One Iowa, an organization that advocates for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning community, hosts its first LGBTQ Workplace Culture Summit from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Kirkwood Regional Center at University of Iowa, 2301 Oakdale Blvd., Coralville.
The B in the LGBT community often comes as an afterthought. There are fewer resources dedicated to bisexual people than to gay, lesbian and transgender people. The 40th annual LGBT Funders Report, which tracked funding to LGBT organizations from 1970 to 2010, found that, of the $487 million that went to programs and organizations that serve the overall LGBT population, a mere $84,000 went to groups that specifically serve bisexuals.
Steve Scalise’s life was saved by a lesbian police officer earlier this year, but that hasn’t changed the House Republican’s virulent opposition to LGBTQ rights. It was announced on Wednesday that the 51-year-old conservative would be appearing at next week’s Values Voter Summit.
The Year 1987 saw President Ronald Reagan challenge Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall. Microsoft released Windows 2.0, the Dow Jones broke the 2,500 mark for the first time, and a church in Boulder crossed a threshold no congregation of its denomination in the state had bridged before.
The National Gay Flag Football League is bringing its championship tournament to the Boston area. More than 35 teams from across the country are scheduled to compete at a sports complex in nearby Lancaster through Sunday to decide the league’s next national champion.
A bill to amend Finland’s “Trans Act” that forces trans people who wish to change their legal gender to be sterilized still doesn’t have enough support in the Finnish Parliament to be heard by the body’s social affairs and health committee.
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