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.
Oreva Capital, the Los Angeles-based investment firm that recently bought marijuana enthusiast magazine “High Times,” has funded a management buyout of a handful of media brands catering to the gay community. Oreva has backed a management-led buyout of Here Publishing, which owns such titles as “The Advocate” and “Out,” with plans to grow its online and events business, Oreva CEO Adam Levin told Reuters in an interview this week.
A Venice Beach lifeguard tower gets to keep its gay pride rainbow stripes after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to rescue it from getting repainted to the iconic blue. “We received 11,000 signatures on a petition from that area, saying no no, we love it, we’d really like to keep it,” said Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who introduced the motion to let the stripes stand.
BART organizers are making moves toward updating the agency’s Small Business Program to include more local LGBT small businesses as BART works to rebuild its aging transportation system. On Sept. 14, the agency’s Board of Directors will vote on whether to add these contractors to the program which, as the official site writes, “provides bid preferences for qualified small businesses.”
There is no other LGBT Pride celebration anywhere in the world like Amsterdam’s. The city famous for its canals, cannabis, and sexual freedom has long been an example to the world of how to treat its gay and lesbian citizens with dignity and respect, and of how to do full legal equality right. So it should come as no surprise that Amsterdam’s annual LGBT Pride celebration is one of the most unique in the world, with boats instead of floats that literally float around the city’s rings of picturesque canals as hundreds of thousands of Dutch revelers – most of whom are straight – and tens of thousands more international visitors come out along the waterways to celebrate Holland’s diversity […]
In the metropolis that helped give rise to the modern gay rights movement, a new housing project is building homes for its aging members. The LGBT Network showed off plans for a 75-unit affordable housing apartment complex that embraces lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) residents, the first development of its kind in Long Island, New York. The Islip Town Board is expected to vote on the development this fall.
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