September 2017 | Page 39 of 50

High Times, The Advocate & Out are now part of the same family.

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Oreva Capital, the Los Angeles-based investment firm that recently bought marijuana enthusiast magazine “High Times,” has funded a management buyout of a handful of media brands catering to the gay community. Oreva has backed a management-led buyout of Here Publishing, which owns such titles as “The Advocate” and “Out,” with plans to grow its online and events business, Oreva CEO Adam Levin told Reuters in an interview this week.

Challenge to same-sex marriage vote in OZ falls flat.

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Australians will be surveyed on their support for gay marriage next week after the nation’s highest court on Thursday dismissed challenges to the government’s power to conduct the postal ballot without Senate permission. Gay rights advocates argued in a two-day emergency hearing in the High Court in Melbourne that ended Wednesday that the government did not have the constitutional power to survey the public through a 122 million Australian dollar ($97 million) postal ballot on whether the prohibition on same-sex marriage should be lifted.

30 years of LGBT films in Austin.

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Long before South By Southwest and Austin Film Festival stepped out on the Austin festival scene, a film movement focused on LGBTQ issues arose in a small theater on the UT campus. Today, the short movie series that drew lines outside the doors of Dobie Theater on move-in weekend has come to be known as the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival — one of the longest-running cinema festivals in the city.

LGBT people under attack in the UK.

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The number of attacks on lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the UK has soared by nearly 80 per cent in the past four years, new data shows. More than one in five LGBT people have experienced a hate crime or incident due to their sexual orientation or gender identity in the last 12 months, compared with 16 per cent in 2013.

Record support for same-sex marriage in the US.

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The percentage of Americans who support same-sex marriage has reached a record high, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal “Social Trends” poll. Sixty percent of those polled say they support same-sex marriage, which is up from 59 percent in 2015 and 53 percent in 2013. Thirty-three percent say they oppose same-sex marriage, with the remaining respondents saying either it “depends” or they are “not sure.”

Hotline set up in Orlando to report LGBT discrimination during Irma evacuation.

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The GLBT Center in Orlando is activating a hotline on Saturday so that individuals can confidentially report instances of discrimination at shelters, evacuation centers or when accessing emergency services. “Someone might be turned away or feel that they’re discriminated against, so we put this up so they know they can get to somebody in their community who can help them to get things cleared up,” said Terry DeCarlo, The Center’s director of communications. “We don’t want people to wait, wondering what they’re going to do, because this is an emergency situation.”

The future of LGBT DREAMers is bleak.

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In the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to nix an Obama-era immigration program allowing young, undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States, Tony Choi doesn’t know his fate — but realizes one possibility is he’ll be deported to South Korea. Speaking to the Washington Blade by phone while taking part in a rally just outside Trump Tower in New York City, Choi said he felt uncertainty since news reports emerged Trump would phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.