Arraial Pride 2012

in:  http://lazer.publico.pt/festasefeiras/307117_arraial-pride-2012



Por DR

Considerado o evento Lésbico, Gay, Bissexual e Transgénero (LGBT) mais relevante em Portugal, o Arraial Pride está de volta com muita música, tendas de restauração e múltiplas actividades. A 30 de Junho, no Terreiro do Paço, Lisboa.

A 16.ª edição do evento traz a estreia do espaço Pride Village, pensado para estar, conviver, mostrar, brincar e jogar. Nesta área o público pode encontrar várias associações de intervenção social e animações constantes, a partir das 16h.

Pelo Terreiro do Paço haverá ainda música pela noite fora com as actuações do DJ Nomi Ruiz (Jessica 6) DJ set & Live vocals, Nuno Galopim (DJ Set), Conga Club (DJ Set) e DMA - Disco My Ass (João V. Boas e Vítor d´Andrade DJ Set) & Guests e cerca de 20 tendas na zona de restauração, com "alguns dos mais conhecidos bares da capital" representados.

• Lisboa, Praça do Comércio - Praça do Comércio
  30-06. Sábado às 16h00 . 
  Grátis
  

Evento integrado nas Festas de Lisboa.

Sítio ofícial http://ilga-portugal.pt/arraialpride/2012/

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Creator of Rainbow Flag Shares His Memories of the Movement

in: http://www.edgeboston.com/

The rainbow flag 

On June 19, artist Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag in 1978, shared his memories of that period and the flag’s creation in a discussion at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco with longtime activist and friend, Cleve Jones.

The rainbow flag is so iconic, so ubiquitous, so universally recognized, that there is a habitual tendency to think that it has always flown to represent queer Pride. Yet it is not so: it was created and consciously adopted in the streets of San Francisco, when activists spoke of gay liberation rather than LGBT acceptance in the after-fires of the political fires of the late 1970s. And no, it wasn’t created because we’re all friends of Dorothy.

"1977 -- that was a pivotal year," Baker said. "That was the year of Anita Bryant. That was he year Harvey (Milk) was elected. That was the year we became galvanized."

Paul Boneberg, Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society, Rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker and activist Cleve Jones  (Source:Roger Brigham)

It was also the year after the American Bicentennial Celebration, a period that Baker said made him more flag conscious as cranked out hundreds of banners and signs for the endless parades that activists were busily organizing.

"I thought, ’You know, we ought to have a flag,’" Baker said. "A flag is something you can’t disarm. What makes a flag a flag is that people own it. It connects to their souls. It belongs to them."

Baker said he did not want to work with the symbols of oppression that had been adopted in the early victim politics.

"The Lambda was a little obscure," he said, "and the triangles were given to us by the Nazis."

He began researching rainbows and their uses in the Bible, in Native cultures and in the psychedelic hippy peace and freedom culture of the Sixties. 

"It represents all the colors, all the genders, all the humanity," Baker said. "I wanted to expand on the use of visual images that would not depend on language."

Gilbert Baker  

Baker said the first two flags were made using all-natural materials and dyes in the fashion of the day. But the colors ran when they got wet. In addition, the flag started off with eight colors, not the six it has now, and each color stood for something different: pink (sex), red (life), orange (healing), yellow (sun), green (nature), turquoise (magic), blue (serenity) and lavender (spirit).

"Eight is a very magical number," said Baker. "It’s symmetrical, and allowed me to split them into hot and cold colors. It gave me a way to incorporate pink. Of course, it was a fuschia hot pink. And it allowed me to bring in turquoise, connecting to Native island cultures."

But, in the long run, the eight color flag was too complicated and costly to reproduce in the pre-digital age of four-color printing. So he dropped pink and turquoise.

"I felt strange because I was giving up sex and magic," Baker said with a laugh.

Jones said there was a lot of community conversation at the time about the need for a unifying symbol.

"When that went up the flag pole, all conversation on it stopped," Jones said. "Everybody just embraced it."

It seemed, Baker and Jones said, that just about everyone wanted the gay flags except the flag industry: world of flag-makers and vexilographers.

"It took about 10 years," Baker said, recounting how he cut his hair and dressed in business attire in order to try to fit in at the flag industry conventions. "They pretty much decide on what a flag is. They would not even entertain a motion that there even was such a thing as a gay flag. A lot of good old boy flag companies down in Texas didn’t want to know anything about a gay flag."

Gilbert Baker’s sea-to-sea rainbow flag is displayed in Key West in 2003  

But when one took a chance and made 5,000 little flags for Baker, they sold out in two hours. Game over, battle won.

