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.
Homo- and bisexual men on average earn 2 euros less per hour than their straight colleagues, according to an economic study. That’s despite being more likely to earn higher qualifications and work in white-collar jobs. In its first study on Germany’s “Sexuality Pay Gap,” the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) on Thursday reported that gay men earn on average markedly less than their straight male colleagues, despite generally boasting higher qualifications.
Despite having the nation’s highest percentage of LGBT-identifying residents, Washington, D.C., doesn’t have any senior housing developments dedicated to those in the LGBT community—yet. By 2020, there is interest to create the District’s first housing development for LGBT seniors. D.C. resident Imani Woody plans on redeveloping her childhood home, located at 401 Anacostia Road SE, into a 15-unit development with low-, moderate-, and market-rate prices, called Mary’s House for Older Adults.
In a landmark moment for Vogue Italia, the September issue features not one, but two, pro-LBTQ covers — sealed with a kiss. Following the example set by the late, great, Franca Sozzani who frequently dedicated entire issues to underrepresented minorities in fashion, like plus-size and women of color, new editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti has chosen to celebrate fashion’s biggest month with models locking lips.
Prospective law students – whether LGBTQ or those interested in a career in LGBTQ advocacy – who want to find an inclusive law school should start by researching their options. “Law school is a very, very tough environment in general,” says law student Zahar Lopez in the Law School Admission Council’s “Choosing an LGBT-Friendly Law School video.” “So you don’t want to add to the stresses of being a law student, additional stresses of not fitting in because you’re gay.”
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