Small business owners to President-elect Trump: ‘Repeal and replace Obamacare, with what?’

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The health care industry, our nation’s largest private sector industry and employer, makes up more than 17 percent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The US health care industry has grown accustomed to the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) business climate and faces uncertainty heading into a Trump Administration–one that has vowed to…

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Gay social network, Hornet, raises $8 million in Series A funding

SAN FRANCISCO – Hornet, the world’s second largest gay social network, announced today that it has raised its first round of institutional funding led by Ventech China to support rapid business growth and user adoption across the globe. Hornet is committed to strengthening the gay community by providing quality social interactions with more ways to…

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Trump meets with anti-gay leader Jerry Falwell Jr. to discuss post in Education Department

One of the nation’s most prominent anti-LGBTQ leaders, Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, has met with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss a potential position in his Administration’s Department of Education. Falwell was one of Trump’s earliest and most outspoken Religious Right supporters, reported Right Wing Watch. He appeared in Trump campaign ads, hosted…

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The Advocate honors World AIDS Day with Memorial Quilt installations

LOS ANGELES – In honor of World AIDS Day, The Advocate, with the generous support from Michael J. Libow and in conjunction with The NAMES Project Foundation, is bringing three installation panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Los Angeles for display at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and The Beverly Hills Public…

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Transgender San Diego police officer barred from The Center over ‘misunderstanding of policy”

Thursday, Nov. 17 The San Diego LGBT Community Center held the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) ceremony to honor members of the trans community who lost their lives to violence this past year. San Diego Police Officer Christine Garcia, the first openly transgender police officer in the San Diego Police Department, had played an…

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