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• HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED THE LGBT+ EXPERIENCEMEERA LAST, JUNE 25, 2019 ⏱ 5 M READ WE’VE E A LONG WAY IT’S JUNE, PRI MONTH. ONE MONTH EVERY YEAR WHERE YOU N SEE THE RABOW FLAG AND THAT DISTCT LLECTN OF LETTERS, LGBT, STACKED TOGETHER, AND STRETCHED ACROSS SHOP ONTS, OVER WEB BANNERS, ON TELEVISN. PRI IS A TIME FOR LGBT+ TO CELEBRATE THEMSELV – TO REFLECT ON THE IMMENSE PROGRS THAT THOSE WHO HAVE E BEFORE HAVE MA AND REASSERT THEIR RIGHT TO SELF EXPRSN. IT HAS BEEN 50 YEARS SCE THE RTS AT STONEWALL, WHEN A BRICK WAS THROWN FIANCE OF POLICE RAIDS ON LGBT TABLISHMENTS. IN 1969, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL CRIMALISED MOST UNTRI. THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATN REGNISED HOMOSEXUALY AS A MENTAL DISORR UNTIL 1994. BEG ABLE JT TO BE WAS THE FIGHT TO BE HAD.BUT THE RECENT PROTTS AT TEACHG LGBT+ RELATNSHIPS PRIMARY SCHOOLS; THE VLENT AND MISOGYNISTIC ATTACK ON A LBIAN UPLE ON A B; AND THE EPLY TRANSPHOBIC ONLE MPAIGN TO REMOVE MUNROE BURGDORF OM HER POST WH THE NSPCC ALL SIGNAL THAT WE’VE STILL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO. SO IS UNRSTANDABLE THAT FOR SOME, PRI IS A TIME TO MAND MORE. PRI STILL HAS S ROOTS PROTT AND WHILE SHOULD BE ED TO REFLECT ON PROGRS, SHOULD ALSO HIGHLIGHT CURRENT JTIC AND MAND A GREATER LEVEL OF SCTY WHEN TO PUBLIC AND VISIBLE SUPPORT OF THE LGBT+ MUNY. HAS TECHNOLOGY CREATED POSIVE CHANGE? IT IS CLEAR THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS, PART, PLAYED A ROLE THIS GROWG WAVE OF PROGRS. IT HAS THE ENORMO POWER TO AFFECT CHANGE. IT ALLOWS LGBT+ TO NNECT BEYOND GEOGRAPHIC AND PHYSIL BOUNDARI, AND TO RCE THE FEELG OF ISOLATN THAT N SO MONLY BE PART OF THE LGBT+ EXPERIENCE. INCREASG THE VISIBILY OF ISSU THAT AFFECT LGBT+ PEOPLE, AND WORKG TO SPOTLIGHT KEY MPAIGNS FOR CHANGE, HAVE ALL BEEN EMBOLNED BY THE E OF TECHNOLOGY. FROM THE BATTLE TO TRODUCE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TAIWAN, TO THE LEGALISATN OF HOMOSEXUALY INDIA, TO THE ISSUE OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN THE US: ALL HAVE HAD AN ONLE ELEMENT THAT HAS TAPULTED THE TOPIC ONTO THE WORLD STAGE.SOCIAL MEDIA HAS ALSO HELPED TO AMPLIFY THE VOIC OF THOSE WHO HAVE PREVLY BEEN MARGALISED AND SILED – AND THIS NEW PROMENCE HAS UNDOUBTEDLY NTRIBUTED TO CREASG ACCEPTANCE. ONLE MPAIGNS LIKE “IT GETS BETTER” SAW FAMO VOIC SPEAK SOOTHGLY OF HOW GOOD THGS N GET. AIMED AT LGBT YOUTH STGGLG WH G OUT, ASPIRED TO NNECT THEM TOGETHER AND GIVE THEM HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE. SCE THEN, MORE NTENT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED ON YOUTUBE, ATTRACTG  LNS OF SHAR. CHANNELS MA BY UPL AND DIVIDUALS CREATE A PLATFORM FOR THEM TO SHARE THE STORI OF THEIR RELATNSHIPS AND DAILY LIV, GIVG VULNERABLE YOUNG LGBT+ WORLDWI A BEAN OF HOPE, AND WORKG TO NORMALISE THE LGBT+ EXPERIENCE. AS POSIVE VOIC GET AMPLIFIED THOUGH, SO TOO DO THE NEGATIVE BACKLASH. HATE MPAIGNS TARGETG PROMENT LGBT+ DIVIDUALS