FOF #1449 – Google’s New Gaydar
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This week Google, the search media giant incorporated one of the most common search queries – “is this person gay” into their search results, giving the formal response: “Best guess for so and so’s sexual orientation is Gay.”
Join us today as we turn the tables on Google and see if any of their public figures are gay. Do search engines have a right to make this information public?
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Fausto – please check out Dan Savage’s column “Broken” (28. Sept.) for his comments on Jamey Rodemeyer. Although your comments on the IGBP are more balanced now, in the past many of them have focused on what the project doesn’t do, instead of what it does do – giving the impression that the project itself is at fault. This type of criticism is seldom helpful. We need to strongly support any and all efforts to help struggling teens, while at the same time encouraging everyone to do more. What Dan wrote in this column makes quite clear that he is promoting a much more pro-active approach against bullying. Reading it and quoting it will go a long way in better representing what Dan thinks about what we all could and should be doing to MAKE IT BETTER.
So a year after starting the campaign he’s clearing things up? Awesome!
Hi there Steve- Not sure what your comment has to do with today’s show, but I’m here to listen.
We were one of the first people to blog and announce the It Gets Better campaign when it first came out. We’re one of the few podcasts and sites that covers this in a pretty in-depth way, and is willing to point out it’s shortcomings.
To be supportive means to talk about the issue of LGBT prejudice and violence on all levels, even when we sabotage our own efforts with good intentions.
We have to heal as a community, and we start healing by telling our stories. But does that make it better for young people or for us? A little bit of both, I think.
We owe so much to Podcasts, YouTube, iTunes, blogging, Twitter and Facebook. It’s through this rich new media that people have been telling their stories and healing for years.
On YouTube alone, there have been hundreds of thousands of videos of people telling their coming out stories for years before It Gets Better became the activist juggernaut that it has become. I hope I’m being understood here, that I’m wanting to add to the discussion that we have started decades before this came along.
Along with GSA, my huge concern is that It Gets Better makes people complacent about helping out young people in this country.
Supporting LGBT youth means fighting for better schools. I hope we can put our egos aside and turn our attention to our politicians and schools who struggle so much. Fight for school reform and the repeal of “No Child Left Behind.”
Darn, I guess I have to use my real name. =v)