- How to: Boost Your Google Rankings With Twitter | oneforty blog – Twitter is a great way to build a relationship with your target audience and influencers in that space. Those people may blog about you and share your content elsewhere. These potential inbound links and the traffic your fans drive to your content are worth the time invested in running a Twitter account.
- How to Write a Letter to the Editor (Natl Coalition for Sexual Freedom) – Letters to the editor are an effective way to convey a positive image of alternate sexual practices such as SM, polyamory and swinging. Letters help to de-stigmatize negative social myths and misconceptions about these types of practices.
- TEDxVienna-Johannes Grenzfurthner-On how to subvert subversion (YouTube) -
- The Siege of Planned Parenthood – NYTimes.com – Planned Parenthood does pay for its own abortion services, though, and that’s what makes them a target. Pence has 154 co-sponsors for his bill. He was helped this week by an anti-abortion group called Live Action, which conducted a sting operation at 12 Planned Parenthood clinics in six states, in an effort to connect the clinic staff to child prostitution.
- Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey | National Gay and Lesbian Task Force – Transgender and gender non-conforming people face rampant discrimination in every area of life: education, employment, family life, public accommodations, housing, health, police and jails, and ID documents. This data is so shocking that it will change the way you think about transgender people and it should change the way you advocate. The National Transgender Discrimination Survey was conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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- » wanna participate? The Visibility Project – The Visibility Project is a photographic portraiture series focused on the Queer Asian American identified community. All the participants have identified as female at one time and the project is inclusive to: trans, ftm, mtf, genderqueer, bisexuals, lesbian, gay, intersex, andro, two-spirit, or any other gender or sexual identifications…Seeking participants who are willing to be photographed at a studio in Brooklyn, NY during the last week of December. Date(s) have not been finalized yet, but please send an email or post a comment if you’d like to be a part of this amazing project. The shoot dates will be between Dec 28th and Jan 2. Looking for all ages, no modeling experience necessary, just be willing to be photographed and interviewed, plan to spend about 20-30 minutes at the location. When the dates are finalized, time-slots will be given to each participant.
- WGLB: Sex and Civilization: The Body as Battleground – But if liberated sexuality is world-destroying from the mythic, fundamentalist point of view, it is world-creating from a pluralistic one.
- Twelve Ways To Scare Away Twitter Followers | Fiction Groupie –
- When’s the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts? | Problogger – I found that among very popular blogs, publishing multiple times per day led to a huge increase in a blog’s success. This tells us that rather than focusing one perfect day or time, we should aim to publish at many times, and on many days.
- Trve West Coast Fiction: Ethics Part I (Danny Wylde) – So here is my self-assigned homework: Talk to those who produce what I believe to be “ethical porn,” interview performers on what they feel differentiates a safe work environment from one that is degrading or dis-empowering, and do my best to figure out if there is any discernible way for consumers to figure out what type of product will get him/her off and still provide a clean conscious.
- Legit or Unfit? Finding Safe, Sound Sex Educators & Support Online | Scarleteen – Not every good sex educator or person you can trust to talk with about sexuality online and get reliable information from has one kind or set of credentials, nor one kind of experience or background. There are formal and informal routes into doing sex ed as your gig, and a lot of different avenues into the field. But even with our diversity, there are some common threads and some typical ways you can figure whose information and help you can trust and whose you probably shouldn't.
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- Invasion of Privacy Charges After Death of Tyler Clementi – NYTimes.com – The Sept. 22 death, details of which the authorities disclosed on Wednesday, was the latest by a young American that followed the online posting of hurtful material. The news came on the same day that Rutgers kicked off a two-year, campuswide project to teach the importance of civility, with special attention to the use and abuse of new technology.
- Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker – Gladwell disputes the usefulness of social media in motivating and coordinating high-risk activism. A very interesting look at the difference in utility between strong ties and weak ties. (via @sitps)
- 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
- It Gets Better. Also … Grief. Please #stayalive. – Sugarbutch Chronicles – That’s five. Five people, five boys, who could have grown up to be part of our world, part of our community, part of gay activism, or who could have, at the very least, grown up. Five boys since school started less than a month ago.
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- BBC News – Argentine Senate backs bill legalising gay marriage – Argentina's capital is widely considered to be among the most gay-friendly cities in Latin America. It was the first Latin American city to legalise same-sex unions.
- Sexual Revolution Slowly Progressing in Russia – NYTimes.com – Two decades after government-imposed prudishness ended with the Soviet collapse, Russians still shy away from embracing European-style sexual mores. Despite a burst of licentiousness in the early 1990s, when pornography and prostitution surged through the country, the sexual revolution has never really taken hold here.
- Porn Star Lorelei Lee to Testify in Buttman Trial – The Sexist – Washington City Paper – “Ms. Lee, who is scheduled to be a witness for the defense in the instant trial, seeks for reasons of safety to be allowed to testify under her professional stage name without disclosing her true identity and address in open court,”
- Naked Confusion: So You Wanna Follow Me? | Silverdreams – If you’re going to tweet to kinky girls (or to any girl for that matter), there’s some basics that you should know…On Twitter, the unwritten rule is to be a human being.
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- Dentist Helps Us Give Good Head | Sex and the 405 – Introducing the Blowguard, pthalate-free, one-size fits all silicone guard for the teeth much like the sort used in sports, only the Blowguard comes with one extra perk: a little vibrator.
- UCSF Men who have Sex with Men Urology Health Survey – We invite you to take part in a survey of the urologic health of men who have sex with men (MSM). This study is being conducted by researchers from the Department of Urology at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) and led by Drs. Benjamin Breyer, Alan Shindel, and Ira Sharlip. Approval for this research has been obtained from the UCSF Committee on Human Research.
- Love’s new frontier – The Boston Globe – It’s not monogamy. But it’s not cheating or polygamy, either. It’s called polyamory, and with hundreds practicing the lifestyle in and around Boston, is liberal Massachusetts ready to accept it?
- The 11th Carnival of Feminists – Global Edition! « Gender Across Borders –
- Street talkers : Local News :: Las Vegas CityLife – Creator Laurenn McCubbin is trying to recreate a transaction that's become part of the debauched fabric of the Sin City Strip: the grassroots marketing between hooker card dealers and tourists. Visitors to the URL listed on her cards will arrive at a website featuring real stories from real sex workers.
- How to use Twitter to report breaking news « The Home of Peter Shankman – So, as a former journalist (stringer for AP and Editor at AOL News) may I offer these tips on how use Twitter to report breaking or unfolding news or events.
- Male-on-Male Sexual Harassment on the Rise – Newsweek.com – An increase in male-on-male sexual harassment shows larger truths about abuse in the workplace.
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