November 28, 2024
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NAMIC now accepting entries for ‘Excellence In Multicultural Marketing Awards’

Steve Lee, Editor02 mins

NEW YORK — NAMIC (National Association of Multi-ethnicity in Communications) is now accepting entries for the Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards (EMMA). The NAMIC EMMA, in partnership with CableFAX, recognizes innovative marketing efforts by companies and agencies targeting multicultural audiences. This year’s competition features four divisions, including the newly-added Brands division, competing in two categories…

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Workshop to tackle homophobia in Latin American soccer at World OutGames

Steve Lee, Editor02 mins

An international workshop at the World OutGames in Miami organized by the football anti-discrimination NGO Fare network will focus on homophobia in Latin American soccer this weekend with the aim of promoting international cooperation to tackle the issue. Despite recent advances in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights across the region, homophobia is a feature of many…

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Sen. Atkins’ landmark affordable-housing legislation among 9 bills advanced Thursday

Steve Lee, Editor05 mins

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed nine bills authored by Sen. Toni Atkins, including SB 2 – the Building Homes and Jobs Act – which would create a permanent source of funding for affordable housing. Also advancing out of the Appropriations Committee were SB 179 – the Gender Recognition Act – which…

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HRC launches ‘Summer of Action’ to spur millions of supporters to ‘Unite. Resist. Enlist.’

Steve Lee, Editor06 mins

WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has launched a nationwide Summer of Action anchored by more than 250 grassroots events from coast to coast. The theme of these events — “Unite. Resist. Enlist.” — reflects the goal of HRC’s Summer of Action: to empower and mobilize millions of equality voters to fight back against…

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Ridley Scott delivers another slice of deep-space terror

LGBT Weekly06 mins

Alien: Covenant is the eighth movie in the 38-year-old sci-fi horror Alien franchise. Following 2012’s Prometheus, the financially successful but fan-loathed prequel, Covenant tries to walk a fine line: The film throws enough red meat to ravenous Alien fanboys with stomach-bursting, face-sucking, don’t-go-in-the-basement grotesquery to get away with continuing Prometheus’ much-maligned, but wildly ambitious origin…

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