Sponsorships for the annual CU Pride and Parade event in downtown Champaign have been growing over the years, and there’s more behind that than a good feeling for supporters. It’s also good for business, two sponsors said.
Brace yourself. According to Business Insider, the average person will spend 90,000 hours of their life in the workplace. That is an awful lot of time, particularly if something integral to you is considered taboo.
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. LGBTQ suicide and suicide attempts occur disproportionally more than the general population, and people who die by suicide are eight times more likely to have debt. On this Queer Money, we partner with Melanie Lockert of Dear Debt.
If you’re in a same-sex relationship there’s a good chance you’ve got more bills to rub together than your straight neighbours, census data from Statistics Canada showed Wednesday. Same-sex households continue to have a higher median income than heterosexual ones. The median income for same-sex male couples was $100,707, with female couples making $92,857.
On a cold late August morning, 14-year-old Max Yemelyanov huddles into a circle of groggy teens, some still wrapped in their blankets. A homemade rainbow flag flaps in the brisk wind as more young people trickle out of their cabins and gather around. There’s a welcome practicality to the morning ritual. “Everyone rub their hands together, let’s create some warm vibes,” shouts a cheery counsellor.
The annual Cville Pride Day is expected to draw more than 5,000 people to celebrate the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender community, and organizer Lisa Green wanted some special baseball caps to sell. They would be gray with purple lettering spelling out the slogan: Y’all Means All, but a Pennsylvania manufacturer – Legacy Athletic – doesn’t want the business.
An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according to new research suggesting that machines can have significantly better “gaydar” than humans.
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