BRG TO LIGHT THE PREVELANCE OF HOMOPHOBIC & TRANSPHOBIC VIEWS THAT MANY STILL HOLD. WHAT ONCE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A NARRATIVE NTROLLED BY THE DOMANT POWER STCTUR, NOW HAS THE BENEF AND DANGER OF ALLOWG EVERYONE AND ANYONE TO GIVE THEIR TWO CENTS. WH THE BATE THEN BLEEDG BACK TO OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA, LGBT+ PEOPLE N FEEL A REAL SENSE OF SUFFOTN AND FEAR. QUEER CULTURE AND THE IMPACT ON PHYSIL SPAC THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER IMPACTS OF THE LGBT+ MUNY GROWG ONLE. WHAT ONCE WAS DISURSE AND TERACTN REAL LIFE HAS TRANSFERRED TO APPS AND ONLE LGBT+ SPAC; AND HAS LIKELY NTRIBUTED TO THE END OF UNTLS QUEER VENU UP AND DOWN THE UNTRY. AS THE DIGAL MUNY BUILDS, AND LGBT+ PEOPLE N FD EACH OTHER OUTSI OF THE TRADNAL SPAC, RNERSTON OF CULTURE HAVE CLOSED. HOWEVER, WOULD THE MPAIGN TO SAVE THE INIC AND HISTORIC ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN HAVE BEEN SUCH A SUCCS WHOUT THE AID OF AN CREDIBLE ONLE MOVEMENT? ALTHOUGH PROGRS HAS BEEN MA THE UK AND MANY OTHER UNTRI, LGBT+ PEOPLE ARE STILL BEG PERSECUTED MANY PLAC ACROSS THE WORLD. IN 13 UNTRI, HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY ATH PENALTY. IN MANY OTHERS, RRI A PRISON SENTENCE. AND EVEN UNTRI WE’D NSIR MORE “ENLIGHTENED”, LGBT+ PEOPLE STILL FACE DISCRIMATN THE WORKPLACE, AND STREET HARRASSMENT. THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS WHY PRI REMAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT AND WHY QUEER MUNI G TECHNOLOGY TO NNECT AND MPAIGN FOR CHANGE STILL HAVE THE PACY TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.THE NEXT GENERATN OF QUEER SPAC LGBT+ PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE FOUND WAYS TO NNECT WH EACH OTHER. IT ED TO BE THAT WE WOULD SPEAK A “DIFFERENT LANGUAGE”. POLARI, A SECRET LANGUAGE, ALLOWED GAY MEN TO REVEAL THEMSELV TO EACH OTHER. A GREEN RNATN, PNED TO A MAN’S LAPEL, A SYMBOL OF SOMETHG UNSPOKEN. WOMEN TRADG VLETS; A REFUL, QUIET CLARATN OF LOVE. LIVG A “SECRET LIFE”. LIVG WH THE FEAR AND THREAT OF DISVERY. THE ABILY OF TECHNOLOGY TO FOSTER MUNI HAS BEEN HARNSED. THE TOOLS – OM DATG APPS LIKE HER, TO ONLE MUNI LIKE MEETUP – HAVE PROVID A PLATFORM FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO DISVER ONE ANOTHER; TO MEET UNR SAFE CIRCUMSTANC THAN MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE BE POSSIBLE PUBLIC. 80% OF THE LGBT+ MUNY BELIEVE THAT DATG APPS – NNECTG TOGETHER SELF-INTIFYG LGBT+ PEOPLE – HAVE HAD A POSIVE IMPACT ON THE MUNY AS A WHOLE. TECHNOLOGY N ALSO PROVI SAFETY THE MOST DANGERO OF CIRCUMSTANC – HOWEVER BANAL MIGHT SEEM TO CISGENRED HETEROSEXUALS. EXPRS VPN IS A POPULAR TOOL – A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK – THAT SOME LGBT+ PEOPLE E TO PROTECT THEIR INTY ONLE WHEN TERACTG DIGAL QUEER SPAC. MISTERBNB, A TRAVEL APP DITED TO NNECTG LGBT+ TRAVELLERS AND HOSTS, AIMS TO ELIMATE THE RISK OF NONTG HOMOPHOBIC ABE WHILST ABROAD. GAYCI IS SENTIALLY AN TERACTIVE MAP THAT DIT WHERE YOU’D FD A WELE A