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6 days ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Molly Sprayregen
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories Converse has long been known for its fantastic Pride collections.
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1 week ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Alex Bollinger
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories Levi’s has released its annual Pride Collection along with a promotional video entitled “Meet You in the Park.” “We’re taught to not take up space, we’re taught to be quiet,” a voiceover says in the ad, which doesn’t explicitly mention LGBTQ+ identities. “But there’s something about being in your body that makes you want to just like be proud and take up that space.” The collection itself is designed by LGBTQ+ people and includes rainbow colors and...
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2 weeks ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Greg Owen
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories A trans software engineer fired by Wikipedia is speaking out after she filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit website claiming wrongful termination. Kayla Mae said that the “bigotry” described in her suit is “organization wide” and that most of her former colleagues “are as against the problems in leadership as I was.” “Unfortunately, I became the squeaky wheel for management to retaliate against by reporting the discrimination,” Mae wrote on Reddit,...
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3 weeks ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Ryan Adamczeski
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the Harry Potter series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people’s rights “in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” The author announced in a Saturday post to X, formerly Twitter, that she would be founding the J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund, using her personal fortune. The website for the group states that it “offers legal funding support to individuals...
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3 weeks ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Ryan Adamczeski
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories When corporations got rid of their diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, many also axed their commitments to LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Even before Donald Trump’s executive orders terminating all DEI positions in the federal government, dozens of major companies had already abandoned their practices. Many made their decisions after conservatives online specifically targeted them for their policies and threatened boycotts, with failed filmmaker...
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1 month ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Alex Bollinger
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories Reality TV star and former gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner is now asking her supporters to send her money to support her legal defense fund in response to a lawsuit against her for alleged financial malfeasance. “I have been named a defendant in a lawsuit re: the $Jenner memecoins, alleging ‘securities’ violations,” she posted to X, linking a crowdfunding campaign. “Let’s all be freedom maximalist.” Jenner was sued in November, months after...
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2 months ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Ryan Adamczeski
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories An ongoing boycott against Target appears to be taking effect as foot traffic declines for the tenth consecutive week. Foot traffic in Target stores declined 9 percent year-over-year in February and 6.5 percent year-over-year in March, according to data from analytics firm Placer.ai reported by CNN. The downturn comes in the midst of a boycott against the retail chain over its decision to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion(DEI) initiatives....
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2 months ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Jo Yurcaba
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories The organizers of several of the country’s premier Pride celebrations told NBC News they have also lost funding from corporate sponsors this year, to the tune of $200,000 to $350,000 each. For some larger organizations — like those in New York City and San Francisco — the shortage makes up about 10% of their total Pride event budget, while for others, like St. Pete Pride in Florida, it could be about half. Some organizers said past sponsors that are...
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2 months ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Christopher Wiggins
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories YouTube quietly scrubbed the phrase “gender identity and expression” from its public-facing hate speech policy earlier this year, prompting concern fromLGBTQ+ advocates who warn the change removes clarity around protections for transgender and nonbinary users. According to the company, there’s no change in policy. However, the altered language occurred between January 29 and February 6, according to archived versions of the policy reviewed by The...
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2 months ago | 
gaysonoma.com | Everybody's Business |Donald Padgett
Everybody's Business/ Features/ Top Stories A cisgender woman Walmart employee who says she was verbally assaulted in the female restroom by a man who mistook her for a transgender woman was fired because she reported the incident to the wrong supervisor and created a security risk. Dani Davis, who is queer, took to social media on March 24 and wrote a post about what she said happened while she was at work. The incident occurred on March 14 at the Walmart in Lake City, Florida. She noted she...
