Halleloo! Drag queen Shangela made an appearance in today's Facebook Home launch. But this isn't Facebook's first foray into LGBT-friendly waters.
While SCOTUS debates LGBT rights and Facebook goes all red/pink stripey, real-world gay youth still battle many issues -- and too often, they do it alone. Here's how one hacker is trying to help.
Editor's Pick Here's the brief tech companies filed with the Supreme Court -- and the exact reason these business say they do support same-sex marriage.
Editor's Pick Gay and transgender engineers converged on a technology conference aimed at LGBT folks hosted on the Facebook campus last weekend. Here's why many Silicon Valley companies are taking this group seriously.
This isn't about porn or adult content. The military is blocking access to sites about health, legal rights, bullying, and even suicide prevention.
Every December 1, the world takes a day to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS and its prevention. Here's what Bill Gates and others are doing to help.
The above is a sweet video our LGBT pals at Facebook cooked up for National Coming Out Day.
Facebook is one of the most openly supporting tech companies we’ve seen when it comes to queer issues. From taking on bullying …
Trolls are part of online life, but this new CAPTCHA pre-screens your commenters or other contacts for empathy as well as basic humanity.
Hot on the heels of hitting 1 million daily users, gay meetup app Grindr has unveiled a more refined application that will be released this summer across iOS, Android, and BlackBerry platforms.
Grindr’s mobile apps have attracted more than 4 …
At the GLAAD Media Awards last weekend, Facebook was recognized for its support and protection of the LGBT community over the past couple years.
But why, you ask, would an ostensibly neutral, public platform want to support and protect any …
We told you earlier that Facebook had won a coveted GLAAD Media Award for its significant, long-term work with and for the LGBT community. We told you that the awards show would be a Cirque du Soleil-meets-Glee-meets-Beverly McClellan, star-studded orgy …
For years, Facebook has been working hard to scrub anti-gay bullying from its users’ pages, and those efforts have not gone unnoticed. Today, we learn that the social network is being honored with a GLAAD award for its contributions to …
Grindr is a huge success, as apps go. The location-based dating app for men-loving men has won several awards and counts millons of gay, bisexual, and bi-curious men among its users.
Grindr creator Joel Simkhai, who spoke with VentureBeat at …
“In college, I wanted someone to talk to about being gay and found someone through Craigslist. Clearly a poor decision in retrospect, despite the fact that I did end up finding a mentor who helped me come out.
“However, I …
In its annual roundup of the most-watched videos of the year, YouTube paid homage to its greatest success stories: the out-of-the-blue surprise performers.
In 2011, YouTube “was once again doing what YouTube does best: giving people a global stage,” said …
GLAAD (that’s the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is promoting Spirit Day this Thursday, Oct. 20, and encouraging folks to wear purple and display that color on their online profiles. In response, Facebook and other companies are “going purple” …
Oh, girl, it’s on! Jason Goldberg is moving in on Scott Gatz’s turf. And Gatz is not taking it lying down. The two openly gay entrepreneurs are both trying to create the hot place for their brethren to check in …
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