NEW PLACE. EVEN BLOCKCHA HAS CROPPED UP. THE LGBT TOKEN IS A FORM OF CRYPTOCURRENCY THAT HOP TO EMPOWER LGBT DIVIDUALS PLAC WHERE THEY FACE THE THREAT OF ENOMIC PERSECUTN. THE RABOW CAMPAIGN – A GLOBAL LGBT+ CROWDFUNDG WORK – SUPPORTS BS AND DIVIDUALS LOOKG TO EMPOWER THE MUNY, PROVIDG A PLATFORM FOR GROWTH.THE POWER OF DIGAL N ALSO BE NSTRAED BY ERNMENTS AND REGULATORS WH ULTERR MOTIV. THE REMOVAL OF A SWATHE OF NTENT ON WEIBO SPARKED FEARS FOR CHA’S LGBT+ MUNY THAT A ERNMENT-LED CRACKDOWN ON QUEER MATERIAL HAD BEEN LNCHED. A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSY FACED ENORMO BACKLASH WHEN THEY FIRST PRENTED THEIR AI THAT CLAIMED TO “REGNISE FACIAL FEATUR RELATED TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN”. QUE WHY AN AI WOULD BE NEED FOR THAT PURPOSE IS STILL A MYSTERY.WHILE DIVERSY AND CLN TECH REMAS A MAJOR TOPIC OF NVERSATN, VISIBILY IS STILL LACKG, MAKG IMPORTANT FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO NNECT WH EACH OTHER THE TECH SPACE. THE DTRY HAS WORK TO DO TO ENSURE THAT LGBT+ EMPLOYE AND ERS FEEL SUPPORTED AND REPRENTED.WE SHOULD ALSO BE MDFUL OF HOW WE EXPRS THIS SUPPORT AT ALL TIM, NOT JT DURG PRI MONTH. DRAPG A RABOW FLAG OVER YOUR LOGO IS AN EASY GTURE: BUT TO MAKE MEAN SOMETHG HAS TO BE EMBOLNED BY REAL SUPPORT. HIRG PROCS, PANY CULTURE, AND MDFULNS OF PEOPLE’S DIFFERENC ARE WHAT WILL MAKE A REAL IMPACT THE NTUED FIGHT. HERE ARE SOME GROUPS TO GET VOLVED WH IF YOU ARE TERTED JOG AND GROWG THE MUNY:OUT TECH • INTERTECH LGBT+ • LBIANS WHO TECH • LGBT TECH • LGBT STEM • LGBTQ TECHNOLOGY • PRI STEM • GAY GEEK LONDON MEETUP • QUEER CO LONDON MEETUP COMMUNY, DIVERSY , CULTURE, DIVERSYWAS THIS RMATN TERTG/HELPFUL?*YNOWHAT DID YOU LIKE? (OPTNAL)WHAT SHOULD WE IMPROVE? 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• TECHNOLOGY’S GAYAXCXTRACK 47 ON I LIKE IT WHEN YOU DIE FEB. 11, 19971 VIEWER5 CONTRIBUTORSTECHNOLOGY’S GAY LYRICS[VERSE]"HOW MANY MEGS OF RAM DO YOU HAVE ON YOUR PUTER?"TECHNOLOGY'S GAY!"HEY, WHY DON'T YOU CHECK OUT MY WEBSE AT WWW DOT..."TECHNOLOGY'S GAY!"I WAS LOOKG AT THE STAR TREK WEBSE, AND I, UM..."TECHNOLOGY'S GAY!"LET ME FAX YOU MY E-MAIL ADDRS."TECHNOLOGY'S GAY!YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTTHIS SONG B IS UNREVIEWEDGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORTECHNOLOGY’S GAYEXPAND -4SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHEN DID AXCX RELEASE “TECHNOLOGY'S GAY”?WHO WROTE “TECHNOLOGY'S GAY” BY AXCX?I LIKE IT WHEN YOU DIE (1997)AXCX1. JACK KEVORKIAN IS COOL2. VALUJET3. YOU’VE GOT NO FRIENDS4. YOU KEEP A DIARY5. YOU OWN A STORE6. YOU GOT DATE RAPED7. RECYCLG IS GAY8. YOU’RE A COP9. YOU CAN’T SHUT UP10. YOU’VE GOT CANCER11. WE JT DISAGREE12. HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS13. YOU ARE AN INTERR DERATOR14. POTTERY’S GAY15. RICH GOYETTE IS GAY16. BRANSBE RICHMOND17. YOU LIVE IN ALLSTON18. YOU ARE A FOOD CRIC19. JT THE TWO OF US20. YOUR BAND’S IN THE CUT-OUT B21. YOU’RE GAY22. YOU LOOK ADOPTED23. YOUR CO IS GEE LYNCH24. YOU HAVE GOALS25. YOU DRIVE AN IROC26. YOU PLAY ON A SOFTBALL TEAM27. BEE YOU’RE OLD28. YOU SELL COLOGNE29. BEG A COBBLER IS DUMB30. YOU LIVE A HOEBOAT31. RICHARD BUTLER32. 