Now they are everywhere, and the rainbow is incorporated in knick-knacks and collectibles. Jones teased Baker about not having patented the symbol.

"How do you feel when you see all this rainbow crap and you don’t stand to make a penny off it?" Jones asked.

"It’s not about money," Baker teased back. "It’s about power."

There have been some iconic world record moments for the flag since then, such as the Stonewall 25 flag in New York City in 1994, and the sea-to-sea rainbow flag in Key West in 2003 on the 25th anniversary of the flag. 

And there have been the grim reminders of why the flag was needed, as when a parade of the flag in a celebration in Stockholm drew 300,000 spectators, and then was disrupted when gangs of young neo-Nazis grabbed and brutally beat some of the spectators.

"It blew my mind," Baker said. "There is this resistance that comes to us in the form of violence. We’re lucky to be in America. I think about those gay people in China who can’t come out -- making those rainbow tchotchkes and they can never come out. Or Uganda: there wasn’t any ’Will and Grace’ in Uganda. Our liberation is an ongoing struggle. It was before us and it will be in the generations after us. It’s more than the colors we can see: It’s the colors that we can’t see, the thing that go past our own lives."

For information about ongoing exhibits and presentations at the GLBT Historical Society, 4127 18th Street, a half a block off Castro Street, visit www.glbthistory.org.

http://www.edgeboston.com/

Top 10 rules for celebrating Pride

in: http://www.anchoragepress.com/

It’s that time of year again; the drag queens are pulling out the bingo cards, floats are being decorated, and rainbow flags are being waved. Anchorage Pride is in full swing. This week-long festival every June is a time for the GLBT community and their allies to come together, educate the greater community, and have fun in the process through large GLBT-themed events, many of which are marketed as family friendly.

There are just a few, teeny teensy rules you should adhere to if you want to have the best possible time without irritating everyone else.

1.  Dress however you want, but respect the family environment.

Pride is a time to be yourself, and one of the easiest ways to do that is to dress up. Do you have a thing for cat ears? Go ahead and wear them. Bikinis, however, aren’t necessarily family friendly. Neither are the raver outfits that look like bikinis with a tiny tutu attached. Men, please wear pants (drag queens excluded, of course); we don’t want to take our kids to the festival to have fun and suddenly come face to face with a naked man wearing only a codpiece and body paint. If you’re secure enough to dress that scantily, more power to you, but please be respectful of the fact that this year’s Pride parade and festival are geared toward families; we don’t feel like scarring the kids quite yet.

2.  Wear deodorant. For the love of God, wear deodorant.

Just because Pride’s parade and festival are outside doesn’t mean that we can’t smell you. If it’s sunny and warm, we will, and we’ll hate you for it. In fact, if you plan to spend more than, say, two hours at the festival, bring deodorant with you. It’s not that difficult to excuse yourself to a bathroom and put on another layer once in a while, and the less human sweat we smell, the happier we’ll all be. Nothing ruins a community gathering like strong B.O.

3.  Pass on the pot.

Legal or not, tons of people in Anchorage smoke weed. If you go to Pride this weekend, please hold off. This goes back to the family friendly bit; people who take kids to parades and festivals hate smelling pot on the breeze even more than body odor. It stinks, and it makes parents uncomfortable to have their kids around. If you need to be high to have a good time at the festival, then maybe you should go do something more interesting.

4.  Don’t get wasted.

This isn’t a bar, it’s a festival at a park; don’t come drunk. In addition to being annoying as hell, there are kids around. Have a beer before you show up if you want, but don’t get sloshed. Even if there weren’t kids around, it would still be annoying to those of us trying to have a good time. It’s like with smoking weed; if you need to get drunk to have fun, party somewhere else.

5.  Control your kids.

Time to pick on the parents a bit; yes, the parade and festival are family friendly, but that doesn’t mean you can just let your kids run wild. Unattended children are a pain in the neck—they interrupt the stage show, they run into us when they aren’t looking, and they make other kids whine about why they can’t go and run around as well. And, if your children do misbehave, don’t yell at them for twenty minutes to “come back here,” go and grab them yourself. Get off your butt and take control of your kids; don’t interrupt our fun day with your lazy yelling.

6.  Tip the performers.

You don’t have to tip every single performer on stage, and the ones you do tip don’t need five dollar bills, but it is polite to show your appreciation to them. The performers at PrideFest aren’t paid for entertaining you, so a dollar here and there shows that you care. If you don’t want to interrupt the performance, there is usually a hat or basket nearby designated for tips - put it there instead.

7. If you are watching a performance, shut up.

It’s common courtesy people; if you are sitting on the grass watching the show, don’t talk so loudly that the people around you can’t enjoy it. By all means, communicate with your friends, but don’t be the one the rest of the crowd turns around and glares at.

