Business and Technology

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Jamaica: Anti-Gay Discrimination Costing Ja $11b Annually, Says CAPRI

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Jamaica’s oppressive anti-gay laws and discriminatory practices cost the workforce around $11 billion annually and make the minority group three times more vulnerable to mental-health illness, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) has said.

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Hungary: Coca-Cola Fined for Ads With Same-Sex Couples ‘Undermining Adolescents’ Moral Development’

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The Consumer Protection Department of Pest County has fined Coca-Cola for its short-term poster campaign launched in early August, featuring same-sex couples, promoting acceptance.

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Canada: Weight stigma affects gay men on dating apps

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Our findings suggest Grindr’s relationship with body image is embedded in a complex web of causation that reflects the situated and emergent interactions between technology, user and environment. As such, efforts to minimize the role information technologies play in maintaining sexual orientation-based disparities in body image disorders must be equally adaptive.

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US: Are LGBTQ Employees Safe From Discrimination?

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What these cases will decide is does the federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination in employment, cover discrimination on the basis of someone's sexual orientation or their gender identity, because those forms of discrimination are sex-based,

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US: The Supreme Court's Transgender Employment Discrimination Case Could Decide My Future Because I'm Trans

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In this op-ed, Teen Vogue’s Lucy Diavolo examines what the Supreme Court case on transgender inclusion in employment nondiscrimination protections means for her future as a trans woman.