For many people, LGBTQ community centers can be crucial lifeline. As such, centers across the country have worked at astonishingly fast rates to convert their operations into robust virtual communities.
At a Saturday (May 5) night ceremony in Midtown Manhattan hosted by Ross Mathews, Billboard was honored with an award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage at the 2018 GLAAD Media Awards.
The writer and comedian's quick rise to success only came when he learned to parse the thorniest questions—like what it means to be gay, Asian and raised by Evangelicals.
Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law, discusses the concept of covering in the workplace and his own experiences with having to downplay his identity. Kenji discusses the legal implications of covering, as well as the value to organizations of creating a culture where people can bring their full selves to work. He also shares how he is bringing in experts in theatre and improvisation to assist in teaching the concepts of diversity, inclusion and belonging to legal students.
When: Monday, May 15, 2017 6:00pm to 9:00pm Where: Delegates Dining Room of the United Nations, U.N. Headquarters
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with majestic views of the East River and the United Nations headquarters. Details about our special honorees, celebrity guests and performances will be announced shortly.
Tucked away on the shore of Staten Island is a handsome house that was saved from demolition in the 1980s and today is on the National Register of Historic Places. But it's who lived there and who she lived with that is most interesting to LGBTs.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Alice Austen was one of America's earliest and most prolific female photographers. She lived in the house, called Clear Comfort and now formally known as the Alice Austen House, with her mother when she was growing up, and later, with her longtime partner, Gertrude Tate. That the women didn't consider themselves lesbians is not lost on historians, who are now working to reinterpret Austen's story to more fully include Tate.
New York’s highest court will soon tackle a thorny legal question at the center of an increasing number of custody battles among gay parents nationwide: What constitutes a parent?
The long read: A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that
I'm a queer woman partnered with a transgender man, but everyone assumes we're a heterosexual couple. On the surface, we’re the quintessential Brooklyn duo: We have tasteful tattoos and piercings, we shop at food co-ops, we attend spin class together, and we’re creative yet gainfully employed. But while this relationship afforded me the privilege of banal nonconformity, I lost a piece of myself when I got together with my once-gym buddy
As New York's Pride week kicks off, attendees may see displays of division within the LGBT community. #NoJusticeNoPride, an LGBTQ+ group whose blockade of the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., drew national headlines and mixed reactions from parade-goers June 10, plans to do it again at New York's parade June 25.
On Saturday, about 200 people rallied in Brighton Beach to protest discrimination in what was described as the country’s first Russian-speaking march for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Boys have penises, girls have vulvas. Do not be fooled: If you are born a man, you are a man.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
A Spanish group that sparked outrage for commissioning a bus with an anti-transgender slogan is making plans to take their message of hate to the U.S. next week.
TheStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ: TST), a leading financial news and information company, announced today that financial industry veteran Jeffrey Davis has been named President, TheStreet Institutional Services. Mr. Davis will lead TheStreet's growing institutional business, including The Deal and BoardEx.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Davis brings more than 25 years of institutional markets experience to TheStreet, joining from Barclays Bank Plc in New York where he was a managing director and global head of client strategy for its institutional capital markets business. Prior to that, he was the global head of execution and advisory for the Barclays Wealth business, based in London.
MetroPlus Health Plan, which provides low or no-cost health insurance to New Yorkers eligible for government-sponsored insurance programs, is the inaugural
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