Month: June 2018

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Royal Family’s first gay wedding: The remarkable story of Queen’s cousin.

June 16, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Royal Family’s first gay wedding: The remarkable story of Queen’s cousin.

THE Royal Family’s first gay wedding is set to take place later this summer, with Lord Ivar Mountbatten, son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and cousin to the Queen, marrying airline services cabin director James Coyle. Two years ago, Lord Ivar created a stir when the confessed to struggling with his sexuality throughout most of his 16-year marriage to wife Penelope Thompson, whom he married in April 1994.  

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Poll shows nearly half of LGBTQ people identify as bisexual.

June 16, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Poll shows nearly half of LGBTQ people identify as bisexual.

Bisexual people are still less likely to be out than gay and lesbian individuals, despite being the largest group. Nearly half of all LGBTQ people identify as bisexual according to a new poll. Whitman Insight Strategies and BuzzFeed News partnered to survey 880 LGBTQ Americans across the country on more than 100 questions about gender, sex, politics, family, and discrimination.  

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Portland names major street after LGBT icon Harvey Milk.

June 16, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Portland names major street after LGBT icon Harvey Milk.

Portland is to name one of its major streets after the LGBT icon Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay politicians in US history. The city council voted to rename a section of Southwest Stark Street on Pride month, shortly before the Portland Pride Festival begins.  

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A brief (and depressing) history of LGBT workers’ rights.

June 16, 2018 compassq Comments Off on A brief (and depressing) history of LGBT workers’ rights.

Here’s a timeline of legislation that has both given and taken away LGBT worker rights since the 1920s. June was designated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, in part for remembrance of the Stonewall Uprising that occurred on June 28, 1969. LGBT patrons of New York City’s Stonewall Inn clashed violently with police after the bar was raided.  

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Meet the ex-cop behind China’s largest Grindr-style gay dating app.

June 16, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Meet the ex-cop behind China’s largest Grindr-style gay dating app.

It was not because of China’s gender imbalance, where there are more men than women. Ma was gay and kept it a secret because in China at that time, most people, even the criminal psychology teachers at the police academy, classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.  

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It’s 2018, and gay men still can’t give blood in America.

June 15, 2018 compassq Comments Off on It’s 2018, and gay men still can’t give blood in America.

The 2016 Orlando shooting was a horrific attack against the queer community, but Americans showed incredible support for the victims. People across the country donated millions of dollars and more blood since 9/11. But no gay men donated blood. They weren’t allowed to.