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A Thousand Miles of History
Thursday 17 May 2012 - 6.30pm
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Venue: Chinawhite, 4 Winsley Street, London, W1W 8HF Whilst other venues enjoy brief moments as the new "hotspot of London", Chinawhite is firmly established as one of London's most timeless, famous and aspirational members' clubs- presiding alongside top nightclub brands the world over. |
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Our guest speaker is Harold Findley Harold will talk about A Thousand Miles of History. which will open in Autumn. The piece is about the relationship between artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. It's a real 80s extravaganza! |
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GBA members join GPN from 6.30pm for an evening of social and business networking with like-minded professionals.
There are opportunities to speak for two minutes to promote your services.
Admission:
Non-members and guests £10 - Register in advance
GBA members £5 - RSVP
VIP bands available if you want to go on to The Shadow Lounge afterwards.
GBA meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of every month. Calendar
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GBA Market Intelligence
Courtesy of GAY to Z Gay News Headlines
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Keith Haring and Andy Warhol are the topic at next Gay Business Association meeting Barclays pioneers first mobile app for lesbian and gay staff
Theresa May - Home Secretary said businesses could not afford to ignore the £70 billion-strong lesbian, gay and bisexual market at the Stonewall Workplace Conference
Beth Brooke: Coming Out to Ernst & Young - No. 100 on the Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women London's Mayor bans anti-gay bus ads Work pushed 'reparative therapy' for gay Christians
Sh! erotic store celebrated its 20th anniversary as the founders Kathryn Hoyle and Sophie Walters partied with their glamorous Sh! girls Advertising Standards Authority to assess claim Coalition for Marriage ad 'misleads' readers
Herbert Howe - local hairstylist, who was standing as an independent for Mayor of Liverpool, has withdrawn because of the "viperous attitude" of local politics
Peter Lawrence and Don Gallagher - A gay banker has won his appeal against a decision to award his former partner £1.7m of the couple's wealth, after civil partnership dissolved Stonewall to host London Gay Mayoral Hustings - All four main candidates attending event - Sat 14 Apr O2 to "co-operate fully" with High Court order to hand customer details over to a porn company Attitude magazine drops "adult" ads
Gay Rhino - Birmingham City Council pays £10k to help fund 'Gay Rhino' project to mark the entry to the city's Gay Village Be Your Own Boss in new high-stakes BBC3 entrepreneurial show with £1million to invest in the right people London 2012 head of diversity Stephen Frost vows 'to use the power of the Games for change' Petitions are going viral, sometimes to great success Royal Aeronautical Society to host GBA and GPN professionals meeting at the society's home in Piccadilly, London. Open to all - Thu 15 Mar
Gaydar's parent company Qsoft requests "significant cash investment" to develop globally Stonewall endorses new training package for equality and diversity professionals - makes in-house training easier Theresa May to give keynote speech at Stonewall Workplace Conference 2012
Met Police Officer Kevin Maxwell wins discrimination case - tells tribunal colleagues bullied him and then attempted publicly to "out" his sexuality in a national newspaper
Paddy Power is disappointed by decision of broadcasters to suspend its 'Lady's Day' ad, inviting viewers to 'spot the stallions from the mares' NHS chiropodist who discriminated against homosexuals suspended for 12 months Christian hoteliers who turned away gay couple see business slump Christian guest house owners have lost their appeal against gay discrimination Gay bankers who go to Dubai 'could have penis lopped off' - Ken Livingstone Home Businesses tv pilot looking for LGBT characters who run businesses from home around the UK Lawyer wins gay discrimination claim against London law firm, accused of selecting 'batty boy' barristers
Big Time Fraud? asks The Canary News in an investigation into Mantrav gay holiday firm Strip night under threat - 600 sign petition saying the White Swan, in East London, should be excluded from Tower Hamlets sex establishment consultation Gareth Thomas gay rugby star raises glass to £7m takeover of Turbo drinks company Ernst & Young is UK's top gay employer. A sign that LGBT issues are now officially mainstream? Ernst & Young tops Stonewall's 2012 list of gay-friendly employers - MI5 enters Top 100 for the first time People with great business ideas - future tycoons wanted for new primetime TV show Liverpool council scales back 'bar ban plan' for city centre Religious groups boycott Tesco after senior executive described Christians as "evil" for opposing gay marriage Birmingham Pride director Lawrence Barton buys gay club The Nightingale Gareth Thomas sets up legal recruiting firm in London with his new boyfriend Sean Smith West End parking fees are madness, Mary Portas tells No.10 Gay business club Halcyon meets Michael Cashman MEP in Birmingham - Thu 26 Jan Redundancies announced at The Nightingale Club in Birmingham Gay security guard wins compensation after colleagues write 'mincer' on high-vis jacket Gay-friendly pub to reopen in Bath under original Bath Tap name
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JC Penney - New ad looks like a deliberate insult to ant-gay groups. Or is the family-oriented retailer just trying to appeal to all kinds of families? California Assembly votes to gather sexual orientation information on state contractors Goldman Sachs lost at least one client because of its pro-gay stance, Wall Street group hears Top Italian firms meet to discuss LGBT work rights Bogota hosts Colombia's first gay trade show Logo TV channel to remain gay, but network will broaden focus, says Executive VP
Rich Ross - first openly gay chairman at a Hollywood studio - Walt Disney Studios - resigns after John Carter debacle Tim Cook, Apple CEO, is top of OUT magazine's 'Power List' of world's influential gay people
