NBA referee Bill Kennedy comes out as gay after Rajon Rondo directed slur at him during game
NEW YORK — Veteran NBA referee Bill Kennedy has told Yahoo Sports he is gay after Sacramento Kings guard Rajon Rondo directed a gay slur at him during a game. Kennedy tells Yahoo he is “proud to be an NBA referee and I am proud to be a gay man …
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Mexican State Banning Surrogacy for Male Gays, Foreigners
Mexican State Banning Surrogacy for Male Gays, Foreigners
It has attracted many foreign and gay couples looking to have children … Mexico has become a low-cost alternative to the United States, where surrogacy can cost $150,000 or more.
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Chris Bryant challenges Tyson Fury to sparring session after boxer's comments on homosexuality
Chris Bryant challenges Tyson Fury to sparring session after boxer's comments on homosexuality
The Shadow Commons leader had already invited Mr Fury for tea and a chat at the House of Commons … including homosexuality and paedophilia. “As a gay man, former Anglican vicar and previous Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport …
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Nebraska’s Aggressive New Plan To Keep Transgender Students From Playing Sports
Nebraska’s Aggressive New Plan To Keep Transgender Students From Playing Sports
Nebraska officials want schools to violate federal law and keep transgender athletes out of locker rooms.
The post Nebraska’s Aggressive New Plan To Keep Transgender Students From Playing Sports appeared first on ThinkProgress.
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New U.N. Video Explores Global Cost of LGBT Discrimination
New U.N. Video Explores Global Cost of LGBT Discrimination
The U.N. Free & Equal (UNFE) campaign launched its latest video last week in honor of Human Rights Day. Titled, The Price of Exclusion, openly gay American actor Zachary Quinto narrates the video and traces the social and economic impact of discrimination against members of the LGBT community. The video also highlights the cost to the wider community, business and the economy.
The Price of Exclusion highlights how discrimination disproportionately harms LGBT people who suffer from higher rates of depression, suicide, homelessness and poverty than the general population.
HRC Foundation’s report, The Cost of Closet and the Rewards of Inclusion, also summarized the impact of workplace inequality. For example. employees having to hide who they are comes at the cost of individual employee engagement and retention, and reveals broader challenges of full inclusion in the workplace. Additionally, over half (53 percent) of LGBT workers in the U.S. hide who they are at work.
Societies also face steep costs from discrimination against and exclusion of LGBT people including lost productivity from LGBT workers. Writing in the Huffington Post, Charles Radcliffe of the U.N. human rights office, who directs UNFE, noted that lost productivity can contribute to reduced corporate profits, a smaller tax base for the government and reduced national economic output.
Radcliffe highlights how bullying and isolation of LGBT students, which is endemic across different regions studied, contributes to LGBT youth abandoning their studies, ending up homeless and becoming a burden on the state. Up to 40 percent of homeless youth in the United States are LGBT.
A World Bank study of India in 2014 found the steep economic penalty of discrimination against LGBT people, discovering that the country’s economy was losing up to $32 billion a year due to the exclusion of LGBT people. Countries can enhance productivity and output by outlawing discrimination against LGBT people and encouraging their participation in social and economic life.
UNFE is an unprecedented global public education campaign for LGBT equality which was launched in July 2013 by the U.N. Human Rights Office. It raises awareness of homophobic and transphobic violence and discrimination and promotes greater respect for the human rights of LGBT people.
Earlier this year, HRC co-hosted an event with the U.N. Foundation and UNFE to mark the International Day Against Homophobia,Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOT).
Learn more about HRC’s work abroad here and to learn more about workplace equality, click here.
How to get more acceptance for Live Chat on your Site
How to get more acceptance for Live Chat on your Site
When you are including a live chat solution on your website, this is in most cases a small, unremarkable box on the edge of the screen. For some websites a good solution, but the chatbox is capable of much more! How to convert the little box with a few …
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Trib Talk: Public lands transfer to go to court?
Trib Talk: Public lands transfer to go to court?
Watch this online video chat at sltrib.com. You can also join the discussion by sending questions and comments to the hashtag #TribTalk on Twitter or texting 801-609-8059.
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Facebook Talks to Us About Its New 'Real' Name Policy
Facebook Talks to Us About Its New 'Real' Name Policy
On Friday, Facebook invited The Advocate to a one-on-one video chat tour of how this experience is being rolled out, walking us through what those users selected for the test will experience. Not surprisingly, the folks at Facebook wouldn’t reveal how …
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Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe looks weary as he returns to Sydney for Christmas after opening up about the trials and tribulations of dating as a gay man
Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe looks weary as he returns to Sydney for Christmas after opening up about the trials and tribulations of dating as a gay man
In his 2012 autobiography, the athlete revealed he was suffering ‘crippling depression’, and had considered suicide. Ian finally came out as gay in 2014 in an interview with Sir Michael Parkinson, after facing years of scrutiny from the Australian public.
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Holy War Week: 3 biggest 2015 Las Vegas Bowl storylines for BYU
Holy War Week: 3 biggest 2015 Las Vegas Bowl storylines for BYU
A lack of no rivalry game during the regular season has made it possible for this Holy War rivalry to be rekindled into the postseason like acres of Christmas trees set ablaze, igniting those decades-old hate-filled BYU-Utah chat rooms and social media …
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