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The Fight for Gay Marriage in New York is On
The battle for gay marriage is on in New York. Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo released a video urging New York residents to call their state senators to ask them to support marriage equality. The votes needed to pass the marriage bill are uncertain. In order to avoid a repeat from 2009, Governor Cuomo, a staunch … Continue reading
‘All Out’ Takes the Fight for LGBT Equality to the Global Level
All Out, a new LGBT equality campaign launching in 2011, takes the fight for LGBT equality – international. Founded by Jeremy Heimans, co-founder of Purpose, Avaaz.org, and GetUp.org and Andre Banks, director of strategy at Purpose and former director deputy of ColorofChange.org, All Out seeks to raise awareness of the discriminations that the LGBT community … Continue reading
Friendfactor Joins the LGBT Equality Movement and Why You Should Too
In case you missed it, a new social networking site has sprung and it’s an important one. Friendfactor is a social networking site designed to give members of the LGBT community a platform to show their straight friends what LGBT equality issues matter most to them. Friendfactor allows members of the LGBT community create a … Continue reading
The Power of YouTube: Plus, My Top 5 LGBT Videos
YouTube is one of my favorite social media platforms. Its ability to allow users to create and upload any video they want (as long as it meets YouTube’s community guidelines), create and manage their own YouTube channels, or to easily share their favorite clips with their friends is the perfect example of a simple concept … Continue reading
A Quick Look at Social Media Usage by the LGBT Community
Last month, Facebook announced that the site has over 500 million users, making it the second largest site – Google is the first. According to Wikipedia, Twitter attracts over 190 million monthly users and according to BlogPulse there are over 126 million blogs in the blogosphere. Check out this video on the State of the … Continue reading
How #Prop8 Inspires Us Not to Turn Our Back On Twitter
Like many LGBT activists, on the afternoon (east coast time) of August 4th, 2010, I was obsessed with tapping my computer’s refresh button. I was waiting for Prop 8 to be overturned. Almost two hours after I began my obsessive refresh clicking, the page re-loaded. I, like millions of others in the ‘equality for all’ … Continue reading
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