Ray-Ban celebrates 75, and includes a 1940s image of a male couple holding hands in its print advertising Anheuser-Busch warns Ultimate Fighting Championship about fighters' sexist, homophobic comments Out on the Street is the first LGBT leadership summit for Wall Street - Wed 2 May Gay travel association accused of unethical conduct OUT Magazine lays off entire editorial staff but editor wants to hire 'most' back into his new start-up
It Gets Better - Harvard Business School A message from the LGBT students at Harvard Business School. Credit union expands partnership with LGBT network Obama won't sign gay nondiscrimination order to address discrimination among federal contractors
Peter TerVeer - Gay Library of Congress worker claims Facebook 'like' got him fired Why we should care about LGBT entrepreneurs - new group mentors start-ups Politician proposes a Don't Ask, Don't Tell approach to gays in the workplace Calling gay people "Cupcake" is offensive - as New York's MTA is learning the hard (litigious) way Gay business owners need life insurance Anti-gay businesses shouldn't have to sell to gay people, says Family Research Council Microsoft, Apple unite to demand that the National Organization for Marriage boycott them - satire
Abercrombie & Fitch says Bruce Weber gay wrestling videos aren't theirs Is a gay company endangering gay customers - by selling cruise ship holidays to homophobic locales? Student scholarships to attend IGLTA Gay Travel Convention in Florianopolis, Brazil -12-14 Apr Michael Kirby - High-profile gay Australians should come out of the closet, says retired High Court judge Men arrested on Caribbean Cruise recall "horrible experience" - threatened with medical evaluation
Alan Joyce - gay CEO of Quantas on cancer, coming out, and his 'modest' $5m pay
Apple-y Ever After - Ben & Jerry's renaming Apple Pie flavour to raise awareness about the importance of marriage equality
David Kuria is running as an out gay man for a Senate position in Kenya Airline's transsexual flight attendants: equality or gimmick? Gays reach high government offices in Latin America JPMorgan Chase presents Leadership Award at first annual StartOut LGBT Entrepreneurship Awards 'One Million Moms' gives up campaign against Ellen DeGeneres and JC Penney The Economics of Gay Marriage - US tax benefits would be available to be spent on more productive pursuits Is gay too mainstream for its own media? As general-market media becomes more gay friendly, LGBT players broaden niche
Jose Reina: Spanish TV ad with Liverpool footballer taken off following complaints the commercial was racist and homophobic JCPenney rolling out the red carpet for Tolerant cultures reaping the benefits from gay travelers
Reinvented - Possibly the first gay-friendly Superbowl ad is for the Toyota Camry National Business & Leadership Conference to be held in Chicago - 7-10 Aug Cancun to host gay International Business Expo - 6-9 Sep Canadian GLBT magazine to discontinue running ads for hook-up websites on the grounds that they "sell sex" Being 'out' is not so harmful after all, finds Indian work survey Ellen DeGeneres dddresses her JCPenney critics - video Pro-Ellen ralliers surpass One Million Moms on Facebook: Ellen 100,000 v. OMM 40,000 Obama raises $1.4 million from LGBT donors Out candidates for Congress are in many cases beating their opponents at fundraising Indie Soap Awards partners with National Gay Lesbian Chamber Of Commerce - many nominees are LGBT Wall Street firms are leading the way when it comes to workplace diversity Survey on discrimination against and victimisation of LGBT people, being launched across Europe
Roland Martin CNN reporter urges violence against men who liked David Beckham's H&M SuperBowl ad Prudential's law department wins National LGBT Bar Association's Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award Gay community rallies at Starbucks to say 'thanks' 22,500 thank J.C. Penney for choosing Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson |
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MARKETING EVENTS Gay Pride Calendar 2012 Original GLBT Expo and PASSPORT Magazine Travel Show, New York - 17-18 Mar International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association global convention is in Florianopolis, Brazil - 12-14 Apr LGBT Marketing Conference - comprehensive research, advertising, marketing, and communications forum, helping you better understand and serve gay and lesbian consumers - New York Fri 27 Apr Pride in Business Expo sponsored by Hyundai and 7-Eleven in Los Angeles - 23-24 Jun National Business & Leadership Conference to be held in Chicago - 7-10 Aug Cancun to host gay International Business Expo - 6-9 Sep |
MORE Gay Research and statistics 'Pink pound' contributes £6bn to UK economy - Despite recession LGBT still earn 23% above average North, south, east and west: the gay tribes of London Gay seniors fear bias - 3 million LGBT people in US will be over 65 by 2030 New study reveals the factors that influence whether or not LGB workers come out at work |
Exciting new projects revealed at GBA social networking event
At our meeting on Thursday 20 October 2011, held at the Mayfair Exchange, GBA and GPN members heard about plans for several new businesses.
The ideas included an innovative dating service which combines smartphones and personalised business cards which allows your profile to be seen with discretion. A new web page service for bars and clubs which will help them promote their special events and sell tickets online. And a chance to work with ParliOut at Westminster to raise funds for the Albert Kennedy Trust while networking with parliamentarians.
GBA Annual General Meeting
Our AGM was held on 22 September 2011
New Board elected
Chair: Mazz Image
Vice-Chair: Jean-Francois Dor
Treasurer: Laurie Powell
Board member: Ian Dodds
Director and co-ordinator: Stephen Coote
New promotional opportunities for GBA members
Highlights of the director's report:
- 800 LGBT owned businesses had applied for London 2012 contracts: 24% had been sucessul, and 6.5% had won contracts already - an above average success rate.
- All of the GBA's original 1983 aims and objectives had now been achieved
- GBA members can now show 300x250 banners on the web site
- 'GBA Market Intelligence' is providing useful news and information to members
- Our monthly meetings with GPN are proving popular, and we now have 3,000 online subscribers- We plan to add more business-focused seminars on members' premises (interested?)
- GBA plans to hold workshops with Pride Organisers, the Consortium of LGBT Voluntary Organisations, and with Pride House for Olympic visitors
Read the director's full report here
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