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Thursday, August 21
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Source: Gay Financial Network , Associated Press Two of Hallmark's cards The nation's largest publisher of greeting cards now offers cards tailored to gay unions, Associated Press reports. Hallmark started offering the cards after California joined Massachusetts as the only US states in which gay or lesbian couples can be legally married, but because the cards don't use the terms "wedding" or "marriage", they're also appropriate for the more limited same-sex ceremonies available to couples in several other states. But even if the cards are subtle in their...
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Tuesday, August 19
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Kieth Olbermann and Rachel Maddow will have shows back to back at 5pm and 6pm (PT) on MSNBC starting 9/08/08, right after the conventions. We believe that makes Maddow the first openly gay or lesbian host to be hired as a host by a cable news network. Maddow tells Olbermann that she hasn't yet decided on a name for her new show, but that she will also continue with the Rachel Maddow Show on AirAmerica Radio (at 3pm). Video of Olbermann's welcome: Domestic crime by naked men? We too are surprised, but look forward (maybe) to the clips. Washington Post reports : With the promotion, which...
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Friday, August 15
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Source: Boston Herald The Boston Herald 's Hillary Chabot talked to Manhunt.net co-founder Larry Basile about the donation to the McCain campaign given by his business partner, Jonathan Crutchley. Chabot reports that the news of the donation has not only prompted subscription cancellations by Manhunt members, but has also caused the Republican's campaign to reject the donation. "McCain spokesman Jeff Grappone didn't return multiple phone calls on the subject, and Crutchley has apparently been informed that his $2,300 will be returned," Chabot reports. Basile, who described...
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Friday, August 15
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Source: Towleroad , Bay Windows Controversy over his maxed out contribution to the McCain campaign has prompted the co-founder of gay hookup site Manhunt .net to step down as Chairman of the company's board, Towleroad reports. Crutchley is referred to as CEO of the company in several news articles. It's not clear if he will also resign from that post. Towleroad , the blog that moved the story of Jonathan Crutchley's donation, obtained a statement from the site's other co-founder Larry Basile that announces the resignation. Bay Windows reports that Basile sent the statement late...
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Wednesday, August 13
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Source: Bay Windows , Towleroad , Out , Online Personals Watch A donation to the McCain campaign by the CEO of a gay hookup site is raising a ruckus on the web -- not among conservatives and Republican blogs, but among gay blogs. Qnews update: Report: Under fire for McCain donation, Manhunt chairman steps down from board post 15-Aug-08 Towleroad noticed in an Out feature on the site, that the cofunder of Manhunt .net, Jonathan Crutchley, has given $23,000 to McCain's campaign. Boston's Bay Windows points out, "In his efforts to portray himself as "pro-family," news of McCain...
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Wednesday, August 13
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Source: World Hum , Christian Science Monitor , Haaretz Gay tourism to Israel has spiked in recent years, spurred in part by the country’s reputation for open-mindedness: gays can serve openly in the military and even register as married couples. While Israel welcomes expansion of its tourism market, the trend also presents tourism officials with a tricky balancing act, travel site World Hum reports. Tel Aviv, in particular, with its warm Mediterranean weather, trendy cosmopolitan feel, and lively nightlife, has become a hot destination for gay travelers, Christian Science Monitor reports...
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Monday, July 28
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Source: Oregonian , Wall Street Journal , Brand Republic , Guardian Nike withdrew this ad and three others after outcry that they played on anti-gay attitudes. Both Nike and Snickers dropped ads late last week that critics said played on anti-gay stereotypes. Nike Inc. said it dropped three ads from a billboard campaign in response to critics who complained that the basketball-shoe ads were insensitive to gay men and African-Americans. Backing off earlier support of the ads, the Beaverton-area sporting goods giant said it would withdraw ads for its new Hyperdunk basketball shoes that some critics...
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Wednesday, July 23
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Source: Montreal Gazette , Xtra The main street through Montreal's gay village is closed to traffic, and open to strollers and cafe tables all summer long photo: by Ralph Higgins for Xtra Montreal's gay village is more vibrant this year than ever before since the city closed St Catherine St -- the main artery of the Village -- to automobile traffic. From June 20 to September 2, over a dozen blocks have been converted to one giant pedestrian mall, Xtra reports. Creation of the pedestrian-friendly, no-car zone has been a resounding success so far, Montreal Gazette reports. The Village is...
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Wednesday, June 18
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Source: Search Engine Land One of many blogs devoted to search engines has noticed that Google is flying a subtle gay rainbow flag for a few extraordinarily broad searches, including gay , lesbian , homosexual , and gay marriage . For those searches, Google appears to support Gay Pride month by adding a rainbow colored divider between the standard (so called "organic") search results and paid search results on the right side of the page. The border -- similar to page changes the company makes for other holidays including Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa -- disappears, however, for most...
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Wednesday, May 28
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Source: FoxBusiness.com , HRC press release , Fortune ExxonMobil shareholders today voted down a resolution to add "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to Exxon’s non-discrimination statement. But the vote today was closer than it has been in previous years. About 40% of Exxon’s outstanding shares voted in favor of the clause, but it was not enough to send the issue to the Houston-based oil company’s board of directors which is staunchly opposed to the measure. In a statement today, Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese said, "ExxonMobil continues to have...
