Knoxville will have its first-ever health-care conference focused on the specific needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and other gender minorities next month – during LGBT History Month.
LGBT travel is no longer “alternative.” Over 75 leading destinations and most major hotel chains actively market to the LGBT community. LGBT tourism and hospitality represents about 10% of the U.S. travel industry but is still often overlooked by travel suppliers. LGBTs travel far more often and spend more per trip and per year than their general market counterparts.
Since 1999, September 23 has been Celebrate Bisexuality Day, also known as Bi Visibility Day. It was created to celebrate the bisexual community. Bisexuality means that a person is romantically or sexually attracted to a person of any gender.
A stone’s throw from where thousands watch Sydney’s famous Mardi Gras floats go by each March, about 20 same-sex marriage opponents have rallied. Police and counter-protesters easily outnumbered attendees of the Straight Lives Matter rally at Green Park in Sydney’s Darlinghurst on Saturday. “My grade 3, one-man production of ‘Sophie’s Choice’ drew a bigger crowd,” comedian Joel Creasy posted on Facebook.
Brazilian federal court judge Waldemar de Carvalho has overturned an almost 20-year-old ban on “gay conversion therapy,” now allowing homosexuality to be treated as a “disease.” De Carvalho’s decision reverses a 1999 Federal Council of Psychology, CFP, ruling that banned licensed psychologists from attempting to “convert” people who identify as LGBTI.
Since Ohio Rep. Nickie Antonio has been in office, she has fought to have Ohio’s civil rights protections to include LGBTQ people. Six tries have been unsuccessful. “In the past, they have just been left to languish in committee,” she said of previous bills seeking to have the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or queer community included in nondiscrimination laws.
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