8. Don’t just take free stuff from booths, learn about them.

This probably a moot point, but the vendors at PrideFest will undoubtedly have free items on their tables that are up for grabs. Go ahead and grab them (after making sure they are free) but don’t immediately walk away; talk to the vendor about their organization. It’s simple courtesy, instead of paying them money, you are paying them your time. There is nothing more disrespectful than walking up to a person, grabbing their stuff, and then completely ignoring them. You are better than that.

9.  Pick up your trash.

There are trash bins all over the park strip, use them; trash is gross.

10.  Mingle.

Possibly the most important rule about Pride; talk to the people around you. The idea of Pride is community, so if you go to the parade or festival, don’t be afraid to be a neighbor and say hello. And if someone approaches you with a conversation, don’t immediately write them off as a creeper; building bridges and forming new acquaintances is what community is all about. Embrace it. Unless you can tell that person isn’t wearing deodorant, then you can shun them.

http://www.anchoragepress.com/

Diana King comes out as a lesbian

in: http://www.gaystarnews.com/

Fans show support for Jamaican singer-songwriter who says living a lie was 'horrible'





Jamaican reggae singer Diana King has come out as a lesbian.

The 41-year-old who shot to fame in the 1990s with hit single Shy Guy made the announcement on her Facebook page yesterday (28 June).

In the post, King wrote: 'I am... woman... mother... aunt... Jamaican... American... international artiste... singer... songwriter... band leader... friend... lover... entrepreneur... goddess! among other things and yes!!!… I am a lesbian [sic].'

The performer who fuses reggae, R&B and dancehall has long been rumored to be gay.

However, King said she decided to come out now 'not because it's anyone's business but because it feels right with my soul'.

'I have always been afraid to admit it openly because of the unknown of what it may cause negatively, to me, my career, my family and loved ones' she wrote.

'But I realized that it is not my job to make others comfortable.'

She added that her only regret is that she didn't come out earlier.

'Trying to live a lie is horrible, whether gay or straight, for me was the saddest part of it all because it only caused immense pain to everyone involved,' she said.

'I have been myself to the fullest all except for when I came to my sexuality.'

The revelation has received almost 200 likes and messages of support from fans.

Nadine Dacosta commented: 'I don't care either way, it does not change the fact you are a brilliant artist...more power to you for saying it out loud even tho you owe nobody an explaination.'

Yvonne-Evie Blijden, another Facebook fan, wrote: 'You go girllll, proud of you 100%, been there. Coming out sets yourself free, so live and enjoy it's your life and only Jah can judge you.'

Jamaica is frequently described by human rights groups as one of the most homophobic places in the world.

Sex between men is punishable with up to 10 years in prison and Amnesty International has reported that violent abuse of LGBT people is common.

Watch King's hit song Shy Guy below:






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San Marino axes medieval law to let gay couples live together

in: http://www.gaystarnews.com/

The small country of San Marino is now giving visa access rights to gay couples, canceling an law dating back to the 16th century




San Marino now legally recognizes same-sex couples's right to live together after withdrawing a 16th century law against it.

Until yesterday (16 June), the small independent country in the north of Italy wouldn't give visa rights to gay men and women living together as a couple.

The removal of the medieval law by the Consiglio, San Marino’s parliament, is a long way short of partnership protection or marriage rights but is still an historic step forwards.

Michele Pazzini, secretary of the LGBT-San Marino association, said: ‘This is a little step towards the full recognition of same-sex couples.’

The visa question is a hot topic because many Italians ask for a visa to live in the small country in the hills of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna region, because of the very low taxation of the little republic.

But, until yesterday, the visa was not being given to same-sex couples formed by one local and one Italian.

The vote split the parliament, however, with 33 members wanting to lift the ban and 20 voting against.

The PDC party’s representative said: ‘As a party, we can not approve this new law. But every member of parliament has the right to vote in favour or against.'

By contrast all the left-wing parties voted in favor saying there were ‘against this medieval law.’

The law was as old as the small republic, and it has always been supported by San Marino’s authorities to control excessive immigration.

San Marino, 24 square miles, has the oldest constitution still in effect, dating back to the 16th century. It is one of the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of gross domestic product per person.

San Marino is considered to have a highly stable economy, with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, no national debt and a budget surplus.


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Brasil teve 278 assassinatos por homofobia em 2011, diz governo

in: http://noticias.terra.com.br/

Um levantamento realizado pela Secretaria de Direitos Humanos revelou que foram registrados ao menos 278 assassinatos relacionados à homofobia em 2011. Também foi constatada a ocorrência de 6.809 denúncias de violações aos direitos humanos de homossexuais durante o ano passado.

