With the LGBT consumer and business market no longer stereotyped as full of affluent “DINK” (double-income, no kids) households, companies are finding they have to do more than just be located in a historically LGBT neighborhood, and throw an occasional advertisement in a local LGBT publication to keep community shoppers buying. To build back declining…
thursday, dec. 1 Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi, the red-haired priest, taught music at the Devout Hospital of Mercy, an orphanage for abandoned children in Venice. Girls were taught music at the orphanage, and the best of them could stay indefinitely. They became part of Vivaldi’s all-girl orchestra, who became the darlings of Europe….
Beth Robinson was sworn into Vermont Supreme Court Tuesday and will serve as the first openly gay justice for the state Supreme Court. Robinson is well-known for her role in passing same-sex marriage rights in the state of Vermont. The landmark case passed in 1999 led to Vermont legislature that would later allow gay and…
One in twenty men in the UK were diagnosed with HIV in 2010. These staggering numbers do not account for men who are unaware of their infection. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the United Kingdom reports that people living with HIV in the UK reached 91,500 in total, and 3,000 of those individuals were…
Former Dancing With The Stars competitor Chaz Bono surprised his fiancée Jennifer Elia with an engagement ring on her birthday. While the transgender TV star proposed to Elia in 2009, they had since put their plans for marriage on a hiatus, explaining, “We’ve been engaged for two years and we’ve had to put things on…
There’s a kind of bait-and-switch going on with the tagline and title of Like Crazy: “I want you – I need you – I love you – I miss you – Like Crazy.” I got the impression, and I think this was the marketer’s goal, that the movie would be about an obsessive love affair…
Writer/director J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 is like a throwback to the days when kids, and adults alike, looked forward to the next summer movie-going event that film auteur Steven Spielberg would unleash upon the masses. So, it should come as no surprise that Spielberg serves as the producer of this homage to days-gone-by; when kids…
Transgender men and women will be an officially protected class in Massachusetts now that Governor Deval Patrick signed an important equal rights bill Wednesday. The newly-enacted legislation will forbid any discrimination based on gender identity. The law will also extend criminal prosecution statues to include hate crimes and acts of violence against transgender men and…
Although construction has been down considerably for most of the Great Recession, this month has seen more than $200 million of commercial and government projects in the planning and post-bid phase of development, according to Reed Construction Data. Most projects are “ground-up,” but because preserving San Diego’ historic and culturally meaningful structures continues to gain…
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Legislature has passed the Transgender Equal Rights bill. The bill adds protections to the state’s civil rights laws against discrimination in employment, housing, education and credit based on gender identity or expression and adds gender identity and expression to the state’s hate crimes law. The bill now moves to the governor’s…
