[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: #ScienceDaddy, Tumblr, Pride Toronto, Canadian Pride Citation, SF leather

[rfmcdonald]

• them interviews Troy Lee Hudson, the engineer working on NASA's InSight Mars who has gone viral as #ScienceDaddy, letting him talk about Mars and about being an out scientist.


• Stefanie Duguay at The Conversation writes about how the new Tumblr ban on NSFW content will harm young LGBTQ people, by depriving them of community and information.


• Rinaldo Walcott at Daily Xtra makes the case for downsizing Pride Toronto to better fit community needs and desires.


• The Canadian federal government has created a new Canada Pride Citation, available to present and past LGBTQ employees of the federal government, including many who were persecuted for their sexual orientation. Global News reports.


• them reports on how gentrification in the leather community in San Francisco impacts the wider city.

Comments

Article in The Conversation

[claudeb]

Good catch! The importance of people being able to find themselves in a safe environment isn't being discussed or understood widely enough. I had that chance, and it changed my life in a big way. A good way, too. So this is another way that everyone loses.

Re: Article in The Conversation

[rfmcdonald]

Yeah. :-(