International LGBT Business Expo, Latin America’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) travel business conference and consumer expo will return to its birth town, Puerto Vallarta, from June 12-14, 2014 with the host hotel being Casa Magna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA. More than 400 international, Mexican and local business who are interested in targeting the LGBT market…
The Arizona Technology Council, the state’s largest trade association for technology businesses and a longtime leader of the technology community, has announced it would add issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality to its lobbying platform agenda. The Human Rights Campaign, praised the decision, noting the growing support for issues of equality in the…
In a move that reflects both the region’s progress on LGBT acceptance and the mainstreaming of our histories in public museums, the Missouri History Museum has announced its first collection of LGBT artifacts, according to the online version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Sometimes things are happening right before our very eyes,” said museum curator…
Last month, Stockholm Pride won Gold and People’s Choice in the Lovie Awards for the much acclaimed campaign #GOWEST. Since the campaign was a protest against the LGBT-ban in Russia, Stockholm Pride had other plans for the heart shaped gold statuette. It was sent to president Vladimir Putin along with the inscription: To a man with a…
In their latest report Media Matters of America reveal that both CNN and MSNBC devoted significant coverage to the Obama administration’s commemoration of World AIDS Day Dec. 2. Fox News, on the other hand, spent less than 20 seconds acknowledging President Obama’s speech outlining significant new efforts to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. On World…
One of the top global touring acts of our time, having sold nearly 4 million tickets during her first 3 tours, Lady Gaga is hitting the road in support of her new album ARTPOP. Live Nation Global Touring announced today that Lady Gaga’s artRave: The ARTPOP Ball will begin May 4 in Ft. Lauderdale. The tour…
Heterosexual-male chauvinism thrives in oil-rich places like nowhere else. Whether the evidence is brought to light by the Supreme Court of the United State’s decision last week to allow Texas to eliminate safe places where a woman can have an abortion; or Afghanistan’s recent move toward returning to its penal code death by stoning for…
In January, three of the youngest working, openly-gay comedians today are hitting the road as The Young Hot and Gay Tour. All in their mid-twenties, Heather Turman, Jordan Pease and Tara Egnatios are bringing fresh, cutting-edge humor across the country, and along the way showing the world what this generation of ‘gay’ is! In thirty-days…
The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Shared Responsibility: Strengthening Results for an AIDS-Free Generation.” Now more than ever, it is a fitting theme as the United States focuses, both on the domestic and global fronts, on building partnerships that strengthen our response to HIV and AIDS. Here in the U.S., we are…
NEW YORK, — Athlete Ally and All Out have announced that American Apparel is launching a specially branded clothing line which will support the Principle 6 Campaign. Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter states that discrimination of any kind is incompatible with the Olympic movement. The campaign is a way for athletes, spectators and supporters to celebrate the Olympic principle of…
