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Tolerance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals appears to be rising in Mainland China, at least among the digital generations. A February 2013 poll of users on Sina Weibo, China’s major social networking site, showed a majority favoring an amendment to China’s Marriage Law to allow for same-sex marriage. But LGBT individuals in China still face a long road to acceptance, and over 90% of Chinese LGBT individuals who filled out a recent survey said they choose to conceal their sexual identity at work. The survey, “China Sexual Minorities Professional Environment Survey” [English version], was conducted by a coalition of China’s most active grassroots LGBT organizations. Over half of respondents say they have experienced harassment in the office, and workplace tolerance toward gay men at state-owned enterprises appears particularly low.
In June, Ideas staff reporter Leon Neyfakh wrote about Boston’s underappreciated role in the gay rights movement of the 1970s. The article challenged the idea that all the meaningful activity around gay rights took place in San Francisco and New York, and it also prompted others to take another look at Boston’s contributions: Inspired by the article, the annual conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, which took place in Boston this August, included a panel called “In The Beginning: Boston’s Role in the Birth and Development of LGBT Media.”
Shellhammer, at the time a 23-year-old publicist, was a regular there, with "my ragtag band of gay pirates and 4,000 guys with their shirts off." The two started chatting and discovered they were both heading to...
Michael MacRitchie was born in South Africa, raised in Australia and now splits his time among homes in Sydney, Shanghai and Los Angeles. A founding partner of MGI Entertainment, a company that connects Chinese brands with Western celebrities and vice versa, the 34-year-old spoke to the Journal about following his gaydar, drinking mojitos in Cuba and meeting the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson in an elevator.
It's the first private law firm to focus on the legal needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered community. Pride is the best word ... Marketers are right to promote New Orleans as a gay destination.
After he left Gucci Group, the designer began building a new brand under his own name. Now, as his global fashion empire is hitting its stride, Ford—photographed below with model Joan Smalls—takes on his next big role: fatherhood
Stockholm Pride The fight for LGBT rights continues. #gowest Advertising Agency: M&C Saatchi, Stockholm, Sweden Post production: Johanna Karste (RT @adsoftheworld: The fight for LGBT rights continues.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak plans to travel to Chicago today to unveil a print and digital ad campaign inviting gay couples to marry in his city in the wake of a new Minnesota law that opens the doors to such unions. His announcement will be made at the Center on Halsted, a community center in Lakeview, the city's most high-profile gay neighborhood. It comes just three months after an attempt to bring gay marriage to Illinois died in the legislature.
So if you are in the market for "gay stuff," you now know where to come. #PublicServiceAnnouncement
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Funds to Help Research Broadband and Digital Communications Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities
On July 16, the New Jersey Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Chamber of Commerce officially opened for business. The launch of the organization will provide a network of New Jersey-based LGBT businesses, as well as opportunities for growth and marketing, closer to home. Kimberlee Williams, CEO of Newark based FEMWORKS, played a key role in creating the chamber and serves as the group’s co-president. Here, she discusses the NJLGBTCC’s origins and future.
So today’s post comes from a phone call I received a couple of weeks ago. A Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) from a Fortune 500 that I have worked with in the past gave me a call and asked me “Do you know of any good places to purchase LGBT stock photography?” I sighed and said “Unfortunately there just doesn’t seem to be a good spot.
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Lowe and Partners Worldwide, a UK-based advertising agency, released an apology from its Johannesburg office for producing an ad deemed to be homophobic.
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American Airlines, IBM, American Express and more showcased at the International LGBT Business Expo in Guadalajara this week to encourage LGBT inclusion in business and tourism
A group of startup investors and venture capitalists are asking U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White to ensure investment rights equality for gay couples
It would be hard to overestimate the incredible impact that the Internet has had on the LGBT community. From the ways that we discover and develop our identities to the ways that we find one another, build community and develop relationships, the Internet has played a revolutionary role in how we define and participate in the LGBT community.
The one show that I have seen in full—it is streaming on iTunes—is “Please Like Me,” which is fuelled, quite effectively, by the diffident charisma of Josh Thomas, who wrote the show and stars as a resident of Melbourne named Josh. Boyish and wry, a member of that reserved breed of gay men who rarely appear on TV but are everywhere in the offices where I’ve worked, Thomas resembles Mike White, or maybe “Brideshead Revisited” ’s Sebastian Flyte during a Woody Allen phase.
Recently, we caught up with Matt Skallerud of www.PinkBananaMedia.com. As more and more companies embrace the LGBT demographic, how has their marketing changed in the last few years?
Canada’s gay tourism is big business. It represents a $7 billion market that has remained relatively untapped by much of the tourism industry. With LGBT travelers spending more than $3400 per vacation, nearly twice as much than other visitors, it’s a revenue booster that is hard to ignore.
How is MISTER app different from Grindr, Growlr and Scruff? Find out in this exclusive interview with MISTER’s CEO, Carl Sandler. In a way, MISTER’s mission is very much in line with what I believe and set out to do when starting Gay Ambition Blog and Podcast. It aims to empower and improve lives with its online community of men who value themselves and other men.
Tim and Mitchell Gold are raising money and finding artifacts to open a national LGBT history museum. (RT @wegiveadamn: Former Smithsonian researcher & husband plan to open a national gay & transgender history museum.
For Johnny Skandros, it really got better. After spending his preteen Summerlin years being relentlessly bullied, he befriended some popular girls at Palo Verde High School and found the confidence to come out. He graduated from USC and moved to New York City, where he decided to create a social app for guys like him—and to make a difference within the gay community. So he briefly moved back in with his mom and started Scruff, a popular gay dating app favored by, well, scruffier men and their admirers. The 3-year-old bootstrapped venture, which Skandros (who goes by the name Johnny Scruff online) started with business partner Eric Silverberg, uses GPS technology to enable men to find other men nearby—or on the other side of the globe.
In this post we see three new destination marketing campaigns targeting specific market segments. So, based on your tourism product mix and brand positioning, whom is your destination marketing activity targeting? Is it for example the perfect match for the fabulous 40+, the LGBT market or the hip people?
Although Derrick Brown has only lived in New York since December, the first full-time executive director of National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s New York City branch thinks the “City of Dreams” is the best place in the world. Why? “Because you either want to live there or at least do business there,” he said. Undoubtedly a business mecca, Brown relishes the idea that NGLCCNY is faced with a phenomenal opportunity to capitalize and engage many small businesses and corporations to do business with LGBTs and their allied community.
Dallas-based Brinker International Inc., one of the largest casual dining companies in the world, has created a recipe for supplier diversity that includes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender businesses in the mix. While the company has had some success since first bringing LGBT suppliers into its diversity initiative four years ago, some challenges persist, according to David Robinson, senior manager, supplier diversity and contract compliance.
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