New study reveals how LGBT consumers are leading the mobile era

BOSTON — A new study by Digitas, a digitally led, integrated brand agency, finds that LGBT individuals and families are embracing the “mobile first” way by adopting smartphones and tablets to manage family households, plan and book travel, and leverage mobile shopping technology. Digitas partnered with Community Marketing, Inc. (CMI) to survey 1,595 lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

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Jason Collins marches in 2013 Boston Pride parade (VIDEO)

http://youtu.be/osoHJdAnu2M Jason Collins,  The NBA player, who made history in April as the first male U.S. athlete in a major professional sport to come out as gay, marched in the 2013 Boston Pride Parade on Saturday alongside his former Stanford University roommate, Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Mass), reports Huff Post Gay Voices. After the parade, Kennedy tweeted…

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Speaker John A. Pérez, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin lead first-ever California National Guard contingent in L.A. Pride parade

LOS ANGELES — For the first time, a delegation from the California National Guard, led by its Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, took part in L.A. Pride, joining Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles), the first openly gay person elected official to lead a state house, in yesterdays Pride Parade. The California National…

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Republican Party to step up outreach to evangelicals

(CNN) — The Republican National Committee has brought on a director of evangelical outreach to massage the party’s complicated relationship with religious conservatives, GOP sources told CNN on Saturday. The party organization has hired Chad Connelly, a consultant and motivational speaker who, until this weekend, was the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. Connelly…

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Australia’s PFLAG launches ‘What R U Having?’ campaign (VIDEO)

In a new ad campaign for marriage equality launched by Australia’s Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gay (PFLAG), a straight couple are told not the child’s gender but their sexuality. Shelley Argent, a spokeswoman for PFLAG, told News.com.au that the campaign was created to gain support from traditional families on marriage equality because LGBT…

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