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June 12, 2013
British spy service MI5 gets licence to thrill at diversity awards

MI5, the British secret service, announced as new sponsor for this year’s awards rewarding best LGBT and other diversity

At one time all British spies were like James Bond – straight, white and middle class. But no longer. MI5, the British secret service, is backing gay, trans and other diversity by sponsoring the 2013 National Diversity Awards.

They will be just one of the brands supporting a skyfall of diversity talent – positive role models and community organizations and businesses from the LGBT, ethnic minority, age, gender, religion and disability communities.

January 12, 2013
Morehouse College student discuses the improved atmosphere for gay students

Alumnus Brian Alston Carter traces the movement of change at Morehouse College

Morehouse College graduate Brian Alston Carter is proud of the steps his alma mater has taken to be more supportive of its gay and bisexual students. In 2009, the historically all male black college was in the media spotlight due to a new dress code. A few of the items on the 'no list' were dresses, tops, tunics, purses or pumps.

January 1, 2013
Diet Doctor - How to survive a skiing holiday without blowing the diet

GSN brings you some timely advice on how to keep your diet sharp while you’re hitting the slopes

‘With every raclette another ab dies...’ said my friend Ming pointedly, as I poured melted cheese over a pile of potato.

I’ve always been under the impression that when you’re skiing you can pretty much eat and drink whatever you want, as you’re burning it all off as you churn up the snow. Plus wintry holidays wouldn’t seem complete unless you were downing glühwein and scooping pieces of bread through steaming pots of fondue - it’s all part of the experience!

November 13, 2012
Ex-BP boss Lord Browne wants gays to be top CEOs

Top UK gay business leader Lord John Browne says there are no LGBT bosses at very top of FTSE 100 or S&P 500 firms in UK and US and that must change

None of Britain or America’s leading companies have an openly gay CEO and that should change, leading out industrialist Lord John Browne has said.

Lord Browne, former CEO of oil giant BP, was speaking at Out on the Street, a summit on global LGBT workplace equality, in London today (13 November).

And he challenged a panel of colleagues from leading firms as well as an audience of top finance institutions to address the issue.

July 30, 2012
Outing could be a crime, Italian Supreme Court rules

The Corte di Cassazione decided on a case of a shop owner sueing a newspaper for an article indicating him as gay

There’s not a ‘public interest’ in outing a gay couple. So, a newspaper, writing a news story about two Italian shop owners, has committed a crime.

This is what the Corte di Cassazione (the Italian Supreme Court) has ruled discussing the case of a gay couple of an Italian country village.

According to the court ‘The outing of LGBT people in this case was not in the public interest. It went against privacy and defamation laws.’

May 2, 2012
North Carolina pastor makes 'Official Statement of Retraction'

But Sean Harris says he does not apologize for preaching against gay marriage or effeminacy

Sean Harris, a Baptist pastor in North Carolina who advocated that fathers 'punch' their sons if they start to act effeminately issued an 'official retraction' of his comments via his blog on Wednesday (2 May).