Are 'The Gap' Stor Named for 'Gay and Proud'? |

Contents:

• BALENCIAGA REWORKS THE INIC GAP LOGO, MAK IT GAY TO CELEBRATE PRI
• THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
• ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?
• REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH
• NO, GAP DON'T STAND FOR "GAY & PROUD," BUT THE SCHOOLYARD TNT STILL FOLLOWS ME TODAY
• NO, GAP DON'T STAND FOR "GAY & PROUD," BUT THE SCHOOLYARD TNT STILL FOLLOWS ME TODAY
• ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?

BALENCIAGA REWORKS THE INIC GAP LOGO, MAK IT GAY TO CELEBRATE PRI

Gap, the inic Amerin cultural brand, today announc a creative mpaign and llectn that celebrat 2019 Pri Month, honorg the diversy of the LGTBQIA+ muny and Jodie Patterson’s chosen fay, and clus a partnership wh the Uned Natns Foundatn and UN Free & Equal, a mpaign of the UN Human Rights Office to promote equal rights and fair treatment for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people globally. The four artists—Serge Gay Jr., Andy Bellomo, Parisa Parnian, and Mars Ch—e fashn as a form of exprsn, wh style playg an important role each artist’s life, both profsnally and personally.

In honor of PRIDE, Athleta is partnerg wh the Women’s Sports Foundatn to donate $50, 000 om the Power of She Fund to Athlete Ally, an anizatn dited to endg homophobia and transphobia and champng LGBTQIA+ equaly sport.

GAP clothg store logo at storeont nverted the Gay Pri lor schemeGetty. In few ways is this measure as effective as the workplace: A recent Glassdoor survey nducted by The Harris Poll reveals that 53% of LGBTQ employe (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng) have experienced or wnsed anti-LGBTQ ments by -workers.

THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS

The $32-billn beverage and snack foods brand operat an LGBTQA Bs Rource Group (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng and asexual), operatn for almost 15 years, and was among the first pani to support new U.N. Standards for LGBTI (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex) rights.

Gap has anized a group wh the pany lled GEAR — Gay Employe, Alli and Rourc — dited to creatg an clive and supportive environment for s LGBTQ employe. When a pany’s CEO is gay, you n expect opens s arms to all members of the LGBTQ muny, and Apple has done so sce long before appotg Tim Cook.

ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?

The creative featur notable nam such as pneerg trans nway mol, Connie Flemg; founr of Born Perfect Foundatn, dited to fightg to end gay nversn therapy, Mathew Shurka; former InStyle EIC, wrer, and founr of ABBAPAPA, a parentg newsletter,  Ariel Foxman and his hband, tor Brandon Cart-Hernanz; fashn signer, creative director, and food enthiast, Peter Som; artist, activist and tor, Bradley Miller; chef and thor, Angela Dimayuga. Balenciaga, the luxury fashn label, has put a sp on the popular in and ma ‘GAY’ to celebrate queer dividuals. What once stood as a middle-school tnt – many kids were bullied for wearg Gap hoodi as they claimed stood for ‘Gay And Proud’ (the name isn’t actually an acronym though) has now bee so ol that a brand as big as Balenciaga is embracg .

The ‘GAY’ brand cloth were first seen Balenciaga’s Pre-Fall 2021 llectn, but are beg released early a psule llectn honour of Pri Month. A study that suggts straight men outnumber gay men might be easily dismissed as “no duh.

REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH

NEW YORK, NY: Marchers and spectators high-fivg each other durg the Gay Pri March on June 30,... A 2019 Gallup poll showed that most Amerin adults believe that almost one four of is eher gay or lbian. A study published by Statista 2017 termed that about only one 100 Amerin women, and two 100 Amerin men, intify as gay: Put another way, that’s 1% of the U.

2% of all Amerin men are gay. For the first time, rearchers have nfirmed another gap exists, this one impactg gay, lbian and bisexual people studyg and workg STEM. Ten days ago, Vanrbilt Universy announced two enomists had nclud that gay men same-sex upl are 12% ls likely to have a STEM-related bachelor’s gree than straight and bisexual men whose partners were women.

The enomists found that the sexual orientatn gap between straight and gay men is greater than the STEM racial divi, a 4-pot dispary between Black men and whe men.

NO, GAP DON'T STAND FOR "GAY & PROUD," BUT THE SCHOOLYARD TNT STILL FOLLOWS ME TODAY

When there are more women STEM occupatns, they found, there are also more gay men those same occupatns.

Among those same-sex upl, 1, 213 self-intified as lbian or gay women, 1, 524 self-intified as gay men, 1, 113 women and 426 men self-intified as bisexual.

NO, GAP DON'T STAND FOR "GAY & PROUD," BUT THE SCHOOLYARD TNT STILL FOLLOWS ME TODAY

” When asked about the total absence of data regardg transgenr people — given that someone who is trans also n be gay, lbian, bisexual, asexual, poly, pan or any sexual orientatn, Carpenter had this to say:. Sansone wrote their paper that this fdg suggts that the factors that perpetuate the very large genr gap STEM fields — “heteropatriarchy, implic and explic bias, sexual harassment, unequal accs to fundg, and fewer speakg vatns” — are related to this newly intified gap STEM fields between gay men and heterosexual men. He also nclud that misperceptns of all gay men as feme and all lbians as mascule ntribute to the sexual orientatn gap:.

(NYSE: GPS) and the Uned Natns Foundatn will once aga partner durg Pri Month June to raise awarens and funds for UN Free & Equal, a global mpaign of the Uned Natns Human Rights Office to promote equal rights and fair treatment for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) people globally. The global mpaign aims to w rpect, regnn, and acceptance for the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people around the world. The clothg store cha The Gap took s name om an acronym for 'Gay and Proud.

Ak to the Troop Sport ("To Rule Over Opprsed People") and Adidas ("All Day I Dream About Sex") nards, the mor about The Gap asserts that drew s name om an ializatn of the phrase "Gay And Proud":.

ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?

Yterday, I heard this one: The GAP was started by a gay man and the name means Gay And Proud. Although The Gap did beg San Francis, a cy home to a large homosexual populatn and strongly associated wh gay pri, s name has nothg to do wh eher of those cint facts. "Gay and proud" beme a tchphrase wh the gay muny bee proclaimed a posively-voiced manner that s members took pri who they were rather than feelg ashamed of their liftyle.

It wasn't that long ago that ncealg all evince of a same-sex preference was the orr of the day, and the phrase "Gay and proud" th reprented a major shift how a muny viewed both self and the value of s dividual members society. (It's one thg to wave a "Gay and Proud" sign if you know you're holdg , but que another to fd one has been pned to your back whout your knowledge. Even the most gay-sympathetic person might take umbrage at that.

Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group is sug the unty that allegedly seized s gay pri watch, acrdg to multiple reports.