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Publo, CO Pride is a huge community event.

August 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Hundreds of people in Pueblo joined together for the acceptance and celebration of diversity Sunday at the annual Pueblo LGBTQ Pride Festival. The Southern Colorado Equality Alliance hosts the event every year. More than 50 businesses, nonprofits, food trucks, and entertainers filled Mineral Palace Park. “I support gay pride,” attendee Taylor Herrera said. “I support it for my friends that I’m here with, my uncles, my aunties, whoever I know that are part of the community.

Where to drink in Hotlanta.

August 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off

It’s not called Hotlanta for nothing, and the ATL has a happening mix of nightlife options for the LGBT community. After all, it was named the No. 1 city for LGBT travel in 2016. Whether you’re seeking a welcoming spot to cheer on the Falcons or an epic drag show, these eight bars and clubs in Atlanta have a scene everyone.

St. Louis’ Black Pride still fighting for equality.

August 23, 2017 compassq Comments Off

President Donald Trump’s words and actions were at the forefront of people’s minds on Sunday at St. Louis’ Black Pride Rally. One of the longest-running black LGBTQ community events in the nation, this year’s gathering coincides with a summer in which the president announced on Twitter that transgender people were banned from serving in the military and, more recently, assigned some blame to counterprotesters for violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Without the hippies’ belief in free love, there would be no gay marriage.

August 22, 2017 compassq Comments Off

San Francisco. If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to check out the trams at the airport. They’re done up in psychedelic colors. And over by the gates you can have your picture taken in a mock-up of an old VW bus like the hippies used to drive, also decorated psychedelically. Wearing flowers in your hair is strictly optional.

Transgender videos used to train AI software.

August 22, 2017 compassq Comments Off

About five or six years ago, one of Karl Ricanek’s students showed him a video on YouTube. It was a time lapse of a person undergoing hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, in order to transition genders. “At the time, we were working on facial recognition,” Ricanek, a professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, tells The Verge. He says he and his students were always trying to find ways to break the systems they worked on, and that this video seemed like a particularly tricky challenge. “We were like, ‘Wow there’s no way the current technology could recognize this person [after they transitioned].’”

Ottawa Hospital Foundation focuses on health care for gay men.

August 22, 2017 compassq Comments Off

In Ottawa, one in five gay patients refuse to disclose their sexual orientation to their health care provider for fear of facing stigma, according to The Ottawa Hospital. This is one of the reasons why The Ottawa Hospital Foundation wants to create a comprehensive health care program that will help improve access to appropriate care for gay men.

Teen pregnancy significantly higher for gay and lesbian youth.

August 22, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Statistics show that women who identify as “lesbian” become pregnant at a much higher rate than “straight” women and “homosexual” men are impregnating women at a significantly greater percentage than heterosexual men. The pregnancy rates are verified by studies in several nations, all showing that homosexual pregnancy rates are two to seven times higher than heterosexual pregnancy rates. And pro-homosexual organizations acknowledge that “unintended pregnancy is huge in the LGBT youth world.”