Upcoming Trends in Social Video Campaigning
Technology’s inflexion points are difficult to spot without the benefit of hindsight, even for technology as widely hyped as social media and mobile video.
Read about the 10 latest trends HERE
Technology’s inflexion points are difficult to spot without the benefit of hindsight, even for technology as widely hyped as social media and mobile video.
Read about the 10 latest trends HERE
Why LGBT clergy members support the Black Lives Matter movement, and why it matters ! Here is a very interesting initiative that walks the sometimes hazy talk of “intersectionality brought to you by Huffington post
From Times of India
The campaign that took off on a low note gained momentum later with many people expressing their support for the LGBT community. “It is perfectly normal to be gay and people should understand it. It is not something for which they should be discriminated against. They are taking a great step to make people aware about their sexuality. It is a good initiative to connect with the society, which is slowly responding to their attempt,” said Shadman Alvi, another college student.
Many Sunday revellers were seen cheering to the crowd and acknowledged that there was so much honesty and openness in their discussion about sexuality. “It is good to see people are not shying away and supporting their cause. I would love to join their campaign as a sign of my support for their initiative,” said Ankur Khurana, an IT professional.
When the campaign picked up its pace, people started taking selfies with the participants.
“We never expected such a warm response. The last time we carried out this campaign, comments were hurled at us but this time people are more welcoming. They asked us to take selfies with them. We cannot ask for more. They have shown lots of respect to us,” said Priyansh Dubey, one of the participants in the campaign.
Around 35 people from the LGBT community participated in Sunday’s campaign that was held under the banner, “Queer Hugs-II”.
A list of resources that might prove very useful to develop your campaigning arguments:
http://www.quistapp.com/online-resources/
In the long debate on whether homosexuality is “natural”, “normal”, etc. it can be a useful to have these examples on animal behavior as part of campaign argumentation.
http://www.gaystarnews.com/…/so-it-turns-out-giraffes-are…/…
We nevertheless suggest to do more research and provide quotes from trusted institutions. GSN is arguably NOT a trusted source to homophobes. And the much cited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bagemihl is often the only reference on the subject. It has to be noted though that although he is an academic, he is also a gay advocate, which minimizes his credibility with the public.
Also, at the end of the day: since when do animals provide justification for human behavior???
From Arts and Feminism
Here’s a really great innovative action that might be of some inspiration!
The Art+Feminism Wikipedia ‘edit-a-thon’ that took place on International Women’s Day helped create hundreds of new articles about female artists, who were previously underrepresented on the site.
Wikipedia is a leading source of knowledge for people across the world, and I would LOVE to see a similar action taken to promote LGBT history. In fact, if anyone would like to help organise something similar I would love to hear from them!