16th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey Now Open!
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The 16th annual LGBTQ community survey is now open through May 31.
The survey is the largest annual survey of its kind, yielding up to 45,000 participants from 150 countries around the world. Participants offer insights into the LGBTQ community that companies and brands then use to understand and include the LGBTQ community as a viable market segment. For over a decade, this survey has provided free data to help non-profits, universities, media, organizations, and businesses better understand and serve the LGBTQ community. The report will be published on the CMI website for free download.
Everyone who completes the survey by May 31 may enter into a drawing to win one of twenty US $50 gift e-card prizes or donate your prize to an LGBTQ charity of your choice. To participate in the survey, visit our website thegavoice.com. On the optional last question, please remember to choose Georgia Voice.
Atlanta Women’s Chorus to Explore the Meaning of Home in Upcoming Show
The Atlanta Women’s Chorus (AWC) will perform “Finding Home” on Saturday, April 30 at Grace United Methodist Church (458 Ponce de Leon Ave NE).
“’Finding Home’ captures the many concepts of what home is to individuals,” said Melissa Arasi, artistic director of the Atlanta Women’s Chorus. “Wherever you find it and whoever it involves, home is the place where your heart is at rest. Whether you are running away from ‘home,’ coming back to ‘home,’ or searching for ‘home,’ it will always be a special place for you.”
Musical selections at this performance will prove to be powerful and touch on many different emotions and topics surrounding the concept of “home.” The AWC will premiere “Boxes” by Catherine Dalton, which celebrates differences and those who are trying to find home. Other songs run the range of “home,” Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” to choral pieces “No Time” and “Nine Hundred Miles” — and Broadway favorites like “Corner of the Sky” and “Home” from The Wiz.
Additionally, the Atlanta Women’s Chorus is partnering with Families First, an organization that has been providing support to vulnerable families in the Atlanta area for 130 years. The AWC is working directly with Families First to collect monetary and item donations for their Second Chance Home, which offers housing and support services for homeless and DFCS-involved teen mothers between the ages of 13 and 19.
To purchase tickets, visit voicesofnote.org.
Grenell Bragged to Jared Kushner About Decriminalization Initiative: Emails
Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who was the face of LGBTQ outreach for former President Trump, bragged to Jared Kushner about a major German company’s endorsement of the Trump administration’s global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality, suggesting the former White House adviser had a greater role or interest than previously known.
The latest emails obtained by the Washington Blade from its Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit against the State Department, which was filed by attorneys at Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP and seeks Grenell’s emails related to the initiative, includes the communication from Grenell to Kushner.
“Huge” says Grenell simply in the email to Kushner forwarding a tweet from Daimler AG, now known as the Mercedes-Benz Group, in support of decriminalization at a time when Grenell was working in Germany to build support for the initiative.
It’s unclear why Grenell sought to engage with Kushner on the initiative, nor whether Kushner offered any response. No reply from Kushner is included in the emails obtained by the Blade, although such a response could come in a further email production under the FOIA lawsuit or may have happened offline.
The message, however, is consistent with the perception that Kushner and Ivanka Trump were among the players in the Trump administration who supported LGBTQ rights, privately pushing to include that in President Trump’s agenda and resisting efforts to roll back LGBTQ rights.
Grenell didn’t respond to a request for comment from the Blade on why he emailed Kushner about the initiative. Kushner couldn’t be reached for comment, although the Blade sought to contact him through his private equity firm, Affinity Partners.