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Earlier this week, a disabled gay couple were kicked out of a public pool in Hazard, Kentucky. A staff member at the Hazard Pavilion recreation center told the two men and their aids that they needed to leave because “‘gay people’ weren’t allowed to swim there.” And why not? Apparently, because “it’s in the Bible.”
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Damian Goddard, an anchor with Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto, decided to weigh into the gay marriage debate prompted by Sean Avery’s support for same-sex couples and his tweet got him fired. The tweet:
“I completely and whole-heartedly support Todd Reynolds and his support for the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage,” Goddard wrote in a tweet [...]

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YouTube phenom and self-described “edutainer” Chris Crocker has dropped his horrible dye job and teary-eyed screaming defense of Britney Spears to grow a sexy goatee and slam closety butch gays for hating on feminine gays—it’s like the new Hatfields versus McCoys! We’d like to hear what you think. Have you ever experienced discrimination within the gay [...]

The smoldering hot Social Network star and next web-slinging Spider-Man himself still can’t believe his own success. [More...]

Oscars’ charming host Anne Hathaway and controversial super rapper Kanye West are both preparing to play gay characters in upcoming projects. [More...]

Longtime partners Elton John and David Furnish released dual magazine covers featuring their brand new baby, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John.

Everybody loves seeing him star as Captain Jack Sparrow in the obscenely successful Disney Pirates of the Caribbean films but he recently revealed studio exec’s at the ‘house of mouse’ were more that a little wary of Depp’s flamboyant performanc

So, add this to the list of Chris Colfer’s growing talents: along with his great singing, acting, and secret ninja skills, the out Glee star is also a successful screenwriter.

TweetShareWell, at least not as a stand alone solution to deeply ingrained biases. Studies have shown training in general can create a backlash. Enforced diversity training may be counter productive in that it actually activates biases.
So where does that leave us?
With mentor-ships and diversity task-forces which have been proven to have much better success rates. [...]

TweetShareIt’s official!
Canada’s top 100 Employers for 2009 have been announced. Some of these have been selected because of their active commitment to LGBT diversity training including: Recruitment, Orientation and Inclusion ( ROI) and their ongoing commitments to providing resources and training, and some stand out for their commitment to other groups.
So take a look and [...]