Andy Post spent his summer interviewing more than 100 LGBTQ seniors and advocates, helping to create the framework for Capitol Hill Housing’s latest development project. CHH is planning to construct a seven-story LGBTQ-affirming senior housing complex in the parking lot next to its Helen V Apartments at 14th Avenue and East Union Street.
After leading the Connecticut Sun to their first WNBA playoff berth since 2012, general manager and head coach Curt Miller was signed to a contract through 2021, according to the Connecticut Sun website. Miller is the first openly gay head coach in any professional sport and his efforts that he has brought in his two years in Connecticut are now being recognized.
Knoxville will have its first-ever health-care conference focused on the specific needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and other gender minorities next month – during LGBT History Month.
LGBT travel is no longer “alternative.” Over 75 leading destinations and most major hotel chains actively market to the LGBT community. LGBT tourism and hospitality represents about 10% of the U.S. travel industry but is still often overlooked by travel suppliers. LGBTs travel far more often and spend more per trip and per year than their general market counterparts.
Since 1999, September 23 has been Celebrate Bisexuality Day, also known as Bi Visibility Day. It was created to celebrate the bisexual community. Bisexuality means that a person is romantically or sexually attracted to a person of any gender.
Brazilian federal court judge Waldemar de Carvalho has overturned an almost 20-year-old ban on “gay conversion therapy,” now allowing homosexuality to be treated as a “disease.” De Carvalho’s decision reverses a 1999 Federal Council of Psychology, CFP, ruling that banned licensed psychologists from attempting to “convert” people who identify as LGBTI.
Since Ohio Rep. Nickie Antonio has been in office, she has fought to have Ohio’s civil rights protections to include LGBTQ people. Six tries have been unsuccessful. “In the past, they have just been left to languish in committee,” she said of previous bills seeking to have the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or queer community included in nondiscrimination laws.
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