311 SUCKS33. YOUR KID IS DEFORMED34. YOU ARE AN ORPHAN35. YOU’RE OLD (FUCK YOU)36. YOU GO TO ART SCHOOL37. YOUR BT FRIEND IS YOU38. YOU’RE A COMA39. WDCHIM ARE GAY40. NO, WE DON’T WANT TO DO A SPL SEVEN INCH WH YOUR STUPID FUCKG BAND41. RENé AUBERJONOIS42. THE INTER IS GAY43. HA HA, YOUR WIFE LEFT YOU44. HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH45. YOU WENT TO SEE DISHWALLA AND EVERCLEAR (YOU’RE GAY)46. LOCKG DROP DEAD IN MCDONALDS47. TECHNOLOGY’S GAY48. YOUR FAVORE BAND IS SUPERTRAMP49. I’M IN A.C.50. YOU (FILL IN THE BLANK)51. KYLE FROM INNTATN HAS A MTACHE52. BON TRACK #3CREDSWRTEN BYSETH PUTNAM & JOSH MART (GUARIST)RELEASE DATEFEBARY 11, 1997TAGSROCKGRDREEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• "HEDGE YOUR BETS": TECHNOLOGY'S ROLE YOUNG GAY MEN'S RELATNSHIP CHALLENG

HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED THE LGBT+ EXPERIENCEMEERA LAST, JUNE 25, 2019 ⏱ 5 M READ WE’VE E A LONG WAY IT’S JUNE, PRI MONTH. ONE MONTH EVERY YEAR WHERE YOU N SEE THE RABOW FLAG AND THAT DISTCT LLECTN OF LETTERS, LGBT, STACKED TOGETHER, AND STRETCHED ACROSS SHOP ONTS, OVER WEB BANNERS, ON TELEVISN. PRI IS A TIME FOR LGBT+ TO CELEBRATE THEMSELV – TO REFLECT ON THE IMMENSE PROGRS THAT THOSE WHO HAVE E BEFORE HAVE MA AND REASSERT THEIR RIGHT TO SELF EXPRSN. IT HAS BEEN 50 YEARS SCE THE RTS AT STONEWALL, WHEN A BRICK WAS THROWN FIANCE OF POLICE RAIDS ON LGBT TABLISHMENTS. IN 1969, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL CRIMALISED MOST UNTRI. THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATN REGNISED HOMOSEXUALY AS A MENTAL DISORR UNTIL 1994. BEG ABLE JT TO BE WAS THE FIGHT TO BE HAD.BUT THE RECENT PROTTS AT TEACHG LGBT+ RELATNSHIPS PRIMARY SCHOOLS; THE VLENT AND MISOGYNISTIC ATTACK ON A LBIAN UPLE ON A B; AND THE EPLY TRANSPHOBIC ONLE MPAIGN TO REMOVE MUNROE BURGDORF OM HER POST WH THE NSPCC ALL SIGNAL THAT WE’VE STILL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO. SO IS UNRSTANDABLE THAT FOR SOME, PRI IS A TIME TO MAND MORE. PRI STILL HAS S ROOTS PROTT AND WHILE SHOULD BE ED TO REFLECT ON PROGRS, SHOULD ALSO HIGHLIGHT CURRENT JTIC AND MAND A GREATER LEVEL OF SCTY WHEN TO PUBLIC AND VISIBLE SUPPORT OF THE LGBT+ MUNY. HAS TECHNOLOGY CREATED POSIVE CHANGE? IT IS CLEAR THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS, PART, PLAYED A ROLE THIS GROWG WAVE OF PROGRS. IT HAS THE ENORMO POWER TO AFFECT CHANGE. IT ALLOWS LGBT+ TO NNECT BEYOND GEOGRAPHIC AND PHYSIL BOUNDARI, AND TO RCE THE FEELG OF ISOLATN THAT N SO MONLY BE PART OF THE LGBT+ EXPERIENCE. INCREASG THE VISIBILY OF ISSU THAT AFFECT LGBT+ PEOPLE, AND WORKG TO SPOTLIGHT KEY MPAIGNS FOR CHANGE, HAVE ALL BEEN EMBOLNED BY THE E OF TECHNOLOGY. FROM THE BATTLE TO TRODUCE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TAIWAN, TO THE LEGALISATN OF HOMOSEXUALY INDIA, TO THE ISSUE OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN THE US: ALL HAVE HAD AN