HEROES

A celebration of black gay men.

This Sunday, Native Son is going to the West Coast for the first time, in celebration of Black Gay Men’s Wellness Month. The event also marks the 20th anniversary of In The Meantime Men’s Group, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).

HEROES

A safe space for “fat identified” LGBT students.

Montclair State University offers a “weekly discussion group” exclusively for LGBTQ students who are “fat-identified.” The discussion group, colloquially referred to as “F.A.B.” (“Fabulous and Big”), is just one of several identity-related discussion groups put on by the school’s LGBTQ Center, some of which are “open to anyone” while others are described as “confidential spaces designed solely for people who share the identity of that specific group.”

5 THINGS TO KNOW

It’s about the money, money, money.

Years have passed since major corporations began to take notice of the LGBTQ community’s buying power, as well as its growing prominence. Companies are still developing strategies to target the LGBTQ consumer market. One major way to reach these consumers — tried, true and effective — is through sponsoring major events, like Pride festivals and Human Rights Campaign (HRC) projects.

SPORTS

Mayweather apologizes for gay slur and the world yawns.

Several large men milled around the door at 4020 Schiff Drive in an innocuous strip mall in the Chinatown district of this gambling mecca, watching over empty parking spaces in front reserved for the boss’ gleaming white Rolls Royce. Inside, the sweltering boxing gym was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with boxers, trainers, media, publicists and assorted hangers-on, each of them eager to get a glimpse of the impending show.