GAY TIMES appots Lewis Corner as Edorial Director

Contents:

• GAY TIM ANNOUNC NEW CEO REFLECTN OF CHANGG MEDIA LANDSPE
• FOUNR OF GAY TIMES MAGAZE, CHRIS GRAHAM-BELL, PASS AWAY
• GAY TIMES CEO TAG WARNER NAMED ON PRTIG FORB 30 UNR 30 LIST
• 12 BIGGT COMPANI WH GAY CEOS
• GAY TIMES APPOTS LEWIS CORNER AS EDORIAL DIRECTOR
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
• WHERE ARE THE GAY CHIEF EXECUTIV?
• GAY TIM AND THE POWER OF LGBTQ+ VISIBILY
• TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’
• ANTI-PAYWALL GAY TIM CEO UNVEILS MEMBERSHIP SCHEME AMID RONAVIS

GAY TIM ANNOUNC NEW CEO REFLECTN OF CHANGG MEDIA LANDSPE

Wh diversy, reprentatn and clivy of the entire LGBTQ muny now formg the very fibre of our brand missn, Gay Tim has evolved to bee far more than solely a magaze, and is now a leadg LGBTQ media brand wh the largt social dience of any queer publitn the world. Utilisg his past experience nsultg large rporate and ctomer facg brands on strategy, brand experience and diversy and cln, Warner has bee the youngt person to be named CEO of Gay Tim, and is expertly placed to gui the pany to the most excg era s history. A past Chairman of the Gay Bs Associatn and member of the Natnal Advisory Group on police liaison wh the gay and lbian muny, Chris was given the 1995 Bryan Kennedy Award for signifint ntributn to the gay muny.

FOUNR OF GAY TIMES MAGAZE, CHRIS GRAHAM-BELL, PASS AWAY

The Tst was set up to promote equaly and diversy the UK and to help elimate discrimatn on the grounds of sexual orientatn, promote equal rights and awarens, and better unrstandg of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy.

Arnall also oversaw the velopment of their new munitns functn cludg a partnership wh GAY TIMES that allows var ambassadors to wre about their experienc, om g out as trans to Mlim parents to the lack of support for LGBTQ+ people schools. In the say, he wrote: “If hearg that the CEO of Apple is gay n help someone stgglg to e to terms wh who he or she is, or brg fort to anyone who feels alone, or spire people to sist on their equaly, then ’s worth the traoff wh my own privacy. In addn to stillg an LGBTQ+-iendly pany culture, Gente clud a give-back program to raise funds and awarens for the Trevor Project—the world’s largt suici preventn and crisis terventn anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng young people.

GAY TIMES CEO TAG WARNER NAMED ON PRTIG FORB 30 UNR 30 LIST

12 Biggt Compani wh Gay CEOs Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us S&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 12 Biggt Compani wh Gay CEOsIn this article we are gog to list the 12 biggt pani wh gay CEOs. You n learn more about the untri if you vis the 15 most dangero pani for gay said that, there are still many well-known Chief Executive Officers who me out as gay and beme a source of spiratn for the young generatn belongg to the LBGT muny.

However, even pani which are said to be gay-iendly such as Co Cola (NYSE:KO) or General Motors (NYSE:GM) Now, if you search for the biggt pani wh gay CEOs, other than Apple and a few others, there are few proper lists. GLAADName of CEO: Sarah Kate EllisTotal revenue of the pany 2019: $16 lnGLAAD (Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn) is a media monorg anizatn that is famo for takg a strong stance agast the biased and rogatory reprentatn of LGBT.

12 BIGGT COMPANI WH GAY CEOS

Land O’LakName of CEO: Beth FordTotal revenue of the pany 2019: $14 BBeth Ford beme the CEO of Land O’Lak 2018 and is the first openly-gay female CEO of a pany that is a part of Fortune 500. When he joed GAY TIMES om Hearst Magaz UK 2017 he revigorated to an dtry-leadg platform that regnised and reacted to what our dience was llg out for; diverse ntent for a diverse dience. Far om an exclively prt mpaign, the issue cid wh the lnch of GAY TIMES as a curator on Apple Mic, providg LGBTQ-foced playlists to spotlight the wealth of queer mic talent that is out there.

This veloped to a groundbreakg llaboratn wh Apple Mic throughout Pri season – the first major iative wh an LGBTQ anisatn of s nature – and culmated Elevate: an iative to platform emergg LGBTQ artists wh the bed mcle of both GAY TIMES and Apple Mic.

GAY TIMES APPOTS LEWIS CORNER AS EDORIAL DIRECTOR

“Beg part of a team that has tly transformed GAY TIMES to a morn media anisatn, 12 months ago I set out to troduce the brand to new dienc through novative and excg new ntent channels, ” says Corner. Tag Warner adds: “While many major players are matag var tradnal approach, GAY TIMES ntu to be uniquely posned to lead high-qualy LGBTQ media across prt, digal and social platforms 80+ untri around the world.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Corner will lead at the GAY TIMES Group level, workg alongsi strategy, ntent creatn and productn teams to create world-class LGBTQ media an unparalleled end-to-end client offerg for leadg brands. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well.

(“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny. One bsman on this list med that there are still many gay executiv who keep their personal liv private, but predicted that more openly gay men and women will steer more pani the future. He wrote about his sexualy Time, sayg he has been openly gay as long as he has been bs, and that the greater visibily of high-performg gay CEOs n help fight discrimatn agast gays and lbians the BrowneFormer Chief Executive of Brish Petrolm Lord Imag The former chief of BP abptly rigned after the Brish tabloid The Mail exposed a relatnship Browne had wh a young man who had once been a male prostute, acrdg to the BBC.