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Tuesday, May 20
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Source: Press Association , The Age Plans to run a hotel out of a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in the The Sound of Music have triggered fierce resistance from neighbors who fear tourists will cause traffic problems and nuisance. The 125-year-old villa is perched on the outskirts of Salzburg where the 1965 film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer was made. Wilfried Haslauer, a Salzburg tourism official, announced plans last week to turn the the villa into a hotel. He said the park surrounding the villa will also be open to the public. He said refreshments and souvenirs...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: Business Wire via EarthTimes WASHINGTON -- Nearly one in four gay and lesbian adults lack health insurance and are nearly twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to have no health insurance coverage, a recent survey finds. 22 percent of gay and lesbian survey respondents reported having no health insurance, compared to only 12 percent of heterosexual adults in the survey. "We know the problem of the uninsured has reached crisis proportions in this country and, unfortunately, this survey shows that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community is today at greater...
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Sunday, May 18
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Vancouver Sun San Francisco's tourist industry is betting that gay marriage will lead to a boon in same-sex wedding and honeymoon packages, but another West Coast city to the north worries that it might now lose some of those tourist dollars. Nationally, gay tourism amounts to a $60 billion-a-year industry. Thanks to Thursday's ruling by the state Supreme Court striking down the ban on same-sex marriage, California stands to become a destination spot for gay and lesbian couples from around the world who want to get hitched. And San Francisco is hoping for...
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Wednesday, May 14
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Source: Hollywood Reporter , Marketing Charts , LOS ANGELES -- NBC Universal's Bravo emerged as the most "gay-friendly" company, according to a survey from Prime Access and PlanetOut . Four of the five top-ranked brands were from the media and technology sectors. Following Bravo were Apple, Showtime and HBO. Among gay consumers, Apple finished second with a 39 percent score, followed by Showtime (35 percent) and HBO (34 percent). The list was rounded about by nonmedia companies including Absolut, Levi's, American Express, and Starbucks. In contrast, Wal-Mart, Dunkin' Donuts...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Gay Financial Network , BusinessWire (press release) For gays who have traditionally been on the cutting edge of tech -- we have long-been cited as early adopters of technology observes market researchers like Forrester -- the reading of blogs on a regular basis has become de rigueur , a necessary component for being in the know. When asked, just over half (51 percent) of the gay and lesbian respondents reported reading some type of blog, compared to 36 percent of heterosexual adults. A similar question on blog readership also was asked in November 2006, and at that time 32 percent of gay...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Canadian Press VANCOUVER — They've been bombed three times, received death threats and stood before the red-robed justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. No, Jim Deva and Bruce Smyth are not killers or terrorists. The soft-spoken Vancouver men sell books. And in some peoples' eyes, Deva says, that made the gay owners of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium dangerous. "Because we were (openly gay) and we were very, very blatant about being open . . . we were threatening to homophobes," Deva says. Only two years after the store opened in 1983, the owners took on...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Financial Post , Exchange Morning Post A new study confirms what savvy marketers have known for years: the gay community has major wallet clout and represents vast potential growth for marketers. That's especially true in Canada according to the study commissioned by the International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (IGLCC) where the study concludes The LGBT population in Canada is 2 million people, representing a market of about 100 billion Canadian dollars. The study describes it as a varied population which has a great purchasing power. It found that LGBT consumers are faithful...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Ravenna Record-Courier , Akron Beacon Journal Akron businessman Harry Jackson has pledged at least $2 million to support the first endowment for scholarships and programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at Kent State University. Jackson, a former B.F. Goodrich tax attorney, has owned the Odd Corner, a shop that sells erotica, tobacco and whatnot on the edge of the University of Akron campus, for more than 35 years. He chose Kent State because it is more gay-friendly and progressive than other universities. He said he hopes to fund programming that will inspire LGBT...
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Wednesday, April 16
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Source: Journal Record (Oklahoma City) Kern's anti-gay rant Rep. Sally Kern's now-infamous anti-gay speech to a state Republican gathering have had repercussions to the state's bottom line as businesses considering relocation to the state express concern, an Oklahoma newspaper reports. Staubauch Co., a San Francisco Bay-area financial services company, has not yet ruled out Oklahoma City for a major office relocation, a vice president of a real estate search firm confirmed, but a consultant hired by the company was troubled by Kern’s comments during a recent visit to the city, a chamber...