ONLE ELEMENT THAT HAS TAPULTED THE TOPIC ONTO THE WORLD STAGE.SOCIAL MEDIA HAS ALSO HELPED TO AMPLIFY THE VOIC OF THOSE WHO HAVE PREVLY BEEN MARGALISED AND SILED – AND THIS NEW PROMENCE HAS UNDOUBTEDLY NTRIBUTED TO CREASG ACCEPTANCE. ONLE MPAIGNS LIKE “IT GETS BETTER” SAW FAMO VOIC SPEAK SOOTHGLY OF HOW GOOD THGS N GET. AIMED AT LGBT YOUTH STGGLG WH G OUT, ASPIRED TO NNECT THEM TOGETHER AND GIVE THEM HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE. SCE THEN, MORE NTENT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED ON YOUTUBE, ATTRACTG  LNS OF SHAR. CHANNELS MA BY UPL AND DIVIDUALS CREATE A PLATFORM FOR THEM TO SHARE THE STORI OF THEIR RELATNSHIPS AND DAILY LIV, GIVG VULNERABLE YOUNG LGBT+ WORLDWI A BEAN OF HOPE, AND WORKG TO NORMALISE THE LGBT+ EXPERIENCE. AS POSIVE VOIC GET AMPLIFIED THOUGH, SO TOO DO THE NEGATIVE BACKLASH. HATE MPAIGNS TARGETG PROMENT LGBT+ DIVIDUALS BRG TO LIGHT THE PREVELANCE OF HOMOPHOBIC & TRANSPHOBIC VIEWS THAT MANY STILL HOLD. WHAT ONCE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A NARRATIVE NTROLLED BY THE DOMANT POWER STCTUR, NOW HAS THE BENEF AND DANGER OF ALLOWG EVERYONE AND ANYONE TO GIVE THEIR TWO CENTS. WH THE BATE THEN BLEEDG BACK TO OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA, LGBT+ PEOPLE N FEEL A REAL SENSE OF SUFFOTN AND FEAR. QUEER CULTURE AND THE IMPACT ON PHYSIL SPAC THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER IMPACTS OF THE LGBT+ MUNY GROWG ONLE. WHAT ONCE WAS DISURSE AND TERACTN REAL LIFE HAS TRANSFERRED TO APPS AND ONLE LGBT+ SPAC; AND HAS LIKELY NTRIBUTED TO THE END OF UNTLS QUEER VENU UP AND DOWN THE UNTRY. AS THE DIGAL MUNY BUILDS, AND LGBT+ PEOPLE N FD EACH OTHER OUTSI OF THE TRADNAL SPAC, RNERSTON OF CULTURE HAVE CLOSED. HOWEVER, WOULD THE MPAIGN TO SAVE THE INIC AND HISTORIC ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN HAVE BEEN SUCH A SUCCS WHOUT THE AID OF AN CREDIBLE ONLE MOVEMENT? ALTHOUGH PROGRS HAS BEEN MA THE UK AND MANY OTHER UNTRI, LGBT+ PEOPLE ARE STILL BEG PERSECUTED MANY PLAC ACROSS THE WORLD. IN 13 UNTRI, HOMOSEXUALY PUNISHABLE BY ATH PENALTY. IN MANY OTHERS, RRI A PRISON SENTENCE. AND EVEN UNTRI WE’D NSIR MORE “ENLIGHTENED”, LGBT+ PEOPLE STILL FACE DISCRIMATN THE WORKPLACE, AND STREET HARRASSMENT. THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS WHY PRI REMAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT AND WHY QUEER MUNI G TECHNOLOGY TO NNECT AND MPAIGN FOR CHANGE STILL HAVE THE PACY TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.THE NEXT GENERATN OF QUEER SPAC LGBT+ PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE FOUND WAYS TO NNECT WH EACH OTHER. IT ED TO BE THAT WE WOULD SPEAK A “DIFFERENT LANGUAGE”. POLARI, A SECRET LANGUAGE, ALLOWED GAY MEN TO REVEAL THEMSELV TO EACH OTHER. A GREEN RNATN, PNED TO A MAN’S LAPEL, A SYMBOL OF SOMETHG UNSPOKEN. WOMEN TRADG VLETS; A REFUL, QUIET CLARATN OF LOVE. LIVG A “SECRET LIFE”. LIVG WH THE FEAR AND THREAT OF DISVERY. THE ABILY OF TECHNOLOGY TO FOSTER MUNI HAS BEEN HARNSED. THE TOOLS – OM DATG APPS LIKE HER, TO ONLE MUNI LIKE MEETUP – HAVE PROVID A PLATFORM FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO DISVER ONE ANOTHER; TO MEET UNR SAFE CIRCUMSTANC THAN MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE BE POSSIBLE PUBLIC. 