Parte do levantamento, ainda inédito, foi antecipada nesta quinta-feira, Dia Internacional da Cidadania LGBT (Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais), pela ministra Maria do Rosário. É a primeira vez que um órgão do governo federal divulga oficialmente números ligados à violação dos direitos dos homossexuais, identificados a partir de denúncias feitas aos serviços Disque Direitos Humanos (Disque 100), Central de Atendimento à Mulher (Ligue 180), de dados do Ministério da Saúde e por meio de notícias publicadas pela imprensa. Até agora, a principal fonte de informações sobre o assunto era o Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB), cujo último relatório, divulgado em abril deste ano, contabilizava 266 mortes violentas durante o ano passado.

O levantamento aponta que, na maioria dos casos de agressão (61,9%), o autor é alguém próximo à vítima, o que pode indicar um nível de intolerância em relação à homossexualidade. Cerca de 34% das vítimas pertencem ao gênero masculino; 34,5% ao gênero feminino, 10,6% travestis, 2,1% transexuais e 18,9% não informado. Foram identificadas ao menos 1.713 vítimas e 2.275 suspeitos.

O coordenador geral de Promoção dos Direitos LGBT da secretaria, Gustavo Bernades, disse que o fato de 49% das vítimas de homicídios serem travestis indica que este é um dos grupos mais vulneráveis à violência homofóbica, junto com os jovens negros. "Há também uma violência doméstica que nos preocupa muito, porque é difícil para o Estado interceder nestes casos. E a violência contra lésbicas também é pouco denunciada".

O levantamento mostrou ainda a existência de um grande número de casos em que a família rejeita os jovens que revelam sua orientação sexual. "Há, nestes casos, a violência dos pais que abandonam ou negligenciam seus filhos. Tudo isso demonstra que precisamos de políticas públicas de enfrentamento à homofobia, especialmente para os jovens, em particular para os jovens negros".

Pouco após divulgar os dados, a ministra anunciou a proposta de incentivar a criação de Comitês Estaduais de Enfrentamento à Homofobia. De acordo com Maria do Rosário, os comitês serão criados em parceria com governos estaduais, com o Conselho Federal de Psicologia e com outras organizações da sociedade civil.

Os grupos servirão para monitorar a implementação de políticas públicas, acompanhar ocorrências de violências homofóbicas, evitando a impunidade, e sensibilizar agentes públicos responsáveis por garantir os direitos do segmento. Também está em estudo a criação de um comitê nacional que se responsabilize por coordenar a ação dos demais comitês.

"É preciso compreender que um crime contra um homossexual atinge não só a pessoa, mas a família e a sociedade como um todo. É assim que nós sentimos no governo brasileiro", disse a ministra, adiantando que a proposta de criação dos comitês ainda está sendo desenhada e vai depender de parcerias. "Há uma vontade política inabalável do governo federal de constituir mecanismos que mobilizem a sociedade contra a violência homofóbica. Acreditamos que, com as parcerias, os recursos necessários não serão tão grandes. O principal valor investido será a mobilização permanente da sociedade", disse.

O presidente da Associação Brasileira de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais (ABGLT), Toni Reis, comemorou o anúncio da ministra em pleno Dia Internacional da Cidadania LGBT, mas lamentou os números do levantamento. "Este posicionamento político de estabelecer o comitê nacional e os estaduais é muito importante. Já vínhamos denunciando a situação, mas hoje temos um dado oficial. É o governo brasileiro quem está reconhecendo que houve 6.809 violações dos direitos humanos de pessoas homossexuais", disse Reis, prometendo que as associações não-governamentais irão apoiar qualquer proposta da Secretaria de Direitos Humanos que vise a combater a homofobia, sobretudo a criação dos comitês estaduais.

http://noticias.terra.com.br/

Today in LGBT History - June 28

June 28, 1969 – Stonewall Riots begin in New York City marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

Obama Pride

in: http://artdept.advocate.com/post/25877650055/obama-pride


A Brooklyn artist inspired by Obama's stance on marriage equality created this fractal-rainbow portrait:





http://artdept.advocate.com/post/25877650055/obama-pride

Cindy Lauper divulga projeto para atender jovens LGBT desabrigados

in: http://www.athosgls.com.br/

A cantora Cindy Lauper decidiu apostar em um novo projeto e lançou o Forty to None Project – um programa nacional com o objetivo de promover a educação contra a discriminação e dar suporte aos jovens LGBT desabrigados.

