BUSINESS

The Point Foundation continues its tradition of educating LGBT students with A-list celebrity support.

More than 450 guests and celebrities filled the Beverly Hilton Hotel to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students at Point Honors Los Angeles. Point Foundation (Point), the evening’s beneficiary, is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students. The gala evening also included an announcement by Wells Fargo of $1.8 million in continued support for Point.

BUSINESS

LGBT Workplace Culture Summit comes to Coralville, Iowa.

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.

BUSINESS

There goes the gayborhood.

I remember my first gay bar. I was 20, newly single, and frustrated. I knew only a handful of gay people at the University of Maryland, where I was a senior, but one night a guy in my campus a cappella group invited me out to Apex, a club near Dupont Circle. Standing at the threshold of the bar, watching the cute boys dance under the strobe lights, I was terrified.

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LGBT is trending at Condé Nast.

Condé Nast is launching a digital brand for the LGBTQ community on October 26, called Them. It’s the first project from Condé Nast’s new incubator, which was created to develop new brands and businesses. Condé Nast claims it is the first big publisher to tap into this market.

BUSINESS

New LGBT media brand being launched by Condé Nast.

As speculation swirls about who will take the helm at Condé Nast titles Vanity Fair and Glamour, the publisher is quietly launching its first independent brand since Portfolio magazine debuted in 2007. (It was shut down two years later.)