How to Get Certified as an LGBT Business
If you own a business and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, you can get certified by the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). Your status as an LGBT-certified…
‘Business of Pride’ to showcase Bay Area’s LGBT business leaders
The San Francisco Business Times is starting work on its first "Business of Pride" special edition June 12 to highlight LGBT entrepreneurs and executives in the Bay Area business community.The…
‘Business of Pride’ to showcase Bay Area’s LGBT business leaders
The San Francisco Business Times is starting work on its first "Business of Pride" special edition June 12 to highlight LGBT entrepreneurs and executives in the Bay Area business community.The…
VIDEO: Small Business Administration, Gay and Lesbian Chamber Join PG&E at Historic LGBT Business Builder Event
SAN FRANCISCO—More than 200 representatives of LGBT-owned business enterprises came to PG&E’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday (March 2) to participate on the first stop of a nationwide LGBT Business…
Historic day: SBA kicks off national LGBT outreach in San Francisco
The U.S. Small Business Administration kicked off a national outreach program to increase opportunities for LGBT-owned businesses in San Francisco on Monday."This is personal to me," SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet said in…
PG&E Support LGBT Community with First LGBT Business Builder Event
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 02, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) today will host more than 200 LGBT owned businesses to discuss the historic national initiative to…
Political Notebook: SF training kicks off LGBT small business initiative
A national effort to boost business for LGBT-owned small companies will kick off next week at a training being held in San Francisco.Maria Contreras-Sweet, administrator of the U.S. Small Business…
New California Law Aims To Help Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender-Owned Businesses
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A first-of-its-kind law in California is aimed at helping certified businesses owned by those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.The law requires big public…
LGBT-owned businesses get diversity boost
SAN FRANCISCO — As a Mexican-American woman who started her own consulting firm in Los Angeles, accountant Sonia Luna has taken advantage of programs aimed at helping minority- and women-owned…
NFL inroad
Over the past few years, several professional, college and Olympic athletes have come out of the closet. And the sports communities from which they come have launched diversity training programs…
Super Bowl 50 Is Working Hard to Be LGBT-Friendly
Apart from certain religious hierarchies, professional sports remains perhaps the biggest pocket of institutional homophobia left in American society. But that, too, might be changing.The Chronicle reported last week that in preparation for Super…
