LGBT Community Survey

Submitted by ONE Community on May 15, 2013 - 12:00am
LGBT Community Survey

We would like to invite you to take a new survey about your opinions and preferences, from an LGBT perspective. 

There's power in our Pride! Participating in this study helps open minds and doors around the world, and influences positive changes for our community. Previous surveys have yielded 45,000 respondents from 148 countries! You may have seen CMI research quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, etc. 

Click here to start the survey. Read more »

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ONE Community Multicultural Networking Forum

LGBT buying power is estimated at $790 billion dollars this year.  Join ONE Community as we celebrate diversity at the Multicultural Networking Forum.  The ONE Community Multicultural Networking Forum is dedicated to bringing LGBT and allied businesses professionals together to celebrate diversity, build new business networking opportunities and create stronger business and personal relationships.

Pre-sale tickets are just $10.00 and $15.00 the day of the event.

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Change Agent Introductions during First Monday at Hotel Palomar

Location

Hotel Palomar
2 E Jefferson St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
See map: Google Maps

The CHANGE AGENT Program was designed to give you—our present and future business leaders—the tools you need to spread the word about UNITY Pledge.  The time commitment is minimal.  Our four-week program involves three after-work meetings, which all double as an opportunity for you to meet like-minded individuals and share your business, i.e., network!  The three meetings for our next CHANGE AGENT Program will be held on the following dates:

Introductions (Hotel Palomar—Downtown Phoenix)

June 3, 2013, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.

“Field Assignments” (Tiffany & Bosco, P.A.—Biltmore Area)

June 17, 2013, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Read more »

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New Smartphone App BUYCOTT Lets You Boycott The Koch Brothers and Support Pro LGBT Companies

Submitted by ONE Community on May 19, 2013 - 8:32pm
New Smartphone App BUYCOTT Lets You Boycott The Koch Brothers and Support Pro LGBT Companies

Last year former Microsoft programmer and congressional candidate Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea at Netroots Nation.  The creation of a smartphone app that would allow shoppers to swipe barcodes to check whether conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch were behind a product on the shelves.

But what Burner didn’t realize at the time is that a group of developers was hard at work on Buycott, an even more sophisticated version of the smartphone app she proposed. Read more »

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Duke University Press' Transgender Studies Quarterly To Publish In 2014

Submitted by ONE Community on May 19, 2013 - 8:22pm
Duke University Press' Transgender Studies Quarterly To Publish In 2014

Dr. Susan Stryker (University of Arizona) and Dr. Paisley Currah (CUNY-Brooklyn) are collaborating with Duke University Press to bring forth TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a groundbreaking interdisciplinary academic journal which will debut next year.

Stryker and Currah will serve as co-editors, while Duke University Press serves as the publisher. The two professors first collaborated back in 2008 as co-editors of a special transgender studies edition of Women's Studies Quarterly. After receiving over 200 submissions for the publication and only being able to publish 12, they realized how important it was for transgender studies to have its own high-profile publications domain. Read more »

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An executive order could end LGBT discrimination in contracts

Submitted by ONE Community on May 17, 2013 - 11:14am
An executive order could end LGBT discrimination in contracts

President Obama’s continuing popularity among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans is due in large part to major accomplishments of his first term:overturning the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, abandoning support for the so-called Defense of Marriage Act in court and his personal backing for marriage equality, which he announced a year ago this month.

Obama has also supported LGBT rights in other, more indirect ways, including by appointing more “out” LGBT individuals to political office than all previous presidents combined; I was, proudly, one of them. Read more »

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Mountain Park is soliciting for Proposals to provide janitorial services

Submitted by ONE Community on May 17, 2013 - 11:08am
Mountain Park is soliciting for Proposals to provide janitorial services

Mountain Park Health Center (MPHC) is a federally funded primary healthcare facility with five locations serving the metropolitan Phoenix area.  With 200,000 medical encounters per year and 55,000 patients, we have built a reputation for providing affordable primary care in medically underserved communities for the last 30 years.

The janitorial services for our clinics are an integral piece of our ability to provide quality healthcare to our patients.  Mountain Park is soliciting for Proposals to provide janitorial services for our locations listed below:

·     Baseline – 635 E. Baseline Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85042

·     Maryvale – 6601 W. Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85033 Read more »

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Int’l Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia observed around the globe

Submitted by ONE Community on May 17, 2013 - 10:00am
Int’l Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia observed around the globe

LGBT rights advocates and allies will observe the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (or IDAHO) in more than 100 countries around the world on Friday.

First recognized in 2004, IDAHO commemorates the May 17, 1990 decision by the World Health Organization that decategorized homosexuality as a mental disorder, and aims to coordinate international events that raise awareness of LGBT rights violations and stimulate interest in LGBT rights advocacy.

In 76 countries around the world, same-sex relationships are still considered illegal and punishable by jail, fines and in some countries, lifetime imprisonment. In seven countries, a conviction is punishable by death. Read more »

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