Tech/Science

If you were to look at Suzy Patz, you wouldn’t initially be intimidated - small stature, a big smile on her face - but if you knew what she’s been through, what she’s overcome, and what she’s doing now, you...

A new class of emojis will be making their debut on smartphones this year including the long-awaited transgender flag and symbol. The iconic pink, white and blue trans pride flag emoji and the trans symbol emoji are two of the...

Just in time for Pride Month, the transportation company, Lyft, has announced new initiatives and product features as part of its ongoing commitment to inclusivity and the St. Louis LGBTQ+ community. Lyft's ride-sharing app will now provide inclusive gender pronoun...

Tech giant Google pulled a controversial app from its store, late Thursday, that championed the widely-condemned practice of “ex-gay therapy.” The move comes after 140,000 people signed a Change.org petition pressuring Google to pull the app, as well as a...

The president of Grindr, Scott Chen, has come under fire because of a personal Facebook post he made late last week. In the post, it is insinuated that his belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman. ...

In a significant move, Twitter has changed its rules to prohibit misgendering and deadnaming — i.e., deliberately referring to a trans* person with the wrong pronouns or using their pre-transition name, PinkNews reports. The change happened in late October, but...

The social media platform Facebook has launched a new function letting members of the LGBTQ community mark and celebrate their coming out stories, NBC News reports. Accordingly, Facebook users can now add "came out" as one of their life events...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - LaunchCode is starting the "Code With Pride" networking group to engage and support members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies who work in the tech industry in the St. Louis area. A "Code With Pride"...

Aflilias, the operator of the .LGBT (dot LGBT) domain registry, announced on Sunday the launch of the .LGBT Pride Program in celebration of two recent victories for LGBT equality: the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all...

LOS ANGELES, Ca — Here Media, the world’s leading LGBT media company, today launched the new social entertainment network Pride.com, a content and conversation destination where pride belongs to everyone. Pride.com gives millennials new tools to amplify their digital voices,...

#Boom Magazine is proud to partner with four pioneer companies around the world in launching the first-of-its-kind lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) specific top level domain (TLD). Whether fostering community or advocating for equality, visibility remains key - and...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has named Megan Smith, a Google executive and former CEO of the online LGBT community site PlanetOut, as chief technology officer in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Smith, who is openly gay, will...

AMSTERDAM — A professor of neurobiology at Amsterdam University claims that factors ranging from taking synthetic hormones to suffering stress during pregnancy can increase the likelihood that a child will be born gay. In his controversial new book, “We...