Grindr quiere que la gente de tecnología para combatir las desigualdades LGBTQ

Grindr quiere que la gente de tecnología para combatir las desigualdades LGBTQ

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Grindr quiere que la gente de tecnología para combatir las desigualdades LGBTQ

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Lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, trans y gente queer conforman casi el 40% de los 1,6 millones jóvenes que experimenten falta de vivienda cada año. Mientras tanto, las personas trans son casi cuatro veces más probabilidades que el norteamericano promedio vive a menos de $10.000 al año. En Resumen, es un conjunto de problemas que afectan negativamente a la comunidad LGBTQ. Es hora de hacer algo al respecto.

Grindr, la aplicación de conexión para los hombres gay, está aprovechando su alcance masivo (tiene 2 millones usuarios diarios que gastan un promedio de 54 minutos de usarlo) y colocándolo hacia algo seria bueno. Nacido de Grindr para la igualdad, Hack4Equality es un hackathon que está culminando en un día de demostración la semana próxima en la sede de Los Angeles de Grindr.

“Realmente queremos que gran innovación para ayudar a la justicia de apoyo y acciones para la comunidad LGBTQ en cuestiones internacionales”, me dijo Grindr Head de personas y cultura Jeremy Foreshew.

En total, hay 13 retos en cuatro cuestiones principales que afectan a la comunidad LGBTQ: falta de vivienda, visibilidad trans y poder económico, internacionales asuntos LGBTQ (refugiados y viajes) y acceso a servicios de salud sexual y PrEP. Los socios de Grindr para esta iniciativa incluyen la casa blanca, proyecto de oportunidad de la oficina de censo de Estados Unidos, Planned Parenthood, la campaña de los derechos humanos, el que obtiene mejor proyecto y otros. El gobierno de Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, ha abierto el censo para permitir a los participantes de la Hack4Equality resolver la cuestión de la representación para las personas LGBT.

“Nos no estamos siendo representados porque nadie pregunta sobre nosotros o ha pedido históricamente sobre nosotros,” dijo Foreshew. “Mis colegas siempre datos anónimos de Grindr básicamente poner un filtro de arco iris sobre los datos del censo y averiguar si hay único LGBTQ temas o indicadores que pueden utilizarse para ayudar a resolver problemas”.

Grindr espera más de 100 tecnólogos para estar presente en el día de LA demostración, con cientos más participantes alrededor del mundo. A través de Hack4Equality, Grindr es la esperanza de algunos de los hacks terminan llegando al mercado, ya sea como productos independientes o los que viven dentro del ecosistema de Grindr.

“Cuando hablamos acerca de algo ser parte del ecosistema de Grindr, hablamos aprovechando la escala y la comunidad masiva”, dijo Foreshew. “Lo que es muy importante para nosotros es encontrar oportunidades donde la gente puede usar el alcance tienen y utilizan la buena voluntad que hemos creado con los millones de usuarios tenemos que clase de ese cálido apretón de manos.”

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Pioneering Out Playwright Edward Albee Dies At 88

Pioneering Out Playwright Edward Albee Dies At 88

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Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of some of the most emotionally affecting works of his generation, has died at the age of 88 at his home in Montauk, Long Island.

His best-known and most-produced play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is widely regarded as a 20th centruy theatrical masterpiece. He once described the play as an effort to dig “so deep under the skin that it becomes practically intolerable.” Anyone who has witnessed the explosive marriage of George and Martha, either on stage or in the 1966 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, knows how close Albee hit his mark.

Below is an example of the kind of marital bloodsport the work is so famous for — “I swear if you existed I’d divorce you” —

While Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was denied the Pulitzer the year it came out (the 14-member advisory board was split, with some shocked at the language and abusive behavior), Albee did win the award for A Delicate Balance in 1967. “Well, you can’t lose them all,” director Mike Nichols cabled him

Elizabeth Taylor won the Academy Award for the film version, directed by Nichols.

Albee’s plays challenged the way we behave, to our loved ones, the world at large and ourselves. “Most people want tidy, frivolous stuff,” Albee told the Los Angeles Times in 2002, “so they can go home and not worry about what they’ve seen.”

Albee was out, though he rejected the label of “gay writer.”

“Maybe I’m being a little troublesome about this,” Albee told NPR’s Renee Montagne, “but so many writers who are gay are expected to behave like gay writers and I find that is such a limitation and such a prejudicial thing that I fight against it whenever I can.”

“A writer who happens to be gay or lesbian must be able to transcend self. I am not a gay writer. I am a writer who happens to be gay,” he said, somewhat ironically, while accepting an award for pioneering LGBT writers and publishers.

“I don’t find that much difference between straights and gays in the problems of life,” he told the New York Times in 1994. “I don’t believe in ghettoization.”

Other notable works include The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance, The Sandbox, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia, The Lady from Dubuqe and The American Dream.

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