Current: Penny Sharpe (Labor) – 2005. Chris Rath (Liberal) – 2022. Amanda Cohn (Greens) – 2023.
In Adelaide, LGBTQIA+ folk are regularly found out and about in the city centre, North Adelaide, and the beachside suburb of Semaphore. The city is home to a pumping arts and live-music scene, great hipster bars and award-winning wines aplenty.
Current estimates from the Department of Health (2019) state that approximately 11% of the Australian population identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI).
Pride is associated with a few other LGBTIQA+ causes in Australia, including Pride marches, and the Victorian Pride Centre (VPC) and their Pride Fund.
Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the LGBT community. In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significant openly LGBT official ever elected in the United States".
They include Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; Jim Fitterling, CEO of Dow; Jeffrey Gennette, CEO of Macy's; and Beth Ford, CEO of Land O'Lakes.
Some of the core theorists in the development of queer theory include Michael Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Judith Butler.
U.S. Army Reserve Command. Neary, Lynn (14 August 2012). "Tammy Smith: First Openly Gay U.S. General". NPR.
The boss of Apple is one of the most prominent LGBTQ+ business leaders in the world. Tim Cook took over the reins of Apple in 2011, just months before Steve Jobs passed away from pancreatic cancer. Cook came out publicly as gay in 2014 and has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights ever since.
Rep. Chuck Carpenter (R) – elected 1994, first openly gay Republican legislator in the nation.
Queer Theory is an interdisciplinary field that encourages one to look at the world through new avenues. It is a way of thinking that dismantles traditional assumptions about gender and sexual identities, challenges traditional academic approaches, and fights against social inequality.
An example of queering would be to reexamine the primary sources from the life of King Richard I of England, to search for evidence that he exhibited homosexual behavior or attitudes.
Through these efforts, Apple supports and brings awareness to LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations that are working to bring about positive change, including Equality Federation Institute, an advocacy accelerator that is building a network of state-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations in the U.S., and GLSEN, an education ...
Now, for the first time in the Fortune 500 list's 68-year history, more than 10 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by women. The Jan. 1, 2023 start dates of five new Fortune 500 chief executives brought the number of female CEOs up to 53, pushing the tally over the long-awaited threshold.
In the late 1970s, Harvey Milk – a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the first openly gay man elected to public office – asked his friend Gilbert Baker to design a symbol to represent (what was then referred to as) the gay community.
Displaying the original design's eight colored stripes, it was created by Gilbert Baker and hand-stitched and dyed with the help of volunteers and friends, including Lynn Segerblom (Faerie Argyle Rainbow), James McNamara, Glenne McElhinney, Joe Duran and Paul Langlotz.
A Queer History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in 2011.
Pride Foundation Australia is a national philanthropic foundation run by volunteers, specifically focused on addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse, queer, intersex, asexual and other LGBTQIA+ community issues in Australia through targeted funding around dedicated research, training development and ...
Today, Australia enjoys bilateral security relationships with both New Zealand and the US under ANZUS. The treaty, while not formally revoked after the US- New Zealand nuclear dispute, no longer fully exists in practice.