Clark Government Center - a signal that the county’s Pride celebration “includes everyone, especially L.G.B.T.Q.+ people of color and the trans community,” Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. Miami-Dade County also raised its first Progress Pride flag at the Stephen P. “Today we celebrate love,” she said on Twitter. “We proudly stand in solidarity and allyship with the LGBTQ+ community,” she said on Twitter.Īnd on June 14, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland raised the Progress Pride flag for the first time over her department. people of color, as well as pink, white and light blue, meant to represent transgender and nonbinary people. The Progress Pride flag - a modification of the traditional Pride flag - adds to the familiar rainbow field a chevron of black and brown stripes, meant to represent L.G.B.T.Q. Prague's gay community had asked our embassy for help with their first-ever Pride celebration, including a parade. Granholm flew the Progress Pride flag for the first time over the department. On June 2, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M.
^ seattle.First Progress Pride flags over federal buildings."Philanthropists ensure gay community's future". ^ Ustinova, Anastasia (March 31, 2008)."Seattle man who helped launch Microsoft left $65M for gay rights". ^ "Pride Foundation, Rick Weiland leaves $65 million to support Gay Rights and HIV/AIDS Organizations" (PDF).Changing corporate America from inside out: lesbian and gay workplace rights. The Economist Events is about to host a global 24-hour event exploring LGBT diversity and inclusion as a business priority On March 23, 2017, The Economist Events will host its second-annual Pride and Prejudice Summit, a 24-hour event spanning three cities, Hong Kong, London and New York, that will catalyse a fresh global discussion on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) diversity. ^ Gary Atkins, Gay Seattle: stories of exile and belonging.^ "Greater Seattle Business Association | Scholarships".^ "Pride Foundation scholarship deadline is Jan.^ Pride Foundation, Scholarships overview.On December 10, 2009, the Foundation was given a Seattle Human Rights Award for its advocacy for the LGBT community. Weiland, one of the first five people to work at Microsoft, was a Foundation Board member for several years. The CIA held a gay pride event at its headquarters near Washington this week.
Through his estate, Weiland established a fund at the Pride Foundation that will provide $46 million over the next eight years to 10 national LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations that he personally selected and $19 million directly to Pride Foundation for their scholarships and grants supporting the Northwest's LGBT community. A new commercial for McDonalds in France is generating a tremendous amount. 2006) had bequeathed $65 million to support gay rights and HIV/AIDS organizations - the largest-ever single bequest for the LGBT community. On February 24, 2008, Pride Foundation announced that former Microsoft employee Ric Weiland (d. In March 2000, the initiative convinced General Electric to include orientation in both its policy and its diversity training program. In 1995, the Foundation was part of a shareholder proxy initiative which convinced McDonald's Corporation to extend its non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation. The Foundation's first president was Allan Tonning, a small businessman who donated $1.2 million, dying just a year after helping set up the organization.