80% OF THE LGBT+ MUNY BELIEVE THAT DATG APPS – NNECTG TOGETHER SELF-INTIFYG LGBT+ PEOPLE – HAVE HAD A POSIVE IMPACT ON THE MUNY AS A WHOLE. TECHNOLOGY N ALSO PROVI SAFETY THE MOST DANGERO OF CIRCUMSTANC – HOWEVER BANAL MIGHT SEEM TO CISGENRED HETEROSEXUALS. EXPRS VPN IS A POPULAR TOOL – A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK – THAT SOME LGBT+ PEOPLE E TO PROTECT THEIR INTY ONLE WHEN TERACTG DIGAL QUEER SPAC. MISTERBNB, A TRAVEL APP DITED TO NNECTG LGBT+ TRAVELLERS AND HOSTS, AIMS TO ELIMATE THE RISK OF NONTG HOMOPHOBIC ABE WHILST ABROAD. GAYCI IS SENTIALLY AN TERACTIVE MAP THAT DIT WHERE YOU’D FD A WELE A NEW PLACE. EVEN BLOCKCHA HAS CROPPED UP. THE LGBT TOKEN IS A FORM OF CRYPTOCURRENCY THAT HOP TO EMPOWER LGBT DIVIDUALS PLAC WHERE THEY FACE THE THREAT OF ENOMIC PERSECUTN. THE RABOW CAMPAIGN – A GLOBAL LGBT+ CROWDFUNDG WORK – SUPPORTS BS AND DIVIDUALS LOOKG TO EMPOWER THE MUNY, PROVIDG A PLATFORM FOR GROWTH.THE POWER OF DIGAL N ALSO BE NSTRAED BY ERNMENTS AND REGULATORS WH ULTERR MOTIV. THE REMOVAL OF A SWATHE OF NTENT ON WEIBO SPARKED FEARS FOR CHA’S LGBT+ MUNY THAT A ERNMENT-LED CRACKDOWN ON QUEER MATERIAL HAD BEEN LNCHED. A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSY FACED ENORMO BACKLASH WHEN THEY FIRST PRENTED THEIR AI THAT CLAIMED TO “REGNISE FACIAL FEATUR RELATED TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN”. QUE WHY AN AI WOULD BE NEED FOR THAT PURPOSE IS STILL A MYSTERY.WHILE DIVERSY AND CLN TECH REMAS A MAJOR TOPIC OF NVERSATN, VISIBILY IS STILL LACKG, MAKG IMPORTANT FOR LGBT+ PEOPLE TO NNECT WH EACH OTHER THE TECH SPACE. THE DTRY HAS WORK TO DO TO ENSURE THAT LGBT+ EMPLOYE AND ERS FEEL SUPPORTED AND REPRENTED.WE SHOULD ALSO BE MDFUL OF HOW WE EXPRS THIS SUPPORT AT ALL TIM, NOT JT DURG PRI MONTH. DRAPG A RABOW FLAG OVER YOUR LOGO IS AN EASY GTURE: BUT TO MAKE MEAN SOMETHG HAS TO BE EMBOLNED BY REAL SUPPORT. HIRG PROCS, PANY CULTURE, AND MDFULNS OF PEOPLE’S DIFFERENC ARE WHAT WILL MAKE A REAL IMPACT THE NTUED FIGHT. HERE ARE SOME GROUPS TO GET VOLVED WH IF YOU ARE TERTED JOG AND GROWG THE MUNY:OUT TECH • INTERTECH LGBT+ • LBIANS WHO TECH • LGBT TECH • LGBT STEM • LGBTQ TECHNOLOGY • PRI STEM • GAY GEEK LONDON MEETUP • QUEER CO LONDON MEETUP COMMUNY, DIVERSY , CULTURE, DIVERSYWAS THIS RMATN TERTG/HELPFUL?*YNOWHAT DID YOU LIKE? (OPTNAL)WHAT SHOULD WE IMPROVE? 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He's also the CEO of cloud platform provir me out as gay 2012 honor of the 100th birthday of mathematician Alan Turg, who also intified as his g out piece Lux Magaze, Hall wrote: "Most of the people my world of electronics and puters were like the mathematicians of Alan Turgs' time, highly ted and not really rg whether their patrts were homosexual or not, or at least lookg beyond the sexualy and seeg the rt of the person.