A ideia do projeto surgiu há cinco anos, quando a cantora fotografava um editorial para a revista Interview, em Nova York, e próximo a um píer, encontrou um grupo de jovens gays e transexuais sem teto por conta do preconceito da própria família.

De acordo com dados oficias do Governo, cerca de 1,6 milhão de jovens estão desabrigados nos Estados Unidos e, deste número, 40% deles se identificam como gays, lésbicas, bissexuais ou transgêneros.

Pelo projeto, além de promover a educação e a conscientização da população, jovens LGBT poderão contar com apoio jurídico em todas as esferas de Governo e serão incluídos em programas de apoio para que possam compartilhar as suas experiências com outros jovens e, ainda, terem acesso facilitado a uma rede de empregos. A princípio, o projeto deve ser executado apenas em território norte-americano, mas a cantora espera que a ideia seja copiada por outros países.

http://www.athosgls.com.br/

Facebook, Google, And Other Tech Companies Show Off Their Gay Pride (Pics)

in: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/25/tech-gay-pride/

Pride got high tech this weekend as thousands of employees from Google, Facebook, Electronic Arts, Zynga, and more celebrated to support equal rights for everyone. Parades in San Francisco and New York saw search engine, social network, and game developer logos decked out in rainbows as engineers danced in the streets.

Here’s a look at our favorite photos of tech companies representing at Pride…

Google tells me “We support our LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender] employees in a number of ways — in taking a stand on matters of policy, putting programs in place that support Gayglers (Gay Googlers) and their families, and hosting and sponsoring events and programs around the world to continue the discussion on equality.”

Over 400 Facebook employees marched down Market Street in San Francisco for Pride yesterday. I wondered if Facebook feared any backlash from conservative countries where it’s popular but tolerance is not. Slater Tow, a member of the Gay @ Facebook employees group assured me “Facebook very much supports diversity” but that its presence at Pride is “not a company led initiative. Its 100% employee driven.”

Both companies have been showing their support online too. Last year Facebook added civil unions and domestic partnerships as relationship status options, and the company won a GLAAD award this month. And just last week, Google added a PrideEaster egg to search, displaying a rainbow banner on results when you search for Gay, Lesbian, LGBT, NYC Gay Pride, or SF Gay Pride, or Gay Pride.

So now let’s check out the awesome photos. If your tech company has pics from Pride too, post them as Imgur links in the comments and I’ll add them in.

You didn’t have to search hard to find Google at Pride. It had almost 700 marchers in New York City and over 1,000 in San Francisco

With such a huge contingent, Google figured it’d bring a bus

…and a trolley in SF

Whose to say what gender the cute little Android robots are?

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Zynga shows how Words With Friends does Pride

Zynga’s dog logo gets rainbowed

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All the Electronics Arts characters supporting gay rights

EA is a sports game company after all

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Facebook brought a huge crew to San Francisco Pride

That looks like about 900 million, right?

Facebook decked out its team with special Pride shirts

And they weren’t shy about showing their colors

It is a social network after all, so Facebook had a DJ playing to the crowd as its trolley car drove through the parade

Because pride connects us

From atop SF’s Dolores Park, Facebook shows its support

That means equality even if you’re dressed up like Katy Perry

And even Facebook’s office got into the spirit, with its giant hack sign painted rainbow to show pride visible from space

[Thanks to Jason Agron, Chandler Abraham, and all the other photographers]

in: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/25/tech-gay-pride/

Today in LGBT History

June 26, 2011 - New York City’s gay pride parade turned into a carnival-like celebration of same-sex marriage as hundreds of thousands of revelers rejoiced at the state’s new law giving gay couples the same marital rights as everyone else.

Oreo Surprises 26 Million Facebook Fans With Gay Pride Post

in: http://www.adweek.com/

Oreo is widely known to be one of the most successful brands on Facebook, but tonight the brand proved it could be one of the boldest, too. 

Around 8 p.m. Eastern, Oreo posted a gay-pride-themed picture featuring a six-layer cookie colored like a rainbow, with “June 25” and the word “Pride.” 

The caption said “Proudly support love!” (The significance of the date is unclear, at least to me. San Francisco’s famous Gay Pride Parade was the 24th, as was the one-year anniversary of New York’s Marriage Equality Act.) 

The response among Oreo’s 26.9 million fans has been fiercely divided, with many commenting that they planned to stop purchasing Oreos. 

“I'm never eating Oreos again. This is just disgusting,” one commenter said. “Unliking page and the rest of the ‘kraft’ family products... i will not support a company with these views,” wrote another. 

But the post also drew a massive amount of support in the form of 14,800 shares and 87,000 Likes as of this writing. “I didn't think it was possible for me to love oreo's more than I already did!!” said one supportive fan. 

