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Pride is getting more play in massively popular online video game worlds
Massive multiplayer online games, played by millions, are creating cutting-edge ways to celebrate Pride while fighting bigotry.
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Major corporations are running ads next to Twitter’s anti-LGBTQ+ & neo-Nazi content
Disney, Microsoft, Adobe, Harper Collins, and NBA ads are appearing next to videos that blame Jews for causing both World Wars.
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Dot com bust 2.0 is decimating queer tech industry workers
The massive layoffs and job cuts are disproportionately impacting women, immigrants, and queer workers.
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Video game removed multiple storylines for queer characters to avoid FOX News criticism
Mass Effect was already a progressive video game for its time in terms of LGBTQ characters. But execs nixed further representation for “a more traditional kind of vector” due to FOX News.
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NFL coach Katie Sowers wins this weekend, both on screen and sidelines
The NFL’s first out coach is inching closer to competing for a championship, but she’s already gained our adoration.
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Your emoji is about to update again & this time it’s particularly queer
There are new emoji for queer couples of color, nonbinary couples, and one that will be super popular on Grindr.
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LGBTQ people went on strike in Israel & shut the country down
Tens of thousands of Israelis skipped going to work and took to the streets to protest for gay families instead.
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Ellen’s ‘most re-tweeted tweet’ record challenged by awesome teenager
Wendy’s promised Carter Wilkerson free nuggets for a year if he could get millions of people to retweet him.
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Was SNL’s gay robot skit offensive or a sly take on stereotypes?
“FYI, not every gay robot is attracted to every other gay robot.”
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Why you should watch Microsoft’s Christmas message right now and ignore haters
The 7-year-old girl who last year who stood up to an antigay preacher is joined by Jazz Jennings and other brave souls in a holiday celebration of diversity.
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Va. tech PAC led by ‘LGBT-friendly’ execs endorses anti-gay AG for governor
RICHMOND, Va. — A political action committee led by technology company executives of major U.S. corporations that have marketed themselves as LGBT-inclusive — including Facebook, Microsoft, AOL, Comcast, Cox, Intuit, Monster and Oracle — have endorsed Republican candidate and Tea Party favorite Ken Cuccinelli to be Virginia’s next governor.
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Gay activist calls for boycott of retailers supporting Christian Values Network
San Francisco based gay activist and blogger Roy Steele is organizing, and calling for a nationwide boycott of retailer’s enrolled in the Christian Values Network (CVN) shopping web portal, including Sears, Walmart, Sam’s Club and Target.
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Microsoft removes online store from anti-gay ‘Christian Values Network’
Microsoft Corporation on Thursday removed its online store from the “Christian Values Network” after more than 500 people signed a Change.org petition asking the software company to stop allowing the funding of anti-gay “hate groups.”
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Microsoft to WV town: the word ‘gay’ is inappropriate ‘in any context’
Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live apologized to a small WV town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating their conduct by publicly declaring he’s from Fort Gay — a name the company considered offensive.
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Microsoft donates 100K to uphold Washington’s domestic partner benefits
Microsoft has contributed $100,000 to the campaign to approve Referendum 71, which would uphold a state law to expand domestic-partnership benefits, the Seattle Times reports. The company made the donation on Friday to Washington Families Standing Together, a group supporting the law, which gives registered couples the same state-provided benefits as married couples. Here is […]