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Kiva Partners With GLAAD To Host Pride Event Featuring Monét X Change And Jinkx Monsoon
Friday, June 26, 2020 - 12:37pm | 332In honor of Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community, Kiva is bringing its popular Pride special from 2019, the Tropical Punch Camino. The bright, vibrant, and emblematic packaging honors the LGBTQ+ community's legacy of marches, parades and protests that have sparked change...
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TikTok's Virtual Pride Event On Zoom Canceled After Homophobic And Racist Trolls Disrupt It
Friday, June 26, 2020 - 2:47am | 547Minutes after it began, TikTok’s virtual pride hosted on Zoom Communications Inc’s (NASDAQ: ZM) video call service had to be halted as uninvited trolls hijacked the event making “extremely hurtful” and “harmful comments.” What Happened Thursday’s day-long...
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Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Others Praise Supreme Court's Landmark Decision Protecting LGBTQ Employees
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 9:06am | 487America's business leaders are praising the majority 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ employees are entitled to federal protections against job discrimination in states where such protections were not available. What Happened The Supreme Court has extended employment ...
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Supporting LGBTQAI+ Organizations For Pride: A List Of Cannabis Brands Involved In The Good Fight
Monday, June 8, 2020 - 2:13pm | 1840By WeedMaps' Lindsay MaHarry, provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis. The celebration and support of Pride holds a special place in the cannabis community. Due to the tireless efforts of HIV/AIDS activists who dedicated their lives advocating for the medical potential of cannabis, ...
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Human Rights Campaign Survey Shows Most, Least LGBTQ-Friendly Companies
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 1:25pm | 516The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) published the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), identifying the most and least LGBTQ-inclusive companies in America and illustrating the gap in equality within the freight industry. CEI scores are given to measure the treatment of LGBTQ employees and...
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Florida Rep. Carlos Smith On How His LGBTQ Identity Led Him To Cannabis, Gun Control Advocacy
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 3:02pm | 1184Few state representatives are as well-known as Carlos Guillermo Smith (FL-D). Over the past year or so, Smith — who defines himself as LGBTQ Latinx, a gender-neutral term often used in lieu of Latino or Latina — has received attention for his overt support of cannabis...
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Trump's Transgender Ban Fell Near The Anniversary Of The Horrific Incident That Persuaded Truman To Desegregate The Armed Forces
Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 4:32pm | 481Much has been made of the fact that President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision announced via Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) Wednesday to ban transgender people from the U.S. military fell on the 69th anniversary of the day that President Harry Truman desegregated those very same armed forces. What...
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10 LGBT CEOs Who Weren't Afraid To Come Out
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 1:50pm | 518Tuesday marks the 28th annual National Coming Out Day for people who choose to publicly declare their membership in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. There are a number of inspirational LGBTQ business leaders that have courageously opened up publicly about...
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3 Unsettled Financial Planning Issues For Same-Sex Marriages
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 1:58pm | 440The Supreme Court’s historic 2015 ruling to legalize same-sex marriage has resulted in a predictable spike in the number of same-sex couples choosing to tie the knot. According to Reuters, the rate of marriage within the LGBTQ community has more than tripled from 8 percent in 2012 to 26...
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Same-Sex Couples Still Learning The Financial Ropes Of Marriage
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 9:01am | 286The landmark Supreme Court decision made last June to legalize gay marriage is making a large impact on the finances of the LGBTQ community. Many LGBTQ couples are unsure how to go about the new daunting financial tasks they now can pursue due to the new law. The impact of the law is making a...
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How Disney And Netflix Helped Hollywood Battle Against Controversial Georgia Bill
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 8:59am | 585Over the course of last week, a number of top Hollywood powerhouses banded together against a new “religious liberty bill” proposed by the state of Georgia. The bill would have extended protections to any faith-based entity that refused to perform services that "violate such faith-...