While there’s likely to be plenty of fallout for Oreo over this simple photo post, at least the brand has shown it’s not afraid to tackle a thornier issue than “Do you ever think of Oreo cookies when drinking milk?”

http://www.adweek.com/

HIDDEN AMONG YOU (LGBT, Short Documentary)

A short documentary created by LGBT community in Albania

In what do they believe; which are they dreams; what kind of fears do they have to face in each of their days; how do they encourage themselves and where do they find the courage to live "a hidden life among you"... But most of all, how strong is their love story, that feeling that makes them husband and husband, wife and wife till the death will separates them... 
Find it out for the first time, through the short documentary "Hidden among you".


Powered by Open Society Foundation for Albania SOROS. 
A film by Kristi Pinderi 
Scenario Erjon Tela & Megi Xharo 
Camera Ermir Begeja 
Editing Elton Baxhaku

Today in LGBT History

June 25, 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

EuroGames 2012 Budapest

EuroGames 2012 Budapest official song:

Rio de Janeiro se consolida como destino gay friendly no mundo

in: http://www.athosgls.com.br/


Segmento movimenta R$ 150 bilhões por ano. Estudo aponta que este público gasta três vezes mais que heterossexuais e permanece por um período maior na cidade

O Rio de Janeiro é hoje um dos principais destinos no mundo para o público LGBT. Segundo dados da Embratur, no ano de 2010, 890 mil pessoas participaram da Parada Gay realizada na cidade, número que representa 20% do total de visitantes ao Rio. De acordo com a Associação Brasileira de Turismo para Gays, Lésbicas e Simpatizantes (Abrat-GLS), o perfil movimenta R$ 150 bilhões por ano no Brasil.

O estudo aponta ainda que os LGBT gastam três vezes mais e permanecem 2,5 vezes mais tempo no Rio que os heterossexuais. Cada vez mais a cidade aposta em iniciativas para atender a demanda gerada por esse público. Uma pesquisa feita em parceria entre a Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing do Rio de Janeiro (ESPM-RJ) e a Secretaria da Diversidade Sexual do Rio durante a última Parada Gay, em 2011, mostrou que 2% dos turistas que estiveram no evento eram estrangeiros, 19%brasileiros e 79% da própria cidade. Destes, 46% chegaram de avião e 40% permaneceram hospedados em hotéis.

A análise comprova a preferência pelo Rio de Janeiro como destino para o turista LGBT. Dos entrevistados, 96% afirmaram que pretendem retornar à cidade. O gasto médio por pessoa durante o período de permanência é de R$ 577,00. Os dados foram apresentados ontem, dia 12, durante o III Fórum ABA Marketing In Rio Internacional.

Potencial de consumo

O público LGBT tem um potencial de consumo maior, por apresentar um estilo de vida diferente do heterossexual. "Na verdade, o que existe é uma forma diferente de utilização da renda. Como a maior parte deles não possui filhos, com a sobra da renda média mensal, gastam mais com viagens, roupas e lazer", explica Carlos Tufvesson, estilista e ex-coordenador Especial da Diversidade Sexual da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro, em entrevista ao Mundo do Marketing.

Para incentivar e fomentar o turismo, a cidade investe em iniciativas para atender este visitante e uma das principais foi a própria criação da Coordenadoria Especial da Diversidade Sexual, no ano passado, que promove cursos de capacitação sobre a Lei de Direitos Civis e Humanos para donos e funcionários de estabelecimentos comerciais, entre outras ações.

"O mercado vem mudando timidamente para atender o LGBT. O curso ensina a tratar bem as pessoas, indiferente da sua orientação sexual, e isso acaba repercutindo para todos. Apesar de o Rio ser o principal destino para o turista LGBT, a cidade ainda é carente de locais específicos", completou Tufvesson ao Portal.

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Identificação

Uma das principais ofertas reprimidas é a de pontos de lazer voltados a este público, já que o Rio de Janeiro é considerado um dos principais destinos "gay friendly" em todo o mundo, ficando hoje equiparado a cidades como Tel Aviv, Paris e Londres. "Quando falo em criar locais específicos para o LGBT, não me refiro a hotéis ou restaurantes, porque isso está mais ligado ao gosto pessoal do que à orientação sexual de cada um. Mas me refiro a detalhes, a uma balada, por exemplo, voltada para as tribos urbanas. O Rio não dispõe disso hoje e quem fizer, com certeza, terá sucesso", diz Tufvesson.