He has lled for a more clive BurgsBurgs is CEO of the Florida-based vtment bank C1 Fancial, makg him the first openly gay CEO of a bank listed on the New York Stock Exchange, acrdg to Out ThielPeter ThielAdam Jeffery | CNBC Thiel is one of Silin Valley's most signifint vtors and entreprenrs. Christopher BaileyChristopher Bailey attends the Serpente Gallery Summer Party at The Serpente Gallery Cattermole | Getty ImagThe chief executive and chief creative officer of inic Brish fashn brand Burberry assumed learship May 2014, which means he is the first openly gay CEO of a pany clud the FTSE 100—the 100 pani on the London Stock Exchange wh the largt market palizatn, acrdg to an say by another man on this list, Lord WeltsAs print and chief operatg officer of the Goln State Warrrs, Welts is the is the hight rankg executive men's profsnal team sports to publicly acknowledge he is gay. When the Natnal Football League last week drafted s first openly gay player, Michael Sam, he joed a roster of recent firsts — om the first out nightly news and morng-televisn anchors, Uned Stat senator and pro-basketball one major realm of society lags behd: rporate Ameri.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

The first Ain-Amerin Fortune 500 chief executive ascend to his job a mere 15 years gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr executiv face separate challeng breakg through the so-lled pk ceilg. )Yet even 2014, is more mon than not for lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr workers to rema closeted at work, among both senr executiv and junr employe, acrdg to a new survey of 1, 700 people by Human Rights Campaign.

CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY

Smh and Kenji Yosho, a New York Universy School of Law profsor, found that 83 percent of gay, lbian and bisexual people hi aspects of their inty at work, often bee they say their boss expect them some pani, for example, there is a belief that brgg a same-sex partner to an event like a al-closg dner wh a nservative client uld be bad for sometim uld be. “This is the learship issue of our time, ” she the hight levels of pani, the same sular culture that has ma hard for women and mori to reach the executive ranks also keeps out gay people — even if they are olr whe men. Fidas is one reason that havg a gay chief executive, or one who publicly talks about cln, would make a difference, said Jennifer Brown, the founr and chief executive of Jennifer Brown Consultg, which advis pani on diversy.

WHERE ARE THE GAY CHIEF EXECUTIV?

Smh said, that is still the signal many pani are sendg gay employe at work, where this is not jt a civil rights issue, but an enomic one — is the pani that lose when talented people don’t apply or leave bee they feel if change n happen football, seems possible rporate This article had been revised to addrs the uncerta nature of “openly. “Back then the overwhelmg amount of LGBTQ+ people were closeted, shameful and didn’t believe they were entled to equal rights, ” Peter told , addg that gay patrons outsi of queer pubs would throw s and beer bottl at them. In the UK we’ve fought for and won many rights – om same-sex marriage, equal age of nsent, the Genr Regnn Act, and the right to adopt, through to repealg the homophobic Sectn 28 that probed the teachg of LGBTQ+ experienc schools the 90s.

The former prs officer for the Brish Iron and Steel Feratn started volunteerg for the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) 1958, which mpaigned to change laws that crimalised gay men.

GAY TIM AND THE POWER OF LGBTQ+ VISIBILY

Her life trajectory changed 1969 when embolned by the UK’s crimalisatn of homosexualy two years prevly, she formally me out at Speaker’s Corner Hy Park, tellg the assembled crowd: “You are lookg at a roarg dyke.

” From there on her lbian activism went on to fe much of the gay rights movement; she joed the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly, found the Gay Liberatn Front 1970, took part the UK’s first Pri march 1972 and found leadg lbian magaze, Sappho year later. He also found Black Lbians and Gays Agast Media Homophobia; an anisatn that challenged and lled out media tl who, at the time, regularly ran anti-LGBTQ+ and racist news reports the UK overflowg wh disrmatn and discrimatn. In s first two s, the helple was an valuable source of support for those g out after the 1967 partial crimalisatn of male homosexualy, as well as one of rmatn durg the HIV/AIDS epimic the 80s.

Jonathan was also the face of Terrence Higgs Tst’s first safer sex poster aimed at gay men and has volunteered at var HIV drop- centr cludg THT, The Landmark Brixton/Tulse Hill, Lighthoe South London and The Food Cha. All three members of the band, Jimmy Somerville, Steve Bronski and Larry Stebachek, who rerd the majory of the band’s hs were openly gay, and ed their mic to highlight LGBTQ+ jtic society.

TREVOR BURGS, FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO OF PUBLIC BANK: ‘SUCCS IS THE BT REVENGE’

Wrten to mpaign for the lowerg of the age of nsent for homosexual acts to 16 le wh the heterosexual age of nsent the UK, the ner sleeve listed the varyg ag of nsent for nsensual gay sex different natns around the world.

ANTI-PAYWALL GAY TIM CEO UNVEILS MEMBERSHIP SCHEME AMID RONAVIS

It was around this time that Bronski Beat also headled the Ps and Perverts ncert at the Electric Ballroom London to raise funds for the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers mpaign – an event featured the 2014 film Pri.

Bronski Beat wrote unapologetilly queer lyrics which addrsed homophobia, lonels and fay misunrstandg, the only band of s time to stand so unapologetilly on a public stage for LGBTQ+ rights.

A stnch gay rights mapger the early 1980s, he’s most well known for formg the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers group who would raise money for the Natnal Unn of Meworkers durg the year-long strike of 1984–1985. Smh was the only openly gay MP at the time of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative ernment banng the “promotn of homosexualy” wh Sectn 28 1988, somethg he joed the public prottg agast several tim. After beg diagnosed wh HIV November 1986, Marc Thompson has ntuoly fought for LGBTQ+ rights and for Black gay men to be clud the nversatn – a nversatn that notorly exclud his muny when the HIV/AIDS first ravaged the LGBTQ+ muny the 80s.