

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Boston’s acceptance of sexuality (of any orientation) has come a long way since the Puritans founded the city in 1630. Massachusetts was the first state to recognize gay marriage — a full decade before the country as a whole did — and its capital city quite fittingly has a host of bars catering to the LGBT community.

POLICIES

LGBT rights up for grabs in Louisiana.

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Lawyers for Louisiana’s Democratic governor and Republican attorney general head back to court Tuesday to argue the constitutionality of an order aimed at protecting LGBT rights in state government.

5 THINGS TO KNOW

Graphic images of gay torture under ISIS. (Warning)

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WELCOME TO HELL ISIS thugs hack off ‘thief’s’ hand, throw ‘gay’ man off building and shoot prisoner in chilling wave of executions in desperate bid to secure their regime of terror in Syria The deadly group’s propaganda wing revealed the images to show off the hardline penal code it has implemented in Deir Ezzor.

US NEWS

A new gay judge in New York State.

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For the first time in history, an openly gay judge was confirmed to the state’s highest court in June. The state Senate approved Paul Feinman’s nomination, sealing a landmark moment that arrived 11 years after the state Court of Appeals issued a controversial ruling finding that New York’s constitution did not guarantee the right of same-sex marriage.

HEROES

LGBT progress in North Dakota.

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The West Fargo Public Library says it won’t change any displays, despite criticism of a stand on LGBT literature. The library features two displays which are changed out every month. This month, one of the displays features books on topics about sexual and gender identities.