Comercial olímpico a favor de los derechos LGBT
El comercial se llama ‘Airport Love’ (amor de aeropuerto) y fue creado para la línea XXL. El mensaje es que el deporte es para todos, sin importar para qué equipo juegas. Fue pasado al mismo…

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America's 10 Worst LGBT Work Insults
The world’s first report on measuring the value of LGBT workplace diversity in dollar terms is about to be released.

The new report, “LGBT Diversity: Show Me the Business Case,” reveals that companies that bother to invest resources in making workplaces more welcoming and comfortable for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff can realize big returns, from increasing productivity to reducing exits by LGBT staff who feel uncomfortable.

In the UK this is a big issue, and as you will see below, it is also a major issue in the U.S.

It costs a lot to replace lost staff, so this new report is timely — and important — for American business.

This latest pre-release data for the U.S. from the largest global LGBT research initiative, LGBT2020, reveals what life in 2014 is like for LGBT Americans at work.

And, unfortunately, the news from the U.S. workplace is not that good.

It’s Not a “Lifestyle”; It’s a Life

Sometimes progress is hard to judge when we only have our own experiences to measure against. Life can seem fine or rather bleak, depending on what happens in our daily lives.

Learning from others’ experiences is incredibly insightful — and empowering.

It may surprise you, for example, to learn that 9 percent of respondents to the U.S. LGBT2020 research sample reported that they have been refused goods or services in the past 12 months because they were perceived to to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Almost one in eight (12 percent) reported having been harassed by a neighbor, and 7 percent reported having been physically attacked.

Four out of every 10 respondents (40 percent) were verbally abused at least once last year for being LGBT.

And one in every six respondents (16 percent) was harassed at work. To put that into perspective, America is home to more than 15 million LGBT people, with more than 10 million who are currently working full-time — and almost 2.5 million LGBT Americans personally experienced harassment at work last year.  

But here is the worst part: The number of LGBT Americans who feel able to be out to everyone at work has gone down in the two years since Out Now‘s last U.S. LGBT2020 sample and is now down to just 38 percent.

When we look at some of the insults being made in U.S. workplaces listed below, we start to understand why that number has fallen so low.

Hard Labor

The new report highlights new market data from 10 countries around the world.

Fewer than one in five LGBT workers in the U.S. (18 percent) agrees with the statement “This is a workplace entirely free from homophobia.”

Almost one in two respondents (49 percent) saw or heard homophobic incidents last year.

Religious Intolerance

One of the key differences between the UK and U.S. samples in the LGBT2020 research is the far greater mentioning of religion that American respondents report.

Darren Cooper, a senior consultant with Out Now who is based in London, said the new U.S. results surprised him.

“In the UK we consider that religion has no practical place at work,” Cooper says. “These latest findings from our LGBT2020 study for the U.S. show a vastly different situation to the UK. In the U.S. people feel much less able to be out with all their work colleagues, are more likely to have witnessed anti-LGBT remarks at work and, worryingly, have the added pressure of colleagues using religion to justify making insulting remarks. Many of these types of remarks would cause an outcry if they happened in a UK workplace.”

Cooper cited as just one example the short but powerful remark made to a lesbian respondent: “I am praying for you.”

“That comment is incredibly loaded, as it suggests the person that said it is a ‘good’ person, with the implication that the person being spoken to is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ in some way. These findings show there is an enormous amount of work still to do, around religion and also general workplace acceptance of LGBT people as equally respected employees in America’s workplaces.”

First, the Good News

It is not all bad news, though. Happily, some respondents — a small minority, it must be admitted — chose to comment positively on their workplaces.

Here are some of their remarks:

• “Our GM in training is an out and proud lesbian woman and we have many, many out LGBT co-workers who are absolutely supported, including myself. I don’t know about other locations in my company, but I know at mine, I’m a family member.”
• “I have worked for Bank of America for 18 years, they are GREAT on this topic and loads more.”
• “Everyone in the company I work for, has a ‘live, and let live’ philosophy.”
• “It’s usually new people that don’t know what to think about me. Like I’m going to hit on them or something. But they usually come around.”
• “A bi (but not out) staff member of mine has recently been bullied by his co-workers. I as supervisor am in the process of investigating and will be disciplining offending staff, if not terminating them.”
• “Of the 60 staff members that work for my organization, 20 identify as LGBT. I can say with integrity that there is not a homophobic bone in this organisation’s body.”

