Month: July 2015
Move over Kylie: One Direction is Britain’s gayest band
New analysis from YouGov Profiles data reveals that, among adult fans, One Direction is the music act with the strongest correlation to gay men.
Momentum Builds: Corporate Giants American Airlines, Facebook, General Mills, Google and Nike Announ
Eight leading American corporations–including major Fortune 500 companies–announce support for comprehensive federal LGBT non-discrimination legislation in days following introduction of Equality Act.
LGBT website founder fined under Russia’s gay propaganda laws
Yelena Klimova fined 50,000 roubles after court rules Deti-404 site guilty of distributing ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors’.
GLAAD and DignityUSA call on Pope Francis to meet with Catholic LGBT families
As news outlets across the globe prepare to report on the Pope’s upcoming visit to the United States, GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organisation, and DignityUSA, America’s foremost organisation for LGBT Catholics and their supporters, today called on Pope Francis to meet with Catholic LGBT families during his September 2015 visit to the United States.
Google forced to apologise after contractor threatens to remove gay bars from search engine
For a company that prides itself on being a pride ambassador, this was an awfully embarrassing gaffe at the hands of a contractor thousands of kilometres away.
TLDEF Challenges Discriminatory Health Insurance Coverage Denial
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) has demanded that Aetna Life Insurance Company reverse its decision to deny coverage for a Colorado transgender woman’s medically necessary gender reassignment surgery.