Outra pesquisa, a Out of Now Global, realizada em 2010, traçou o perfil dos consumidores LGBT brasileiros, que já representam 10% da população. De acordo com os dados, 32% estão na faixa entre 18 e 24 anos, enquanto 35% estão entre 25 e 34 anos de idade. Este público representa nove milhões de consumidores em potencial e, destes, 80% realizaram compras online nos três meses que antecederam o levantamento, 50% jantam fora do domicílio mais de uma vez na semana e 50% estiveram hospedados em hotéis quatro estrelas nos 12 meses anteriores, números similares aos dos Estados Unidos e Reino Unido.

"Trata-se de um público que se identifica com a atmosfera do Rio de Janeiro. O que trabalhamos é a experiência de ser carioca. O mercado ainda não percebeu que a palavra hoje é identificação. Para as pessoas que têm uma vida agitada, a humanização não tem preço. Ficar sob o sol, na praia de Ipanema, de Havaianas e tomando água de coco é único", explica o estilista. 

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Rainbows and gay pride: How the rainbow became a symbol of the GLBT movement

in: http://www.slate.com/

Each color of the rainbow "gay pride" flag was designed with a specific significance in mind

Jonathan Nackstrand/Getty Images.

Streets around the world will be decked in rainbows this week as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community celebrates LGBT Pride Month. Why is gay pride represented by rainbows?

Closeted gay people historically used bright colors to signal their homosexuality to each other. 

Oscar Wilde was famous for wearing a trademark green carnation on his lapel, and the flower is thought to have been used by him and other Londoners and Parisians of the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries to quietly express their orientation. 

Novelist Robert Hitchens described the phenomenon in 1894’s The Green Carnation, and the book in part spurred Wilde’s trial for sodomy. Yellow was used for the same purpose in Australia. 

According to the book Sunshine and Rainbows, a study of gay culture in Queensland, “If you wanted to attract the attention of the same sex, displaying a pair of bright yellow socks often did the trick.” 

During the Holocaust, gay men were forced to wear pink triangles, and that symbol has since been reclaimed by the gay community. 

Purple also became a popular symbol of gay pride in the 1960s and 1970s, when San Franciscans tried to make a symbol of “the Purple Hand” and gay Bostonians put up posters emblazoned with a purple rhino.

The rainbow, however, wasn’t popularized as an official symbol of the gay community until the 1970s. 

In 1978, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed what is believed to be the first modern gay pride flag by combining eight stripes, each a different color with its own symbolism: pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, blue for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for the human spirit. 

When he wanted to manufacture the flag for sale, he found that hot pink wasn’t as available as the other colors, and so the flag dropped to seven colors. 

Baker later dropped indigo to maintain an even number, and the flag arrived at its contemporary six colors. When San Francisco gay activists marched to protest the 1978 assassination of city supervisor Harvey Milk, they marched with Baker’s flags.

Of course, rainbows and rainbow flags carry significance outside the LGBT community. The rainbow is an important symbol in the Bible, representing a promise of peace from God to Noah, and some Christian groups have used that symbol in their iconography. 

The German anti-Lutheran leader Thomas Müntzer flew a rainbow flag during the Peasant Warin an effort to show that God was on his movement’s side. 

Hippies sometimes used a rainbow flag when marching for peace in the 1960s and 1970s, which may have helped inspire Baker’s design.

Pop culture also gave the rainbow resonance with gay activists, perhaps because of Judy Garland and her signature song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” 

Garland was a major star to the gay community throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Gay men came out in droves for her performances, and, from World War II forward, many in the LGBT community referred to themselves as “friends of Dorothy,” a phrase that seems to have derived from Garland’s performance in The Wizard of Oz. 

The pivotal riots at the Stonewall Inn occurred just hours after Garland’s funeral, and her death may have helped provoke the unrest. 

Garland had earlier bragged, “When I die I have visions of fags singing ‘Over the Rainbow’ and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.” 

Garland died in 1969, before the popularization of the modern LGBT flag, but some Fire Island houses were reportedly draped in black.

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Invitation to the 3rd Hungarian LGBT Business & Human Rights Forum [EuroGames 2012]

he Hungarian LGBT Business Network and FRIGO presents

3rd Hungarian LGBT Business & Human Rights Forum

28 – 29 June 2012 (Thursday – Friday), Venue: Dürlin Eventshall (H-1146, Budapest, Ajtósi Dürer sor 19-21.)

INVITATION & PROGRAM

WORTH TO VISIT FOR: Directors, CSR- HR- marketing- and public relations professionals, governmental and non-governmental organizations' representatives, and everybody who feels the importance of the topic.

FORUM TOPICS

Since the event will be part of the EuroGames which will host several thousand guests from all over Europe, the conference will highlight the importance of the contribution made by the European LGBT community to the business community as well as to the sports.