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Tuesday, April 15
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Source: CBC News , NBC News via WBIR TV , Scripps News Service A retirement condo for gay seniors proposed for the East Vancouver neighborhood of Mount Pleasant is still just a proposal, but has already attracted more than 30 people have plunked down a $1,000 deposit since it was first advertised two weeks ago, according to the U.S. developer. The plan is for a condo development featuring living units, a communal dining room, a fitness centre, a lounge and cabaret. Dean Malone, the president of Plum Living Properties, said the proposal for Vancouver will fill a community need. His company has already...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: San Francisco Business Times , CitizenCrain Gay and lesbian media portal PlanetOut Inc. agreed to sell its magazine and book publishing business to Here Networks for $6 million in cash. PlanetOut publishes Out and Advocate and several other magazines, but wants to return its focus to its web sites gay.com and planetout.com. San Francisco-based PlanetOut signed a letter of intent with Regent Releasing, an affiliate of New York-based Here, which is a gay and lesbian television network, San Francisco Business Times reports. Blogger Chris Crain, former editor of Washington Blade , notes that...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: The Age , Advocate (Tasmania) A town in the Australian island state of Tasmania is up for sale, and gay rights activists say homophobia is to blame. Property developer Stephen Roche had plans to transform the spectacular ramshackle town of Penguin, on Tasmania's north-west coast, into an exclusive holiday spot. Just an hour by air from Melbourne, via the nearby town of Burnie, the town of 3000 was to become the "Noosa of the South". But Roche's development dreams were tainted last year after he was subject to death threats and a mail campaign that urged residents to say...
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Thursday, April 03
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Source: Editor and Publisher CHICAGO -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are battling it out for the Democratic Party presidential nomination at debates, luncheon speeches, bowling alleys -- and now, in the pages of gay and lesbian newspapers. Although Howard Dean in 2004 bought an ad in The Advocate, the national gay-oriented news magazine, Obama was the first to turn to the gay press in the current campaign, and -- according to his lead volunteer in outreach to the LGBT community -- the first presidential candidate ever to buy a campaign ad in a local gay paper. The ads, which ran in four papers...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: Associated Press EAGLE, Idaho (AP) -- A cross-country move from New Jersey to this Boise suburb has cost a gay couple the company-sponsored health benefits they shared on the east coast, Associated Press reports. The 2,400-mile move west that once seemed like a chance at a fresh start, has instead delivered some hard lessons, especially about moving from a state that recognizes same-sex unions to one of the 21 states that don't. The couple was stunned when Ryan was dropped from the Konica Minolta insurance plan the two shared in New Jersey, where they were able to register as domestic...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: Hartford Courant , ACLU press release , Associated Press via Houston Chronicle A Connecticut gay couple trying to compute their taxes on the H&R Block web site got a rude greeting: "We don't support Connecticut Civil Union returns." Block, which apparently was not trying to send a political message, meant that its software hasn't been programmed to compute returns for civil-union couples. The ACLU, which sent Block a warning letter today, says that is illegal discrimination under Connecticut law. The company will compute the taxes of same-sex couples in civil unions...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Oregonian Years after Bill Stein came out to friends and colleagues, he moved near family in Portland and went back into hiding. If a resident of his westside retirement home makes an anti-gay slur, Stein, 86, says nothing. "I'm, by nature, chicken," the retired anthropology professor said. " If you don't say, 'I'm gay,' you pass. I'm pretty well closeted." On Valentine's Day, Stein drove to the conservative side of Multnomah County to visit Rainbow Vista in Gresham, one of the first retirement homes in the nation marketed to gay seniors....
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Southern Voice by Ryan Lee IMAGINE YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH A FOREST and you come across a giant oak or maple tree lying on its side. Besides the tree stands an unremarkable looking man, who loudly huffs and puffs as he pounds on his bare chest and flexes his muscles. “I ripped this big maple tree up out of the ground with my own two hands,” the barechested man says. “I pulled the roots out of the dirt, threw the heavy bark across my shoulders, and then body-slammed this beast onto the ground.” If you’ve got any intelligence, you may look around for signs to let you know if the man is telling...
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Monday, March 17
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Source: Guardian , Bay Windows Deteriorating market conditions forced developers to shelve plans for this 53-unit retirement community in Boston A fluffy yellow bedspread is severely tucked around the hospital-style bed, there's a wheelchair-accessible shower and a token pot plant. At first glance, the Asta Nielsen Haus in Berlin looks like the average old people's home. But this is a pioneering facility - the first in Europe to cater exclusively for gays and lesbians. "We just want people to be able to speak freely of their pasts. They shouldn't have to worry about reactions or...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Source: Southern Voice and AP via CNN Money United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS), the world's largest shipping carrier, said Tuesday it has expanded its supplier diversity program to include businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender merchants. The diversity program previously covered small businesses, women, minorities and veterans, according to the company. To be considered for the programming, businesses must be certified by the National Lesbian & Gay Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), an umbrella group that cites 45 state and local affiliates. “Partnering with the NGLCC not only...
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Tuesday, March 11
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A right-wing group that two years ago called for a boycott of Ford Motor Company because of what it said were the automaker's pro-gay policies has declared victory and called off the boycott. In the fall of 2005, the American Family Association (AFA) announced a boycott against the automaker, saying it was concerned about Ford's advertising in gay media and other gay-friendly promotions from the company. According to the Associated Press, Ford said in a statement today that its principles haven't changed and that it is committed to treating everyone fairly. Related in Qnews: Commentary...
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