When Major League Baseball learned that Oakland Athletics player Matt Joyce had allegedly used a gay slur at a fan during a game Friday, the league opened an investigation into the matter. Joyce apologized publicly, the league slapped him with a two-game suspension, and everybody moved on.
GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, announced today that it will honor entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman with the Ric Weiland Award at the GLAAD Gala San Francisco at City View at Metreon on September 9, 2017. The event recognizes tech industry innovators who advance LGBTQ acceptance and also funds GLAAD’s work to grow LGBTQ inclusion in digital and social media.
Lambda Legal, an LGBT rights group, is gearing up to sue the Trump administration over President Trump’s proposal to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
Oakland Athletics outfielder Matt Joyce has been suspended for two games without pay after using an anti-gay slur during an exchange with a fan during Friday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels. Major League Baseball’s communications department announced Joyce’s suspension would begin on Saturday.
AsapSCIENCE duo Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown explore the genetics of being gay in their latest myth-busting YouTube video. “Ultimately, a specific gay gene has not been found, but scientific evidence does suggest that human sexual orientation is strongly linked to genetics and tightly regulated at the molecular level,” the guys say.
Late last night the Los Angeles Blade‘s Karen Ocamb reported that Donald Trump‘s tweets calling for a ban on transgender people in the military have taken the first step toward becoming law.
Our 2016/2017 LGBT Financial Experience research report explores a range of changes in the financial lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans since last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating states must permit same-sex marriages and our groundbreaking 2012 survey.
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