Topic: LGBT Issues

MIT's Facebook "Gaydar" - Is it Homophobic?

Attention gay males: Even if you'd prefer to remain closeted on Facebook, two MIT students have developed software that can out you anyway.READ»

GLAAD's Helping Hand

Rashad Robinson, 30, organized GLAAD's inaugural Media Awards in Advertising in October to applaud gay-positive creative in both the LGBT and mainstream press.READ»

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Tech Watch: Apple and Google Work on iPhone, Gay Marriage

Ever since the T-Mobile G1 launch, Apple and Google have gotten into bed together to bring more Google features to the iPhone. The tech titans are also collaborating on pushing for equality of same-sex marriages.READ»

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CNN/YouTube Debate: Mary and Jen Want To Get Hitched

Kucinich: Uh, duh. Cites constitution, gets applause from the crowd. Dodd: How would I want my daughters treated? Compassion for all; civil unions, not marriage. (He has daughters five and two? The mind reels.) Richardson: I ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: A Chronology of the Gay Marriage Debate

A handy map by the LA Times summarizes the sprawling, state-by-state debate.READ»

Out of the Closet, on the Job

Open talk to make workplace relationships work for gay couples.READ»

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS (!) END OF SUBJECT OBAMA (!)

In seemingly unending arguments for or against gay marriage in America, we hear continual reverberations of identical redundant and outdated arguments emanating from mouths of our politicians merely towing their party lines; creative thinking doesn’t seem to be involved. A student of United States Constitutional Law, I strongly believe their rhetoric is not what America’s founding fathers’ envisaged.READ»

The Human Rights Campaign Calls Out Stinkers

LGBT Americans wield more than $700 billion in buying power and are more likely than straight folks to spend money with companies that support them (makes sense, no?). But combing through a company's discrimination policy is no one's ...READ»

Prime Access's LGBT Media Strategy

Howard Buford, 50, has created LGBT-targeted advertising for companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Hyatt, and Showtime. Each year, Prime Access reports on which brands are perceived to be the most and least gay-friendly.READ»

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Microsoft's Flip Flop

I've been intrigued by the conflagration raging in Washington state over Microsoft's recent decision not to back a gay rights bill in the state's senate. Today's paper said Bill Gates was back-peddling on the stand, following a ...READ»

American Airlines' Gay-Friendly Skies

George Carrancho, 43, manages American Airlines' Rainbow Team, the first dedicated LGBT sales staff and Web site to target the $65 billion American gay and lesbian travel industry.READ»

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Logo's Loyal (and Lucrative) LGBT Following

Lisa Sherman, 51, launched Logo, MTV Networks' television channel for a gay and lesbian audience, in 2005, with just three advertisers and 13 million homes. It has since grown to 150 advertisers in every product category and more than 40 million homes.READ»

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I Can See You

Transparency rules, whether you like it or not.READ»

Facebook and Virginia Tech: A New Normal

In the hours, now days, following the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, this blog, as well as numerous outlets, chronicled the role of Facebook and other online media sites in the lives of those affected. First, information about ...READ»

The Red-State Menace

I have to take issue with yesterday's entry from my friend and colleague Bill Breen. If you live in Boston or New York or Washington, you've heard any number of variations over the last three days (amid the din of collective wailing ...READ»

Love <amp></amp> Work: The Unwritten Rules

A perspective on same-sex dating in the workplace.READ»

Evangelical Environmentalist Richard Cizik Forced Out Of The NAE

"It looked like Tony Soprano had whacked one of his own. People asked me, 'Rich, do you still have a job?'" When I profiled Richard Cizik two years ago, that's how he described the growing tension between him and the National Association of Evangelicals.READ»

Gavin Newsom Wants to Be Governor of California. Would You Hire Him?

The controversial mayor of San Francisco wants to upgrade to the governor's mansion. Would you hire this pretty face to run the world's eighth-largest economy?READ»

What's up with Wal-Mart?

There's been a lot happening with Wal-Mart lately. Last week, Advertising Age reported that in the company's attempt "to broaden its appeal and woo both upscale and urban markets" it has "hired a gay-marketing shop, joined the ...READ»

African Social Networks Aiding in Blackmail of Gays

Social network blackmail schemes are on the rise, but nowhere have they become more malicious than in the east African nation of Ghana, where gay Internet community members are being trapped, kidnapped and robbed, often with the aid ...READ»

Orbitz: Secretly Advertising Gay Rights?

Can you find the very subtle cues in their new, widely-aired commercial?READ»

Other Recommended Reading

The G Quotient and Killer Instinct.READ»