Due to the diversity of participants we expect the conference to ad great value to the exchange of ideas and best practices from different parts of the world, innovative ideas and schemes that can be implemented in Hungary and other EU countries as well.

We would also like to share our local experience of the past 3 years, challenges as well as successes, in working with corporate, SMEs as well as civil organisations.

The games are expected to attract over 6 thousand athletes from all over the world, we expect the conference to attract around 200 high profile stakeholders thus the promotion of diversity and inclusion at the workplace and in the business community through sports competitions and other similar public events will be the leading theme of the conference.

During the 1st Hungarian LGBT Business Leader Forum (http://tiny.cc/bbz1fw) held on May 20th and 21st, 2010 at the Central European University; as well on the 2nd Hungarian LGBT Business & Human Rights Forum (http://tiny.cc/7xz1fw) held on June 16th 2011 at British Embassy in Budapest; it became obvious that there is a great need for professional discussion and awareness raising on the topic of LGBT business andhuman rights development within the business/employer community.

The conference is bilingual, simultaneous Hungarian-English translation will be provided.

Please be aware on the event video recording is not permitted.

The event is free of charge, but advance registration is required: we can guarantee the participation only for the 150 applicants! 

Please fill out the registration form online: http://tiny.cc/jhg0fw

WARNING! We can accept only those who will receive our confirmation on June 26th 2012.

PROGRAM 1st Day (28 June 2012)

o9:oo – 1o:oo Registration Coffee (Pastry)

1o:oo – 1o:3o Greetings, Opening Speech

British Embassy Budapest, Theresa Bubbear, Deputy Head of Mission

Hungarian LGBT Business Network, Adrian Balaci, Project Manager

1o:3o – 12:oo LGBT Diversity Policies at IBM

IBM, Marijn Pijnenburg, Business Development Executive for Diversity and LGBT in Europe, Middle East and Africa

12:oo – 12:45 LGBT Inclusion Policy Best Practice at Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley, Tophe Farney, Vice President in Bank Resource Management

12:45 – 14:oo Lunch Break Media (Question and Interview Time)

14:oo – 14:3o The Business Case for Supporting LGBT Events like the EuroGames 2012

Generali-Providencia Insurance Ltd., Judit Demjén, Senior Sales Specialist

14:3o – 15:3o Pink and Green Money

FRIGO (Organizer of EuroGames 2012), Richárd Kupecz, Economic Expert

15:3o – 16:3o Network Coffee (Pastry)

2o:oo – 22:oo Dinner for our Speakers and Sponsors

PROGRAM 2nd Day (29 June 2012)

o9:oo – 1o:oo Registration Coffee (Pastry)

1o:oo – 1o:3o Past, Present and Future

Hungarian LGBT Business Network, Adrian Balaci, Project Manager

10:3o – 11:oo LGBT Networks in Austria, Lessons Learned

agpro (austrian gay professionals), Hannes Heissl, Sociologist and Adviser for Corporate Banking

11:oo – 12: oo 1st Roundtable: LGBT Resource Groups and Business Networks

Moderator: Hungarian LGBT Business Network, Ferenc Mucsi, Public Relations Expert

Participants:

IBM, Veronika Blum, Second Delegate of IBM's GLBT workgroup (EAGLE) in Hungary

IBM, Gergely Füzesi, Country Leader of IBM's GLBT workgroup (EAGLE) in Hungary

Morgan Stanley, Éva Bresztyenszky, Executive Director of HR

Morgan Stanley, Tophe Farney, Vice President in Bank Resource Management

agpro (austrian gay professionals), Hannes Heissl, Sociologist and Adviser for Corporate Banking

12:oo – 13:oo Lunch Break

13:oo – 14:oo 2nd Roundtable: LGBT Marketing and Tourism

Moderator: Hungarian LGBT Business Network, Ádám Schlenker, Researcher

Preliminary LGBT Marketing Research Results conducted by the Hungarian LGBT Business Network, Ádám Schlenker)

Participants:

Out Now, Ian Johnson, Founder of Out Now

VISITBRUSSELS, Frederic Boutry, Gay market advisor

visitBerlin, Ralf Ostendorf, Director Marketmanagement

14:oo – 15:oo 3rd Roundtable: Strength to strength – empowering the LGBT employees with coaching and supervision

Moderator: Self Consulting Human Kft., Márton Mányai, Founder

Participants:

Andrea Ritter PhD, clinical psychologist, mediator

Kriszta Hoffmann, Social Worker – Human Rights Trainer and Supervisor

15:oo – 16:oo Closing Network Coffee (Pastry)

19:oo – 21:oo EuroGames VIP Reception (Speakers and Sponsors)