The 10 Worst Anti-LGBT Work Insults in the U.S.

We have left out of the list below numerous examples of people reporting what they saw as “normal” workplace banter, such as “That’s so gay,” “f*ggot” and various other examples of name calling.

These are just 10 of the hundreds of comments made to this year’s LGBT2020 research by U.S. respondents, who chose to write — in their own words — what is happening right now in their workplaces.

“Room for improvement” is an understatement.

• “I can’t add your wife to your health insurance because your marriage isn’t ‘real'”
• “It’s just a decision, I don’t support the choice to be unnatural. Just be straight like the rest of us”
• “You are not angry enough to be a real lesbian: you’re not like the other girl who works here”
• “I would just like to round up the people suffering like you and shoot them all, or to torture you — just to make fun of you”
• “People like you can’t be a Christian, you’re a sinner but I love you despite your choices”
• “Now you and that other f*g can add your boyfriends to the work medical plans, that way when you get AIDS you will all be covered”
• “I don’t like those kind of people with ‘scary’ sexual preferences”
• “Please, I don’t want to hear the details of your lifestyle”
• “That patient is gay and HIV+, why isn’t he in some kind of isolation”
• “You will burn down the gates of hell for being gay”

Out Now will be presenting key findings from this new report in a “Global Series” workshop at the 16th Out & Equal Workplace Summit in San Francisco at Moscone West Convention Center on Thursday, Nov. 6.

To request a free copy of the new “LGBT Diversity: Show Me the Business Case” report, just fill in this form and Out Now will send you a copy when released.

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Incredible Kick-Off to ‘Every Vote Counts’ GOTV Tour

HRC President Chad Griffin meets with LGBT champion Senator Jeff Merkley and Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, Secretary of State Kate Brown, and Speaker Tina Kotek.
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PHOTOS: Halloween With The Gurls and Ghouls of RuPaul’s Drag Race

Club promoter Brandon Voss put together a spooky evening with a crew of RuPaul’s Drag Race favorites to get New Yorkers in the Halloween spirit. Ivy Winters, Courtney Act, Milk, Darienne Lake, and Alaska joined a team of local gurls and ghouls for a special one night only event in a massive 5,000 square foot Haunted Manor with gory themed rooms, corridors, and a labyrinth of passageways. Sharon Needles hosted and evening and cackled as guests entered and welcomed them to her haunted house.  The Haunted Manor was the finale to a weekend of events Scream Queen Sharon Needles hosted in New York City. Screams shifted to laughter and more mayhem as DJ Honey Dijon and Dirty Martini flipped the crowd afterwards at Up & Down Sundays.

Photos by Wilsonmodels 

Ivy Winters

Alaska and Brandon Voss

Darienne Lake

Courtney Act

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My opinion on LGBT and New Shirts

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Southern Baptist Leader Renounces 'Reparative' Therapy

Russell Moore acknowledges that so-called ex-gay therapy is “severely counterproductive.”

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Stevie St. John

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Anti-Gay Marriage Group Attacks Kay Hagan For Supporting Judge Everyone Else Supported Too
WASHINGTON — The National Organization for Marriage launched a new ad Tuesday criticizing Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) for voting to confirm a federal judge who went on to strike down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage this month.

But what the ad fails to mention — aside from the fact that judges rule independently from Congress — is that nearly everyone in the Senate voted to confirm U.S. District Court Judge Max Cogburn back in March 2011, including North Carolina’s other senator, Republican Richard Burr, who helped lead the effort to usher Cogburn through the nomination process.