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He was also known for his polil activism, which clud volvement the Gay Liberatn Front the 1970s; an open bisexual, Land was a vol proponent of queer rights. He even noted, “Computer science was a haven for homosexuals, transsexuals, and a lot of other sexuals, mostly bee the history of the science lled for fairly telligent, morn-thkg people.

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From the battle to troduce same-sex marriage Taiwan, to the legalisatn of homosexualy India, to the issue of workplace discrimatn the US: all have had an onle element that has tapulted the topic onto the world media has also helped to amplify the voic of those who have prevly been margalised and siled – and this new promence has undoubtedly ntributed to creasg acceptance. Here are some groups to get volved wh if you are terted jog and growg the muny:Out Tech • Intertech LGBT+ • Lbians Who Tech • LGBT Tech • LGBT STEM • LGBTQ Technology • Pri STEM • Gay Geek London Meetup • Queer Co London Meetup. Before the UK crimalisatn of homosexualy (Sexual Offenc Act 1967) and technology uned LGBT voic, gay life for many men and women was very difficult: eher plete nial of your te self or livg a double life.

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Social media has played an creasgly prevalent part LGBT life sce s ceptn and is val lifeblood for many of those livg parts of the world where homosexualy is still punishable by law or socially taboo.

In an terview wh the LA Tim, Sun Mo, a 25-year-old media operatns manager at the Beijg LGBT Centre, explaed why Blued, Cha’s versn of Grdr, is such a big part of so many gay men’s liv:. Christof Wtig, the creator of Hor, the world’s send largt gay social work, has set up the LGBT Token, a form of cryptocurrency that hop to help LGBT people better protect their inti parts of the world where they face persecutn, harns the enomic clout of the LGBT muny and ensure the voic of LGBT people are heard. Ung LGBT voic has always been an tegral part of the gay liberatn movement, whether the fight agast HIV, the battle for greater enomic eedom or simply beg listened to.

It draws on the notn of IT inty—the extent to which dividuals experience technology as tegral to their sense of selv—to explore how their homosexualy and advanced age shape their relatnships wh technology. Applyg thematic analysis to 17 semi-stctured, -pth terviews wh gay male ers aged 66–81, we show that while homosexualy and technology enable and rerce one another, the relatnship between technology and advanced age n be better fed by alienatn and trangement. In this sense, technology is siar to other cultural nstcts, like sexualy, that challenge the merger of advanced age and homosexualy, renrg the olr gay inty almost impossible.

Rearch about agg LGBTQ+ people has proliferated over the past four s (Fredriksen-Goldsen & Mura, 2010), generally fueled by the assumptn that the merger of two margalized inti—gay and olr—produc unique life experienc stemmg om the “plex terplay of ageism and homophobia” (Kner, 2016, p.

Efforts exerted to unrstand olr gays’ experienc and reali have rulted a rich body of knowledge, cludg numero books (Harley & Teaster, 2015; Kimmel, Rose, & David, 2006; Kner, 2016) and review articl (Choi & Meyer, 2016; Fenkl, 2012; Fredriksen-Goldsen & Mura, 2010).