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INDIANAPOLIS — Three days after signing legislation widely criticized as a “license to discriminate” against LGBT people, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he didn’t anticipate “the hostility that’s been directed at our state.” Pence told the Indianapolis Star on Saturday he’s been in discussions with legislative leaders this weekend, and will support legislation to “clarify…
Earlier this week, Lena Dunham contributed a humor piece to the “Shouts and Murmurs” column of the New Yorker, called “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz” which lists scenarios and rhetorically asks readers to guess which applies to her dog and which applies to her boyfriend (examples: “He doesn’t tip. And he never brings his…
cache hit 371:single/related:1e6d73af662c029f845c9bf78cd7213d empty Enlarge / Zoe Quinn speaks at the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sam Machkovech When I sat down with her in January 2015, Zoe Quinn looked like she’d been through hell. In the public eye, Quinn was a number of things: an independent video game developer; a withdrawn, idiosyncratic presence at…
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says he has canceled all his company’s events in the state of Indiana after its governor signed into law a bill that makes it legal for individuals to use religious grounds as a defense when they are sued by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. And in an interview…
Ellen Pao lost her gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on all counts Friday, a closely watched trial by Silicon Valley’s elite that many saw as a referendum on the challenges women have faced in the world of technology and business. Since we last liveblogged two days ago, the…
The Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins trial, which went to jury deliberations yesterday, is a milestone case and it may well be a milestone verdict. Not just because $160 million in possible compensatory and punitive damages is an awful lot of money, but also because this is the highest-profile example yet of Silicon Valley’s boys club on…
On Tuesday, my fiancé and I took our daughters out of school, canceled my meetings for the day, and, for the first time, walked into the San Francisco Superior Court. Our mission: To hear the closing arguments of the Ellen Pao discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Truth be told, I have been…
On shirts, they’re on the left for the ladies and on the right for the gents. That’s because of horses, babies, and Napoleon. Mars and Venus, in shirts (J. Crew/The Atlantic) “Are you wearing lady clothes?” Darryl Philbin asked Michael Scott. INSERT IN_ARTICLE AD No, the regional manager of the fictional Dunder Mifflin insisted: His…
Gillian Anderson has spoken publicly before about her unwillingness to settle, and it seems that determination has paid off: in a recent interview with The Telegraph, the once and future X-Files star explained “I’m so lucky to have such great work. I’ve got a fantastic life, I have a wonderful relationship with my kids, and…
A student holds up a sign during Wednesday’s meeting of the UNC Board of Trustees. Photo by Tasia Harris | The Huffington Post Entry Text Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are renewing a push for the school to change the name of a building named after a 19th-century Ku Klux…