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Month: March 2018
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Irish PM Leo Varadkar: I talked about LGBT rights with Mike Pence.
Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed he raised LGBT rights at a behind-closed-doors meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence. In a break from political convention, media were banned from Vice President’s meeting with Mr Varadkar, who is one of just a few openly gay world leaders.
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EEOC backs gay employee in latest appellate battle over workplace rights.
President Donald Trump has nominated two Republicans to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alongside a Trump-appointed acting chair, and two holdover Democrats from the Obama administration. (One of them has been re-nominated by Trump.) At their Senate confirmation hearing in September, the Republican EEOC nominees pointedly refused to commit to the commission’s position that Title VII of the Civil Right Act protects gay and…
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Jury slams Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth with $3.74 million judgment for firing lesbian coach.
Shannon Miller, the Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth women’s hockey coach who was fired several years ago, has won a $3.74 million judgment in Federal court on Thursday in her discrimination case against the school. Miller sued the school after she was fired following a very successful 16 years there.
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Travel operators eye pink dollars as rich LGBT tourists are more willing to go off the beaten track.
From gay-friendly honeymoon destinations to party escapes, tourism has long catered to LGBT travellers. As acceptance grows, so do calls for the industry to broaden its offers, and avoid clichés. All too often travel professionals stuck to stereotypical views of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual guests as hedonistic holidaymakers, says Thomas Boemkes of the consulting agency Diversity Tourism at Berlin’s ITB fair, the world’s largest travel trade show.
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Hawaii candidate fights off ‘anti-LGBT preacher’ claims.
A well-known Democratic candidate for Congress who gained notoriety opposing President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting mostly Muslim countries is being forced to explain a decades-old rant perceived as intolerant of gay people. Hawaii Lt. Gov. Doug Chin said he won’t “quibble” about what’s on a recording posted on YouTube last year…
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