On Saturday, July 18th, GLAAD held its first ever Digital Media event as part of our newly launched Project on Homophobia & Virtual Communities.
The event, a panel discussion hosted by Electronic Arts on their private campus in Redwood City, CA, brought out some of the industry’s foremost companies, organizations, gamers and media as both panelists [...]
Kotaku.com has run an article/op-ed I wrote on homophobia in virtual communities. It’s on their homepage and is generating a vibrant discussion with over 7,000 recommendations and over 300 comments. I encourage everyone to pop over and leave a comment.
Unfortunately, the Kotaku version doesn’t have all the links/video, so I’ll cross-post it below.
Today, GLAAD announced the panelists and topics to be covered in an upcoming panel on Homophobia & Virtual Communities. The panel will take place from 11am-1pm on July 18, 2009 at the Electronic Arts campus, just south of San Francisco in Redwood City, California.
To RSVP, please email digitaltickets@glaad.org or visit www.glaad.org/digitalevent. You can also join [...]
Today, GLAAD formally announced our Project on Homophobia & Virtual Communities. We also announced we’ll be holding an exciting and FREE panel to discuss the issue on July 18th, in the San Francisco Bay area (RSVP here).
From the release:
As part of this project, GLAAD will focus on a range of virtual communities including networked PC [...]
As you can see from the video below, the conversation surrounding online gaming and homophobia is continuing to be discussed throughout the media:
A post over at The Consumerist has generated a great deal of buzz in the blogosphere today.
From yesterday’s post:
Teresa says that she was harassed by other players and later suspended from XBOX Live because she identified herself as a lesbian in her profile. When she appealed to Microsoft, she says they told her that other [...]
National News:
Associated Press: California to Investigate Mormon Aid to Prop. 8
The California Fair Political Practices Commission said Monday that a complaint filed by a group called Californians Against Hate accusing the Mormon church of not accurately reporting the extent of its role in the Prop. 8 campaign merits further investigation.
On the July 28 edition of Clear Channel’s nationally syndicated radio program The War Room with Quinn & Rose, host Jim Quinn made defamatory anti-gay comments while discussing a federal case in which a jury ruled that the city of Philadelphia could not bar a Boy Scouts chapter from city-owned property despite the organization’s anti-gay policy.