NOM’s ad, called “Kay Hagan’s Judge,” reasons that because Hagan voted to confirm Cogburn in March 2011, it’s her fault that he rejected the state’s same-sex marriage ban this month. The ad urges voters to take out their anger over that ruling by replacing Hagan with GOP Senate challenger Thom Tillis.

“Same-sex marriage has been imposed by a federal judge handpicked and confirmed by Kay Hagan, without voters getting our day in court,” states the ad, which is running statewide this week. “Kay Hagan and her judge betrayed us. Send them a message. Vote Thom Tillis for U.S. Senate.”

But an activist judge Cogburn is not. He cleared the judiciary committee in a unanimous voice vote, and later passed the full Senate 96-0 — hardly a sign of concerns about his judicial independence. Burr sang Cogburn’s praises during his confirmation hearing.

“He is an excellent choice and I believe will be a great addition to the court,” Burr said at the November 2010 hearing. He ticked off Cogburn’s accomplishments: a Stanford law degree, experience as a Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney and a magistrate judge, and time “spent teaching others how to herd cattle and shoot straight” at a dude ranch.

“Out of all the qualifications that Max Cogburn brings to this nomination, let me say this: He’s a good man. And we need good individuals to serve on our bench,” he said. “I highly recommend to the committee that we move as expeditiously [on] this nominee as we can.”

NOM announced this week that it plans to spend $200,000 in the North Carolina and Arkansas Senate races. Brian Brown, the group’s president, touted its “powerful new television ad” targeting Hagan.

“Hagan was the person who hand-picked the federal judge who invalidated the North Carolina marriage amendment without so much as giving voters a day in court,” Brown said in a statement.

NOM sent out a fundraising email later Tuesday urging opponents of same-sex marriage to give the group money to “take down liberals like North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan for trashing her own voters by supporting judicial tyranny and the redefinition of marriage.”

A request for comment from NOM on the broad support Cogburn received during his confirmation process was not returned. A Hagan spokeswoman also did not respond to a request for comment.

The Hagan-Tillis race is one of the tightest in the nation. Hagan is currently holding a slight lead, at 44 percent to Tillis’ 42 percent, according to an average by HuffPost Pollster.

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Five Things Major League Baseball Must Do To Help Players Come Out

As the San Francisco Giants and the Royals square off in the World Series in Kansas City, consider this sad fact: Since baseball was invented in the 1800s, thousands of pro baseball players have participated in the game. Yet to this day, Major League Baseball lacks a single openly gay player, even in the minor leagues, past or present.

And it’s easy to see why. When the late, great Glenn Burke, briefly came out to teammates in the 1980s, he was punished by bullying and harassed out of the game by his manager. Billy Bean, who came out shortly after retiring, has talked talked eloquently about being forced to chose between his love for the game and his love of his life, a man.

But there is hope. Bean is now MLB’s first Ambassador For Inclusion, and his best-selling book, Going The Other Way, has been reissued in paperback.

In honor of the World Series, and this great game, here are five things MLB should do to level the playing field for gay ballplayers so the game finally lives up to its promise as the American pastime…

1. Step up diversity training during Spring Training with an LGBT anti-bullying emphasis, for every major and minor league team.

2. Create a pro-LGBT code of conduct to be prominently displayed in every clubhouse and locker room. Give teeth to code of conduct violations, and repeatedly underscore player’s responsibility to serve as positive role models.

3. Form partnerships with local LGBT youth groups, in which players, coaches and executives make personal appearances at fundraisers as well as site visits.

4. Encourage hiring (much like the NFL’s Rooney Rule), that proactively recruits well qualified, experienced professionals who are openly gay for job opportunities–and for promotion within baseball organizations–from front office to grounds crew to coaches.

5. Since change is most likely to come from the ranks of high school and college athletes, where players are increasingly open about their sexuality, the game should step up funding for athletic programs where gay players are made to feel comfortable.

The high school outfielders of today are the out major leaguers of tomorrow.

Chris Bull, Queerty’s editorial director, is co-author of Billy Bean’s Going The Other Way, published by The Experiment

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Unmanned Rocket Bound For International Space Station Explodes: VIDEO

Sean Mandell

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