Judging from the LGBT and mainstream media, this is the first Winter Olympics with two openly gay athletes on the U.S. Olympic Team: Gus Kenworthy and Adam Rippon. But what about Brittany Bowe? Hillary Clinton mentioned two of them at a conference in Los Angeles earlier this week.
Twenty four years after homosexuality was decriminalized, the lifetime ban on men who have had sex with men (MSM) donating blood was lifted. It was replaced by a one year ’deferral’ so that if a man has had protected or unprotected anal or oral sex with another man in the last year then they cannot give blood.
With so many boomers in the workforce, employers have become attuned to the need to provide workplaces that are more welcoming of career-oriented women and diverse people. Corporate America and academia implemented policies and training programs fostering inclusion for employees of various races, nationalities, religions and physical abilities, as well as…
When Wear Culvahouse, a Greenwich obstetrician-gynecologist, delivered a baby for the first male same-sex parents at Greenwich Hospital in 2004, he saw doors opening for himself as well. Lesbian couples had been delivering babies at the hospital for a few years, said Culvahouse, a gay physician who was on the staff at the time.
The Oakland Symphony’s expansive “Notes From …” series has generally cast a celebratory spotlight on the music of geographically specific cultures — Armenia, Vietnam, India and more. But on Friday, Feb. 9, Music Director Michael Morgan took the orchestra and its patrons in a wonderfully oblique direction, with a concert at the Paramount Theatre devoted to “Notes From LGBTQ.”
Four years ago, American freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy considered quitting the sport because he thought he was going to lose fans and sponsors for being himself. Flash forward to the opening ceremony of Pyeongchang 2018 and the Sochi silver medallist walked into the Olympic stadium with Team USA as one of their first openly gay male Winter Olympic athletes.
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