Tags: soulja boy, homophobic, statements, comments, updates, facebook, internet, hip hop, rappers, artists, tmz, hacked, anti-gay, racist, white faggots
Soulja Boy says that a series of Facebook posts calling certain fans "white faggots" were the results of a hacking. Details follow.
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Tags: tracy morgan, actors, stand up, comedy, homophobia, slurs, nashville, ryman auditorium, actors, 30 rock, kevin rogers, facebook, controversy
Updated Friday, 11 a.m. EST
After reaching out on Friday morning to GLAAD, we learned that the organization is eagerly looking into the reports of Tracy Morgan's anti-gay tirade that allegedly occurred on stage in Nashville last weekend. Find out what GLAAD President Jarret Barrios initially has to say on the developing situation, after the jump.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 19 May 2011
Tags: montreal, crown, lgbt, queer, queerest of them all, canada, quebec, facebook, prizes We're pretty confident we'd have this one in the bag, but we'll let you kids have a shot. So we'll stay out of the running. Check out the deets after the jump.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Tags: lady gaga, born this way, marry the night, gagaville, farmville, facebook, new music, pop, dance, listen
Late last night, hours after her new single "Hair" made its grand entrance in the blogosphere, Lady Gaga released yet another track from Born This Way in the GagaVille area of FarmVille. Listen to "Marry The Night" after the jump!
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Tags: facebook, internet, spam, nicole santos, gay, lgbt, youth, suicides, wtf, ads
A good deal of Facebook users woke up this morning to a spam message posted on their wall reading "go kill yourself." Then, when they went to disable the ad/spam, their personal information was stolen. Is horrific homophobia the new era of spam that makes it through Facebook's lazy new system?
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Tags: same-sex kiss, kiss-in, uk, facebook, lgbt, double standards
Updated Friday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m. (PST)
The Atlantic Wire reports that the man who started the Facebook gay-kiss deletion controversy, Richard Metzger is not satisfied with the response from Facebook. Metzger says:
"It's just generic PR speak that doesn't even refer to a gay kiss," he says. "The real problem here is certainly not that Facebook is a homophobic company. It's that their terrible corporate policy on censorship needs to stop siding with the idiots, the complainers and the least-enlightened and evolved amongst us."
Weigh in, do you think that Facebook's response wasn't good enough?
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Updated Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. (PST)
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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 15 April 2011
Tags: pink toenail polish day, j. crew ad, may 9, facebook campaign
We love showing our true colors, which is why we are going to participate in Pink Toenail Polish Day to show support to parents that are being criticized for not forcing gender norms on their children. Details after the jump.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 10 March 2011
Tags: facebook, internet, web, social networks, anti-bullying, gay youth, lgbt, community, white house, conference, prevention
We're not always fans of the changes Facebook institutes, but at Thursday's White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, the world's most popular social network announced an anti-bullying strategy that we can certainly applaud.
Mashable has the deets:
Facebookâs changes boil down to two main aspects: an improved safety center with more multimedia resources, and better, more social tools for reporting offensive or bullying content.
In addition to reporting harassing or TOS-violating content directly to Facebook, users now have two important options that are more social and more community-centric. Within the reporting options interface, the targeted user can choose to privately message the user who posted the stressful or offensive... FULL STORY
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 09 March 2011
Tags: president obama, first lady, video, facebook, internet, bullying, conference, white house The presidential anti-bullying conference we told you about in February is slated for Thursday, and ahead of the historic White House event, President Obama and the First Lady have reached out to their Facebook followers with a video PSA. Sure, a few flat jokes pepper the thing, but the heart is there.
For those whose opinion of the president has been on the fence, how have his recent actions (DOMA, a devotion to combat the bullying epidemic) factored into your approval of his job?
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Tags: facebook, relationship status, internet, marriage equality, social networks, civil unions, domestic partnerships, glaad
If you were concerned that Aunt Shirley and acquaintances from junior high didn't know enough about your relationship, you're in luck because Facebook has added welcome changes that get right down to the nitty gritty: users in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France and Australia can now select from "In a domestic partnership" or "In a civil union" from the growing list of relationship status options.
GLAAD applauds Facebook for the inclusion.
"Today, Facebook sent a clear message in support of gay and lesbian couples to users across the globe," said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios. "By acknowledging the relationships of countless loving and committed same-sex couples in the U.S. and abroad, Facebook has set a new standard of inclusion... FULL STORY
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