You don’t want to live in a place that doesn’t respect you as a person. Destination Pride, built by PFLAG Canada and ad agency FCB/SIX, rates cities around the world based on the legal rights and protections they give to LGBTQ people. While it’s packaged as a vacation rater, it’s more useful when choosing where to stay longterm.
As the sun set over San Francisco on July 4, 1973, the Reverend Raymond Broshears locked up his community center and started walking home through the Tenderloin, the city’s infamous slum. A gay preacher from the Midwest, Broshears was dressed in black clerical garb and a white priest’s collar. A heavy metal cross, the size of a door knocker, hung from his thick neck, and his gut bulged from beneath his shirt…
The U.S. Olympic team competing in South Korea this year will have more out LGBT athletes than have ever represented the nation at a Winter Olympics, and that contingent now potentially includes one of the biggest stars for the games.
Fox News contributor Guy Benson is going viral for a video in which he talks about being a gay Christian conservative. “When it comes to my political beliefs, my orientation is only one part of the story. It’s not the totality of who I am,” Benson said in the video for Prager University. “Some unimaginative leftists like to believe this qualifies me as a self-hating gay person. This is so boring.”
After everything that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people experienced in 2017 — from roundups and torture in Chechnya to antigay witch hunts in Egypt and Indonesia, closure of queer-friendly health facilities in Tanzania, and a concerted effort by the Trump administration to roll back equal rights in the United States — it seemed only fair that 2018 would start off with a small glimmer of hope.
Four years ago, Arlan Hamilton was living out of a hotel room that she shared with her mom. At that point, she had given up a career as a live music production coordinator to become a venture capitalist. There were a few problems though: She didn’t have a formal finance background and virtually no connections in Silicon Valley.
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