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The San Jose city council vows to fly LGBTQ Pride flags near the eatery. Rainbow flags may fly at a new Chick-fil-A scheduled to open next month at a California airport. San Jose LGBTQ community leaders and other concerned residents attended a city council meeting this week to protest the Chick-fil-A location under construction at Mineta San Jose International Airport, citing the fast food chain’s continued donations to anti-LGBTQ organizations. Last year the council approved and announced a new contract with Host...

Who knew that a simple trip through an airport could mean so much to the LGBTQ community? Heathrow Airport has embraced the colors of the rainbow in celebration of Pride in London and commissioned a unique interpretation of the iconic flag, created with the help of 6,000 passengers’ kisses. Populated by staff and passengers the flag will now fly above Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal until the end of July. The unveiling of the flag is part of a week-long celebration...

A London airport is waving a rainbow flag that’s made of kisses. Heathrow Airport in London is proudly waving a rainbow flag up in the skies. The fun part is that that colors of the flag are made by the kisses of 6,000 former passengers. In order to celebrate Pride in London this upcoming weekend, the airport offered passengers colorful lipstick. The passengers then applied the rainbow of colors and kissed a large white cloth (or used a stamp if they...

He claims he was treated like a 'terrorist' A gay porn star is claiming he was strip-searched and interrogated at an airport for having a ‘Muslim’-sounding name. Ibrahim Moreno, a French-Cuban top performer, had traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel for a personal appearance at a gay nightclub. In a Facebook post, the Lucas Entertainment actor said Ben Gurion International Airport had treated him like a ‘terrorist’. ‘Finally at home after a rather dreadful weekend,’ Moreno, who identifies as Christian, wrote. ‘I never thought traveling...

After the incident that happened three months ago to a transgender woman at the airport from Orlando, Transportation Security Administration changed their policy. TSA from U.S. airports are not allowed to use the word "anomaly" when a transgender traveler go through the screening security procedures and their anatomy does’t match the standard binary. The word "anomaly" was changed with "alarm".     “TSA has implemented this change in terminology and we have communicated it through various methods to the frontline workforce.” The former use of the word...

Yes, this actually happened and the said event took place in Orlando International Airport, where Shadi Petovski, a writer working for an entertainment company located in L.A., was searched and detained, just enough to cause her to lose the flight. The reason for this action undertaken by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), was in fact “an anomaly”, like Shadi Petovski herself put it on her Tweet account. It later turned out that the anomaly in question was the nature-given...